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Bram Moolenaar835ee982022-05-22 14:50:16 +01001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.2. Last change: 2022 May 22
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
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Bram Moolenaar835ee982022-05-22 14:50:16 +010041Prepare for Vim 9.0 release:
Bram Moolenaar47c532e2022-03-19 15:18:53 +000042- Use Vim9 for more runtime files.
Bram Moolenaar835ee982022-05-22 14:50:16 +010043- Check Vim9 code coverage, add more tests if needed.
Bram Moolenaar9da17d72022-02-09 21:50:44 +000044 vim9instr.c
45 vim9script.c
46 vim9type.c
Bram Moolenaar46eea442022-03-30 10:51:39 +010047- Adjust intro message to say "help version9".
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010048
Bram Moolenaar30ab04e2022-05-14 13:33:50 +010049Update the user manual:
Bram Moolenaar2d8ed022022-05-21 13:08:16 +010050- Update usr_41.txt for Vim9 script
Bram Moolenaar30ab04e2022-05-14 13:33:50 +010051- Fill usr_50.txt as an "advanced section" of usr_41.txt
Bram Moolenaar2d8ed022022-05-21 13:08:16 +010052 Add links from usr_41 to usr_50.
53- Make usr_51.txt use Vim9 script. Still need usr_52.txt?
Bram Moolenaar30ab04e2022-05-14 13:33:50 +010054
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Bram Moolenaar4c295022021-05-02 17:19:11 +020056Further Vim9 improvements, possibly after launch:
Bram Moolenaara4d131d2021-12-27 21:33:07 +000057- Check performance with callgrind and kcachegrind.
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +010058 getline()/substitute()/setline() in #5632
Bram Moolenaar2f0936c2022-01-08 21:51:59 +000059- Better implementation for partial and tests for that.
60- when using "const" mark the variable type as const with TTFLAG_CONST, so
61 that an error is given at compile time when trying to change it. E.g. for a
62 const list and trying to call add().
Bram Moolenaar4c295022021-05-02 17:19:11 +020063- Compile options that are an expression, e.g. "expr:" in 'spellsuggest',
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010064 'foldexpr', 'foldtext', 'printexpr', 'diffexpr', 'patchexpr', 'charconvert',
65 'balloonexpr', 'includeexpr', 'indentexpr', 'formatexpr'.
66 Give an error if compilation fails. (#7625)
Bram Moolenaar6aa57292021-08-14 21:25:52 +020067 Alternatively: Detect a compiled function call and skip the expression
68 evaluation.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010069 Use the location where the option was set for deciding whether it's to be
70 evaluated in Vim9 script context.
Bram Moolenaar6f4754b2022-01-23 12:07:04 +000071- implement :type
72- implement :enum
Bram Moolenaara4d131d2021-12-27 21:33:07 +000073- implement :class and :interface: See |vim9-classes|
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010074- For range: make table of first ASCII character with flag to quickly check if
75 it can be a Vim9 command. E.g. "+" can, but "." can't.
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +020076- Inline call to map() and filter(), better type checking.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010077- Make accessing varargs faster: arg[expr]
78 EVAL expr
79 LOADVARARG (varargs idx)
Bram Moolenaar4c295022021-05-02 17:19:11 +020080- When evaluating constants for script variables, some functions could work:
81 has(featureName), len(someString)
82- Implement as part of an expression: ++expr, --expr, expr++, expr--.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010083
Bram Moolenaarfa3b7232021-12-24 13:18:38 +000084Update list of features to vote on:
85- multiple cursors
86- built-in LSP support
Bram Moolenaarf10911e2022-01-29 22:20:48 +000087- start first line halfway
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010088
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020089Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +020090- Preview popup not properly updated when it overlaps with completion menu.
91 (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2021 May 22
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +010092- Add a function to redraw a specific popup window. Esp. to be used when
93 editing the command line, when screen updating doesn't happen. (Shougo)
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +020094- In some cases prop_remove() does not work correctly. (#8261)
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +020095- Add a flag to make a popup window focusable?
96 CTRL-W P cycle over any preview window or focusable popup, end up back in
97 current window.
98 ? - switch between current window and all popup windows
99 Esc in popup window goes back to previous current window
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200100- Add a termcap entry for changing the cursor when it goes under the popup and
101 back. like t_SI and t_EI (t_SU and t_EU, where "U" means under?)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100102- With terminal in popup, allow for popup_hide() to temporarily hide it.?
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +0200103- Make it possible to scroll horizontally when 'wrap' is off. Does this
104 require an ascii scrollbar, like with the vertical one?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100105- Fire some autocommand event after a new popup window was created and
106 positioned? PopupNew? Could be used to set some options or move it out of
107 the way. (#5737)
108 However, it may also cause trouble, changing the popup of another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +0200109- Width is not computed correctly when minwidth and maxwidth are &columns
110 and padding and a scrollbar are used. (#6676)
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +0100111- Should popup_getoptions() also return the mask? #7774
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200112- Add a way to use popup_menu() synchronously: instead of invoking the
113 callback, return the choice. (Ben Jackson, #6534)
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100114- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not
115 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544)
116- Implement flip option.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200117- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200118 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100119- Match does not have right BG color if line length equals popup width.
120 (#5658)
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200121- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100122 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for these.
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +0100123- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200124
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200125Text properties:
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +0200126- property is overruled by cursorline. (#8225).
127 Add better control over priority? Make list of all highlighting, specify
128 where property fits in.
129 Or Should we let the textprop highlight overrule other (e.g. diff) highlight
130 if the priority is above a certain value? (#7392)
Bram Moolenaar2d8ed022022-05-21 13:08:16 +0100131 Combining text property with 'cursorline' does not always work (Billie
132 Cleek, #5533)
Bram Moolenaar3f32a5f2022-05-12 20:34:15 +0100133- "C" works OK. "dd" fails to delete text property in a buffer with a single
Bram Moolenaar85388672021-01-31 17:03:52 +0100134 line.
Bram Moolenaard899e512022-05-07 21:54:03 +0100135- Add text property that shifts text to make room for annotation (e.g.
136 variable type). Like the opposite of conceal. Requires fixing the cursor
137 positioning and mouse clicks as with conceal mode.
Bram Moolenaar09c6f262019-11-17 15:55:14 +0100138- See remarks at top of src/textprop.c
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200139
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100140'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200141- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
142 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
143- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200144- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200145- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
146 isn't one?
147 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
148
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200149Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100150- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200151- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100152- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200153
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200154Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200155- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100156- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
157 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaard899e512022-05-07 21:54:03 +0100158- Use the optional token on requests, match the result with it. #10300
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200159- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200160- Termdebug does not work when Vim was built with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200161 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
162 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100163- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100164- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
165 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100166 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100167 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200168
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200169Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +0100170- Can escape a terminal popup with win_gotoid(), should be an error
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200171- No support for underline color, t_8u.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200172- When in terminal-Normal mode when the job finishes, the cursor jumps to the
173 end but the window is not updated. This only happens when typing "a".
174 :term bash -c "for V in {0..5}; do echo $V; sleep 1; done"
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200175- When started with ":terminal ++close" and the shell exits but there is a
176 background process, the window remains open, because the channel still
177 exists (and output still shows). Perhaps close the window when an explicit
178 ++close was used? (#5931)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200179- Using "CTRL-W :confirm quite" and selecting "yes" should work like ":quit!".
180 (Harm te Hennepe, #6129)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100181- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
182 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200183 A bit like using CTRL-W N first.
184 Jump back like with "a" when any key is typed.
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100185 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100186- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100187- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
188 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200189- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
190 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200191- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200192- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
193 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
194- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
195 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200196- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
197 is disabled.
198- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
199- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
200 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200201- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
202 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
203 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +0100204- Redrawing is slow with Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200205- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
206 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
207- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
208 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200209
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +0100210Add autocmd functions. PR #10291
Bram Moolenaard899e512022-05-07 21:54:03 +0100211 a couple of outstanding comments, wait for Yegappan to respond
Bram Moolenaar75ab5902022-04-18 15:36:40 +0100212
213Can deref_func_name() and deref_function_name() be merged?
214
Bram Moolenaar921bde82022-05-09 19:50:35 +0100215Add mode bits to maparg() dict? PR #10356
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217After patch 8.2.4915 w_botline is computed much more often. Can this be
218reduced?
Bram Moolenaarfd31be22022-01-16 14:46:06 +0000219
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +0100220NFA regexp does not handle composing characters well: #10286
221 [ɔ̃] matches both ɔ and ɔ̃
222 \(ɔ\|ɔ̃\) matches ɔ and not ɔ̃
223
Bram Moolenaar1588bc82022-03-08 21:35:07 +0000224Improvement in terminal configuration mess: Request the terminfo entry from
225the terminal itself. The $TERM value then is only relevant for whether this
226feature is supported or not. Replaces the xterm mechanism to request each
227entry separately. #6609
228Multiplexers (screen, tmux) can request it to the underlaying terminal, and
229pass it on with modifications.
230
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +0200231Test_communicate_ipv6(): is flaky on many systems
232Fails in line 64 of Ch_communicate, no exception is thrown.
233
234Rename getdigraphlist -> digraph_getlist() etc.
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +0200235
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +0100236Can "CSI nr X" be used instead of outputting spaces? Is it faster? #8002
237
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100238Valgrind reports memory leaks in test_options.
Bram Moolenaardad44732021-03-31 20:07:33 +0200239Valgrind reports overlapping memcpy in
240 test_conceal.3
241 test_edit.1
242 test_functions.4
243 test_ins_complete.3
244 test_method
245 test_normal
246 test_popupwin.35 et al.
247 test_search_stat
Bram Moolenaardad44732021-03-31 20:07:33 +0200248Memory leak in test_debugger
249Memory leak in test_paste, using XtOpenDisplay several times
250OLD:
251TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
252Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
253Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
254Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar85388672021-01-31 17:03:52 +0100255
Bram Moolenaarf10911e2022-01-29 22:20:48 +0000256PR to support %e and %k in 'errorformat'. #9624
257
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +0100258PR to add left and right bitwise shift. #8457
259
Bram Moolenaar89a9c152021-08-29 21:55:35 +0200260Idea: when typing ":e /some/dir/" and "dir" does not exist, highlight in red.
261
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200262":set &shellpipe" and ":set &shellredir" should use the logic from
263initialization to figure out the default value from 'shell'. Add a test for
264this.
265
Bram Moolenaar75ab5902022-04-18 15:36:40 +0100266With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
267(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
268need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
269IDEA: when drawing the text, store the text byte index in ScreenLinesIdx[].
270When converting screen column to text position use this.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +0100271The line number can be obtained from win->w_lines[].
Bram Moolenaar75ab5902022-04-18 15:36:40 +0100272
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +0200273MS-Windows: did path modifier :p:8 stop working? #8600
274
Bram Moolenaar6f4754b2022-01-23 12:07:04 +0000275Add support for "underdouble", "underdot" and "underdash". #9553
276
Bram Moolenaar85388672021-01-31 17:03:52 +0100277test_arglist func Test_all_not_allowed_from_cmdwin() hangs on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200278
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200279Mapping with partial match not executed properly in GTK. (Ingo Karkat, #7082)
280
Bram Moolenaar47003982021-12-05 21:54:04 +0000281Information for a specific terminal (e.g. gnome, tmux, konsole, alacritty) is
282spread out. Make a section with copy/paste examples of script and pointers to
283more information.
284
Bram Moolenaar90df4b92021-07-07 20:26:08 +0200285Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
286work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
287Also see #8487 for an example.
288
Bram Moolenaar1c6737b2020-09-07 22:18:52 +0200289Patch to implement the vimtutor with a plugin: #6414
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200290Was originally written by Felipe Morales.
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200291
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200292Request to use "." for the cursor column in search pattern \%<.c and \%<.v.
293(#8179)
294
Bram Moolenaar0e6adf82021-12-16 14:41:10 +0000295":filter set termcap" only filters terminal codes, not keys. (#9297)
296
Bram Moolenaar113cb512021-11-07 20:27:04 +0000297Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? It is only used for completion.
298
Bram Moolenaar519cc552021-11-16 19:18:26 +0000299When 'term' starts with "foot" then default t_TI and t_TE to the values used
300for the builtin xterm termcap.
301
Bram Moolenaar98a29d02021-01-18 19:55:44 +0100302Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
Bram Moolenaare0e39172021-01-25 21:14:57 +0100303(#4087) Did patch 8.2.2379 help?
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100304Also, z= in German on a long word can take a very long time, but CTRL-C to
305interrupt does not work. Where to add ui_breakcheck()?
Bram Moolenaar113cb512021-11-07 20:27:04 +0000306New English spell files also have very slow suggestions.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200307
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +0200308Make "g>" and "g<" in Visual mode move the text right or left.
309Also for a block selection. #8558
310
Bram Moolenaar1588bc82022-03-08 21:35:07 +0000311When using dictionary insert completion with 'ignorecase', the leading capital
312in a word should be preserved.
313
Bram Moolenaardad44732021-03-31 20:07:33 +0200314Add optional argument to virtcol() that specifies "start", "cursor" or "end"
315to tell which value from getvvcol() should be used. (#7964)
316Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
317inconsistent with the documentation.
318
Bram Moolenaar23515b42020-11-29 14:36:24 +0100319Making breakat support multibyte characters (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #6598)
320Scroll doesn't work correctly, why?
321
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +0100322globpath() does not use 'wildignorecase' at all? (related to #8350)
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200323
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +0200324Add 'termguiattr' option, use "gui=" attributes in the terminal? Would work
325with 'termguicolors'. #1740
326
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +0200327Patch for blockwise paste reporting changes: #6660. Asked for a PR.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200328
Bram Moolenaarc8cdf0f2021-03-13 13:28:13 +0100329Patch to make fillchars global-local. (#5206)
330
Bram Moolenaarcb80aa22020-10-26 21:12:46 +0100331Missing filetype test for bashrc, PKGBUILD, etc.
332
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200333Add an option to not fetch terminal codes in xterm, to avoid flicker when t_Co
334changes.
335
Bram Moolenaard899e512022-05-07 21:54:03 +0100336Add ??= operator, "a ??= b" works like "a = a ?? b". #10343
337
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200338Add an option to start_timer() to return from the input loop with K_IGNORE.
339This is useful e.g. when a popup was created that disables mappings, we need
340to return from vgetc() to make this happen. #7011
341
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200342Expanding <mods> should put the tab number from cmdmod.tab before "tab".
343Any way to convert "$" back by using a special value? (#6901)
344
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200345Can we detect true color support? https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
346Try setting a color then request the current color, like using t_u7.
347
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +0200348Make the jumplist behave like a tag stack. (#7738) Should there be a more
349time bound navigation, like with undo?
350
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +0100351Changing a capturing group to non-capturing changes the result: #7607
352 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '\(.\{-1,}\>\)\|.*')
353 aaa
354 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '\%(.\{-1,}\>\)\|.*')
355 aaa bbb
356Should also work without any group:
357 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '.\{-1,}\>\|.*')
358 aaa bbb (should be aaa)
359
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200360Should add a match/str/list/pos method that also returns the test and position
361of submatches. #8355
362
Bram Moolenaar4d8f4762021-06-27 15:18:56 +0200363Syntax highlight for a region does not work with a "nextgroup" if the start
364match is empty. #8449
365
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200366Check out PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +0200367Patch for multibyte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200368(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
369Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
370- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
371 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
372 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
373- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
374 covered by the above change.
375So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
376same thing.
377Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200378
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200379Matchparen doesn't remove highlight after undo. (#7054)
380Is OK when syntax HL is active.
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200381
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200382Currently Del can be used to delete the last character of a typed count.
383Can it also be used to delete an incomplete Normal mode command? (#7096)
384After an operator: should work. After "a" or "i" for text objects: should
385work.
386
387Using "au!" after "filetype on" is a bit slow. Can the matching of
388autocommands be made faster? (#7056)
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200389
Bram Moolenaar2346a632021-06-13 19:02:49 +0200390Append in Visual block mode inserts the wrong character.
391Test_visual_block_mode() already has the proper check, which is commented out.
392(#8288)
393
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +0200394Add the <=> (spaceship) operator and "cond ?< expr ?= expr ?> expr"
395 replace this:
396 let left = GetLeftFunc()
397 let right = GetRightFunc()
398 let res = left < right ? lower : left == right ? equal : upper
399 by:
400 let res = GetLeftFunc() <=> GetRightFunc() ?< lower ?= equal ?> upper
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200401Patch to make :q work with local arglist. (Christian Brabandt, #6286)
402
Bram Moolenaard58a3bf2020-09-28 21:48:16 +0200403Why does Test_invalid_sid() not work in the GUI?
404
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +0100405":pedit" ignores the local working directory when 'pvp' is set (#7267)
406
Bram Moolenaar2547aa92020-07-26 17:00:44 +0200407Lua: updating wrong buffer when using newly created, unloaded buffer.
408(#6539)
409
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100410File marks merging has duplicates since 7.4.1925. (Ingo Karkat, #5733)
411
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200412Problem with auto-formatting - inserting space and putting cursor before added
413character. (#6154)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200414
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100415When 'lazyredraw' is set sometimes the title is not updated.
416(Jason Franklin, 2020 Feb 3) Looks like a race condition.
417
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200418With bash ":make" does not set v:shell_error. Possible solution: set
419'shellpipe' to "2>&1| tee %s; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]}" #5994
Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +0100420
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200421Using mode() when "/pat" is used in Visual mode returns "v" instead of "c",
422which is not useful. Return "c/v" instead. And "c/o" when using "d/pat".
423#6127
424
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +0200425Add a cterm attribute for "dimmed" or "faint" text. (#8269)
426
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200427When 'fileignorecase' is set ":e testfile.c" works to edit TestFile.c, but
428":find testfile.c" does not ignore case.
429Might be related to #6088.
430
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200431Error for reverse range when using :vimgrep in file "[id-01] file.txt".
432(#6919)
433
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +0200434When changing the crypt key the buffer should be considered modified.
435Like when changing 'fileformat'. Save the old key in save_file_ff().
436(Ninu-Ciprian Marginean)
437
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100438Strange sequence of BufWipeout and BufNew events while doing omni-complete.
439(Paul Jolly, #5656)
440Get BufDelete without preceding BufNew. (Paul Jolly, #5694)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100441 Later more requests for what to track.
442 Should we add new events that don't allow any buffer manipulation?
443 Really only for dealing with appearing and disappearing buffers, load and
444 unload.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100445BufWinenter event not fired when saving unnamed buffer. (Paul Jolly, #5655)
Bram Moolenaareab6dff2020-03-01 19:06:45 +0100446Another spurious BufDelete. (Dani Dickstein, #5701)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100447
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200448Wrong error when using local arglist. (Harm te Hennepe, #6133)
449
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200450Test loose_clipboard() by selecting text before suspending.
451
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100452:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019
453Dec 19)
454
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200455Patch to add an option to enable/disable VTP. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, #5344)
456Should have three values: empty, "off", "on". Name it 'winterm'?
457
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100458Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
459May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200460Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
461remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100462Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200463
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100464When 'backupdir' has a path ending in double slash (meaning: use full path of
465the file) combined with 'patchmode' the file name is wrong. (#5791)
466
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200467Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100468Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_"
469in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200470Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
471(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200472
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200473Help for ":argadd fname" says that if "fname" is already in the argument list
474that entry is used. But instead it's always added. (#6210)
475Add flag AL_FIND_ADD, if there is one argument find it in the list.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100476
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100477Statusline highlighting error, off by one. (#5599)
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100478
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200479":find" with 'path' set to "data*" does not find files, while completion does
480find them. (Max Kukartsev, #6218)
481
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200482Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
483
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100484Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
485
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100486Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509)
487
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200488The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
489support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
490
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100491"--cleanFOO" does not result in an error. (#5537)
492
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200493Output from assert_equalfile() doesn't give a hint about what's different.
494Assuming the files are text, print the line with the difference.
495
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100496Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
497
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +0200498When a help file is opened that doesn't have "ft=help" in the modeline then
499the FileType is first set to "text" before it is set to "help". (#8099)
500
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200501Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
502(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
503
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200504When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
505default one. #4698
506
507When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
508with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
509
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100510Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200511Better: use the "z" prefix. or ]t) and [t(.
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100512
Bram Moolenaar1d59aa12020-09-19 18:50:13 +0200513Visual highlight not removed when 'display' is "lastline" and line doesn't
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200514fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
515
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200516Current position in the changelist should be local to the buffer. (#2173)
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200517
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200518Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
519- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
520- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100521- INT_MAX not defined: need to include <limits.h> in vim.h
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200522
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100523Display messed up with matchparen, wrapping and scrolling. (#5638)
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +0200524Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100525
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100526When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
527when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
528gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
529input buffer. (#5302)
530
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200531Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200532
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100533Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
5342007 Feb 18)
535Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
536
537Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
538Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
539
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200540Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
541
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200542Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200543Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>.
544Better use ":bufgrep" ?
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200545
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200546Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
547files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
548Include part of #3242?
549
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200550Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
551Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
552Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
553
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200554Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
555t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
556
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100557Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
558Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
559
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200560'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
561
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100562Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
563
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200564Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
565
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100566When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
567in a long line. #5189
568
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200569The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
570Give a few examples. (#4288)
571
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200572Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
Bram Moolenaardad44732021-03-31 20:07:33 +0200573work, results in "E479: No match". (#4610)
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200574
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +02005757 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
576 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
577 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200578Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only added the option, no implem.)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200579
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100580Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
581read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
582be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
583
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100584Add a string to the 'display' option ("smoothscroll" ?) to make CTRL-E and
585CTRL-Y scroll one screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start
586with the first character (like what happens with a last line that doesn't
587fit). Display "<<<" at the start of the first visible line (like "@@@" is
588displayed in the last line). (Arseny Nasokin, #5154)
589
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200590Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
591
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200592Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
593
Bram Moolenaar22863042021-10-16 15:23:36 +0100594Color schemes:
595NOTE: modernizing the default colorschemes _AND_ introducing new ones is now
596a project in its own right: https://github.com/vim/colorschemes. Feel free to
597reach out if you want to lend a hand.
598- Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
599 https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
600- Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
601 - http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200602http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
Bram Moolenaar22863042021-10-16 15:23:36 +0100603- Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
604 - monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
605 - seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
606 - gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
607 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
608 - janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
609 - apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
610- Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
611 - [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
612 - [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
613- Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
614 - Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200615
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100616Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
617Mar 5)
618
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200619Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
620on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
621
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200622Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
623in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
624buffer didn't change at all.
625
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200626Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
627'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
628(#4450)
629
Bram Moolenaar7e6a5152021-01-02 16:39:53 +0100630Session file only contains local option values for buffers that are in a
631window, not other buffers. (#7532)
632
633Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
634modified buffers
635 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
636 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
637 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
638 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
639
640When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
641buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
642Should add the buffer in hidden state.
643
644When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
645filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
646initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
647
648Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
649normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
650
651Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
652(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
653
654Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
655that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
656ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
657Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
658
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100659When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
660But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
661similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
662
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200663C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
664(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
665
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100666Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
667added?
668
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200669Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
670negative. (see #4326)
671
672'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
673`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
674tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
675:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
676
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200677This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
678 vim: syn=nosyntax
679
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100680Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
681#2948. (related to #1512?)
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100682Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
683Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
684balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
6852018 Sep 14)
686Another request: #3811.
687
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200688More warnings from static analysis:
689https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200690
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100691Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
692
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200693Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
694
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200695Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
696internals of the dict structure.
697
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100698nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
699
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200700Missing tests for:
701- add_termcap_entry()
702
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200703Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
704change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
705them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
706
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200707Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200708Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200709
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100710When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
711case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
712For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
713
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200714Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
715(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
716expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200717
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200718Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
719 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
720 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
721
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100722Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100723punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100724
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200725Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
726drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
727
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100728When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
729scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
730using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
731
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200732Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
733#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
734(Sep 8)
735
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200736Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
737unified diff (list of lines).
738
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100739When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
740kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
741when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
742
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100743Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
744(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100745
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200746matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
74719.
748
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100749Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
750highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200751And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
752'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100753
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100754Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
755Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
756
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200757Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
758Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
759Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
760
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200761home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
762
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200763When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
764terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
765How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
766
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100767Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
768Feedback from someone who uses this?
769
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200770Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
771Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
772values.
773
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100774Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200775- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
776- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
777- omit diff.exe from distribution
778- Can we make this show differences within a line?
779- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200780
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200781Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
782
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100783Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200784What is the practical use for this? Need an example.
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100785
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200786When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
787includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
788
789Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200790Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200791
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100792Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
793
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200794Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
795window for the buffer.
796
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100797Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
798mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
799
Bram Moolenaar0e6adf82021-12-16 14:41:10 +0000800Compiler warning (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100801- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
802
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100803Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
804Oct 28)
805
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100806Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
807- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
808
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200809Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
810- Test_setbufvar_options()
811- Test_exit_callback_interval()
812
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200813Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
814Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100815Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
816Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200817
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200818Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
819
820Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
82124)
822
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100823Try out background make plugin:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100824 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100825or asyncmake:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100826 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
827
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100828Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
829
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200830Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
831behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
832(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
833
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200834Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
835pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
836
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200837Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
838script or function.
839
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200840When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
841E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
842does nothing otherwise?
843
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200844MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
845If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
846(wait a little while).
847CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100848
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200849Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
850MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
8512017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
852receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
853
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200854Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
855missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
856
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200857":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
858deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
859
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100860Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100861Jan 15, #2555)
862
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200863":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
864
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100865Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
866
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100867No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
868No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
869
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200870Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
871http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
872Should be supported with a flag.
873
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100874Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
875Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
876applying the diff, etc.
877
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100878User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
879word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100880
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100881Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200882
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200883Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
884:drop (remote commands).
885
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200886Implement option_save() and option_restore():
887option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
888 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
889 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
890 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
891 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
892 be called when the same window is the current window.
893 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
894 the local options won't be restored.
895
896option_save({list}) *option_save()*
897 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
898 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
899 let s:saved_options = option_save([
900 \ 'ignorecase',
901 \ 'iskeyword',
902 \ ])
903 au <buffer> BufLeave *
904 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
905< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
906 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
907 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
908 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100909 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
910 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
911 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100912 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200913
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100914"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
915directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
916Also see #1689.
917
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100918When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100919highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100920
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100921No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
9222017 Dec 26, #2501)
923
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200924A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
925
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200926Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
927
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200928A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
929Mention where they were defined somewhere.
930
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200931ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
932
933Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
934
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100935Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
936Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
937
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100938Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
939in #846)
940Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
941
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200942Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
943Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
944
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100945When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
946redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200947
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100948In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
949(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
950
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100951Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
952neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100953
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100954Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
955Nov 21)
956
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +0100957When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocommand event isn't
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200958triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
959set_color_count().
960
961Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
962responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
963
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100964When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
965CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
966Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
967always nested.
968
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200969matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
970
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100971Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
972
Bram Moolenaar6c391a72021-09-09 21:55:11 +0200973'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
97420)
975
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100976MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100977for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
978
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200979Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100980(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200981
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +0200982Test more runtime files.
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200983
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200984Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200985
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200986Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
987defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
988Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
989
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200990After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
99113, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200992
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200993When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
994line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
995
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100996Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
997
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200998Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
999behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
1000
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001001'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
1002
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001003The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
1004
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001005Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
1006#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
1007
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001008The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +01001009for another buffer. (lacygoill) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001010
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001011X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1012pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1013clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1014Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1015Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1016clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001017Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001018
1019Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
1020
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001021Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
1022attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
Bram Moolenaar7ff78462020-07-10 22:00:53 +02001023that optional? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001024
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001025Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
1026(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
1027
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001028Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
1029buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
1030Also fixes #2166?
1031
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001032Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
1033possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
1034
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001035When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
1036case of :bwipe followed by :new.
1037
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +02001038Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
1039existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
1040Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
1041
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001042MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
1043Jul 4)
1044
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001045Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
1046Drucker, 2017 May 8).
1047This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
1048Christian cannot reproduce it.
1049
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001050Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
1051wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
1052Or is this not an actual problem?
1053
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001054Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
1055
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001056Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
1057
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001058'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
1059#1736)
1060
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001061Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
10628, #1690)
1063
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001064Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
1065
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001066assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
1067it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
1068
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001069Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
1070for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001071
1072Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
1073(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
1074Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
1075later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
1076Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
1077mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001078Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
1079mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001080maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001081
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001082Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001083plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
1084be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1085
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001086Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1087 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1088 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001089
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001090json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001091What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001092
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001093Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1094
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001095import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1096(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1097
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001098Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1099Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001100Another example in #1309
1101
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001102Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1103#1330)
1104
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001105Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1106
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001107GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
1108g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
1109timer expires.
1110
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001111Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1112highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1113
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001114Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1115Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1116
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001117Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1118key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1119 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1120 echo keytrans(xx)
1121 <C-Home>
1122
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001123Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1124(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1125Make a function to check for function-like type?
1126
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001127Implement named arguments for functions with optional arguments:
1128 func Foo(start, count = 1, all = 1)
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001129 call Foo(12, all = 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001130
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001131Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1132somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1133
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001134The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1135"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1136Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1137
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001138Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1139
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001140Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1141about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001142Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1143
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001144":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001145vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1146
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001147Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001148E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001149Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001150
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001151Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1152Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1153
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001154Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001155Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001156
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001157"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1158(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1159
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001160Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1161(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001162
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001163Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1164
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001165Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1166anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1167
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001168Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001169E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001170
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001171Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1172(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1173
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001174Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1175
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001176On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1177separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1178
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001179Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1180
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001181Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1182
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001183Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1184no longer support.
1185
Bram Moolenaar3ec32172021-05-16 12:39:47 +02001186Support sort(l, 'F'), convert strings to float. (#7857)
Bram Moolenaar9faec4e2021-02-27 16:38:07 +01001187
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001188sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
11894#1038)
1190
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01001191sort() does not use 'smartcase' for the skip pattern, even though 'ignorecase'
1192is used. (Filipe Brandenburger, #7322)
1193
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001194+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001195- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001196- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1197 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1198 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +02001199- If buffer contents is changed in a callback, set w_redr_status so that it
1200 gets redrawn in redraw_after_callback(). #6120
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001201- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1202 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001203- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1204 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1205- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1206 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1207- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001208- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1209 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001210- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1211- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1212 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1213 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1214- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1215- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1216- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1217 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1218 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1219- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1220 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1221- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1222 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1223 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1224
1225Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001226- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1227 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1228 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1229 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001230- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1231 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001232- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1233 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1234- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1235 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1236- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1237 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1238 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1239 LC_CTYPE
1240- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1241 matches everywhere.
1242- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1243 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1244- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1245- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1246 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1247- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02001248- Ignorecase not handled properly for multibyte characters. (Axel Bender,
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001249 2013 Dec 11)
1250- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1251 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1252- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1253- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1254 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1255- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1256- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1257- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1258- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1259 2015 Feb 7)
1260- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1261 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1262 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1263 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1264 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1265- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1266- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1267- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1268- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1269 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1270 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1271 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1272- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1273 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1274- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1275 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1276 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1277 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1278
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001279Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1280doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1281Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001282Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001283E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1284
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001285cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1286
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001287:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1288
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001289Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1290
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001291Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1292Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001293
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001294ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1295Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001296
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001297Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1298Jul 25, #948)
1299
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001300Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1301names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1302Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1303the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1304
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001305MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1306Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001307
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001308Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1309times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1310
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001311Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1312
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001313We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1314the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1315
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001316Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1317
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001318When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1319emoji_width table has only one entry.
1320
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001321It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1322Reject the value? #710.
1323
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001324When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1325Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1326
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001327Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1328No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001329
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001330Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1331(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001332
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001333Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1334
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001335Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1336https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +02001337Possibly include the needed code so that it can be built everywhere.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001338
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001339Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1340but the reference remains valid.
1341
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001342Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001343interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1344Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1345interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1346result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001347
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001348Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1349
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001350Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1351
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001352Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1353Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1354
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001355exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1356Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1357
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001358Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1359'iskeyword' for syntax.
1360
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001361Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1362It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1363Add configure check?
1364Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1365Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1366Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1367
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001368Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1369Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1370
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001371Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1372Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1373
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001374":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1375directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1376
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001377Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1378(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1379
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001380When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1381restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1382Do not trigger the event?
1383
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001384Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1385With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1386
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001387Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001388
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001389Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1390
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001391Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001392Only remembers one error.
1393
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001394GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001395
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001396Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1397(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001398
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001399Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1400github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001401 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001402Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001403
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001404Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001405
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001406Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001407comparing individual items.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001408
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001409Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1410
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001411MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1412wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1413
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001414Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1415specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1416
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001417Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1418(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1419
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001420Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001421'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1422before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001423
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001424C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1425and also line continuation after #include.
1426I can't recommend it though.
1427
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001428Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1429(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1430
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001431To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1432library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1433
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001434Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
143530)
1436
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001437MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1438(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1439
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001440The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
144124): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001442
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001443":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1444effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1445
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001446":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
14479)
1448
1449The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1450wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1451
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001452Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001453Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001454
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001455When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1456the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1457
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001458Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001459slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1460inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1461
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001462ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
14632014 Sep 11)
1464
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001465Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1466(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1467
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001468When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1469'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1470
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001471Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1472Work in progress.
1473
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001474Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1475when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1476
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001477Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1478Is this right?
1479
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001480Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1481(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1482Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1483
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001484Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1485Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001486
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001487Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1488Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1489
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001490Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1491
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001492Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1493
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001494Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1495OK to not block marks?
1496
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001497Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1498
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001499When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1500(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1501
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001502Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001503
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001504Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1505(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1506
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001507When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1508any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1509
1510Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001511
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001512Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001513
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001514Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1515(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1516
1517Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1518
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001519Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1520Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1521was already defined.
1522(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1523
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001524Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1525
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001526Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1527(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1528
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001529Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1530(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1531
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001532Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1533
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001534When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1535these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1536window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1537
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001538Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1539should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1540history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1541Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1542
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001543"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1544Jun 8)
1545
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001546Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1547insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1548
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001549No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1550
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001551Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1552(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1553Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1554arguments.
1555
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001556Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1557
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001558Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1559right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001560its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001561
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001562Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1563
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001564This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1565 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1566This neither: (ZyX)
1567 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1568
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001569'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1570Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1571from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001572
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001573Include a plugin manager with Vim? vim-plug seems to be the best currently:
1574https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001575Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001576Or minpac: https://github.com/k-takata/minpac, since it leverages the builtin
1577package feature.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001578Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1579Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1580User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001581- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1582 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1583 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001584- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1585- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1586 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1587 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1588 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1589 on vim.org.
1590- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1591 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1592- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1593- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1594- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1595- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1596Implementation:
1597- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1598 plugin separate.
1599- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1600 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1601 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1602- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1603 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1604- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1605 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1606 installing.
1607Out of scope:
1608- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1609- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1610 useful).
1611
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001612When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1613menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1614
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001615Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1616(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1617
1618":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1619various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001620
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001621Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001622(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1623
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001624VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1625instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1626
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001627Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001628Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001629Also see #2034.
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001630
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001631Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1632
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001633Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1634highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001635
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001636Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001637
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001638Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1639
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010016407 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1641 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1642 "lucida_console:h8").
1643Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1644
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001645:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1646
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001647Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1648
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001649Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1650
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001651When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1652(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1653
1654Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001655Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001656
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001657GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1658(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1659
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001660Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1661
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001662The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1663(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1664Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1665
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001666Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1667Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1668reliably?
1669
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001670Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1671(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1672
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001673Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1674(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001675Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
1676(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
1677try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1678try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001679
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001680Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
16812013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001682
1683Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1684
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001685Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
16865)
1687
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001688Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1689carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1690
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001691Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1692highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1693
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001694Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001695
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001696Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200169728) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001698
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001699Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1700
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001701- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1702 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1703Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001704
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001705Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001706
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001707patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02001708Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
1709Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001710
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001711Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1712not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001713
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001714Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1715Or use expand('<sid>')?
1716
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001717Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1718
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001719Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1720
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001721b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
17227)
1723
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001724Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1725compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1726
1727Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1728Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1729vim.bindeval().
1730
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001731Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
17322012 Aug 4)
1733
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001734Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1735(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1736
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001737Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1738But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1739
1740Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1741Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1742Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001743
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001744Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1745loading all files.
1746
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001747'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001748
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001749Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001750of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1751
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001752The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1753Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1754But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001755
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001756When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1757is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1758
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001759URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001760- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001761- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1762 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1763
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001764Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001765New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001766
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001767Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1768
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001769Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1770
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001771Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1772Apr 18)
1773
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001774Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1775And one for gui_x11.txt.
1776
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001777":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1778finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1779Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1780
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001781Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1782
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001783Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1784
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001785Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1786they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1787
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001788Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1789
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001790Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1791Nov 20)
1792
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001793Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001794Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001795
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001796`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001797(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1798
1799Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1800
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001801BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1802Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1803
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001804Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1805Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1806
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001807Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1808
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001809On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
18102012 Jun 19)
1811
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001812'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1813'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1814Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001815Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001816
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001817Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
1818only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
181921, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
1820
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001821Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1822New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1823
1824Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1825Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1826
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001827Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1828Jan 19)
1829
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001830Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1831discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1832meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001833
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001834"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001835Oct 26)
1836
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001837Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1838
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001839Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1840
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001841When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
1842(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
1843
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001844When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
1845then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
1846from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
1847
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001848Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
1849":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
185015)
1851
1852Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
1853
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001854BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
1855cleared. See test64.
1856
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001857On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
185864 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
1859right type.
1860
1861string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
1862(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
1863
1864When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
1865(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001866When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
1867following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
1868(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001869
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001870When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
1871doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
1872
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001873Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
1874
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001875When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
1876indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
1877the help file.
1878
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001879After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
1880Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
1881
1882Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
1883
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02001884"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multibyte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001885
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001886Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
1887
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001888Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001889
Bram Moolenaar56994d22021-04-17 16:31:09 +02001890Using "syn sync breaklines=2" works for when text is changed, but not when
1891scrolling or redrawing. Should start search for syntax patterns above the
1892first drawn line. (#8103)
1893
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001894Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
18952010 Dec 18)
1896
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001897With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
1898number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
1899Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
1900
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001901Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
1902Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
1903
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020019048 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
1905Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
1906
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001907Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
1908one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
1909the match scrolls into view.
1910
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020019117 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
1912Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1913Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
1914
19159 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
1916 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
1917Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
1918
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001919Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
1920Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
1921
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001922In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
1923or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
1924sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
1925
1926GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
1927doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
1928
1929GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
1930
1931Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
1932Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
1933
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001934Wish for NetBeans commands:
1935 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
1936
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001937Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
1938
19397.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
1940there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
1941do?
1942
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001943New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
1944- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001945- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001946 the maximum repeat for * and +?
1947
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01001948"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
19492011 Feb 27)
1950
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001951Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
1952^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
1953
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001954When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
1955exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
19569) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
1957
1958g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
1959the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
1960
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001961Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
1962crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
1963
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02001964Regexp engine performance:
1965- Profiling:
1966 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
1967 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
1968 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
1969 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
1970 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
1971 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
1972- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
1973- Performance tests:
1974 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
1975 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
1976 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
1977 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
1978 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
1979 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
1980 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
1981 'hlsearch'.
1982 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
1983 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
1984 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
1985 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
1986
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001987Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
1988Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
1989
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001990'beval' option should be global-local.
1991
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001992Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001993
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001994setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02001995
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001996With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
19972010 Oct 24)
1998
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001999Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2000
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002001When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2002Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2003
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002004":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2005
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002006'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2007
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002008C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2009checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2010Issue 46.
2011
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002012Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2013
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002014Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2015gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2016
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002017":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2018accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2019
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002020Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2021setwinvar().
2022
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002023Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002024
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002025When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2026instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2027
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002028Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2029Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2030Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002031
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002032Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002033Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2034
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002035CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2036the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +01002037FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Philippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002038
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002039Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2040Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2041
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002042Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2043Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2044
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002045Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2046
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002047Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2048non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002049
2050iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2051Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2052or replace with a character and continue?
2053
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002054Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2055Requires configure check for localtime().
2056Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2057
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002058Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2059
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002060Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2061Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2062path.
2063
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002064Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002065Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002066
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002067'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2068
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002069":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2070like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2071
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002072Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2073https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002074
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002075Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2076
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002077Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2078characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2079
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002080Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2081
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002082Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2083 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2084
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002085Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2086
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002087For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002088line argument -noregister.
2089
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002090When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2091missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2092
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002093When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2094doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002095
2096Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2097(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2098Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2099There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2100Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2101
2102":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2103highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2104to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2105
2106Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2107Probably needs a bit of work.
2108
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002109List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002110Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2111
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002112Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2113
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002114Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2115
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002116Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2117
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002118Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2119on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2120
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002121Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
21222009 Jul 18)
2123
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002124Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2125window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2126Needs more work.
2127
2128Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2129
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002130When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2131few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2132
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002133'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002134(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2135
2136Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2137J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2138
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002139When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2140for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2141
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002142Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2143
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002144":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2145because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2146ex_docmd.c.
2147
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002148Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002149Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2150
2151string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2152for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2153
2154Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2155
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002156Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
21572009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2158
2159Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2160
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002161Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2162are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2163Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2164Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2165that doesn't have a window.
2166
2167When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2168doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2169
2170getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2171displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2172
2173":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2174
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002175Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2176
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002177Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2178command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2179
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002180Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2181does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2182
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002183opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2184height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002185very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002186
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002187Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002188(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2189
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002190Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2191char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2192
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002193This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2194
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002195Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2196messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2197es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
21982009 Jan 26)
2199
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002200When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002201in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2202Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2203
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002204Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2205a modeline.
2206
2207Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2208Sergey Khorev)
2209
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002210Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2211(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2212
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002213shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002214'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2215Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2216unix-like shell?
2217
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002218Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2219register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2220(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2221
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002222Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2223Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2224
2225Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2226make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2227
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002228When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2229still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2230
2231"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2232(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2233
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002234MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2235doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2236probably causes this.
2237
2238'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020022392009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002240
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002241Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2242":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2243option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2244is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002245
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002246":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2247first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002248Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002249
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002250Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2251anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2252
2253On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2254doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2255Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2256Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2257
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002258When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2259'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2260fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2261the buffer to be unmodified.
2262Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2263another look at it.
2264
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002265c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2266(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2267
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002268You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2269error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2270Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2271at the other match for 0xBF.
2272
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002273When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2274argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2275
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002276Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2277backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2278
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002279When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2280line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2281
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002282":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2283Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2284
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002285When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2286either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2287put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2288
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002289Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2290Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2291Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2292Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2293(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2294
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002295Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2296
2297ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002298
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002299Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2300(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2301escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2302an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002303This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2304July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002305Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2306work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2307
2308When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
230931)
2310
2311Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2312work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2313Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002314
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002315Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02002316multibyte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002317(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2318
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002319Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
23202008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002321Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002322
2323Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2324Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2325'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2326
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002327Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2328Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2329
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002330Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2331Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2332
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020023338 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2334 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2335 several).
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +02002336
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002337The utf class table is missing some entries:
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002338 0x2212, minus sign
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002339 0x2217, star
2340 0x2500, bar
2341 0x26ab, circle
2342
2343Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2344line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2345
2346GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2347Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2348
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002349Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2350try the Cocoa version.
2351
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002352Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2353changed or the window is resized.
2354
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002355GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2356the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2357
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002358Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2359Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002360
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002361Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
23621) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2363
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002364C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2365with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2366Try to reproduce at work.
2367
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002368Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2369Is there a way to list all the files first?
2370
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002371Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2372(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2373
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002374Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
23751)
2376
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002377":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2378Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2379
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002380Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2381Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2382
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002383Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2384Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2385Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002386
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002387When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2388and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2389
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002390Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2391 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2392
2393New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2394
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002395":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2396a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2397
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002398Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2399other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2400
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002401The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2402appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2403matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2404
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002405When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2406character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2407'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2408(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2409
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002410Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2411Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002412
2413More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2414
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002415Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2416http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2417
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002418Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2419No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2420
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002421Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2422terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002423
2424Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2425
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002426Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2427but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2428that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002429
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002430Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2431Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2432
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002433Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2434popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2435size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2436This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2437
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002438When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2439parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2440neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2441particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2442Jun 3)
2443However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2444the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002445
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002446A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2447Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2448
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002449Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2450Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2451
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002452Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2453switch list is noticed:
2454 switch (i)
2455 {
2456 case 1:
2457 foobar:
2458 }
2459
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002460Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2461
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002462Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2463with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2464go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2465moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2466
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002467Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002468GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002469Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2470argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2471(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2472
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002473Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2474(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2475
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002476Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
24772007 Feb 8)
2478
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002479Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2480set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002481
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002482Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2483
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002484Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2485Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2486New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2487patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2488
2489Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2490Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2491
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002492Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002493label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2494
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002495Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2496with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2497Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002498
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002499Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2500
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002501Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2502Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2503only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2504
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002505Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2506Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002507Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002508properly?
2509
2510Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
25112007 Jun 21)
2512
2513When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2514Jun 18)
2515
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002516C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2517
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002518":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2519
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002520When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002521error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002522
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002523GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002524use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2525
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002526Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2527if_ruby.c.
2528
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002529":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2530
2531The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2532it in keep_msg?
2533
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002534Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002535error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002536name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2537
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002538Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2539longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002540
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002541Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2542Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2543Also for ":w" without a file name.
2544The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002545
2546"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2547Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2548
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002549VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2550directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2551(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2552
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002553VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2554
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002555input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2556name?
2557
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002558Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2559
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002560When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2561(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002562Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002563will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2564
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002565gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2566This also fails with --remote.
2567
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002568When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
25692008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2570all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2571
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002572aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2573
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002574When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2575(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2576
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002577Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2578the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2579
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002580GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2581
2582Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2583Jun 5)
2584
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002585Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
25862008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2587Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2588
2589In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2590but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2591Jul 22)
2592
2593There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2594
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002595Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2596
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002597Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2598moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2599that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2600
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002601The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2602
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002603When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002604cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2605the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2606
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002607These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2608 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2609 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2610 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2611
2612Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2613partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2614
2615In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2616buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2617reload it then?
2618
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002619For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2620
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002621Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2622Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2623
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002624Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2625 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2626 set background=dark
2627This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2628color is, not reset it.
2629
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002630Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2631start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2632show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2633middle?
2634
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002635Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2636
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002637When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2638current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2639the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2640
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002641When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2642Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2643
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002644Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2645Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2646
2647Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2648
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002649A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2650Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2651
2652Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2653Dara, 2006 June 21)
2654
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002655Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2656number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2657
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002658After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2659the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2660
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002661Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002662
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002663Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2664Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2665
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002666Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010026672008 Sep 29)
2668
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002669In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2670check the result of has("patch13").
2671
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002672Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2673restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2674
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002675Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2676and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2677
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002678Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2679put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2680
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002681Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2682resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2683
2684In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
2685can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
2686
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002687GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
2688maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
2689doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002690Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
2691visible.
2692
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002693When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
2694differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002695
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002696The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
2697be only one.
2698
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002699Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002700"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2701name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2702Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002703
2704Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2705(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2706
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002707Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2708as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2709
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002710Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
271123)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002712
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002713":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2714tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2715Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002716
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002717When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2718text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2719latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2720
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002721Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2722no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2723
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002724In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2725VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
27262007 Oct 16)
2727
2728TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2729Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2730
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002731Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002732
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002733When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2734typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2735Sep 3, 11)
2736
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002737":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2738this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2739
2740When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2741Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2742restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2743
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002744Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
27452010 Jun 30)
2746
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002747Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2748'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2749(Kartik Agaram)
2750
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002751
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002752Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01002753- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
2754 - manipulating the Visual selection?
2755- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
2756 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
2757 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
2758- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
2759 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
2760 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01002761- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
2762- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002763
2764
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002765More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002766- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2767 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002768- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002769- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
2770 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002771- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
2772- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
2773- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
2774 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
2775 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002776- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002777- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
2778 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
2779- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
2780 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
2781- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
2782 21)
2783- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
2784 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
2785- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
2786 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaard2ea7cf2021-05-30 20:54:13 +02002787- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill McCarthy, 2008
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002788 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002789- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
2790 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
2791 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
2792 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
2793 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02002794- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002795
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002796Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000027979 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
2798 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
2799 New patch 2004 Jun 16
2800 - selecting proportional font breaks display
2801 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
2802 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
2803 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
2804 (Alan Schmitt)
2805 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002806 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
2807 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000028089 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002809 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000028108 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028117 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
2812 Update 2004 Sep 6.
2813 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028148 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002815 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020028167 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002817 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
2818- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02002819 for multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002820- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
2821- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
2822 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
2823 been given values.
2824 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028257 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
2826 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
2827- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
2828 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
2829 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
28308 Add functions:
2831 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
2832 Update 2004 Sep 10
2833 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
2834 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002835 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002836 How to get the messages into the .po files?
2837 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
2838 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
2839 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
2840 (2003 May 13)
2841 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
2842 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002843 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
2844 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002845 col('^') column of first non-white character.
2846 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
2847 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028487 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
2849 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028507 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
2851 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000028528 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
Bram Moolenaar53f7fcc2021-07-28 20:10:16 +02002853 (unencrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028547 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
28558 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
2856 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
28577 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
2858 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028597 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
2860- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
2861 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
2862 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002863- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
2864 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
2865- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01002866- Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2867 Await response to question to make the register writable.
2868
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002869
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02002870Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
2871- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
2872 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
2873
Bram Moolenaar4f4d51a2020-10-11 13:57:40 +02002874
2875Spell checking:
2876- When 'cursorline' is set and the first word should have SpellCap
2877 highlighting, redrawing the line removes it when moving the cursor away
2878 from the line. (#7085) Would need to inspect the end of the previous line
2879 and update "capcol_lnum" and "cap_col".
2880- Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
2881- Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single
2882 quote: 0x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
2883 New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
2884 compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be
2885 downloaded.
2886- Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start a new
2887 sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
2888- Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the superscript numbers
2889 by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2890- In popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first character,
2891 don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2892- Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2893 ":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use
2894 "z=" somehow? Or use a new function.
2895
2896
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002897Quickfix/Location List:
2898- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
2899 #2999)
2900- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
2901 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
2902 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
2903 the quickfix buffer?
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002904- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
2905 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
2906- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
2907 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
2908 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002909- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
2910- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
2911 2007 Jan 1)
2912- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
2913 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
2914- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2915 errors. How do we get the rest?
29168 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
2917 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
2918 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
2919 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
29207 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
Bram Moolenaare46a4402020-06-30 20:38:27 +02002921 first quickfix location.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002922
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002923Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002924- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
2925 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029268 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
2927 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
2928 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
2929 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
2930 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
2931 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029328 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
2933 make Vim exit.
29347 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2935 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2936 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
29378 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2938 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2939 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
29406 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2941 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2942 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
29438 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2944 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2945 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2946 names in one buffer???
2947 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2948 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2949 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
29507 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2951 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2952 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002953 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2954 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029557 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2956 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
29577 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029587 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
2959 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
2960 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
2961 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
29627 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
29637 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
29647 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
2965 to the match with the tag? Option?
29667 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
29677 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
2968 (Sayre).
29697 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
2970 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029717 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
2972 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
2973 match. Nvi can do it too.
29747 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
2975 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
2976 line 1\ line 2\\
2977 line 2\ line 3\\
2978 . line4/
29796 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
2980 the way the shell is started?
29816 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
2982 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
2983
2984
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002985GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000029869 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029878 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
2988 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
2989 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000029908 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
2991 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
2992 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029939 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
2994 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
2995 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
2996 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00002997- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
2998 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
2999 blocked for now.
3000
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003001
3002Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003003- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3004 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030058 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3006 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3007 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030086 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3009 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000030108 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3011 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3012 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030137 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3014 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3015 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030167 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3017 2004 May 9)
30188 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3019 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3020 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3021 MS-Windows 98?
3022 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3023 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3024 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3025 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030268 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3027 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3028 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3029 doesn't work properly.
30308 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3031 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3032 appears in the right position. (Webb)
30339 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3034 button doesn't give popup menu.
3035 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3036 selection.
3037 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3038 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3039 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
30408 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3041 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3042 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3043 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
30448 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3045 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3046 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030477 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3048 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003049 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030507 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3051 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030526 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
30538 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3054 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3055 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
30568 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3057 know which keyboard is being used?
30587 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3059 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3060 area (Koloseike).
30618 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3062 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3063 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3064 the font name).
3065
3066
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +01003067Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000030686 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3069 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3070 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3071 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3072 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030739 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3074 required and it's missing?
30758 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3076 wrong.
30779 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3078 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +010030799 XIM doesn't work properly for Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003080 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3081 flag.
30828 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3083 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3084 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
30858 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
30866 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3087 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3088 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3089 the tooltips work though...
30907 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3091 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
30928 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3093 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3094 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3095
3096
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003097Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003098- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030997 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3100 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031018 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3102 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3103 (Phillipps)
3104
3105
3106GUI:
31079 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3108 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
31099 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003110 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003111 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
31129 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3113 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031148 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3115 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3116 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
31178 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3118 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3119 of where it is processing the output.
3120 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
31218 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3122 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010031238 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000031248 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3125 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3126 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020031278 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031288 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3129 browse().
31308 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3131 use that code? Or use console dialog.
31328 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3133 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000031347 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3135 - regexp on/off
3136 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3137 when all buffers/directory is used:
3138 - filter for file name
3139 when directory is used:
3140 - subdirectory on/off
3141 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031428 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3143 to avoid problems.
31448 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3145 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3146 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
31478 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3148 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3149 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
31508 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3151 up. Set erase character somehow?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031528 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
31537 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3154 visible.
31557 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3156 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
31577 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3158 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
31598 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3160 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
31618 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3162 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3163 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3164 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3165- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
31664 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3167 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3168 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3169
3170
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003171Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000031728 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3173 a good fallback, thus use:
3174 $HOME
3175 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3176 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3177 $USERPROFILE
3178 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3179 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3180 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3181 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031828 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3183 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
31848 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3185 Should work like in the GUI version.
31868 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3187 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
31888 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3189 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
31908 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3191 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3192 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031938 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3194 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3195 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3196
3197
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003198Win32 console:
31999 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3200 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3201 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3202 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3203 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3204 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3205 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3206 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3207 and the file is not saved.
3208 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3209 long name.
32108 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3211 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
32127 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3213 besides the console.
32148 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
32159 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3216 <C-S-i>?
32179 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3218 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
32198 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3220 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003221
3222
3223Amiga:
32248 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3225 sequences.
32269 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3227 backslashes in result.
32288 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3229 all options, using white space separation.
3230
3231
3232Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003233- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032347 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3235 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3236 (Jack)
3237 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032388 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3239 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032408 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
32418 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
32429 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3243 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032449 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003245
3246
3247"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003248- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3249 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000032509 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3251 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000032529 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003253 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3254 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032558 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3256 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3257 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003258 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032597 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3260 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
32618 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3262 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3263 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032647 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3265 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003266- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3267 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032688 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3269 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3270 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3271 using the horizontal scrollbar.
32727 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3273 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3274 invocations belong together.
32758 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3276 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
32778 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3278 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3279 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003280 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000032818 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3282 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3283 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032847 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3285 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3286 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3287 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032887 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3289 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3290 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
32917 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3292 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3293 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
32947 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3295 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032967 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3297 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032989 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3299 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3300 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3301 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3302 script can be called.
33038 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3304 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3305 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033068 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3307 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000033088 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003309 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3310 configurable?
33118 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033128 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3313 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020033148 Should allow multibyte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3315 is a multibyte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033168 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3317 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033189 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3319 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3320 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033217 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033228 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3323 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3324 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000033258 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3326 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003327 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3328 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033298 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3330 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
33319 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3332 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3333 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003334 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033357 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3336 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033377 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3338 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3339 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3340 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033418 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003342 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3343 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3344 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3345 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003346 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3347 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003348 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003349 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003350 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3351 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3352 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3353 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3354 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033558 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3356 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
33578 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3358 in lines that don't extend into the block?
33598 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3360 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3361 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
33628 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3363 'linebreak'.
33648 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3365 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3366 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033679 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3368 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3369 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3370 'magic' in history. (Margo)
33719 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3372 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033739 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
33749 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3375 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3376 cause another redraw, etc.
33778 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3378 must escape special characters in the pattern.
33798 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3380 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3381 ":w!!" for that.
3382 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3383 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003384 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033857 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3386 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3387 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3388 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3389 clipboard)
33907 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3391 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3392 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000033936 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3394 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3395 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033968 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3397 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
33988 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3399 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3400 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
34018 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3402 (e.g., ":w").
34038 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3404 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034058 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3406 script in do_cmdline().
34078 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3408 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3409 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3410 changes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034118 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3412 to skip catch_signals()?
34139 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3414 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3415 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3416 text?
34178 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3418 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
34198 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3420 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
34219 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3422 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3423 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3424 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3425 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
34267 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3427 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3428 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3429 in the list?
34308 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3431 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3432 instead of on button down.
34338 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034348 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3435 character is typed.
34368 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3437 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
34388 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3439 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
34408 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3441 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3442 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3443 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3444 cygwin bash.
34457 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3446 Remember flags for backreferences.
34477 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3448 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
34497 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3450 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
34518 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3452 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
34537 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3454 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034557 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3456 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3457 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
34587 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3459 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003460
3461
3462I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
34639 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3464 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3465 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003466
3467
3468Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003469- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3470 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3471 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003472- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3473 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3474 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3475 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3476 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3477 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003478 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003479- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3480 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003481 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003482 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3483 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3484 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003485- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3486 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3487 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3488 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3489 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3490- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3491 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3492 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3493- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3494 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003495- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003496- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3497 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3498 character gets the highlighting.
3499- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3500 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3501- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3502 (Jennings)
3503- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003504- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003505- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003506 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003507- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3508 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3509 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3510- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3511 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3512 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3513 (Benzinger).
3514- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3515 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3516 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3517- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3518 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3519- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3520 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3521- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3522 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3523 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3524 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3525 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3526 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3527- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3528 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3529 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003530- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3531 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3532 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003533- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3534 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3535 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3536- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3537 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3538- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3539 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003540- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3541 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3542- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3543 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3544 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3545 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3546 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3547- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3548 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3549 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3550- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3551 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3552 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003553- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3554 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 +00003555- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3556 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3557 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3558 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3559 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3560- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3561 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3562
3563--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3564 *extensions-improvements*
3565
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003566Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3567- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +01003568 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma-separated as if
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003569 calling a function.
3570 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3571 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003572- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3573 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003574 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003575- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3576 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3577 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3578 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3579 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3580 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003581 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003582- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3583 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3584 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003585- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3586 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000035878 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3588 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3589 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3590 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003591- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3592 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003593
3594
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003595Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035968 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3597 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000035988 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3599 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000036008 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3601 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036028 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036039 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3604 - change to cursor position and curswant
3605 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3606 - how it works for folded lines
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003607 - how it works with multibyte characters
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036088 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3609 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3610 text.
36118 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
36127 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3613 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
36147 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3615 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003616 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003617- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3618
3619
3620Help:
3621- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3622 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3623- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3624 to the other matches.
3625- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003626- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3627 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02003628 user can edit it to insert favorite commands, new account can contain a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003629 default contents.
3630- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3631 height for the help window (and other windows).
3632- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3633- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3634- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3635
3636
3637User Friendlier:
36388 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3639 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3640 Briscoe)
36418 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
36428 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3643 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3644 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
36458 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3646 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3647- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3648 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar0e6adf82021-12-16 14:41:10 +00003649- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..." #9339
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036509 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3651 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3652 item?).
3653 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036548 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000036557 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3656 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3657 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000036588 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3659 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3660 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3661 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003662
3663
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003664Tab pages:
36659 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036667 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3667 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000036688 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000036698 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000036707 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000036717 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003672 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000036738 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3674 tab pages.
36757 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
3676
3677
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003678Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003679- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01003680 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003681- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3682 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3683 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3684- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3685 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003686- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3687 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3688 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003689- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3690 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3691 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003692- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003693 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3694 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000036958 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3696 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
36978 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3698 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
36998 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3700 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003701 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003702 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3703 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3704 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3705 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003706- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3707 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003708- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003709- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3710 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003711- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003712 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003713- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003714 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003715- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3716 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003717- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3718 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3719- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003720 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003721 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3722 in the affix file separately.
3723 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003724 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003725 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3726 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3727 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3728- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3729 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3730 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3731 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3732 Alternative:
3733 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3734 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3735 affix which is required.
3736- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003737 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003738- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3739 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3740 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003741- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3742 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003743- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3744 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3745- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000037468 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3747 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3748 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3749 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003750- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3751 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3752 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3753 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000037548 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3755 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000037568 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
37578 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3758 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000037597 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
37608 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3761 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3762 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3763 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003764
3765
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003766Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020037679 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
3768 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020037698 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003770 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003771
3772Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003773 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3774 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaar2d8ed022022-05-21 13:08:16 +01003775- Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
3776 Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
3777 Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
3778 Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
3779- Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
3780- Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
3781 (Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
3782 Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
3783- Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the
3784 line number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
3785- Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe,
3786 2011 Jan 7)
3787- 'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session.
3788 (Teemu Likonen, March 19)
3789- With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't
3790 removed. (Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
3791- The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
3792- When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be
3793 folded. Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding,
3794 2010 Jun 9)
3795- When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
3796 indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous
3797 one. (Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
3798- Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037998 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3800 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020038018 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
3802 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038038 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3804 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3805 user aware of this?
38068 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3807 commands skip over a closed fold.
38088 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
38098 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038107 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003811- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3812 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3813 missing line goes unnoticed.
3814 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003815- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3816 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3817 smoother?
3818- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3819 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003820- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3821 file can contain:
3822 args version.c main.c
3823 edit version.c
3824 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003825- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003826- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3827 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003828- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3829 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003830- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3831 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003832- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003833
3834Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003835- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3836 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3837 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3838 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038399 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3840 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3841 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3842 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020038439 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3844 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3845 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038468 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3847 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3848 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3849 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3850 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3851 item.
38528 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003853 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3854 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038558 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3856 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038578 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3858 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3859 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038607 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3861 so that the user can fix the problem.
38628 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3863 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038649 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020038658 Should add test for using various commands with multibyte characters.
38668 'infercase' doesn't work with multibyte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038678 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038687 Searching and composing characters:
3869 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003870 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3871 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038728 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
38738 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020038748 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multibyte
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003875 characters.
38768 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
38778 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3878 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
38797 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3880 'display' option to specify this.
38817 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3882 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3883- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3884 fontselector somehow.
3885- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3886 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3887- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3888 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3889- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3890 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3891 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3892 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3893 if a font exists?
3894- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003895 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003896- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3897 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003898- Make 'breakat' accept multibyte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003899 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3900 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003901 at a multibyte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003902- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3903 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02003904 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02003905- When breaking a line, take properties of multibyte characters into
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003906 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
3907 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
3908 But it's very complicated...
3909
3910
3911Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000039127 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003913- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3914- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3915 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003916- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3917 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003918- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3919- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3920 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003921- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3922 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003923- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3924 units as for the margins.
3925- Support right-to-left text?
39268 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
3927 color.
3928
3929
3930Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar113cb512021-11-07 20:27:04 +00003931 Long term goal: faster, better, etc. Options:
3932 - use treesitter, NeoVim uses it
3933 - use TextMate, vscode uses it. #9087
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039348 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
3935 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
39368 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
3937 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
39388 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
3939 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000039407 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
3941 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039428 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
3943 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
3944 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039457 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
3946 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
3947 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039488 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
39499 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
3950 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039517 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
3952 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000039537 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
3954 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039558 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
3956 change this for each release.
39578 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
3958 pattern, but not in the body.
39598 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
3960 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
3961 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039628 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010039638 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02003964 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
3965 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039668 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
3967 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
39688 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
3969 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00003970 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039718 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
3972 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
3973 used.
39748 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
3975 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
39768 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
3977 re-insert the [] if possible.
39788 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
3979 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000039808 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
3981 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
3982 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
3983 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
3984 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039858 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
3986 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
39878 Support for deleting syntax items:
3988 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
3989 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
3990 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
39918 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
3992 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
3993 a '<'. (Fleiner)
39947 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
3995 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
3996 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
39977 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
3998 detected.
39998 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004000 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040018 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4002 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040038 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
40048 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
40057 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4006 ":mkvimrc".
40078 Improve c.vim:
4008 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4009 "c_strict_ansi".
4010 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
40118 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4012 current line while in Insert mode.
40138 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4014 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
40158 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4016 display position.
40178 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4018 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4019 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
40208 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4021 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4022 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000040237 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4024 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4025 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4026 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4027 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040287 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4029 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4030 E.g. for this html:
4031 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040327 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
40337 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4034 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040357 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4036 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4037 completion?
40388 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4039 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
40407 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4041 select one of the sets.
40428 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4043 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4044 2, etc.
40458 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4046 highlighting (for "." command).
40478 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4048 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
40498 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
40507 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4051 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
40526 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4053 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4054- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4055 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4056- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004057- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4058 (for comment blocks).
4059- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4060 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4061 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4062 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4063 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4064 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4065 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4066 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4067 (Campbell)
4068 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4069 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
40707 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4071 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
40727 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4073 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4074 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
40757 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4076 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4077 messages. And external commands?
40788 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4079 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
40807 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4081 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4082
4083
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004084Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040858 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4086 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004087 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000040887 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4089 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4090 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004091- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000040927 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4093 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040948 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010040958 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4096 can be the plugin name.
4097 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4098 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040997 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4100 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4101 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4102 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4103 autocommand.
4104 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4105 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4106 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4107 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041087 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4109 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041106 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4111 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041128 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004113 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4114 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004115 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4116 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4117 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004118 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4119 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4120 3 2002
4121 Only add this when also implemented for
4122 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4123 be used.
4124 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004125 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4126 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4127 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4128 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4129 File.Open..." argument.
4130 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4131 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4132 with properties instead.
4133 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4134 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4135 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004136 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004137 crypt() encrypt string
4138 decrypt() decrypt string
4139 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4140 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004141 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004142 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004143 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004144 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004145 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004146 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4147 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004148 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4149 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004150 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004151 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4152 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4153 to allow the library to execute a command or
4154 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041557 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4156 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
41578 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4158 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041598 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4160 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041618 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041626 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000041638 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4164 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041658 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4166 option or environment variable.
41678 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041688 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004169 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000041707 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4171 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041728 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4173 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
41748 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
41758 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4176 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4177 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4178 charwise({expr}).
41797 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4180 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4181 buffer for this?
4182 result = scratch(string, command)
4183 result = apply(string, command)
4184 result = execute(string, command)
4185 "command" would use <> notation.
4186 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
41877 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004188
4189
4190Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000041916 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4192 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4193 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4194 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4195 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4196 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4197 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004198
4199
4200Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000042017 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4202 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020042037 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4204 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4205 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4206 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000042078 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4208 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4209 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4210 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004211 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042128 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
42139 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
42148 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
42157 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4216 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
42178 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4218 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4219 when starting up in a color terminal.
42208 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4221 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042228 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4223 function be improved?
42248 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4225 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4226 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4227 this be improved?
42288 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4229 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000042307 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4231 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042327 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4233 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
42347 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4235 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042367 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4237 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4238 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4239 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4240 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4241 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4242 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042438 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4244 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4245 using strcmp() too often?
42467 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4247 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4248 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4249 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4250 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4251 the two blocks to the memfile block.
42527 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4253 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4254 with an argument that can be messed with.
4255 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4256 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
42577 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4258- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
42598 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4260 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4261- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4262 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4263- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4264- Do profiling on:
4265 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004266 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4267 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4268 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4269 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4270 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4271 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004272 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042737 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4274 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4275 changed).
4276 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4277 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4278- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4279- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4280 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4281- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4282 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4283 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004284- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4285- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4286 cursor is right of the screen.
42878 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4288 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4289
4290
4291Code size:
42928 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4293- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4294 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
42958 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
42968 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4297 it.
42987 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4299 left out.
43008 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4301 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010043028 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004303
4304
4305Messages:
43068 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4307 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
43088 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4309 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
43108 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4311 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004312- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4313 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4314- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
43159 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4316 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4317 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4318 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4319 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043208 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4321 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
43228 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4323 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4324 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4325 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4326 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4327 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004328- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004329 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043308 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4331 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4332 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4333 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4334 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4335 error messages, printing text, etc.
43368 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4337 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4338 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4339
4340
4341Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004342- screen_line():
4343 - insert/delete character stuff.
4344 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4345- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4346 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4347- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4348 waiting for a character.
43498 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4350 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4351 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004352
4353Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020043548 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043556 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4356- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4357 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4358 windows.
43597 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4360 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4361 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4362- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4363 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4364 (Goldfarb)
4365- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4366 bound windows.
4367- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4368 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004369- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004370- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4371 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4372 of lines but not with a single line).
4373
4374
4375Autoconf:
43768 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
43778 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4378 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4379- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4380 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4381- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4382- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4383- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4384
4385
4386Perl interface:
43878 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043887 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
43897 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
43906 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4391
4392
4393Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020043948 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4395 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043966 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4397 :libload internal-name libname
4398 :libunload internal-name
4399 :liblist
4400 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4401 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4402 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
44036 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4404
4405
4406Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000044079 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4408 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4409 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4410 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4411 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000044128 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4413 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4414 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004415 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004416 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000044177 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4418 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4419 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044208 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
44218 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4422 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044237 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4424 window for each tag.
44257 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
44267 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4427 bottom" search message.
44287 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4429 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4430 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004431- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4432- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004433- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4434 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4435 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044367 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4437 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4438 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4439 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
44407 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4441 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4442 :tagargs clear
4443 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4444 matching).
44457 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4446 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4447 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4448 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
44497 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4450 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
44517 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4452 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4453 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004454
4455
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004456Win32 GUI:
44578 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4458 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044597 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4460 (Mike McCollister)
44618 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4462 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4463 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4464 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4465 common part of the path.
44668 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
44678 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4468 gettext and menus work.
44698 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4470 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004471 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004472 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
44738 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4474 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
44758 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4476 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
44777 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4478 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
44797 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
44807 <Esc> should close a dialog.
44817 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4482 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4483 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4484 prompts.
44857 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4486 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4487 the file added into an already running Vim.
44887 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4489 functions to find the window title.
4490
4491
4492GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044937 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
44948 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
44956 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
44968 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4497 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
44989 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
44997 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
45008 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4501 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
45028 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4503 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4504 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
45058 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4506 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
45078 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4508 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4509 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4510 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045117 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
45128 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4513 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000045147 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4515 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4516 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045178 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
45188 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004519 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045208 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
45218 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
45228 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4523 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4524 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
45257 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4526 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4527 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
45287 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4529 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
45307 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4531 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4532 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4533 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045347 Should support multi-column menus.
4535- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4536 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4537- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
45388 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
45396 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4540 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
45417 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
45427 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4543 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4544 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
45457 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
45468 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4547 name can be chosen free.
45487 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4549 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
45506 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4551 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4552 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4553 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4554 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4555 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4556 things.
45577 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4558 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045597 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004560 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004561- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4562 where it was started from?
45637 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4564
4565
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004566Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020045679 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4568 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004569- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010045708 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4571 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4572 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4573 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
45748 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4575 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000045767 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4577 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4578 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4579 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000045807 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000045818 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4582 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045838 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4584 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4585 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000045867 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4587 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4588 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045898 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4590 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4591 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000045928 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4593 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045948 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045956 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4596 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000045977 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045987 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004599 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4600 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4601 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046025 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4603 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4604 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
46057 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4606 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4607 file.
46088 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4609 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4610 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004611- Add events to autocommands:
4612 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004613 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4614 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004615 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004616 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004617 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004618 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004619 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4620 the char.
4621 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4622 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4623 file from CVS).
4624 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4625 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4626 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4627 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4628 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4629 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004630 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4631 changes.
4632 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4633 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004634- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004635 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004636 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004637 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4638 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4639 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4640 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4641 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01004642- Buffer autocommands are a bit inconsistent. Add a separate set of
4643 autocommands for the buffer lifecycle:
4644 BufIsCreated (after buffer ID exists)
4645 BufIsLoaded (after buffer ID has content)
4646 BufIsUnloaded (after buffer ID no longer has)
4647 BufIsWiped (after buffer ID was wiped)
4648 BufIsRenamed (after buffer ID gets another name)
4649 The buffer list and windows are locked, no changes possible
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004650
4651
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004652Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004653- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4654 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004655- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4656 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4657 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4658 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4659 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004660- Ideas from others:
4661 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4662 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4663 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4664 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4665 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4666 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4667 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4668 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4669 Uses Perl for C++.
4670 Uses ctags to find the info:
4671 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4672 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4673 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4674 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4675 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4676 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004677 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004678 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4679- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4680
4681
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004682Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +01004683- Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
4684 (Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
4685- When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline.
4686 (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 23, #1653)
4687- Can 'completeopt' be made buffer-local? (#5487)
4688- When complete() first argument is before where insert started and
4689 'backspace' is Vi compatible, the completion fails.
4690 (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
4691- The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
4692 - The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
4693 - Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
4694- When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a
4695 number, not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist()
4696 to force a string value.
4697- When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes back to originally
4698 completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
4699 Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004700- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000047017 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4702 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000047037 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4704 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4705 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047068 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4707 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
47089 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4709 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4710 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047118 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4712 - ignore/match case
4713 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047148 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4715 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4716 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4717 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4718 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4719 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047208 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000047217 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4722 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047238 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4724 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4725 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4726 Should work for C++ and Java.
4727 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
47287 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
47297 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4730 instead of words.
47318 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
47328 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4733 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
47348 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4735 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004736- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4737 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004738- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4739 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4740 wildcards in the file name)?
4741- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4742- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4743- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4744 be in another file).
4745- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4746- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4747- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4748 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4749- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4750- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4751- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004752- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4753
4754
4755Command line editing:
47567 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4757 line.
47588 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4759 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4760 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4761- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4762 lines wraps to start of line).
4763- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4764 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4765 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4766 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4767 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4768 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4769 cmdwin does now already.
4770 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4771 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4772 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4773 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4774 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4775 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4776 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4777 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4778 Problems:
4779 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4780 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4781 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4782 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4783 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4784 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4785 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4786 character in first column?
4787 - Implementation ideas:
4788 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4789 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4790 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4791 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4792 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4793 Mode.
4794
4795
4796Command line completion:
Bram Moolenaar942db232021-02-13 18:14:48 +01004797- Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary.
4798 (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1350)
4799- Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the
4800 matching command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048018 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
48028 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4803 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
48048 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4805 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048068 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4807 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048087 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4809 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004810- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4811- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4812 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048138 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4814 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
48157 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4816 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4817- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4818 identifiers (Webb).
48198 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4820 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
48217 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4822 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4823- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4824 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4825- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4826 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4827 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar47c532e2022-03-19 15:18:53 +00004828- With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
4829 entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe,
4830 2011 Feb 12)
4831- After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting
4832 E33 (no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'",
4833 the command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
4834- Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now
4835 and then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding
4836 include files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
4837 Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
4838 indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
4839 ":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|,
4840 like in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find
4841 very quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier
4842 fix. (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
4843- Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
4844 only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
4845- Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through
4846 directory tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a
4847 directory that doesn't contain other directories.
48488 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
4849 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
48508 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
48518 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
4852- Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
4853 laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1) Works
4854 OK with Vim in an xterm.
4855- If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't
4856 work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004857
4858
4859Command line history:
4860- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4861 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4862 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01004863 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004864- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4865 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4866
4867
4868Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000048699 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4870 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4871 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048728 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4873 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4874 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4875 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4876 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048778 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4878 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4879 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048807 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4881 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004882- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048837 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4884 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4885- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4886 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4887 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4888 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4889 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4890 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4891- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4892 Normal mode.
4893- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4894 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4895 are used.
4896- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4897- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4898- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4899
4900
4901'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010049029 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4903 char * veryLongName =
4904 "very long string"
4905 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049068 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049078 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
4908 long_type foo =
4909 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049108 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
4911 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00004912 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049138 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
4914 func(
4915 new String[] {
4916 "asdf",
4917 "asdf"
4918 }
4919 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010049208 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
4921 (Chow Loong Jin)
4922 namespace {
4923 int
4924 func(int arg) {
4925 }
4926 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049276 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
4928 func( arg1
4929 , arg2
4930 , arg3
4931 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000049327 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004933 func(
4934 int x) // indent like "(4"
4935 {
4936 if (a
4937 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049389 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
4939 if (a)
4940 {
4941 if (b)
4942 {
4943 // {
4944 }
4945 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00004946 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
4947 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
4948 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004949- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004950 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
49517 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
4952- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
4953 line).
4954- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
4955- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
4956 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004957- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
4958 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
4959- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
4960 code), unless the line starts with "*".
4961- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
4962- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
4963 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
49648 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
4965 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
4966 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
4967- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
4968- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
4969 lines start with "\item".
4970- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
4971 /* here is a comment that
4972 is just autoindented, and
4973 nothing else */
4974- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
49757 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
4976 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
4977 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01004978 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004979
4980
4981Java:
49828 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
4983 Odendahl?
49848 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
4985 "[i" commands and friends.
4986- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
4987 (Jason)
4988- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
4989 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
4990
4991
4992'comments':
49938 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
4994 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
4995 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
4996 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004997 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
4998 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049997 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5000 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
50017 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
50026 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5003 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5004 regexp is used.
50058 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5006 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5007
5008
5009Virtual edit:
50108 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050117 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5012
5013
5014Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050158 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050168 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000050178 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005018 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020050198 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multibyte
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005020 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005021 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5022 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +020050238 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multibyte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050248 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5025 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050268 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5027 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5028 the end of the line or before a ".".
50297 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5030 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
50317 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5032 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050336 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
50345 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5035 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5036 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5037 cursor is on.
5038
5039
5040Select mode:
50418 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5042 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
50437 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005044 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050457 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5046 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5047 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5048 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5049 normal_cmd().
5050 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5051 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5052
5053
5054Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020050558 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5056 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005057- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5058 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5059 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005060- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5061 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5062 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050638 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005064 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005065 where needed.
50667 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5067 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
50687 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5069 of each selected line.
50708 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
50718 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5072 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5073 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
50748 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5075 Ben Godfrey)
50767 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5077 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
50787 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5079 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050807 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005081 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005082 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
50838 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5084 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
50857 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5086 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5087 option!
50887 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5089 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5090 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5091 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5092 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5093 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5094 without changing the column.
50956 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050967 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5097 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050986 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5099 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
51006 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051016 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005102 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005103 or other special character.
51046 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5105
5106
5107More advanced repeating commands:
5108- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005109- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005110- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005111 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5112 "y." will repeat last yank.
5113 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5114 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5115 and/or pick an older command.
5116- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5117
5118
5119Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051208 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5121 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5122 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
51238 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
51247 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5125 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051268 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5127 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
51288 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000051297 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051308 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5131 entering search strings.
51328 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5133 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5134 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051358 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5136 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar82be4842021-01-11 19:40:15 +010051377 Add <0x8f> (hex), <0o33> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051387 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5139 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051406 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5141 abbreviations are to be used.
5142- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5143 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5144 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005145- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5146 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5147 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5148 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5149 Or implicit:
5150 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005151- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5152 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5153 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005154- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5155 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5156- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5157 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
51586 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5159 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5160 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5161 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005162- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5163 non-replace Insert mode?
5164- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005165- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5166- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5167 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5168- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005169 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005170- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5171 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5172- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5173- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5174 ":freekeys".
5175- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5176
5177
5178Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005179- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5180 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5181- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5182 folds when going to another line.
5183 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5184- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5185 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005186- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5187 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5188 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005189- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5190 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5191 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5192 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020051939 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5194 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005195
5196
5197Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010051989 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000051998 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005200 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005201 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005202 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005203 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010052049 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5205 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010052068 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5207 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000052088 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5209 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5210 Perl does it this way:
5211 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5212 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5213 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5214 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052158 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5216 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5217 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000052187 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5219 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000052208 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5221 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000052227 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005223 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5224 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5225 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000052267 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005227 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052287 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5229 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052308 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5231 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
52328 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5233 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020052347 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005235 example.
52368 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5237 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5238- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5239 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5240 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5241 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052428 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5243 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5244 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
52457 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5246 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000052477 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5248 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052498 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5250 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052518 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5252 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052538 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5254 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5255 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5256 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005257- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5258 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005259- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5260 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5261- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5262 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5263 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5264 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052658 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5266 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005267- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5268 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052698 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5270 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5271 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005272- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5273 i ignore case
5274 I use case
5275 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5276 v use Vi regexp syntax
5277 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5278 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5279 Perl uses these too:
5280 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5281 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5282 o compile only once (Perl only)
5283 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5284 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5285 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5286 following command.
5287 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5288- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5289 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5290 for search string)?
52917 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5292 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5293- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5294 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5295- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5296 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5297- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5298- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005299 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005300 a for the next file in the argument list
5301 f for file in the buffer list
5302 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005303 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5304 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005305 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5306 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5307- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053087 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005309 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053107 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5311 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5312 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5313 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
53146 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5315 effects.
53167 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5317 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5318 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000053197 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005320 Also ":dselect".
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005321- Searching for \%'> does not find anything when using line Visual
5322 selection. Probably because it's using MAXCOL. #8238
5323- Regexp to search for duplicate lines does not work correctly:
5324 /\(^.*\n\)\1 (Chris Morgan, #6239)
5325- Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett
5326 Stahlman, 2014 Jun 8)
5327- Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega,
5328 2010 Nov 22)
5329- Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin
5330 R. Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
5331- When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it
5332 may result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen,
5333 2009 Apr 16)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005334
5335
5336Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010053379 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5338 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5339 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053409 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5341 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020053428 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5343 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000053448 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5345 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5346 timestamp?
5347 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5348 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005349- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5350 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005351- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5352 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5353 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
53548 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5355 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5356 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5357 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
53588 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5359 only remember the lines that really changed.
53607 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5361 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5362 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5363 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005364- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5365 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5366- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5367 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5368- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5369 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5370 [-99].
5371- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5372- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005373- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5374 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005375- MS-Windows: when writing undo file the infostreams are copied in
5376 mch_copy_file_attribute(), that seems unnecessary. (#7925) Add a flag to
5377 only copy attributes?
5378- undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
5379- After recovering from a swap file the undofile should not be used, it
5380 causes corruption. (#6631)
5381- When the computer crashes while writing the undofile, the contents may be
5382 lost. Write to a temp file, fsync and rename. (#8879)
5383- Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
5384- Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426) ex_next()
5385 should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd(). Is there a test for
5386 this?
5387- Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
5388- Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
5389- Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013
5390 oct 3. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
5391 Also see #1635.
5392- When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
5393 synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
5394- The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
5395 For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
5396- Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
5397 possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
5398- Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian
5399 Brabandt, 2010 Nov 5)
5400- There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to
5401 what was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break
5402 inserted perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
5403- When using 'cryptmethod' xchaha20 the undo file is not encrypted.
5404 Need to handle extra bytes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005405
5406
5407Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054087 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5409 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5410 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5411 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
Bram Moolenaare7b1ea02020-08-07 19:54:59 +020054128 Add File.{recent-files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005413 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
54148 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5415 inode too.
54167 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005417 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5418 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054197 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5420 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5421- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5422 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5423- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5424 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
54257 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5426 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
54277 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5428 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
54298 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054307 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5431 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010054328 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5433 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5434 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005435- When using ":bwipe!" also get rid of references to be buffer, e.g. in the
5436 jumplist and alternate file.
5437- ":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but
5438 it goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
5439 unlisted. (#4478)
5440- :buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp
5441 error. (#5467)
5442- Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before
5443 and is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
5444- Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If
5445 there is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc.
5446 To be used for git temp files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005447
5448
5449Swap (.swp) files:
54508 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5451 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5452 there are short file name problems.
54538 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5454 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
54558 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
54568 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005457 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005458 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5459 file the same as the actual file?
5460 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054617 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5462 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
54637 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005464 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005465 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5466 enough room.
54677 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5468 or /var/preserve.
5469- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5470 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5471- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005472 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005473- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5474 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5475 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5476 cached list of which line is where.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005477- When editing a file with ":edit" the output of :swapname is relative,
5478 while editing it with "vim file" it is absolute. (#355) Which one should
5479 it be?
5480- When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile.
5481 Then a command can delete it.
5482- In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of
5483 the process that is running. It might actually be some other program,
5484 e.g. after a reboot.
5485- When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to
5486 wait for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
5487 Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
5488- After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
5489 correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
5490- In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about
5491 what each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005492
5493
5494Viminfo:
54957 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5496 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5497 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000054988 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5499 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5500 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055018 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5502 name. (Schild)
55038 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
55048 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055058 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055068 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5507 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5508 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5509 this?
55107 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
55117 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5512 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
55136 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5514 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5515 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5516- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5517 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005518- Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
5519- Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows
5520 about, it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017
5521 Jun 19, #1781)
5522- Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be
5523 read back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
5524- When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and
5525 reading it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
55268 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
5527 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
55288 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
5529 check for file marks. This can be slow.
55308 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
5531 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
5532 that the user knows the files have to be deleted.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005533
5534
5535Modelines:
55368 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5537 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5538 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005539- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5540 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5541 'shiftwidth'.
5542- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5543 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005544- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5545 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5546 modeline setting.
5547- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5548 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5549- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5550 .cpp files.
5551- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5552 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
Bram Moolenaar3d1cde82020-08-15 18:55:18 +02005553- Add an option setting to ask the user if the modelines are to be executed
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005554 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5555
5556
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005557Sessions:
55588 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5559 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
55607 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5561 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055628 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5563 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055648 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5565 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5566 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000055677 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5568 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000055697 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005570
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005571
5572Options:
55737 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5574 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055758 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
Bram Moolenaarcbaff5e2022-04-08 17:45:08 +01005576 options that are a comma-separated list. The old number values should
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005577 also be supported.
55788 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5579 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5580 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
55817 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005582
5583
5584External commands:
55858 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5586 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
55874 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5588 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5589 -f).
55904 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
55914 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5592 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
55934 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5594
5595
5596Multiple Windows:
55977 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
55988 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5599 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
56007 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5601 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5602 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000056037 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5604 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000056057 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5606 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056076 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5608 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005609 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005610 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
56117 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5612 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5613 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5614 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5615- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5616 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5617 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5618 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5619
5620
5621Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056228 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056238 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5624 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000056258 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 +000056268 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5627 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
56288 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5629 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5630 the mark was set.
56317 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5632 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5633 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5634 ":browse marks"?
56356 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056367 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5637 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
56387 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5639 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
56407 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5641 command).
56427 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5643 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5644 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5645 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
56465 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5647 mappings.
56486 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5649 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5650 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5651
5652
5653Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020056547 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005655 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005656- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5657 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000056588 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056597 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5660 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5661
5662
5663Writing files:
5664- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5665 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5666 shortname conversion.
56678 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
56688 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5669 file.
56708 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5671 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5672 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056736 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5674 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
56756 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5676 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
56776 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5678 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000056798 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005680 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
56817 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5682 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
Bram Moolenaar4466ad62020-11-21 13:16:30 +010056837 When editing a file, check that it has been changed outside of Vim more
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005684 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5685 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5686 waiting for a character to be typed).
56878 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5688 line of the window, like "[time]".
5689 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5690 Automatic and/or with a command.
5691
5692
5693Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000056948 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5695 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000056968 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005697 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5698- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5699- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
57008 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5701 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005702- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005703 :s///N substitutes N times.
5704- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5705 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5706 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
57077 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5708 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5709 last line column 5.
57105 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5711 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5712 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5713 (Stanislav Sitar)
5714
5715
5716Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057178 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
57187 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
57198 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5720 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5721 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005722- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5723- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5724 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5725- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5726- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5727
5728
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005729Argument list:
57306 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5731 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5732 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
57336 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5734
5735
5736Registers:
57378 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057388 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5739 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5740 for every line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005741- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5742 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5743- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5744 leader when line wraps?
5745- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5746 line in the range.
5747- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5748 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
57498 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5750 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005751- In Select mode the deleted text always goes into the unnamed register.
5752 Use CTRL-R to specify the register to use. (#9531)
5753- When "+ register is set then "" points to it. If another Vim grabs the "+
5754 register, then "" doesn't contain anything. Make it still follow "+.
5755 (#6435)
5756- Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi,
5757 2018 Apr 26, #2849)
5758- Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
5759 registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
5760- With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for
5761 empty register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
5762- Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked
5763 text part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
57646 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5765 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5766 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5767 Also do this for the small delete register "-.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005768
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005769
5770Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057718 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000057728 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057737 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
57747 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
Bram Moolenaarce001a32022-04-27 15:25:03 +01005775- In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping
5776 through the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
5777
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005778
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005779Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000057807 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5781 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5782 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5783 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5784 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5785 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5786 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005787 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000057887 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5789 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000057907 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5791 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057928 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5793 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000057947 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5795 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5796 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005797- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005798 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010057997 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5800 window as a buffer-tab selection.
58018 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058027 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5803 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
58048 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5805 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058066 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058078 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5808 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5809 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5810 in this Vim.
58118 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005812 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058138 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5814 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5815 have it apply to the following command.
58168 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5817 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5818 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5819 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058207 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5821 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058227 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5823 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5824 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5825 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058266 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
58278 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
58289 Support ACLs on more systems.
58297 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5830 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058317 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5832 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5833 (truncated to fit in the space).
58347 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
58358 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
58368 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5837 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000058387 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005839 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
58407 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5841 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058427 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058437 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
58447 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058458 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
58468 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5847 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5848 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5849 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
58508 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058518 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058528 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5853 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5854 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5855 does something like this. (Shah)
58567 Use growarray for replace stack.
58577 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5858 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
58593 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058607 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5861 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010058627 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5863 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005864- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5865- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5866- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5867- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
58687 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5869 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5870- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5871 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005872- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005873- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5874 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5875- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5876 call "play newbeep.au").
5877- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5878 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5879 (Bhatt).
5880- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5881 blockwise registers).
5882- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5883 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5884- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5885 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5886 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5887 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005888- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058897 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5890 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5891- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5892 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5893 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5894 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5895 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000058968 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5897 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058988 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5899 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5900 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5901 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5902 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5903- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar207f0092020-08-30 17:20:20 +02005904- Support multibyte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059057 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5906 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5907- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5908 not in column 1.
59096 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5910 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
59117 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5912- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005913- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005914 :redir #> bufname
5915 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005916- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5917 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005918- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5919 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5920 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
59216 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5922 console? (Klaus Hast)
5923- Add :delcr command:
5924 *:delcr*
5925 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
5926 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
5927 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
5928 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
5929 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02005930 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005931- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
5932- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
5933 characters from 'isprint'.
5934- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
5935- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
5936 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
5937- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
5938 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
5939 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
5940- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
5941- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
5942 Nvi).
5943- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
5944 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
59457 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
5946- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
5947 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
59486 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
5949- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
5950 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
5951 macro).
5952- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005953- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
5954 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
5955- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
59568 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005957- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
5958- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
5959- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
5960 if it is not the first or last window.
5961- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
5962 there is one) instead of the file itself.
59637 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
5964 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
5965 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
5966- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
5967- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005968 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005969 many percent down the windows).
5970- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
5971 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
5972 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02005973 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005974- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
5975 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
5976- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
5977 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
5978- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
5979- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
5980- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
5981 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059828 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
5983 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
5984 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
5985 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
5986 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005987- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
5988 t_bs is set? (Webb)
5989- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005990 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
5991- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005992 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
5993 (Webb).
5994- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005995 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005996- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
5997 hex codes like 0xff).
5998- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
5999 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6000 the last TYPED command.
6001- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6002- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6003- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6004 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006005- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060068 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6007 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6008 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006009- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006010 trailing '.'.
6011- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6012 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6013 find_file_in_path().
6014- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6015 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6016- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6017- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6018 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6019- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006020 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006021- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6022 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6023 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006024- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6025- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6026- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6027 to the minimal size.
6028- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6029- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6030- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6031- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6032- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006033- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6034 entered)?
6035- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6036 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006037- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006038- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6039- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6040- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6041- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6042- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6043 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006044- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060458 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6046 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6047 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6048 or in octal.
60497 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6050 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006051- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006052 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6053- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6054- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6055 insert line command).
6056- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6057- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6058- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6059- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6060- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6061 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006062- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006063 yet.
6064- Implement 'redraw' option.
6065- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6066 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060677 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6068 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006069 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6070 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060718 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6072 do it.
6073- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6074- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6075 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6076- Add text justification option.
6077- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6078- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6079 off".
6080- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6081- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6082- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006083 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006084- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006085- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006086- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6087 commands.
6088- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6089- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6090- :table command (Webb)
6091- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006092- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6093- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6094- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6095- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6096- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6097 (Demirel).
6098- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6099- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6100 for use in macro's and the like.
6101- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006102 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006103- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006104 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006105- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006106 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006107 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6108- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6109 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006110- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006111 mkopttab to make option table?
6112- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6113 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6114- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6115 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006116- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006117 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6118- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6119 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006120- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000061218 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6122 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6123 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6124 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6125 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061268 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6127 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6128 (Netherton)
61296 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6130 space after "(", for example.
61315 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6132 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6133 (Servatius Brandt)
6134
6135
6136From Elvis:
6137- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6138- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006139- Search patterns:
6140 \@ match word under cursor.
6141 but do:
6142 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6143 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
61448 ":window" command:
6145 :win + next window (up)
6146 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6147 :win - previous window (down)
6148 :win -- idem, wrapping
6149 :win nr to window number "nr"
6150 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
61517 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6152 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6153
6154
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006155From xvi:
6156- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6157- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6158
6159
6160From vile:
6161- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6162- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6163 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6164
6165
6166Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006167- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6168 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006169 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006170 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6171 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006172- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6173 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6174- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6175 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6176 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6177 current layout mirrored.
6178- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6179- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6180 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6181- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6182- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6183 font in each top-level window.
6184- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6185- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6186- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6187- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6188 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006189- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6190 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6191- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6192 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
61934 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6194 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6195 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6196 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006197 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006198 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6199 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6200- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6201 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6202 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6203
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006204vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006205vim: set fo+=n :