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Bram Moolenaarfff2bee2010-05-15 13:56:02 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.3a. Last change: 2010 May 15
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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6
7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
12to look for "the next thing to do":
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14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
25
26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
29
30 *known-bugs*
31-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
32
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +020033Cursor positioning wrong with 0x200e character. (John Becket, 2010 May 6)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000034
Bram Moolenaarab8205e2010-07-07 15:14:03 +020035Test 69 breaks on MS-Windows, both 32 and 64 builds. (George Reilly, 2010 Feb
3626)
37
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +020038Bug: searching for tags file uses 'suffixesadd', should not happen. (Dominique
39Pelle, 2010 June 28)
40
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +020041When directory "/tmp/tags" contains "tags1" and "tags2", setting 'tags' to
42"/tmp/tags/*" doesn't pick up these files. (Simon Ruggier, 2010 Mar 17)
43
44":command Print echo 'print'" works, but ":Print" doesn't. Builtin Print
45should be overruled. (Aaron Thoma)
46
47Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
48^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
49
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +020050Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
51Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
52
53'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
54
55":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
56accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
57
58Better Czech keymap. (Stepnem, 2010 May 4) Use if no response from Jiri
59Tobisek.
60
61Use Dutch spell files from:
62http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/dict-nl
63Looks like this is newer than the new wordlist for Dutch:
64http://www.opentaal.org/bestanden/1_10/nl_NL-Pack
Bram Moolenaar9db9d9c2010-01-16 14:29:14 +010065
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +010066Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +020067Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
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69"make install" installs some of the .info files on Unix.
70(James Vega, 2010 Mar 30)
71
72Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
73Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
74
758 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
76 after typing something.
77Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
78function that resets did_cursorhold.
Bram Moolenaar555cdc22010-01-12 21:31:21 +010079
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +020080Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
81Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
82
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +010083I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
84Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
85an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +010086
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +020087Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
88
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +010089Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
90non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010091
92iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
93Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
94or replace with a character and continue?
95
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010096Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
97Requires configure check for localtime().
98Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
99
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100100Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
101Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
102path.
103
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200104":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
105like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
106
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100107Coverity: ask someone to create new user: Dominique.
108look into reported defects: http://scan.coverity.com/rung2.html
109
110Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
111Only with "vim -u NONE".
112
113Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
114
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100115Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
116
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200117Undo problem: line not removed as expected when using setline() from Insert
118mode. (Israel Chauca, 2010 May 13, more in second msg)
119Break undo when CTRL-R = changes the text? Or save more lines?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100120
121Change to C syntax folding to make it work much faster, but a bit less
122reliable. (Lech Lorens, 2009 Nov 9) Enable with an option?
123Most time is spent in in_id_list().
124
Bram Moolenaar1d689522010-05-28 20:54:39 +0200125Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to reproduce
126it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch 7.2.274.
127(Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27)
128
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +0200129When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
130Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
131
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100132In command line window ":close" doesn't work properly. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
133Jun 1)
134
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100135When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
136not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
137string value.
138
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200139There is no command line completion for ":lmap".
140
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100141Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
142
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100143For running gvim on an USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
144line argument -noregister.
145
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200146When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
147doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100148
149Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
150(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
151Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
152There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
153Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
154
155":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
156highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
157to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
158
159Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
160Probably needs a bit of work.
161
162List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiware, 2009 Jul 18)
163Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
164
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100165Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
166
167Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
1682009 Jul 18)
169
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100170Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
171Added test, updates, June 23.
172
173Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
174window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
175Needs more work.
176
177Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
178
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100179When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
180few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
181
182'cmdwinheight is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
183(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
184
185Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
186J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
187
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200188When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
189for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
190
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200191Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
192
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100193When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
194
195":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
196because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
197ex_docmd.c.
198
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200199Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100200Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
201
202string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
203for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
204
205Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
206
207'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
20820)
209
210Unwanted file name escaping: ":echo input('file:' , '', 'file')"
211And use file name completion on a file with spaces. (Frederic Hardy, 2009 Mar
21223)
213
214Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
2152009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
216
217Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
218
219Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
220SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
221
222When 'foldmethod' is "indent", using >> on a line just above a fold makes the
223cursor line folded. (Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
224
225When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
226indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
227(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
228
229Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
230are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
231Ignore window options when not in the right window?
232Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
233that doesn't have a window.
234
235When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
236doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
237
238getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
239displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
240
241":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
242
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100243There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
244was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
245perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
246
247Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
248work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
249Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
250
251Win32 GUI: Changing manifest helps for dpi changes (Joe Castro, 2009 Mar 27)
252
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100253Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
254command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
255
256Win32: use different args for SearchPath()? (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2009 Jan 30)
257
258Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
259does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
260
261Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
262(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
263
264maparg() doesn't return the flags, such as <buffer>, <script>, <silent>.
265These are needed to save and restore a mapping.
266Also: the rhs string is not always correct. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2009 Sept 29)
267
268Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
269char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
270
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100271Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
272messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
273es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
2742009 Jan 26)
275
276When $HOME contains special characters, sich as a comma, escape them when used
277in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
278Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
279
280Can 'undolevels' be a buffer-local option? Helps for making big changes in
281one file only, set 'ul' to -1 only for that buffer.
282
283Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
284a modeline.
285
286Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
287Sergey Khorev)
288
289Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
290part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000291
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000292netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
293number to be below last visible line.
294
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100295After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
296correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
297
298Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
299(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
300
301Allow patches to add something to version.c, like with an official patch, so
302that :version output shows which patches have been applied.
303
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200304Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
305register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
306(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
307
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100308Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
309Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
310
311Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
312make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
313
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100314When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
315still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
316
317"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
318(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
319
320Update src/testdir/main.aap.
321
322"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7)
323
324Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
325that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
326ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
327Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
328
329Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
330
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000331Runtime files for Clojure. (Toralf Wittner, 2008 Jun 25)
332
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100333MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
334doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
335probably causes this.
336
337'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +02003382009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100339
340Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
341 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
342 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
343(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
344
345Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
346":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
347option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
348is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000349
350Crash with dragn-n-drop of file combined with netrw (Marius Gedminas, 2008 Jun
35111) I can't reproduce it. It's probably caused by a handle_drop() call
352in combination with autocommands that invoke a ":redraw" command.
353Another valgrind output Jun 30.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000354
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100355":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
356first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +0000357
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000358Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
359laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
360Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000361
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100362Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
363anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
364
365On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
366doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
367Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
368Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
369
370":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
371
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000372When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
373'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
374fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
375the buffer to be unmodified.
376Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
377another look at it.
378
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100379Patch for c.vim and cpp.vim syntax files. (Chung-chieh Shan, 2008 Nov 26)
380
381c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
382(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
383
384Win32: ":dis +" shows nothing, but "+p does insert text. Problem with "* and
385"+ being the same thing?
386
387You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
388error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
389Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
390at the other match for 0xBF.
391
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000392Fix for matchparen HL doesn't work. beep.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000393
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100394When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
395argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
396
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000397Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
398backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
399
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000400After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
401(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000402command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000403
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000404":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
405Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
406
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100407Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
408Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
409
410When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
411either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
412put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
413
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004148 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Turn
415 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME into an option, at least for completion.
416
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000417Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
418Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
419Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
420Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
421(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
422
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100423Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
424
425ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000426
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000427Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
428(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
429escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
430an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000431This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
432July 7)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000433
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100434Win32: The "4913" file is sometimes not deleted. Perhaps another program has
435opened it? Use FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE? (Craig Barkhouse, 2009 Nov 6)
436
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000437The str2special() function doesn't handle multi-byte characters properly.
438Patch from Vladimir Vichniakov, 2007 Apr 24.
439Should clean up the whole function. Also allow modifiers like <S-Char-32>?
440find_special_key() also has this problem.
441
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000442Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
4432008 May 14)
444
445Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
446Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
447'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
448
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100449Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
450Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
451
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000452Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
453Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
454
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100455Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
456
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000457The utf class table is missing some entries:
458 0x2212, minus sign
459 0x2217, star
460 0x2500, bar
461 0x26ab, circle
462
463Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
464line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
465
466GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
467Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
468
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100469Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
470try the Cocoa version.
471
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000472Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
473changed or the window is resized.
474
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000475Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
476Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000477
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000478Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
4791) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
480
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000481C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
482with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
483Try to reproduce at work.
484
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100485Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
486Is there a way to list all the files first?
487
488When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
489result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
49016)
491
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000492Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
493Await response to question to make the register writable.
494
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100495src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
496remark why.
497
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000498Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
4991)
500
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100501In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
502each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
503
504try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
505
506Recognize and ignore BOM in error file. (Aleksey Baibarin)
507
508":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
509Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
510
511":tab drop filename" doesn't work nicely when "filename" is open in a window
512in another tab. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Feb 13)
513
514Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
515
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000516Including NFA regexp code:
517Use "\%#= to set the engine: 0 = automatic, 1 = backtracking, 2 = new.
518Useful in tests.
519Performance tests:
520- ~/vim/test/veryslow.js (file from Daniel Fetchinson)
521- ~/vim/test/slowsearch
522- ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100523- ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000524- search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
525 'hlsearch'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000526
527Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
528Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
529
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000530Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
531Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
532Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000533
534C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
535(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
536
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100537Can't easily close the help window, like ":pc" closes the preview window and
538":ccl" closes the quickfix window. Add ":hclose". (Chris Gaal)
539
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000540When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
541and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
542
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000543Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
544 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
545
546New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
547
548'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
549Likonen, March 19)
550
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100551Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
552other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
553
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000554The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
555appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
556matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
557
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100558When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
559character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
560'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
561(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
562
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000563Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520
564by Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott)
565Asked Vissale to make the scripts more friendly for the Vim distribution.
566New version received 2008 Jan 6.
567
568Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
569Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000570
571More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
572
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000573Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
574back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
575Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000576
577Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
578No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
579
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000580Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
581terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000582
583Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
584
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000585Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
586but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
587that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000588
589When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
590
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100591Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
592Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
593
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000594Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
595popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
596size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
597This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
598
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000599When the popup menu is close to the edge of the window it is truncated. Patch
600to anchor the popup menu in a different way. (James Vega, 2008 Jul 30)
601
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +0000602Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
603a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
604isn't right?
605
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100606When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
607it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
608
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000609Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
610then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
611files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000612Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
613indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
614":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
615in ":1find /**/file". This is for a files that unix "find" can find very
616quick. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
617Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000618
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000619When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
620parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
621neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
622particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
623Jun 3)
624However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
625the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000626
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100627Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
628Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
629
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000630Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
631switch list is noticed:
632 switch (i)
633 {
634 case 1:
635 foobar:
636 }
637
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000638Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
639
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000640Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
641with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
642go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
643moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
644
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000645Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
6462007 Feb 8)
647
648Patch for Win32 clipboard under Cygwin. (Frodak Baksik, Feb 15)
649 Sutcliffe says it works well.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000650 Update 2007 May 22 for Vim 7.1
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100651 Update 2008 Dec 2008 for Vim 7.2.xx (Sharonov)
652
653Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
654set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000655
656Win32: Patch for convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2)
657
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000658Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
659
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000660Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
661Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
662New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
663patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
664
665Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
666Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
667
668Win32: echo doesn't work for gvim.exe.mnf. Use inline file. Patch by Mathias
669Michaelis. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/43765
670Patch that includes this and does more by George Reilly, 2007 Feb 12
671
672Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
673
674Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
6752007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000676Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000677
678Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +0000679label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
680
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000681Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
682with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
683Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000684
685Win64: diff.exe crashes on Win64. (Julianne Bailey, 2006 Dec 12)
686Build another diff.exe somehow?
687
688Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
689pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
690
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000691Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
692
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100693Win32: When 'shell' is cmd.exe this command fails:
694 echo system('"c:/path/echo.exe" "foo bar"')
695Should we set the default for 'shellxquote' to a double quote, when 'shell'
696contains "cmd" in the tail? (Benjamin Fritz, 2008 Oct 13)
697Also set 'shellcmdflag' to include /s.
698
699Win32: When there is 4 Gbyte of memory mch_avail_mem() doesn't work properly.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +0200700Unfinished patch by Jelle Geerts, 2008 Aug 24.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100701Let mch_avail_mem() return Kbyte instead?
702
703Win32: With two monitors, gvim partly on both, and adding/removing a scrollbar
704Vim resizes and moves to one of the monitors. (Chris Monkiewicz, 2008 Oct)
705
706Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
707Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
708only takes 'shellslash' into account.
709
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000710Pressing the 'pastetoggle' key doesn't update the statusline. (Jan Christoph
711Ebersbach, 2008 Feb 1)
712
713Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
714Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
715Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'filenecodings' is set
716properly?
717
718Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
7192007 Jun 21)
720
721When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
722Jun 18)
723
724If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
725
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100726Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
727windows. (Adam George)
728
729When using input() in a loop and then ":echo" the display column isn't right.
730(Benjamin Fritz, 2008 Aug 28) Patch by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Sep 2.
731
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000732F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
733modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
734K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000735
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000736UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
737to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
738
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000739In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
740the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
741
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000742C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
743
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000744":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
745
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000746When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000747error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +0000748
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000749Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
750use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
751
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000752Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
753if_ruby.c.
754
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000755":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
756
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100757Patch to dynamically load Python on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2009 Feb 16)
758Needs more work.
759
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000760The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
761it in keep_msg?
762
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000763Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +0200764error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000765name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
766
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +0000767Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
768longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +0000769
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100770Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
771Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
772Also for ":w" without a file name.
773The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000774
775"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
776Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000778VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
779directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
780(Zoltan Arpadffy)
781
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000782VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
783
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000784input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
785name?
786
787getpos()/setpos() don't include curswant. getpos() could return a fifth
788element. setpos() could accept an optional fifth element.
789
790Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
791
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000792When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
793(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
794Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
795will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
796
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +0100797gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
798This also fails with --remote.
799
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100800When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
8012008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
802all places where buf_freeall() is called?
803
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000804":python os.chdir('/tmp')" makes short buffer names invalid. (Xavier de Gaye)
805Check directory and call shorten_fnames()?
806
807aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
808
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100809When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
810(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
811
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000812Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
813the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
814
815Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000816Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
817Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
818argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000819(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000820
821GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
822
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100823Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
824superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
825
826Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
827character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
828
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000829Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
830Jun 5)
831
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100832Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
8332008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
834Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
835
836In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
837but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
838Jul 22)
839
840There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
841
842Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
843":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
844somehow? Or use a new function.
845
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000846Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
847
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100848Mac: OS/X 10.4 with Python 2.5 installed: configure finds an extra argument
849that breaks the build. (Brian Victor, 2008 Sep 1)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000850
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000851Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
852moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
853that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
854
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000855The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
856
857Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
858loading all files.
859
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100860Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
861line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
862after starting up?
863
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +0100864When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000865cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
866the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
867
868Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
869has been created.
870
871Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
872shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
873fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
874background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
875A.Politz may work on this.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000876
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000877These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
878 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
879 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
880 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
881
882Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
883partly. (2006 Dec 7)
884
885In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
886buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
887reload it then?
888
889New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
890previous version.
891
892For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
893
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000894Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
895only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
896
897Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
898tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
899doesn't contain other directories.
900
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000901Linux distributions:
902- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
903 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
904 xfree-xterm".
905- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
906
907Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
908start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
909show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
910middle?
911
912When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000913(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000914connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
915dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
916
917Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
918
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100919When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
920current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
921the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
922
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000923When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
924Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
925
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000926Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
927 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
928 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
929 - getting colors in xterm
930 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
931
932Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
933Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
934
935Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
936
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000937A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
938Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
939
940Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
941Dara, 2006 June 21)
942
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000943Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
944number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
945
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000946After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
947the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
948
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000949Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
950Does multi-byte printing with ":hardcopy" work? Add remark in documentation
951about this.
952
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000953Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
954copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
955error and stop using the connection to the server.
956
957Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
958Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
959
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +0200960Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01009612008 Sep 29)
962
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000963In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
964check the result of has("patch13").
965
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100966Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
967restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
968
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000969Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
970put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
971
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100972Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
973resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
974
975In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
976can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
977
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000978Win32: When the GUI tab pages line is displayed Vim jumps from the secondary
979to the primary monitor. (Afton Lewis, 2007 Mar 9) Old resizing problem?
980
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000981GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
982maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
983doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100984Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
985visible.
986
987GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
988the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
989
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000990The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
991be only one.
992
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000993"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
994script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
995
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000996It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
997the function name before resolving it to a number?
998 let d = {}
999 fun! d.foo()
1000 echo "here"
1001 endfun
1002 call d.foo(9)
1003
1004Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
1005only set after Visual moded is ended.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001006Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
1007used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
1008
1009Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
1010output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
1011Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
1012
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001013Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001014"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
1015name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
1016Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001017
1018Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
1019(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
1020
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001021Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
1022as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
1023
1024Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
1025Jan 1)
1026
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001027Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
102823)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001029
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001030":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
1031tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
1032Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001033
1034xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1035buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1036Xterm 224 supports it!
1037
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001038When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
1039text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
1040latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
1041
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001042Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
1043
1044Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
1045no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
1046
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001047In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
1048VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
10492007 Oct 16)
1050
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001051When entering a C /* comment, after typing <Enter> for 70 times the indent
1052disappears. (Vincent Beffara, 2008 Jul 3)
1053
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001054TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
1055Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
1056
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001057Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001058
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001059When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
1060typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
1061Sep 3, 11)
1062
1063When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
1064respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
1065the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
1066what happens for the GUI.
1067
1068X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1069pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1070clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1071Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1072Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1073clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
1074
1075Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
1076starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
1077size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where you
1078only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
1079
1080":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
1081this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
1082
1083When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
1084Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
1085restored. (Luc St-Louis)
1086
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001087Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
10882010 Jun 30)
1089
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001090
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001091Vim 7.3:
Bram Moolenaara800b422010-06-27 01:15:55 +02001092- in August remove UF_VERSION_CRYPT_PREV and UF_VERSION_PREV.
Bram Moolenaare667c952010-07-05 22:57:59 +02001093- Conceal feature: no update when moving to another window. (Dominique Pelle,
Bram Moolenaarccd9ccf2010-07-07 13:19:55 +02001094 2010 Jul 5) Vince will look into it.
Bram Moolenaarcdf04202010-05-29 15:11:47 +02001095Patches to include:
Bram Moolenaarfc2d5bd2010-05-15 17:06:53 +02001096- Patch for Lisp support with ECL (Mikael Jansson, 2008 Oct 25)
1097- Gvimext patch to support wide file names. (Szabolcs Horvat 2008 Sep 10)
1098- Patch to support netbeans for Mac. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2009 Jun 25)
1099- Patch to support clipboard for Mac terminal. (Jjgod Jiang, 2009 Aug 1)
1100- Patch to support :browse for more commands. (Lech Lorens, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaarca7e1f22010-05-22 15:50:12 +02001101- Patch to improve javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar G, 2010 May 22)
Bram Moolenaara8ffcbb2010-06-21 06:15:46 +02001102- Patch to use return value of 'formatexpr'. (James Vega, 2010 Jun 16)
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001103- Patch for gtk main_loop() to enable GtkFileChooser. (James Vega, 2010 Jun 28)
1104 Same as this one? GTK: file chooser is disabled. Patch by Tim Starling,
1105 2009 Nov 13.
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001106- Patch to make CTRL-L work better with 'ignorecase' and 'smartcase'. (Martin
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001107 Toft, 2010 Jun 8, Jun 16, Jun 30)
Bram Moolenaarfc2d5bd2010-05-15 17:06:53 +02001108- Patch to add diff functionality to 2html.vim. (Christian Brabandt, 2009 Dec
1109 15)
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001110- Win32: patch for better font scaling. (George Reilly, 2009 Mar 26)
1111- Patch for completion of ":find" arguments. (Nazri Ramliy, 2009 Feb 22, 26)
1112 8 For ":find" and ":sfind" expand files found in 'path'.
1113 Update 2009 Mar 28.
1114- Patch for vertical line at certain column position, 'guidecolumn' option.
1115 (Pankaj Garg, 2009 Apr 14, aka Lone, Apr 15)
1116 Update 2009 May 2, 'margincolumn'
1117 Alternative patch. (2010 Feb 2, Gregor Uhlenheuer, update Apr 18 2010)
1118 Fix by Lech Lorens, Apr 19
1119- Add different highlighting for a fold line depending on the fold level.
1120 Patch. (Noel Henson, 2009 Sep 13)
1121- Patch to make synIDattr() work for GUI attributes in Vim without GUI
1122 feature. (Matt Wozniski, 2009 Apr 15)
1123 Patch go make gui highlight settings work in Vim without +gui feature.
1124 (Matt Wozniski, 2009 Mar 27)
1125- Patch for supporting #rrggbb in color terminals. (Matt Wozniski)
11266 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of
1127 errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c".
1128 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2009 Mar 23.
1129 Comments from Andreas Bernauer 24th, Dominique Pelle 24th
1130 Docs patch by Dominique Pelle, Mar 25
1131 Update 2009 Mar 28.
1132 Fix for invalid memory access. (Lech Lorens, 2009 Apr 17)
1133- Make do_do_join() work faster. Could at least do a binary search way of
1134 doing this. Hint from Dominique Pelle, Dec 10; Lee Naish, Dec 11.
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +02001135 Patch from Milan Vancura, 2010 May 16.
1136- Fix for test29. (Milan Vancura, 2010 May 16)
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001137- Disable setting 'encoding' from a modeline? It usually causes problems,
1138 can't do any good. (Patch from Patrick Texier, 2008 Dec 9)
1139- Redraw problem when appending digraph causes line to wrap. (James Vega, 2007
1140 Sep 18) Patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 8.
1141- Patch for colorscheme submenu. (Juergen Kraemer, 2008 Aug 20)
1142- 9 Make it possible to drag a tab page label to another position with the
1143 mouse.
1144 Patch by Paul B. Mahol, 2008 Aug 29.
1145- Mac: Patch to disable antialias. (LC Mi, 2008 Aug 23) Tested on 10.5 and
1146 10.4.
1147- Patch for adding "J" flag to 'cinoptions': placement of jump label. (Manuel
1148 Konig, 2010 Feb 19) Update by Lech Lorens, Feb 22.
Bram Moolenaar0bbabe82010-05-17 20:32:55 +02001149- Add Lua interface? (Wolfgang Oertl) patch by Luis Carvalho, 2008 Sep 5
1150 Patch for Make_ming.mak from Paul Moore (2008 Sep 1)
1151 http://code.google.com/p/vim-iflua/ Download vim72-lua-0.7.patch.gz
Bram Moolenaarfc2d5bd2010-05-15 17:06:53 +02001152Needs some work:
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001153- Have a look at patch to enable screen access from Python. (Marko Mahnic,
1154 2010 Apr 12)
1155- Patch for Python 3 support. (Roland Puntaier, 2009 Sep 22)
1156 Includes changes for omnicompletion.
1157 Needs some more testing.
1158 Update 2010 Apr 20, patch by Andy Kittner, May 16
Bram Moolenaarb230bd52010-05-25 21:02:00 +02001159 Build the MS-Windows version with Python 2.6.5 and 3.1.2?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001160- Easier/standard way to disable default plugins.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001161- ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001162 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
1163 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
1164 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
Bram Moolenaar55debbe2010-05-23 23:34:36 +02001165Probably not now:
1166- Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
1167 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
1168 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
Bram Moolenaarfc2d5bd2010-05-15 17:06:53 +02001169Before (beta) release:
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001170- Add fixes for 7.2 to version7.txt
Bram Moolenaar55debbe2010-05-23 23:34:36 +02001171- Rename vim73 branch to default (hints: Xavier de Gaye, 2010 May 23)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001172
1173
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001174More patches:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001175- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
1176- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
1177 21)
1178- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
1179 patch May 10)
1180- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
1181 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
1182- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
1183 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
1184- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
1185- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
1186- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
1187 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
1188 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001189- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001190- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
1191 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
1192- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
1193 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
1194- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
1195 21)
1196- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
1197 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
1198- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
1199 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001200- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
1201 Sep 13)
1202- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
1203 Docs patch Oct 30)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001204
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001205
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001206Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000012079 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
1208 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
1209 New patch 2004 Jun 16
1210 - selecting proportional font breaks display
1211 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
1212 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
1213 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
1214 (Alan Schmitt)
1215 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001216 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
1217 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000012189 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001219 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000012208 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000012218 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00001222 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000012237 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
1224 Update 2004 Sep 6.
1225 How does this work? Missing comments.
1226- Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001227 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31, update 2007 May 30)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001228 Version for latest MacVim: Tobia Conforto, 2009 Nov 23
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000012298 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001230 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000012317 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
1232 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
1233- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
1234 for multi-byte characters.
1235- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
1236- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
1237 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
1238 been given values.
1239 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
12408 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00001241 with an ESC sequence.
1242 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
1243 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
1244 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000012457 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
1246 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
1247- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
1248 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
1249 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
12508 Add functions:
1251 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
1252 Update 2004 Sep 10
1253 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
1254 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001255 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001256 How to get the messages into the .po files?
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001257 charlen() Like strlen() but counting characters instead of
1258 bytes.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001259 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
1260 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
1261 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
1262 (2003 May 13)
1263 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
1264 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001265 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
1266 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001267 col('^') column of first non-white character.
1268 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
1269 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000012707 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
1271 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
1272- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
1273 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
12747 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
1275 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000012768 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
1277 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000012787 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
12798 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
1280 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
12817 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
1282 Kotchan has a patch for it)
12838 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
1284 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
1285 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
12867 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
1287- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
1288 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
1289 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001290- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
1291 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
1292- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
1293
1294
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001295Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001296- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
1297 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012988 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
1299 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
1300 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
1301 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
1302 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
1303 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013048 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
1305 make Vim exit.
13067 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
1307 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
1308 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
13098 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
1310 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
1311 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
13126 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
1313 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
1314 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
13158 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
1316 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
1317 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
1318 names in one buffer???
1319 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
1320 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
1321 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
13227 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
1323 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
1324 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00001325 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
1326 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013277 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
1328 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
13297 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
13307 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
13317 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
1332 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
13337 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
1334 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
1335 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
1336 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
13377 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
13387 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
13397 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
1340 to the match with the tag? Option?
13417 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
13427 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
1343 (Sayre).
13447 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
1345 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013467 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
1347 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
1348 match. Nvi can do it too.
13497 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
1350 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
1351 line 1\ line 2\\
1352 line 2\ line 3\\
1353 . line4/
13546 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
1355 the way the shell is started?
13566 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
1357 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
1358
1359
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001360GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000013619 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013628 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
1363 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
1364 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000013658 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
1366 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
1367 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013689 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
1369 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
1370 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
1371 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00001372- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
1373 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
1374 blocked for now.
1375
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001376
1377Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001378- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
1379 the screen.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000013808 non-ASCII font names don't work. Need to convert from 'encoding' and use
1381 the wide functions.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013828 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
1383 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +000013848 When the primary monitor is below or right of the secondary monitor and
1385 Vim is on the secondary monitor it will often move to the primary monitor.
1386 Window position coordinates can be negative. (James Harvey)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013878 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
1388 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
1389 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
13908 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
1391 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
13927 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1393 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1394 "lucida_console:h8").
13956 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
1396 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000013978 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
1398 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
1399 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014007 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
1401 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
1402 to use an opaque background in most places?
14038 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
1404 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
1405 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
14068 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
1407 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
1408 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
14097 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
1410 2004 May 9)
14118 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
1412 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
1413 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
1414 MS-Windows 98?
1415 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
1416 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
1417 file: Window moves with the cursor!
1418 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014198 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it
1420 appear. (Sami Salonen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014218 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
1422 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
1423 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
1424 doesn't work properly.
14258 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
1426 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
1427 appears in the right position. (Webb)
14289 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
1429 button doesn't give popup menu.
1430 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
1431 selection.
1432 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
1433 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
1434 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
14358 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
1436 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
1437 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
1438 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
14398 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
1440 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
1441 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014427 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
1443 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
1444 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
14457 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
1446 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00001447 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014487 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
1449 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
14507 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using
1451 "/min" as the command name. (Rogall)
14526 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
14538 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
1454 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
1455 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
14568 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
1457 know which keyboard is being used?
14587 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
1459 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
1460 area (Koloseike).
14618 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
1462 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
1463 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
1464 the font name).
1465
1466
1467Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000014686 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
1469 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
1470 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
1471 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
1472 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014739 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
1474 required and it's missing?
14758 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
1476 wrong.
14779 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
1478 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000014799 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001480 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
1481 flag.
14828 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
1483 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
1484 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
14858 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
14866 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
1487 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
1488 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
1489 the tooltips work though...
14907 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
1491 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
14928 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
1493 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
1494 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
1495
1496
1497Athena GUI:
14989 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
1499 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
1500 through files.
15017 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
1502 read long file names. (Schroeder)
15034 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
1504 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
1505 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
1506 problem during a refresh.
15075 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
1508 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
1509 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
1510 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
1511 colors as it should.
1512 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
1513 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
1514
1515
1516Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001517- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015187 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
1519 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015208 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
1521 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
1522 (Phillipps)
1523
1524
1525GUI:
15269 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
1527 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
15289 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00001529 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001530 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
15319 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
1532 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
15338 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
1534 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
15358 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
1536 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
1537 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
15388 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
1539 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
1540 of where it is processing the output.
1541 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
15428 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
1543 doesn't work.
15448 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000015458 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
1546 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
1547 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015488 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015498 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
1550 browse().
15518 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
1552 use that code? Or use console dialog.
15538 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
1554 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000015557 More features in the find/replace dialog:
1556 - regexp on/off
1557 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
1558 when all buffers/directory is used:
1559 - filter for file name
1560 when directory is used:
1561 - subdirectory on/off
1562 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015638 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
1564 to avoid problems.
15658 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
1566 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
1567 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
15688 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
1569 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
1570 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
15718 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
1572 up. Set erase character somehow?
15738 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
1574 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
1575 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
1576 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
15778 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
15787 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
1579 visible.
15807 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
1581 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
15827 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
1583 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
15848 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
1585 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
15868 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
1587 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
1588 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
1589 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
1590- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
15914 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
1592 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
1593 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
1594
1595
1596MSDOS/DJGPP:
15979 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
1598 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
1599 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
16008 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
1601 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
16029 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00001603 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
1604 write a file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016059 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
1606 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
1607 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
1608 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
16099 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
1610 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
1611 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
1612 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
1613 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
1614 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
1615 Make this work like in Win32 console.
1616 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
1617 key code. Use a translation table?
16189 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
1619 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
16208 Use DJGPP 2.03.
16218 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
1622 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
16238 setlocale() is bogus.
16248 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
1625 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
1626 Windows 95 system!
16278 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000016287 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001629 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
16307 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
1631 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
1632 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
16338 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
1634 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
16357 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
1636 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
1637 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
1638 "[New file]".
16397 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
1640 that is supported?
16418 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
16428 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
1643 Briscoe)
1644
1645
1646MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
16478 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
1648 gen_expand_wildcards().
16498 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
1650 Wagner.
16518 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
16528 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
1653 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000016548 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
1655 a good fallback, thus use:
1656 $HOME
1657 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
1658 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
1659 $USERPROFILE
1660 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
1661 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
1662 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
1663 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016648 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
1665 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
16668 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
1667 Should work like in the GUI version.
16688 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
1669 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
16708 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
1671 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
16728 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
1673 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
1674 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016758 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
1676 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
1677 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
1678
1679
1680Windows 95:
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +020016818 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001682 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
1683 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
16848 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
1685 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
1686
1687
1688Win32 console:
16899 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
1690 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
1691 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
1692 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
1693 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
1694 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
1695 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
1696 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
1697 and the file is not saved.
1698 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
1699 long name.
17008 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
1701 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
17027 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
1703 besides the console.
17048 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
17059 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
1706 <C-S-i>?
17079 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
1708 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
17098 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
1710 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017117 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
1712 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
1713 exiting.
1714
1715
1716Amiga:
17178 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
1718 sequences.
17199 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
1720 backslashes in result.
17218 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
1722 all options, using white space separation.
1723
1724
1725Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001726- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000017277 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard
1728 Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff
1729 Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017307 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
1731 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
1732 (Jack)
1733 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
17348 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear
1735 to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17)
17368 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000017378 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
1738 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017399 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher)
1740 - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost.
17418 The Vim/About menu doesn't work.
17428 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV.
17438 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
17448 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
17459 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
1746 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
17479 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when
1748 scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher)
17499 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two
1750 seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher)
17519 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
17528 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige)
17538 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige)
1754
1755
1756"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001757- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
1758 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001759- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
1760 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001761- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
1762 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
1763 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
1764 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
1765 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
1766 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
1767 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000017689 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
1769 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000017709 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001771 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
1772 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017738 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
1774 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
1775 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00001776 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017778 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the
1778 error number, it's not a regular error message.
17797 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
1780 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
17818 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
1782 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
1783 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017847 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
1785 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001786- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
1787 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017888 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
1789 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
1790 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
1791 using the horizontal scrollbar.
17927 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
1793 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
1794 invocations belong together.
17958 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
1796 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
17978 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
1798 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
1799 UnxUtils.zip archive.
1800 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
1801 Briscoe says it's not as good.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000018028 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000018038 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
1804 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
1805 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000018066 Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018078 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
1808 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
18097 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names:
1810 use "~/" when possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018117 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
1812 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
1813 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
1814 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
18158 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
1816 defined.
18177 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
1818 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
1819 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
18207 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
1821 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
1822 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
18237 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
1824 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018257 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
1826 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018279 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
1828 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
1829 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
1830 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
1831 script can be called.
18328 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
1833 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
1834 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018358 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
1836 CTRL-C.
18377 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X
1838 server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp
1839 of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK
1840 doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it
1841 won't work for GTK anyway.
18428 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error
1843 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000018448 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001845 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
1846 configurable?
18478 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
18489 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
1849 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
1850 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018518 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
1852 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000018538 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
1854 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018558 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
1856 always written, even when the original file already exists.
18577 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter,
1858 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space.
18599 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
1860 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
1861 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018627 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018638 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
1864 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
1865 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000018668 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
1867 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001868 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
1869 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018708 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
1871 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
18729 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
1873 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
1874 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001875 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018767 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
1877 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018787 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
1879 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
1880 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
1881 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018828 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001883 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
1884 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
1885 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
1886 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001887 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
1888 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00001889 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001890 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001891 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
1892 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
1893 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
1894 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
1895 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
18968 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
1897 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
18989 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
1899 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
1900 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019018 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
1902 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
19038 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
1904 in lines that don't extend into the block?
19058 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
1906 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
1907 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
19088 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
1909 'linebreak'.
19108 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
1911 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
1912 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019139 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
1914 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
1915 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
1916 'magic' in history. (Margo)
19179 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
1918 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
19199 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
1920 isn't updated).
19219 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
19229 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
1923 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
1924 cause another redraw, etc.
19258 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
1926 must escape special characters in the pattern.
19278 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
1928 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
1929 ":w!!" for that.
1930 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
1931 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00001932 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019337 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
1934 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
1935 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
1936 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
1937 clipboard)
19387 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
1939 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
1940 Waggoner)
19418 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
1942 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
1943 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000019446 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
1945 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
1946 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019478 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
1948 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
19498 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
1950 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
1951 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000019528 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019538 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
1954 (e.g., ":w").
19558 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
1956 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
19578 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
1958 for ">>".
19598 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
1960 script in do_cmdline().
19618 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
1962 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
1963 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
1964 changes.
19658 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
1966 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
19678 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
1968 check for file marks. This can be slow.
19697 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
1970 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
1971 needed.
1972 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
19738 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
1974 to skip catch_signals()?
19759 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
1976 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
1977 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
1978 text?
19798 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
1980 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
19818 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
1982 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
19839 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
1984 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
1985 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
1986 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
1987 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
19887 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
1989 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
1990 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
1991 in the list?
19928 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
1993 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
1994 instead of on button down.
19958 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
19969 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
1997 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001998 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
1999 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020008 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
2001 character is typed.
20028 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
2003 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
20048 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
2005 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
20068 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
2007 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
2008 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
2009 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
2010 cygwin bash.
20117 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
2012 Remember flags for backreferences.
20137 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
2014 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
20157 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
2016 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
20178 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
2018 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
20197 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
2020 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020217 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
2022 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
2023 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
20247 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
2025 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
20268 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
2027 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
2028 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
20297 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
2030 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002031
2032
2033I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
20349 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
2035 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
2036 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002037
2038
2039Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00002040- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
2041 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
2042 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002043- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
2044 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
2045 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
2046 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
2047 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
2048 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
2049 (2008 Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002050- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
2051 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00002052 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002053 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
2054 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
2055 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002056- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
2057 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
2058 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
2059 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
2060 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
2061- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
2062 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
2063 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
2064- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
2065 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002066- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002067- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
2068 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
2069 character gets the highlighting.
2070- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
2071 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
2072- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
2073 (Jennings)
2074- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
2075- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2076 errors. How do we get the rest?
2077- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002078- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002079 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
2080- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
2081 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
2082 first?
2083- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
2084 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
2085- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
2086 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
2087 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
2088- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
2089 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
2090 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
2091 (Benzinger).
2092- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
2093 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
2094 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
2095- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
2096 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
2097- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
2098 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
2099- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
2100 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
2101 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
2102 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
2103 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
2104 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
2105- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
2106 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
2107 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
2108- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
2109 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
2110 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
2111- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
2112 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
2113- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
2114 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
2115- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim
2116 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2117- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
2118 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
2119- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
2120 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
2121 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
2122 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
2123 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
2124- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
2125 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
2126 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
2127- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
2128 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
2129 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00002130- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
2131 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 +00002132- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
2133 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
2134 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
2135 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
2136 in the vimrc file to be lost.
2137- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
2138 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
2139
2140--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
2141 *extensions-improvements*
2142
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002143Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
2144- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
2145 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
2146 calling a function.
2147 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
2148 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002149- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
2150 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
2151- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
2152 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
2153 http://clewn.sf.net.
2154 And the idevim plugin/script.
2155 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
2156 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
2157 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
2158 other window.
2159 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
2160 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2161 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
2162 in terminal mode.
2163- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
2164 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
2165 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
2166 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
2167 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
2168 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002169 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002170- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
2171 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
2172 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002173- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
2174 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002175- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
2176 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
2177 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000021788 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
2179 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
2180 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
2181 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00002182- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
2183 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002184
2185
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002186Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000021878 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
2188 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000021898 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
2190 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000021918 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
2192 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021938 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021947 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
21959 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
2196 - change to cursor position and curswant
2197 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
2198 - how it works for folded lines
2199 - how it works with multi-byte characters
22009 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
2201 work too.
22028 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
2203 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
2204 text.
22058 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
22067 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
2207 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
22087 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
2209 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002210 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002211- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
2212
2213
2214Help:
2215- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
2216 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
2217- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
2218 to the other matches.
2219- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
2220- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
2221- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
2222 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
2223 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
2224 default contents.
2225- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
2226 height for the help window (and other windows).
2227- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
2228- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
2229- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
2230
2231
2232User Friendlier:
Bram Moolenaarce0842a2005-07-18 21:58:11 +000022338 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
2234 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022358 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
2236 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
2237 Briscoe)
22388 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
22398 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
2240 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
2241 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
22428 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
2243 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
2244- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
2245 ":mkplugin <file>"?
22468 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
2247 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
2248 'runtimepath'.
2249 " Vim plugin
2250 <main plugin code>
2251 " >>> plugin help start <<<
2252 <plugin docs>
2253- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
22549 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
2255 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
2256 item?).
2257 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022588 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
22597 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000022607 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
2261 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
2262 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000022638 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
2264 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
2265 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
2266 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002267
2268
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002269Tab pages:
22709 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000022717 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
2272 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000022738 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000022748 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000022758 :tabmove +N move tab page N pages forward
22768 :tabmove -N move tab page N pages backward
22777 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000022787 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002279 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000022807 Add local variables for each tab page?
22818 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
2282 tab pages.
22837 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000022847 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
2285 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002286
2287
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002288Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002289- have some way not to give spelling errors for a range of characters.
2290 E.g. for Chinese and other languages with specific characters for which we
2291 don't have a spell file. Useful when there is also text in other
2292 languages in the file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002293- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
2294 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
2295- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
2296 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
2297 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
2298- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
2299 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002300- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
2301 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
2302 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002303- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
2304 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
2305 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002306- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
2307 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002308- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002309 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
2310 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000023118 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
2312 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
23138 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
2314 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
23158 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
2316 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002317 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002318 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
2319 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
2320 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
2321 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00002322- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
2323 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00002324- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00002325- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
2326 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00002327- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002328 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002329- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002330 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002331- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
2332 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002333- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
2334 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
2335- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00002336 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002337 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
2338 in the affix file separately.
2339 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002340 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002341 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
2342 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
2343 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
2344- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
2345 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
2346 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
2347 specific prefixes with suffixes.
2348 Alternative:
2349 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
2350 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
2351 affix which is required.
2352- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002353 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002354- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
2355 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
2356 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002357- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
2358 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002359- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
2360 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
2361- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000023628 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
2363 syntax items (to add @Spell).
2364 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
2365 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002366- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
2367 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
2368 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
2369 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000023708 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
2371 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000023728 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
23738 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
2374 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000023757 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
23768 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
2377 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
2378 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
2379 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002380
2381
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002382Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000023839 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
2384 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023858 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
2386 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
2387 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00002388 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
2389 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023907 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
2391 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
2392 location.
2393
2394
2395Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00002396 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
2397 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000023988 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
2399 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000024008 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000024019 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
2402 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000024037 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024048 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
2405 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
2406 user aware of this?
24078 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
2408 commands skip over a closed fold.
24098 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
24108 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024117 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002412- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
2413 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
2414 missing line goes unnoticed.
2415 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002416- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
2417 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
2418 smoother?
2419- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
2420 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002421- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
2422 file can contain:
2423 args version.c main.c
2424 edit version.c
2425 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002426- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002427- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
2428 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002429- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
2430 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00002431- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
2432 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002433- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000024348 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002435 searches.
2436
2437
2438Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002439- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
2440 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
2441 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
2442 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024439 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
2444 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
2445 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
2446 byte).
24478 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
2448 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
2449 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
2450 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
2451 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
2452 item.
24538 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002454 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
2455 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024568 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
2457 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002458 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00002459 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024608 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
2461 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000024628 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
2463 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
2464 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024657 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
2466 so that the user can fix the problem.
24678 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
2468 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024699 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
24708 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024718 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
24728 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000024737 Searching and composing characters:
2474 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
2475 Add special item to match with a composing character, zero-width, so that
2476 one can replace a base character and keep the composing characters.
2477 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
2478 characters can be manipulated.
2479 Add a modifier to ignore composing characters, only compare base
2480 characters. Useful for Hebrew (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024818 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
24828 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
24838 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
2484 characters.
24858 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
24868 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
2487 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
24887 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
2489 'display' option to specify this.
24907 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
2491 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
2492- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
2493 fontselector somehow.
2494- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
2495 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
2496- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
2497 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
2498- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
2499 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
2500 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
2501 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
2502 if a font exists?
2503- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar6cc16192005-01-08 21:49:45 +00002504 convert_input() for Mac GUI and RiscOS GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002505- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
2506 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
25077 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
2508 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00002509- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
2510 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
2511 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
2512 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002513- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
2514 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
2515 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
2516- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
2517 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
2518 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
2519 But it's very complicated...
2520
2521
2522Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000025237 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002524- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
2525- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
2526 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00002527- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
2528 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002529- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
2530- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
2531 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002532- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
2533 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002534- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
2535 units as for the margins.
2536- Support right-to-left text?
25378 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
2538 color.
2539
2540
2541Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025428 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
2543 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
25448 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
2545 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
25468 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
2547 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000025487 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
2549 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025508 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
2551 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
2552 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000025537 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
2554 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
2555 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025568 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
25579 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
2558 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025597 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
2560 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000025617 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
2562 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025638 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
2564 change this for each release.
25658 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
2566 pattern, but not in the body.
25678 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
2568 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
2569 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025708 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
25718 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
2572 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
2573 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
2574 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
25758 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
2576 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
25778 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
2578 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00002579 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025808 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
25818 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
2582 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
2583 used.
25848 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
2585 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
25868 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
2587 re-insert the [] if possible.
25888 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
2589 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000025908 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
2591 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
2592 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
2593 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
2594 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025958 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
2596 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
25978 Support for deleting syntax items:
2598 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
2599 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
2600 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
26018 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
2602 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
2603 a '<'. (Fleiner)
26047 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
2605 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
2606 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
26077 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
2608 detected.
26098 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002610 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026118 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
2612 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026138 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
26148 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
26157 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
2616 ":mkvimrc".
26178 Improve c.vim:
2618 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
2619 "c_strict_ansi".
2620 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
26218 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
2622 current line while in Insert mode.
26238 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
2624 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
26258 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
2626 display position.
26278 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
2628 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
2629 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
26308 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
2631 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
2632 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000026338 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
2634 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
2635 sequence.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000026367 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
2637 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
2638 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
2639 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
2640 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026417 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
2642 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
2643 E.g. for this html:
2644 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
26457 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed
2646 (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"):
2647 :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display=""
26487 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
26497 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
2650 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026518 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
26528 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026537 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
2654 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
2655 completion?
26568 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
2657 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
26587 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
2659 select one of the sets.
26608 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
2661 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
2662 2, etc.
26638 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
2664 highlighting (for "." command).
26658 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
2666 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
26678 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
26687 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
2669 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
26706 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
2671 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
2672- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
2673 when extending an already existing syntax file.
2674- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002675- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
2676 (for comment blocks).
2677- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
2678 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
2679 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
2680 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
2681 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
2682 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
2683 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
2684 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
2685 (Campbell)
2686 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
2687 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
26887 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
2689 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
26907 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
2691 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
2692 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
26937 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
2694 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
2695 messages. And external commands?
26968 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
2697 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
26987 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
2699 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
2700
2701
2702Built-in script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000027038 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
2704 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000027057 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
2706 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
2707 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027088 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
2709 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002710- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
2711 2006 Dec 11.
2712- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000027137 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
2714 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027158 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
27168 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
2717 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
2718 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
2719 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
2720 nested packages?
2721 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
2722 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
2723 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027247 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
2725 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
2726 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
2727 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
2728 autocommand.
2729 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
2730 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
2731 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
2732 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027337 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
2734 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027356 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
2736 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027378 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002738 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
2739 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
2740 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
2741 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
2742 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
2743 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
2744 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00002745 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
2746 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
2747 3 2002
2748 Only add this when also implemented for
2749 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
2750 be used.
2751 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00002752 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
2753 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
2754 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
2755 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
2756 File.Open..." argument.
2757 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
2758 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
2759 with properties instead.
2760 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
2761 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
2762 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00002763 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002764 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00002765 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002766 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00002767 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002768 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002769 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
2770 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002771 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
2772 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002773 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002774 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
2775 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002776 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
2777 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
2778 to allow the library to execute a command or
2779 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027807 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
2781 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
27828 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
2783 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027848 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
2785 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027868 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027877 Add optional arguments to user functions:
2788 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
27896 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000027908 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
2791 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027928 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
2793 option or environment variable.
27948 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027958 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002796 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000027977 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
2798 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027998 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
2800 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
28018 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
28028 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
2803 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
2804 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
2805 charwise({expr}).
28067 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
2807 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
2808 buffer for this?
2809 result = scratch(string, command)
2810 result = apply(string, command)
2811 result = execute(string, command)
2812 "command" would use <> notation.
2813 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
28147 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
28157 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an
2816 option for the search path. (Sekera)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002817
2818
2819Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000028206 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
2821 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
2822 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
2823 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
2824 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
2825 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
2826 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002827
2828
2829Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000028307 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
2831 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
28328 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
2833 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
2834 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
2835 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02002836 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000028378 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
2838 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
2839 repeating it in various system files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028408 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
28419 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
28428 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
28437 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
2844 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
28458 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
2846 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
2847 when starting up in a color terminal.
28488 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
2849 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028508 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
2851 function be improved?
28528 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
2853 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
2854 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
2855 this be improved?
28568 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
2857 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000028587 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
2859 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028607 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
2861 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
28627 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
2863 lot of abbreviations).
28647 DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
28657 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
2866 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
2867 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
2868 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
2869 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
2870 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
2871 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
28728 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the
2873 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was
2874 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating
2875 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)?
28768 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
2877 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
2878 using strcmp() too often?
28797 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
2880 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
2881 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
2882 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
2883 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
2884 the two blocks to the memfile block.
28857 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
2886 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
2887 with an argument that can be messed with.
2888 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
2889 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
28907 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
2891- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
28928 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
2893 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
2894- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
2895 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
2896- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
2897- Do profiling on:
2898 - :g/pat/normal cmd
2899 - 1000ii<Esc>
2900 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
2901 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
2902 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
2903 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
2904 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
2905 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00002906 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029077 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
2908 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
2909 changed).
2910 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
2911 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
2912- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
2913- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
2914 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
2915- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
2916 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
2917 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
2918- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
2919 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
2920- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
2921- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
2922 cursor is right of the screen.
29238 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
2924 CTRL-C (it's slow).
2925
2926
2927Code size:
29288 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
2929- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
2930 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
29318 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
29328 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
2933 it.
29347 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
2935 left out.
29368 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
2937 can be removed.
29388 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
2939
2940
2941Messages:
29428 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
2943 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
29448 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
2945 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
29468 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
2947 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002948- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
2949 Perhaps after ten seconds?
2950- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029518 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
2952 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029539 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
2954 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
2955 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
2956 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
2957 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029588 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
2959 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
29608 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
2961 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
2962 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
2963 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
2964 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
2965 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002966- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00002967 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029688 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
2969 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
2970 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
2971 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
2972 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
2973 error messages, printing text, etc.
29748 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
2975 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
2976 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
2977
2978
2979Screen updating:
29807 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
2981 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
2982 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
2983- screen_line():
2984 - insert/delete character stuff.
2985 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
2986- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
2987 dragging the status line with the mouse).
2988- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
2989 waiting for a character.
29908 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
2991 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
2992 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
29937 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002994
2995
2996Scrolling:
29978 Add "zm" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
29986 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
2999- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
3000 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
3001 windows.
30027 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
3003 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
3004 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
3005- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
3006 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
3007 (Goldfarb)
3008- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
3009 bound windows.
3010- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
3011 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00003012- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003013- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
3014 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
3015 of lines but not with a single line).
3016
3017
3018Autoconf:
30198 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
30208 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
3021 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
3022- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
3023 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
3024- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
3025- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
3026- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
3027
3028
3029Perl interface:
30308 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030317 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
30327 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
30336 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
3034
3035
3036Shared libraries:
30376 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
3038 :libload internal-name libname
3039 :libunload internal-name
3040 :liblist
3041 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3042 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3043 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
30446 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
3045
3046
3047Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000030489 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
3049 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
3050 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
3051 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
3052 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000030538 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
3054 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
3055 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
3056 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originall (Erik Falor, 2008
3057 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000030588 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
3059 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
3060 several).
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003061 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
3062 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
3063 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000030647 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
3065 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
3066 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030678 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
30688 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
3069 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030707 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
3071 window for each tag.
30727 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
30737 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
3074 bottom" search message.
30757 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
3076 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
3077 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00003078- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
3079- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003080- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
3081 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
3082 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030837 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
3084 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
3085 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
3086 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
30877 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
3088 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
3089 :tagargs clear
3090 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
3091 matching).
30927 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
3093 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
3094 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
3095 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
30967 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
3097 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
30987 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
3099 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
3100 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003101
3102
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003103Win32 GUI:
31048 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
3105 the message and input?
31067 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
3107 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2
3108 dynamically?
31097 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
3110 (Mike McCollister)
31118 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
3112 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
3113 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
3114 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
3115 common part of the path.
31168 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
31178 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
3118 gettext and menus work.
31198 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
3120 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02003121 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003122 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
31238 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
3124 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
31258 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
3126 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
31277 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
3128 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
31297 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
31307 <Esc> should close a dialog.
31317 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
3132 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
3133 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
3134 prompts.
31357 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
3136 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
3137 the file added into an already running Vim.
31387 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
3139 functions to find the window title.
3140
3141
3142GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031438 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS.
3144- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
3145 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
31467 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
31478 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
31486 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
31498 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
3150 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
31519 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
31527 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
31538 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
3154 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
31558 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
3156 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
3157 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
31588 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
3159 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
31608 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
3161 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
3162 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
3163 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031647 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
31658 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
3166 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000031677 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
3168 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
3169 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031708 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
31718 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00003172 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031738 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
31748 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
31758 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
3176 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
3177 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
31787 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
3179 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
3180 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
31817 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
3182 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
31837 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
3184 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
3185 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
3186 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
31877 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
3188 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
31897 Should support multi-column menus.
3190- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
3191 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
3192- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
31938 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
31946 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
3195 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
31967 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
31977 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
3198 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
3199 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
32007 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
32018 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
3202 name can be chosen free.
32037 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
3204 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
32056 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
3206 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
3207 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
3208 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
3209 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
3210 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
3211 things.
32127 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
3213 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032147 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003215 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003216- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
3217 where it was started from?
32187 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
3219
3220
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003221Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003222- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010032238 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
3224 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
3225 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
3226 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
32278 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
3228 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000032297 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
3230 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
3231 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
3232 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032338 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g.
3234 "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc".
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000032357 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000032368 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
3237 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032388 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
3239 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
3240 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000032417 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
3242 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
3243 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032448 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
3245 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
3246 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032477 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option
3248 name?
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000032498 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
3250 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032518 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032526 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
3253 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000032547 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032557 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
3256 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate
3257 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type
3258 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard)
32595 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
3260 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
3261 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
32627 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
3263 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
3264 file.
32658 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
3266 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
3267 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003268- Add events to autocommands:
3269 Error - When an error happens
3270 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003271 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00003272 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
3273 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003274 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00003275 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00003276 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
3277 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003278 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00003279 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003280 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003281 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
3282 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
3283 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
3284 window title)
3285 BufReadAction - replaces reading a file
3286 BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file
3287 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
3288 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the
3289 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor.
3290 Set v:char to the character, can be changed.
3291 (not triggered when 'paste' is set).
3292 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
3293 the char.
3294 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
3295 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
3296 file from CVS).
3297 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
3298 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
3299 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
3300 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
3301 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
3302 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003303 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
3304 changes.
3305 WinResized - After a window has been resized
3306 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00003307- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003308 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003309 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003310 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
3311 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
3312 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
3313 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
3314 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
3315
3316
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003317Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003318- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
3319 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003320- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
3321 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
3322 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
3323 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
3324 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003325- Ideas from others:
3326 http://www.wholetomato.com/
3327 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
3328 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
3329 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
3330 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
3331 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
3332 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
3333 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
3334 Uses Perl for C++.
3335 Uses ctags to find the info:
3336 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
3337 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
3338 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
3339 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
3340 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
3341 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003342 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003343 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
3344- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
3345
3346
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003347Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003348- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000033497 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
3350 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000033517 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
3352 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
3353 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033548 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
3355 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
33569 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
3357 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
3358 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033598 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
3360 - ignore/match case
3361 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033628 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
3363 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
3364 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
3365 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
3366 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
3367 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033688 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000033697 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
3370 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033718 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
3372 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
3373 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
3374 Should work for C++ and Java.
3375 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
33767 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
33777 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
3378 instead of words.
33798 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
33808 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
3381 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
33828 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
3383 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003384- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
3385 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003386- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
3387 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
3388 wildcards in the file name)?
3389- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
3390- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
3391- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
3392 be in another file).
3393- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
3394- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
3395- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
3396 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
3397- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
3398- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
3399- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003400- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
3401
3402
3403Command line editing:
34047 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
3405 line.
34068 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
3407 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
3408 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
3409- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
3410 lines wraps to start of line).
3411- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
3412 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
3413 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
3414 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
3415 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
3416 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
3417 cmdwin does now already.
3418 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
3419 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
3420 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
3421 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
3422 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
3423 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
3424 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
3425 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
3426 Problems:
3427 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
3428 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
3429 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
3430 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
3431 - Normal: no ":" commands?
3432 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
3433 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
3434 character in first column?
3435 - Implementation ideas:
3436 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
3437 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
3438 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
3439 - sync undo after entering a command line?
3440 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
3441 Mode.
3442
3443
3444Command line completion:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000034458 Completing ":r ~br" should find matching user names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034468 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
34478 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
3448 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
34498 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
3450 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000034518 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
3452 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034537 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
3454 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003455- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
3456- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
3457 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034588 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
3459 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
34607 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
3461 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
3462- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
3463 identifiers (Webb).
34648 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
3465 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
34667 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
3467 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
3468- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
3469 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
3470- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
3471 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
3472 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003473
3474
3475Command line history:
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +000034769 Remember which command lines were actually typed and were not loaded from
3477 viminfo. When writing viminfo append only these lines, so that lines from
3478 other Vim's are not overwritten.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003479- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
3480 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
3481 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
3482 completely resulted from one mapping.
3483- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
3484 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
3485
3486
3487Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000034889 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
3489 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
3490 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034918 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
3492 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
3493 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
3494 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
3495 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000034968 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
3497 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
3498 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034997 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
3500 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003501- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035027 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
3503 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
3504- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
3505 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
3506 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
3507 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
3508 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
3509 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
3510- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
3511 Normal mode.
3512- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
3513 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
3514 are used.
3515- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
3516- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
3517- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
3518
3519
3520'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000035219 ") :" confuses continuation line: (Colin Bennett, 2007 Dec 14)
3522 cout << "a"
3523 << ") :"
3524 << "y";
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010035259 "} else" causes following lines to be indented too much. (Rouben
3526 Rostamian, 2008 Aug 30)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035278 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000035288 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
3529 long_type foo =
3530 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035318 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
3532 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003533 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035348 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
3535 func(
3536 new String[] {
3537 "asdf",
3538 "asdf"
3539 }
3540 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010035418 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
3542 (Chow Loong Jin)
3543 namespace {
3544 int
3545 func(int arg) {
3546 }
3547 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035486 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
3549 func( arg1
3550 , arg2
3551 , arg3
3552 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000035537 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003554 func(
3555 int x) // indent like "(4"
3556 {
3557 if (a
3558 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035599 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
3560 if (a)
3561 {
3562 if (b)
3563 {
3564 // {
3565 }
3566 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00003567 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
3568 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
3569 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003570- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003571 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
35727 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
3573- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
3574 line).
3575- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
3576- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
3577 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
35787 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines.
3579- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
3580 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
3581- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
3582 code), unless the line starts with "*".
3583- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
3584- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
3585 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
35868 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
3587 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
3588 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
3589- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
3590- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
3591 lines start with "\item".
3592- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
3593 /* here is a comment that
3594 is just autoindented, and
3595 nothing else */
3596- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
35977 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
3598 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
3599 indents.
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00003600 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and spaces used for indent,
3601 when the indent remains the same or increases.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003602
3603
3604Java:
36058 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
3606 Odendahl?
36078 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
3608 "[i" commands and friends.
3609- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
3610 (Jason)
3611- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
3612 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
3613
3614
3615'comments':
36168 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
3617 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
3618 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
3619 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00003620 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
3621 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036227 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
3623 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
36247 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
36256 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
3626 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
3627 regexp is used.
36288 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
3629 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
3630
3631
3632Virtual edit:
36338 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036347 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
3635
3636
3637Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000036388 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036398 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000036408 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00003641 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000036428 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
3643 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003644 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
3645 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000036468 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036477 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
3648 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000036498 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
3650 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036518 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
3652 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
3653 the end of the line or before a ".".
36547 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
3655 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
36567 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
3657 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036586 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
36595 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
3660 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
3661 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
3662 cursor is on.
3663
3664
3665Select mode:
36668 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
3667 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
36687 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
3669 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743
36707 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
3671 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
3672 contains 'C' or 'A'.
3673 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
3674 normal_cmd().
3675 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
3676 - Typing text replaces the selection.
3677
3678
3679Visual mode:
3680- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
3681 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
3682 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003683- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
3684 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
3685 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036868 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003687 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003688 where needed.
36897 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
3690 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
36917 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
3692 of each selected line.
36938 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
36948 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
3695 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
3696 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
36978 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
3698 Ben Godfrey)
36997 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
3700 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
37017 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
3702 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
37037 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
3704 Young is working on this)
37057 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00003706 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003707 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
37088 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
3709 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
37107 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
3711 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
3712 option!
37137 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
3714 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
3715 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
3716 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
3717 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
3718 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
3719 without changing the column.
37206 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037217 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
3722 current buffer.
37237 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
37246 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
3725 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
37266 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037276 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003728 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003729 or other special character.
37306 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
3731
3732
3733More advanced repeating commands:
3734- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000037357 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003736 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003737- Add "gn": repeat last movement command. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003738- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003739 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
3740 "y." will repeat last yank.
3741 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
3742 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
3743 and/or pick an older command.
3744- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
3745
3746
3747Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037488 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
3749 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
3750 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
37518 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
37527 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
3753 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037548 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
3755 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
37568 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000037577 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037588 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
3759 entering search strings.
37608 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
3761 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
3762 not the <Space>.
37638 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS).
37648 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
3765 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037668 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
3767 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
3768 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
37697 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
37707 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q",
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003771 that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003772 option.
37737 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
3774 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
37757 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character
3776 (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for
3777 mapping a key to do something and then completion.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037786 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
3779 abbreviations are to be used.
3780- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
3781 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
3782 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003783- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
3784 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
3785 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
3786 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
3787 Or implicit:
3788 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003789- Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping.
3790- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
3791 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
3792 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003793- Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in
3794 <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this?
3795- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
3796 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
3797- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
3798 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
37996 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
3800 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
3801 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
3802 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003803- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
3804 non-replace Insert mode?
3805- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003806- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
3807- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
3808 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
3809- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003810 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003811- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
3812 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
3813- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
3814- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
3815 ":freekeys".
3816- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
3817
3818
3819Incsearch:
3820- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
3821- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
3822 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
3823 up every time.
3824- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
3825 folds when going to another line.
3826- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
3827 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
3828 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
3829 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
3830- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
3831 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
3832
3833
3834Searching:
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000038358 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00003836 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003837 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003838 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003839 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010038409 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
3841 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000038428 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
3843 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
3844 Perl does it this way:
3845 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
3846 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
3847 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
3848 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038498 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
3850 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
3851 number?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010038528 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
3853 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
3854 before each line.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000038557 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
3856 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000038578 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
3858 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000038597 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003860 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
3861 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
3862 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
38637 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
3864 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000038657 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003866 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038677 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
3868 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038698 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
3870 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
38718 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
3872 line.
38737 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
3874 example.
38758 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
3876 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
3877- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
3878 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
3879 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
3880 Alternative: use matchit.vim
38818 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
38828 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
3883 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
3884 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
38857 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
3886 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000038877 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
3888 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038898 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
3890 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038918 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
3892 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038938 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
3894 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
3895 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
3896 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003897- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
3898 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003899- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
3900 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
3901- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
3902 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
3903 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
3904 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039058 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
3906 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003907- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
3908 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039098 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
3910 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
3911 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003912- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
3913 i ignore case
3914 I use case
3915 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
3916 v use Vi regexp syntax
3917 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
3918 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
3919 Perl uses these too:
3920 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
3921 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
3922 o compile only once (Perl only)
3923 s single line expression (we don't need it)
3924 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
3925 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
3926 following command.
3927 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
3928- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
3929 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
3930 for search string)?
39317 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
3932 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
3933- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
3934 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
3935- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
3936 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
3937- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
3938- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003939 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003940 a for the next file in the argument list
3941 f for file in the buffer list
3942 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003943 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
3944 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003945 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
3946 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
3947- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039487 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003949 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039507 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
3951 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
3952 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
3953 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
39546 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
3955 effects.
39567 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
3957 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
3958 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000039597 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003960 Also ":dselect".
3961
3962
3963Undo:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039649 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
3965 not.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039668 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
3967 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
3968 timestamp?
3969 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
3970 indent?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039718 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
3972 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
3973 was changed outside of Vim.
3974 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
3975 storing the differences.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039768 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
3977 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00003978- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
3979 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003980- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
3981 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
3982 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
39838 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
3984 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
3985 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
3986 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
39878 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
3988 only remember the lines that really changed.
39897 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
3990 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
3991 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
3992 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003993- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
3994 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
3995- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
3996 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
3997- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
3998 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
3999 [-99].
4000- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
4001- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004002- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
4003 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
4004
4005
4006Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040077 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
4008 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
4009 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
4010 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
40118 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
4012 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
40138 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
4014 inode too.
40157 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004016 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
4017 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040187 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
4019 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
4020- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
4021 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
4022- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
4023 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
40247 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
4025 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
40267 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
4027 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
40288 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000040298 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004030 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
40317 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
4032 internal use and for when executing an external program?
4033
4034
4035Swap (.swp) files:
40368 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
4037 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
4038 there are short file name problems.
40398 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
4040 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
40418 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
40428 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004043 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004044 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
4045 file the same as the actual file?
4046 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040477 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
4048 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
40497 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004050 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004051 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
4052 enough room.
40537 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
4054 or /var/preserve.
4055- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
4056 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
4057- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
4058 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
4059- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
4060 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
4061 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
4062 cached list of which line is where.
4063
4064
4065Viminfo:
40667 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
4067 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
4068 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000040698 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
4070 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
4071 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040728 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
4073 name. (Schild)
40748 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
40758 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040768 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040778 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
4078 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
4079 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
4080 this?
40817 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
40827 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
4083 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
40846 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
4085 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
4086 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
4087- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
4088 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
4089
4090
4091Modelines:
40928 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
4093 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
4094 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004095- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
4096 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
4097 'shiftwidth'.
4098- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
4099 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004100- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
4101 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
4102 modeline setting.
4103- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
4104 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
4105- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
4106 .cpp files.
4107- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
4108 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
4109- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
4110 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
4111
4112
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004113Sessions:
41148 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
4115 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
41167 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
4117 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041188 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
4119 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041208 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
4121 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
4122 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000041237 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
4124 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000041257 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00004126
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004127
4128Options:
41297 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
4130 restore it after the command has executed.
41317 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only
4132 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the
4133 side effect.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041348 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
4135 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
4136 also be supported.
41378 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
4138 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
4139 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
41407 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
41417 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
4142 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004143
4144
4145External commands:
41468 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
4147 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
41484 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
4149 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
4150 -f).
41514 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
41524 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
4153 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
41544 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
4155
4156
4157Multiple Windows:
41587 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
41598 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
4160 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
41617 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
4162 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
4163 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000041647 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
4165 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000041667 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
4167 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041686 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
4169 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004170 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004171 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
41727 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
4173 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
4174 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
4175 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
4176- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
4177 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
4178 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
4179 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
4180
4181
4182Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041838 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041848 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
4185 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000041868 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 +000041878 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
4188 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
41898 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
4190 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
4191 the mark was set.
41927 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
4193 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
4194 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
4195 ":browse marks"?
41966 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041977 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
4198 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
41997 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
4200 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
42017 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
4202 command).
42037 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
4204 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
4205 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
4206 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
42075 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
4208 mappings.
42096 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
4210 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
4211 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
4212
4213
4214Digraphs:
42157 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
4216 Also the keymap?
4217- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line
4218 below/above).
4219- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
4220 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000042218 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042227 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
4223 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
4224
4225
4226Writing files:
4227- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
4228 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
4229 shortname conversion.
42308 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
42318 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
4232 file.
42338 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
4234 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
4235 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
42367 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
4237 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
42386 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
4239 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
42406 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
4241 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
42426 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
4243 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000042448 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004245 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
42467 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
4247 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
42487 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
4249 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
4250 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
4251 waiting for a character to be typed).
42528 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
4253 line of the window, like "[time]".
4254 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
4255 Automatic and/or with a command.
4256
4257
4258Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000042598 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
4260 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000042618 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004262 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
4263- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
4264- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
42658 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
4266 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004267- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004268 :s///N substitutes N times.
4269- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
4270 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
4271 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
42727 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
4273 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
4274 last line column 5.
42755 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
4276 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
4277 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
4278 (Stanislav Sitar)
4279
4280
4281Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042828 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
42837 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
42848 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
4285 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
4286 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004287- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
4288- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
4289 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
4290- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
4291- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
4292
4293
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004294Argument list:
42956 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
4296 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
4297 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
42986 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
4299
4300
4301Registers:
43028 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
43038 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
4304 around in windows.
43058 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
4306 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
4307 for every line.
43086 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
4309 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
4310 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
4311- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
4312 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
4313- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
4314 leader when line wraps?
4315- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
4316 line in the range.
4317- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
4318 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
43198 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
4320 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004321
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004322
4323Debug mode:
43247 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
43258 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000043268 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043277 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00004328 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
4329 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
4330 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043317 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
43327 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
4333
4334
4335Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043368 ":sign unplace * file={filename}" should work. Also: ":sign unplace *
4337 buffer={bufnr}". So one can remove all signs for one file/buffer.
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000043387 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
4339 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
4340 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
4341 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
4342 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
4343 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
4344 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004345 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000043467 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
4347 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000043487 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
4349 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043508 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
4351 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043527 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
4353 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
4354 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00004355- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00004356 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043577 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
4358 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010043597 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
4360 window as a buffer-tab selection.
43618 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043626 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5)
43637 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
4364 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
4365 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004366 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
4367 Assign them to a v: variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043687 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
4369 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
43708 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
4371 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043726 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043738 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
4374 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
4375 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
4376 in this Vim.
43778 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004378 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043798 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
4380 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
4381 have it apply to the following command.
43828 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
4383 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
4384 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
4385 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043867 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
4387 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043887 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
4389 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
4390 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
4391 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043926 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
43938 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
43949 Support ACLs on more systems.
43957 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
4396 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043977 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
4398 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
4399 (truncated to fit in the space).
44007 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
44018 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
44028 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
4403 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000044047 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004405 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
44067 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
4407 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044087 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044097 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
44107 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044118 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
44128 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
4413 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
4414 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
4415 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
44168 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
44176 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
4418 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004419 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044208 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044218 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
4422 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
4423 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
4424 does something like this. (Shah)
44257 Use growarray for replace stack.
44267 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
4427 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
44283 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044297 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
4430 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004431- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
4432- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
4433- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
4434- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
44357 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
4436 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
4437- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
4438 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
4439- Remove mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
4440- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
4441 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
4442- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
4443 call "play newbeep.au").
4444- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
4445 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
4446 (Bhatt).
4447- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
4448 blockwise registers).
4449- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
4450 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
4451- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
4452 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
4453 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
4454 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004455- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044567 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
4457 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
4458- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
4459 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
4460 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
4461 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
4462 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044638 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
4464 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044658 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
4466 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
4467 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
4468 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
4469 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
4470- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00004471- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044727 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
4473 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
4474- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
4475 not in column 1.
44766 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
4477 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
44787 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
4479- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004480- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004481 :redir #> bufname
4482 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00004483- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
4484 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004485- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
4486 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
4487 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
44886 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
4489 console? (Klaus Hast)
4490- Add :delcr command:
4491 *:delcr*
4492 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
4493 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
4494 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
4495 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
4496 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
4497 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
4498- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
4499- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
4500 characters from 'isprint'.
4501- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
4502- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
4503 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
4504- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
4505 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
4506 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
4507- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
4508- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
4509 Nvi).
4510- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
4511 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
45127 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
4513- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
4514 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
45156 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
4516- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
4517 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
4518 macro).
4519- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004520- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
4521 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
4522- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
45238 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
4524- Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null".
4525- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
4526- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
4527- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
4528 if it is not the first or last window.
4529- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
4530 there is one) instead of the file itself.
45317 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
4532 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
4533 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
4534- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
4535- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004536 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004537 many percent down the windows).
4538- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
4539 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
4540 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
4541- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
4542 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
4543- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
4544 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
4545- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
4546- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
4547- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
4548 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045498 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
4550 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
4551 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
4552 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
4553 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004554- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
4555 t_bs is set? (Webb)
4556- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004557 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
4558- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004559 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
4560 (Webb).
4561- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004562 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004563- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
4564 hex codes like 0xff).
4565- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
4566 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
4567 the last TYPED command.
4568- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
4569- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
4570- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
4571 should also work?
4572- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
45738 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
4574 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
4575 name.
4576- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
4577 trailing '.'.
4578- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
4579 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
4580 find_file_in_path().
4581- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
4582 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
4583- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
4584- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
4585 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
4586- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004587 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004588- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
4589 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
4590 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004591- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004592 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
4593- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
4594- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
4595- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
4596 to the minimal size.
4597- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
4598- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
4599- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
4600- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
4601- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
4602- Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw').
4603- Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line:
4604 "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ???
4605- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
4606 entered)?
4607- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
4608 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004609- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004610- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
4611- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
4612- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
4613- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
4614- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
4615 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004616- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046178 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
4618 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
4619 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
4620 or in octal.
46217 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
4622 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004623- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004624 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
4625- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
4626- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
4627 insert line command).
4628- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
4629- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
4630- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
4631- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
4632- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
4633 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004634- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004635 yet.
4636- Implement 'redraw' option.
4637- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
4638 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046397 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
4640 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00004641 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
4642 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046438 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
4644 do it.
4645- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
4646- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
4647 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
4648- Add text justification option.
4649- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
4650- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
4651 off".
4652- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
4653- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
4654- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004655 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004656- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004657- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004658- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
4659- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
4660 commands.
4661- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
4662- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
4663- :table command (Webb)
4664- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004665- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
4666- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
4667- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
4668- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
4669- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
4670 (Demirel).
4671- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
4672- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
4673 for use in macro's and the like.
4674- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004675 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004676- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004677 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
4678- 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really
4679 read-only mode).
4680- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004681 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004682 a window to become smaller (Webb).
4683- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
4684 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004685- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004686 mkopttab to make option table?
4687- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
4688 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
4689- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
4690 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004691- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004692 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
4693- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
4694 cursor?
4695- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
4696- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
46975 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
4698 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000046998 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
4700 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
4701 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
4702 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
4703 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047048 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
4705 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
4706 (Netherton)
47076 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
4708 space after "(", for example.
47095 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
4710 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
4711 (Servatius Brandt)
4712
4713
4714From Elvis:
4715- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
4716- Add ":alias" command.
4717- fontchanges recognized "\\fB" etc.
4718- Search patterns:
4719 \@ match word under cursor.
4720 but do:
4721 \@w match the word under the cursor?
4722 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
47238 ":window" command:
4724 :win + next window (up)
4725 :win ++ idem, wrapping
4726 :win - previous window (down)
4727 :win -- idem, wrapping
4728 :win nr to window number "nr"
4729 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
47307 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
4731 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
4732
4733
4734From Nvi:
4735- 'searchincr' option, alias for 'incsearch'?
4736- 'leftright' option, alias for 'nowrap'?
4737- Have a look at "vi/doc/vi.chart", for Nvi specialties.
47388 Add 'keytime', time in 1/10 sec for mapping timeout?
4739- Add 'filec' option as an alternative for 'wildchar'.
47406 Support Nvi command names as an alias:
4741 :bg :hide
4742 :fg fname :buf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
4743 :dis b :ls
4744 :Edit fname :split fname
4745 :Fg fname :sbuf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
4746 :Next :snext (can't do this, already use :Next)
4747 :Previous :sprevious
4748 :Tag :stag
4749
4750
4751From xvi:
4752- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
4753- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
4754
4755
4756From vile:
4757- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
4758- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
4759 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
4760
4761
4762Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00004763- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
4764 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
4765 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
4766 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
4767 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004768- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
4769 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
4770- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
4771 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
4772 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
4773 current layout mirrored.
4774- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
4775- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
4776 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
4777- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
4778- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
4779 font in each top-level window.
4780- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
4781- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
4782- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
4783- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
4784 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
4785- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
4786 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
4787 mentioned in the tags file.
4788 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
4789 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
4790- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
4791 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
4792- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
4793 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
47944 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
4795 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
4796 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
4797 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004798 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004799 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
4800 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
4801- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
4802 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
4803 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
4804
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00004805When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
4806empty line would appear.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004807
4808vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
4809vim: set fo+=n :