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Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +01001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.2. Last change: 2020 Mar 27
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010041Vim9 script:
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010042- "func" inside "vim9script" doesn't work? (Ben Jackson, #5670)
Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +010043- "let x = x + 1" should say that "x" is not defined (declare local after
44 evaluating expresion).
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +010045- "echo Func()" is an error if Func() does not return anything.
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +010046- better implementation for partial and tests for that.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010047- Make "g:imported = Export.exported" work in Vim9 script.
48- Make Foo.Bar() work to call the dict function. (#5676)
49- make "let var: string" work in a vim9script.
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010050- Disallow unlet for local/script/imported vars
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010051- Support type for ":let"/":const" at script level for Vim9 script.
52 (Ben Jackson, #5671)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010053- :func inside vim9script must still use a:arg
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +010054- Make "++nr" work.
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010055- Check that import in legacy script works and puts item in s:
56- Error in any command in "vim9script" aborts sourcing.
57- Find a way to test expressions in legacy and Vim9 script without duplication
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +010058- Fix memory leaks for test_vim9_disassemble, test_vim9_expr, test_vim9_script
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010059- Test each level of expressions properly, with type checking
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010060- Test try/catch and throw better, also nested.
61 Test return inside try/finally jumps to finally and then returns.
62- call autoload function.
63- Type checking arguments when calling :def function
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +010064- Implement more expressions, e.g. [a:b]
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010065- can use func as reference:
66 def SomeFunc() ...
67 map(list, SomeFunc)
68- define function and create funcref in one step:
69 let ref = def(arg: type): rettype
70 Also extends lambda
71- Test: Function declared inside a :def function is local, disappears at the
72 end of the function. Unless g: is used, just like with variables.
73- Can we omit \ for line continuation inside (), {}, ?
74 Requires parsing while reading a function. Like fgetline in do_one_cmd()?
75- implement :type
76- implement class
77- implement interface
78- predefined class: Promise<T>
79- import statement for type declaration?
80- Make accessing varargs faster: arg[expr]
81 EVAL expr
82 LOADVARARG (varags idx)
83
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020084Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +010085- With some sequence get get hidden finished terminal buffer. (#5768)
86 Cannot close popup terminal (#5744)
87 Buffer can't be wiped, gets status "aF". (#5764)
88 Is buf->nwindows incorrect?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +010089- popup_clear() and popup_close() should close the terminal popup, and
90 make the buffer hidden. #5745
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010091- With terminal in popup, allow for popup_hide() to temporarily hide it.?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +010092- Fire some autocommand event after a new popup window was created and
93 positioned? PopupNew? Could be used to set some options or move it out of
94 the way. (#5737)
95 However, it may also cause trouble, changing the popup of another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +020096- Use popup (or popup menu) for command line completion
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +010097- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not
98 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544)
99- Implement flip option.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200100- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200101 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100102- Match does not have right BG color if line length equals popup width.
103 (#5658)
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200104- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100105 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for these.
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +0100106- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200107
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200108Text properties:
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100109- "cc" does not call inserted_bytes(). (Axel Forsman, #5763)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100110- Get E685 with a sequence of commands. (#5674)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100111- Combining text property with 'cursorline' does not always work (Billie
112 Cleek, #5533)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100113- Text properties spanning more than one line. #5683
Bram Moolenaar09c6f262019-11-17 15:55:14 +0100114- See remarks at top of src/textprop.c
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200115
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100116'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200117- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
118 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100119- :s@pat/tern@ doesn't include "/" in the pattern. (Takahiro Yoshihara, #3637)
120 pass delim to do_search() ?
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200121- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200122- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200123- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
124 isn't one?
125 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
126
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200127Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100128- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200129- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100130- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200131
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200132Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200133- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100134- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
135 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200136- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100137- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200138- Termdebug does not work when Vim was build with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
139 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
140 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100141- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100142- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
143 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100144 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100145 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200146
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200147Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100148- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
149 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
150 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100151- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100152- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
153 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200154- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
155 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200156- GUI: hang until key typed. (#3530)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200157- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200158- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
159 #2977)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200160- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
161 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
162- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
163 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200164- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
165 is disabled.
166- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
167- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
168 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200169- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
170 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
171 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
172- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
173- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
174 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
175- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
176 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200177
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200178Error numbers available:
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100179E451, E452, E453, E454, E460, E489, E491, E565, E578, E610, E611, E653,
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100180E654, E856, E857, E861, E900
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200181
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100182Patch to fix drawing error with DirectX. (James Grant, #5688)
183Causes flicker on resizing.
Bram Moolenaar2ed639a2019-12-09 23:11:18 +0100184
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100185Patch to make lambda functions faster (Ken Takata)
186https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/5727
187 LGTM remark: size derived from user input (getenv). Don't see how.
188
Bram Moolenaar469bdbd2019-12-11 23:05:48 +0100189Patch to use more FOR_ALL_ macros and use them. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, #5339)
190
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100191Patch to explain use of "%" in :!. (David Briscoe, #5591)
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100192
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100193Patch to improve Windows terminal support. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, #5546)
194Ready to include.
195
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100196Patch to add "-d" to xxd. (#5616)
197
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100198Patch to add Turkish manual. (Emir Sarı, #5641)
199
Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +0100200Patch to support cindent option to handle pragmas differently.
201(Max Rumpf, #5468)
202
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100203File marks merging has duplicates since 7.4.1925. (Ingo Karkat, #5733)
204
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200205Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
206manager. Problem with Motif? Now test_gui crashes in submenu_change().
207Athena is OK.
208Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
209
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200210Patch to properly break CJK lines: Anton Kochkov, #3875
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200211Flag in 'formatoptions' is not used in the tests.
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200212
Bram Moolenaar469bdbd2019-12-11 23:05:48 +0100213Patch to add 'vtp' option. (#5344)
214Needs better docs. Is there a better name?
215
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200216undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
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Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100218Patch for Template string: #4491. New pull: #4634
219Ready to include? Review the code.
220
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100221When 'lazyredraw' is set sometimes the title is not updated.
222(Jason Franklin, 2020 Feb 3) Looks like a race condition.
223
Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +0100224Patch to delete BeOS code. (#5817)
225
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100226Strange sequence of BufWipeout and BufNew events while doing omni-complete.
227(Paul Jolly, #5656)
228Get BufDelete without preceding BufNew. (Paul Jolly, #5694)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100229 Later more requests for what to track.
230 Should we add new events that don't allow any buffer manipulation?
231 Really only for dealing with appearing and disappearing buffers, load and
232 unload.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100233BufWinenter event not fired when saving unnamed buffer. (Paul Jolly, #5655)
Bram Moolenaareab6dff2020-03-01 19:06:45 +0100234Another spurious BufDelete. (Dani Dickstein, #5701)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100235
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100236Patch to add function to return the text used in the quickfix window.
237(Yegappan, #5465)
238
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100239Patch to add readdirex() (Ken Takata, #5619)
240
241Request to support <Cmd> in mappings, similar to how Neovim does this.
242(Daniel Hahler, #4784)
243
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200244Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
245
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100246:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019
247Dec 19)
248
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100249Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
250May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200251Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
252remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200253Also #4994: window-local options not always restored, related to using :badd.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100254Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200255
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100256When 'backupdir' has a path ending in double slash (meaning: use full path of
257the file) combined with 'patchmode' the file name is wrong. (#5791)
258
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100259Patch to make ":verbose pwd" show the scope of the directory. (Takuya
260Fujiwara, #5469)
261
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200262Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100263Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_"
264in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200265Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
266(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200267
Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +0100268Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426)
269ex_next() should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd().
270
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100271Patch to add "note" type to quickfix. (#5527) Missing tests.
272
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100273Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
274(#4087)
275
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100276FR: add search_status(), the current values displayed for search (current
277match, total matches). (#5631)
278Patch to provide search stats in a variable, so that it can be used in the
279statusline. (Fujiwara Takuya, #4446)
280
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100281Patch for ambiguous width characters in libvterm on MS-Windows 10.
282(Nobuhiro Takasaki, #4411)
283
284behavior of i_CTRl-R_CTRL-R differs from documentation. (Paul Desmond Parker,
285#5771)
286
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200287":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
288goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
289unlisted. (#4478)
290
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100291Patch to include reduce() function. (#5481)
292
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100293Statusline highlighting error, off by one. (#5599)
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100294
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200295Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
296
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200297Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
298Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
299
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100300Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
301
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100302Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509)
303
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200304The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
305support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
306
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200307Include Haiku port. (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
308It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
309Now on github: #1856. Updated Oct 2017
310Got permission to include this under the Vim license.
311
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100312"--cleanFOO" does not result in an error. (#5537)
313
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100314Add "t" action to settagstack(): truncate and add new entries. (#5405)
315
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100316Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
317
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100318Status line is nut updated when splitting windows. (Marcin Szamotulski, #5496)
319
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200320Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
321(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
322
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200323When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
324default one. #4698
325
326When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
327with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
328
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100329Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320)
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100330Or make "v" prefix work?
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100331
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200332Modeless selection doesn't work in gvim. (#4783)
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200333Caused by patch 8.1.1534.
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200334
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200335Visual highlight not removed when 'dipslay' is "lastline" and line doesn't
336fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
337
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200338Patch to add per-tabpage and per-window previous directory: "lcd -" and "tcd
339-". (Yegappan Lakshmanan, #4362)
340
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200341Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
342- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
343- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100344- INT_MAX not defined: need to include <limits.h> in vim.h
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200345
346Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
34713, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200348
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100349Display messed up with matchparen, wrapping and scrolling. (#5638)
350
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200351Patch to configure BUILD_DATE for reproducible builds. (James McCoy, #513)
352
353Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
354
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100355Patch to support "0o" for octal numbers. (Ken Takata, #5304)
356
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100357Patch to enable IXON, avoid that CTRL-S stops terminal output. (#5775)
358
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100359When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
360when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
361gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
362input buffer. (#5302)
363
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200364xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
365buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
366Xterm 224 supports it!
367Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
368Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
369Also see issue #609.
370We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
371
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100372:buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp error.
373(#5467)
374
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200375Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200376
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100377Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
3782007 Feb 18)
379Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
380
381Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
382Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
383
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200384Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
385
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200386Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
387Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200388
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100389Errors found with random data:
390 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100391
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200392Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
393change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
394patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
395(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
396
397Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
398Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
399
400Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
401
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200402Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
403files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
404Include part of #3242?
405
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200406When a terminal exit_cb closes the window, a following typed key is lost, if
407it's in a mapping. (2018 Oct 6, #2302, #3522)
408
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200409Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
410Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
411Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
412
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100413":2resize +10" uses size of the current window, adds 10 and applies it to
414window 2. User expects 10 to be added to size of window 2. (Daniel Steinberg,
415#5443)
416
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200417Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
418(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
419Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
420- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
421 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
422 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
423- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
424 covered by the above change.
425So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
426same thing. Remarks on PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
427Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200428
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200429Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
430t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
431
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100432v:register isn't reset early enough, may be used by next command.
433(Andy Massimino, #5294, possible fix in #5305)
434
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100435Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
436Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
437
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200438'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
439
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200440"exepath('bin/cmd')" does not work while ":!bin/cmd" does work.
441(Daniel Hahler, #4710) and executable('bin/cmd') returns 1
442
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200443Error drawing the number column when 'cursorline' is set. (#3893)
444
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100445Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
446
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200447Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
448
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100449When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
450in a long line. #5189
451
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200452The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
453Give a few examples. (#4288)
454
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200455Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
456work, results in (E479: No match". (#4610)
457
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200458Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only adds the option, no implem.):
4597 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
460 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
461 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
462
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100463Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
464read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
465be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
466
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100467Add a string to the 'display' option ("smoothscroll" ?) to make CTRL-E and
468CTRL-Y scroll one screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start
469with the first character (like what happens with a last line that doesn't
470fit). Display "<<<" at the start of the first visible line (like "@@@" is
471displayed in the last line). (Arseny Nasokin, #5154)
472
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200473Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
474
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200475Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
476
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200477Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
478https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
479
480Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
481http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
482http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
483Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100484- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200485- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
486- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
487 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
488- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
489- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
490Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
491- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
492- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
493Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
494- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
495
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100496Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
497Mar 5)
498
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200499Many users don't like 'thesaurus' to match so many words. (#4667, #1611)
500- when the match with the first word is partial, don't add other words on that
501 line.
502- support other file formats, such as comma separated. Indicate by a prefix
503 to the file in the 'thesaurus' option.
504- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
505 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
506
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200507Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
508on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
509
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200510Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
511in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
512buffer didn't change at all.
513
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200514Patch to add getreginfo() and setreg() with an option to set the unnamed
515register "", So that registers can be saved and fully restored.
516(Andy Massimino, 2018 Aug 24, #3370)
517
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200518Line numbers in profile are off when function was defined with ":execute".
519(Daniel Hahler, #4511)
520
Bram Moolenaara6c27c42019-05-09 19:16:22 +0200521Add a way to create an empty, hidden buffer. Like doing ":new|hide".
522":let buf = bufcreate('name')
523
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200524Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
525'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
526(#4450)
527
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100528When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
529But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
530similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
531
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200532C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
533(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
534
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100535Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
536added?
537
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200538Patch to add a flatten() function. #3676. Check that the doc explains the
539maxdepth argument (applies to the input "recursiveness").
540
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200541Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
542negative. (see #4326)
543
544'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
545`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
546tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
547:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
548
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200549This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
550 vim: syn=nosyntax
551
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200552":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
553a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
554
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100555Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
556#2948. (related to #1512?)
557On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
558balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
55920, #2481)
560Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
561Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
562balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
5632018 Sep 14)
564Another request: #3811.
565
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200566More warnings from static analysis:
567https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200568
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100569Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
570
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200571Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
572
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200573Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
574internals of the dict structure.
575
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100576nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
577
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200578Missing tests for:
579- add_termcap_entry()
580
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200581Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
582change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
583them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
584
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100585Incsearch test fails when locale is "C". (Dominique Pelle, #3986)
586Also run all tests with C locale?
587
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100588"vat" doesn't work well on XML when the closing > is on another line.
589#3927
590
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200591Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200592Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200593
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100594When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
595case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
596For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
597
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200598Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
599(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
600expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200601
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200602Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
603 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
604 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
605
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100606Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100607punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100608
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200609ml_get error: (Israel Chauca Fuentes, 2018 Oct 17, #3550).
610
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200611Patch to add more info to OptionSet. Should mention what triggered the change
612":set", ":setlocal", ":setglobal", "modeline"; and the old global value.
613#4118. Proposed implementation: 2019 Mar 27.
614Updated 2019 May 25.
615
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200616Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
617drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
618
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200619Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
620is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
621
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100622When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
623scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
624using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
625
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200626Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
627#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
628(Sep 8)
629
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200630Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
631unified diff (list of lines).
632
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100633When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
634kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
635when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
636
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100637Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
638(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100639
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100640Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
641
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100642Using uninitialized value in test_crypt (can't explain why).
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100643Memory leak in test_terminal_fail
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200644TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100645Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200646Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
647Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200648
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200649gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200650
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200651matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
65219.
653
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100654Should make 'listchars' global-local. Local to window or to buffer?
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100655Probably window. #5206
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100656Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
657highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200658And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
659'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100660Related: #3820 - Support setting the character displayed below the last line?
661Neovim uses "eob:X" in 'fillchars'.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100662
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100663Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
664Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
665
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200666Patch to support ":tag <tagkind> <tagname>". (emmrk, 2018 May 7, #2871)
667Use something like ":tag {kind}/{tagname}".
668Not ready to include.
669
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200670Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
671Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
672Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
673
674Patch for larger icons in installer. (#978) Still not good.
675
676Patch to fix that using "5gj" starting inside a closed fold does not work on
677screen lines but on text lines. (Julius Hulsmann, #4095) Lacks a test.
678
679Patch to implement 'diffref' option. (#3535)
680 Easier to use a 'diffmaster' option, is the extra complexity needed?
681 Not ready to include.
682
683Patch to specify color for cterm=underline and cterm=undercurl, like "guisp".
684Patch #2405 does something like this, but in the wrong way.
685
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200686home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
687
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200688When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
689terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
690How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
691
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200692Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
693
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100694Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
695Feedback from someone who uses this?
696
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200697ml_get error. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 14, #3434)
698
699Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
700Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
701values.
702
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100703Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200704- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
705- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
706- omit diff.exe from distribution
707- Can we make this show differences within a line?
708- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200709
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200710Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
711
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100712Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
713What is the practical use for this?
714
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200715When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
716includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
717
718Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200719Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200720
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200721MS-Windows: .lnk file not resolved properly when 'encoding' is set.
722(lkintact, 2018 Sep 22, #3473)
723
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100724Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
725
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200726Display error when a conceal match uses '\%>1l'. (#4854)
727
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200728Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
729window for the buffer.
730
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200731Request to add sign_setlist() to make it faster to add a lot of signs, e.g.
732when adding a sign for every quickfix entry. (#4557)
733
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100734Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
735mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
736
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200737Patch to "fix" 'visualbell'. Add option to set delay? (#1789)
738
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200739Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
740modified buffers
741 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
742 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
743 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
744 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
745
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100746Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
747- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
748- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
749- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100750- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
751
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200752Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
753characters. (#3246)
754
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200755'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
756
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100757Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
758Oct 28)
759
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200760ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
761Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
762Also reproduced by Benjamin Doherty, 2018 Oct 4.
763Simpler way: Ken Takata, Oct 6.
764
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100765Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
766- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
767
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200768Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
769- Test_setbufvar_options()
770- Test_exit_callback_interval()
771
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200772Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
773Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100774Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
775Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200776
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200777Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
778
779Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
78024)
781
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100782Try out background make plugin:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100783 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100784or asyncmake:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100785 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
786
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100787Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100788mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100789
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200790Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
791is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
792used for git temp files.
793
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100794Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
795
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200796Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
797behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
798(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
799
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200800Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
801pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
802
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200803Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
804script or function.
805
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200806When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
807E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
808does nothing otherwise?
809
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200810MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
811If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
812(wait a little while).
813CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100814
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200815Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
816MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
8172017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
818receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
819
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200820Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
821missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
822
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200823":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
824deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
825
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200826Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200827
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100828Delete all the specific stuff for the Borland compiler? (#3374)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200829Patch in #3377 (Thomas Dziedzic)
830
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200831With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
832included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
833(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
834
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200835Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200836Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200837
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100838Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100839Jan 15, #2555)
840
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200841":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
842
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100843Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
844
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100845No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
846No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
847
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200848Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
849http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
850Should be supported with a flag.
851
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100852Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
853confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
854
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100855Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
856
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100857Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
858Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
859applying the diff, etc.
860
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200861Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
862Apr 26, #2849)
863
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100864User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
865word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100866
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100867Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200868
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200869With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
870(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
871
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200872Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
873:drop (remote commands).
874
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200875Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
8762018 Jun 18, #3027)
877
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200878Implement option_save() and option_restore():
879option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
880 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
881 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
882 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
883 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
884 be called when the same window is the current window.
885 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
886 the local options won't be restored.
887
888option_save({list}) *option_save()*
889 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
890 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
891 let s:saved_options = option_save([
892 \ 'ignorecase',
893 \ 'iskeyword',
894 \ ])
895 au <buffer> BufLeave *
896 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
897< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
898 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
899 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
900 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100901 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
902 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
903 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100904 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200905
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100906"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
907directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
908Also see #1689.
909
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100910When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100911highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100912
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200913":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
914
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100915No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
9162017 Dec 26, #2501)
917
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200918A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
919
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200920Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
921
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200922A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
923Mention where they were defined somewhere.
924
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100925Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
926(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
927
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200928ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
929
930Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
931
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100932Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
933Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
934
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100935Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
936in #846)
937Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
938
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200939Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
940Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
941
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100942When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
943redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200944
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100945In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
946(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
947
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100948Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
949neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100950
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100951Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
952Nov 21)
953
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200954When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
955triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
956set_color_count().
957
958Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
959responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
960
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100961When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
962CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
963Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
964always nested.
965
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200966matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
967
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100968Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
969
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100970MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100971for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
972
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200973Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100974(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200975
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200976Test runtime files.
977Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200978
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200979Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200980
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200981Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
982defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
983Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
984
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200985After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
98613, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200987
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200988When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
989line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
990
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100991The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
992
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200993Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
994set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
995
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100996Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
997
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200998Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
999behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
1000
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001001'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
1002
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001003The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
1004
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001005When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
1006a command can delete it.
1007
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001008Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
1009#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
1010
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001011The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
1012for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
1013
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001014X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1015pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1016clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1017Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1018Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1019clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001020Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001021
1022Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
1023
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001024Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
1025attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
1026that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
1027
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001028Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
1029(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
1030
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001031Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
1032buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
1033Also fixes #2166?
1034
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001035Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
1036stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
1037
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001038Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
1039possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
1040
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001041When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
1042case of :bwipe followed by :new.
1043
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +02001044Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
1045existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
1046Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
1047
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001048Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001049
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001050MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
1051Jul 4)
1052
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001053Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
1054Drucker, 2017 May 8).
1055This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
1056Christian cannot reproduce it.
1057
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001058Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
1059wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
1060Or is this not an actual problem?
1061
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001062Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
1063
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001064Patch to use a separate code for BS on Windows. (Linwei, #1823)
1065
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001066Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
1067
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001068'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
1069#1736)
1070
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001071Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
10728, #1690)
1073
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001074Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
1075(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
1076
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001077Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
1078it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
1079
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001080Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
1081Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
1082How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
1083
1084Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
1085(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
1086
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001087Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
1088
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001089assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
1090it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
1091
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001092Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
1093for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001094
1095Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
1096(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
1097Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
1098later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
1099Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
1100mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001101Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
1102mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001103maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001104
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001105Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001106plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
1107be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1108
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001109Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1110 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1111 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001112
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001113json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001114What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001115
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001116Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1117
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001118import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1119(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1120
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001121When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
1122buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
1123Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001124
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001125Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1126Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001127Another example in #1309
1128
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001129When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
1130when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
1131
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001132Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1133#1330)
1134
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001135Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1136
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001137Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
1138
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001139GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
1140g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
1141timer expires.
1142
1143Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
1144
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001145Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1146highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1147
11488 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
1149 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
1150
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001151Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1152Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1153
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001154Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1155key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1156 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1157 echo keytrans(xx)
1158 <C-Home>
1159
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001160Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1161(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1162Make a function to check for function-like type?
1163
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001164Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
1165(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
1166
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +01001167Implement named arguments for functions:
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001168 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001169 call Foo(12, all = 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001170
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001171Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1172somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1173
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001174Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
1175(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
1176
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001177Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001178Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001179Update Aug 2017: #1954
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001180
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001181The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1182"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1183Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1184
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001185Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1186
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001187Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1188about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001189Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1190
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +02001191Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
1192#1053) With patch, does it work?
1193
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001194":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001195vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1196
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001197Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001198E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001199Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001200
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001201Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1202Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1203
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001204Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001205Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001206
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001207"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1208(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1209
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001210Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1211(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001212Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001213
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001214'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
1215
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001216Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1217
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001218When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
1219Apr 23, #1653)
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +01001220Can 'completeopt' be made buffer-local? (#5487)
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001221
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001222Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1223anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1224
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001225Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001226E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001227
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001228Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1229(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1230
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001231Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1232
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001233On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1234separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1235
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001236min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
1237contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
1238
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001239Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1240
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001241Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1242
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001243Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1244
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001245Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1246no longer support.
1247
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001248sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
12494#1038)
1250
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001251+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001252- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001253- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1254 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1255 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001256- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1257 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001258- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
1259- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1260 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1261- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1262 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1263- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001264- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1265 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001266- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1267- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1268 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1269 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1270- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1271- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1272- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1273 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1274 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1275- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1276 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1277- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1278 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1279 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1280
1281Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001282- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1283 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1284 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1285 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001286- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1287 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001288- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1289 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1290- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1291 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1292- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1293 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1294 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1295 LC_CTYPE
1296- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1297 matches everywhere.
1298- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1299 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1300- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1301- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1302 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1303- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
1304- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
1305 2013 Dec 11)
1306- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1307 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1308- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1309- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1310 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1311- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1312- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1313- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1314- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1315 2015 Feb 7)
1316- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1317 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1318 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1319 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1320 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1321- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1322- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1323- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1324- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1325 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1326 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1327 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1328- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1329 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1330- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1331 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1332 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1333 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1334
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001335Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
1336#1350)
1337
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001338Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
13393. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1340Also see #1635.
1341
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001342Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001343Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
1344use the current behavior.
1345Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001346
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001347When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
1348command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
1349
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001350Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1351doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1352Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001353Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001354E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1355
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001356execute() cannot be used with command completion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001357#1141)
1358
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001359cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1360
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001361:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1362
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001363Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1364
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001365When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1366synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1367
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001368Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1369Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001370
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001371Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
1372(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
1373
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001374ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1375Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001376
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001377Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
1378
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001379Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001380(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001381
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001382Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1383Jul 25, #948)
1384
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001385Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1386names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1387Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1388the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1389
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001390'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
1391
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001392MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1393Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001394
1395Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
1396Also for ":@.".
1397
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001398Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
1399
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001400Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
1401#1125
1402
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001403Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1404times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1405
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001406Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
1407
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001408Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
1409
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001410Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1411
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001412Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
1413
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001414We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1415the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1416
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001417Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1418
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001419When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1420emoji_width table has only one entry.
1421
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001422It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1423Reject the value? #710.
1424
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001425When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1426Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1427
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001428Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001429
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001430Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1431No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001432
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001433Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1434(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001435
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001436Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1437
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001438Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1439https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
1440Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
1441
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001442Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1443but the reference remains valid.
1444
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001445Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001446interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1447Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1448interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1449result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001450
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001451Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001452work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001453
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001454Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1455
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001456Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1457
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001458Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1459Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1460
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001461When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1462Apr 17) #762
1463
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001464exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1465Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1466
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001467Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1468'iskeyword' for syntax.
1469
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001470Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
1471(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
1472
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001473Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
1474
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001475When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1476maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001477Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001478
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001479Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1480It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1481Add configure check?
1482Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1483Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1484Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1485
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001486Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1487Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1488
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001489Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1490Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1491
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001492":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1493directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1494
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001495In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1496(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1497
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001498If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
14992016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001500
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001501Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1502(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1503
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001504Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
1505
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001506When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1507restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1508Do not trigger the event?
1509
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001510Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
1511changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
1512and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001513Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
1514Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
15156, 2nd message)
1516Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001517
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001518Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1519Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1520https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1521
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001522Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1523With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1524
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001525Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001526
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001527Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1528
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001529Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001530Only remembers one error.
1531
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001532GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001533
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001534Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1535(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001536
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001537Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1538github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001539 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001540Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001541
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001542Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001543
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001544Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001545comparing individual items.
1546Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
1547Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
1548Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
1549equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
1550
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001551Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1552
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001553MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1554wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1555
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001556Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1557specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1558
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001559Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1560(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1561
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001562Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001563inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001564
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001565Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1566(Luchr, #277)
1567
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001568Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001569'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1570before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001571
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001572C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1573and also line continuation after #include.
1574I can't recommend it though.
1575
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001576Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1577(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1578
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001579To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1580library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1581
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001582When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1583is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1584
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001585Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
158630)
1587
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001588MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1589(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1590
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001591The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
159224): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001593
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001594":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1595effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1596
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001597":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
15989)
1599
1600The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1601wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1602
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001603Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001604Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001605
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001606When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1607the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1608
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001609Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001610slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1611inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1612
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001613ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
16142014 Sep 11)
1615
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001616Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1617(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1618
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001619When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1620'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1621
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001622Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1623Work in progress.
1624
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001625Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1626when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1627
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001628Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1629Is this right?
1630
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001631Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1632(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1633Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1634
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001635Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1636Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001637
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001638Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1639Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1640
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001641Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1642
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001643When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1644filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1645initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1646
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001647Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1648
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001649Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1650OK to not block marks?
1651
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001652Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1653
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001654Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1655
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001656When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1657(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1658
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001659Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001660
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001661Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1662(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1663
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001664When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1665any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1666
1667Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001668
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001669Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001670
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001671Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1672(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1673
1674Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1675
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001676Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1677Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1678was already defined.
1679(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1680
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001681Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1682
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001683Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001684Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001685Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001686Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001687
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001688Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1689(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1690
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001691Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1692(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1693
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001694Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1695
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001696When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1697these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1698window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1699
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001700Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1701should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1702history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1703Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1704
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001705"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1706Jun 8)
1707
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001708Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1709insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1710
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001711No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1712
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001713Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1714(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1715Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1716arguments.
1717
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001718Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1719
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001720Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001721
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001722Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
17230x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1724New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1725compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1726
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001727Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1728a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1729
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001730Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1731right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001732its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001733
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001734Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1735
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001736This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1737 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1738This neither: (ZyX)
1739 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1740
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001741'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1742Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1743from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001744
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001745Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
17462014 Jun 8)
1747
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001748Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001749Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001750Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1751Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1752User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001753- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1754 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1755 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001756- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1757- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1758 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1759 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1760 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1761 on vim.org.
1762- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1763 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1764- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1765- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1766- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1767- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1768Implementation:
1769- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1770 plugin separate.
1771- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1772 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1773 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1774- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1775 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1776- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1777 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1778 installing.
1779Out of scope:
1780- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1781- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1782 useful).
1783
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001784Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1785normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001786
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001787When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1788menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1789
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001790Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1791(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1792
1793":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1794various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001795
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001796Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001797(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1798
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001799VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1800instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1801
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001802Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001803Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001804
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001805Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001806command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001807
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001808Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1809
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001810Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1811highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001812
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001813The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1814For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1815
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001816Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001817possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001818
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001819Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001820
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001821Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1822
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010018237 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1824 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1825 "lucida_console:h8").
1826Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1827
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001828:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1829
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001830Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1831
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001832Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1833
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001834When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1835(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1836
1837Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001838Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001839
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001840GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1841(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1842
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001843Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1844registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1845
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001846Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1847
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001848The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1849(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1850Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1851
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001852The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1853- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1854- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1855
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001856Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1857Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1858reliably?
1859
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001860Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1861(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1862
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001863Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1864(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1865
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001866Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
18672013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001868
1869Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1870
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001871Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
18725)
1873
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001874Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1875carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1876
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001877Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1878highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1879
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001880Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001881
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001882Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200188328) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001884
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001885Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1886
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001887Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1888
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001889- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1890 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1891Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001892
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001893Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001894
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001895In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1896process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1897a reboot.
1898
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001899patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1900
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001901Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1902not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001903
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001904Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1905Or use expand('<sid>')?
1906
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001907Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1908
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001909Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1910
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001911b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
19127)
1913
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001914Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1915compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1916
1917Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1918Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1919vim.bindeval().
1920
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001921Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
19222012 Aug 4)
1923
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001924Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1925(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1926
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001927Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1928But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1929
1930Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1931Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1932Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001933
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001934Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1935loading all files.
1936
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001937MS-Windows resizing problems:
1938- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1939 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1940- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1941 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1942 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001943
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001944'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001945
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001946Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001947of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1948
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001949The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1950Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1951But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001952
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001953When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1954is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1955
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001956URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001957- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001958- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1959 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1960
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001961Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1962(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1963Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1964
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001965Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001966New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001967
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001968When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1969for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1970Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001971
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001972Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1973
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001974Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1975
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001976Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1977Apr 18)
1978
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001979Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1980And one for gui_x11.txt.
1981
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001982":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1983finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1984Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1985
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001986Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1987
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001988Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1989
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001990Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1991they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1992
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001993Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1994
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001995Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1996Nov 20)
1997
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001998Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001999Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002000
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002001`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002002(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
2003
2004Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
2005
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01002006BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
2007Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
2008
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002009Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
2010Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
2011
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002012Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
2013
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002014On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
20152012 Jun 19)
2016
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002017'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
2018'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
2019Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002020Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02002021
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002022With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
2023(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
2024need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
2025
2026Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
2027only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
202821, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
2029
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002030Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
2031New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
2032
2033Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
2034Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
2035
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01002036Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
2037Jan 19)
2038
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01002039Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
2040discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
2041meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002042
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02002043"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002044Oct 26)
2045
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002046Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
2047
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002048With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
2049register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002050
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002051Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
2052
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002053When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
2054(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
2055
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01002056When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
2057then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
2058from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
2059
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002060Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
2061":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
206215)
2063
2064Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
2065
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002066BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
2067cleared. See test64.
2068
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002069Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002070effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002071Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01002072https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-mq-patches/blob/master/enable_spellchecking
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002073
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002074On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
207564 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
2076right type.
2077
2078string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
2079(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
2080
2081When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
2082(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002083When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
2084following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
2085(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002086
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002087When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
2088doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
2089
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01002090Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
2091
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002092maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
2093mapping, how to restore the script ID?
2094
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002095Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
2096(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
2097
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002098When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
2099indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
2100the help file.
2101
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002102After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
2103Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
2104
2105Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
2106
2107"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
2108
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002109Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
2110
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02002111Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002112
2113Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
21142010 Dec 18)
2115
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002116With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
2117number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
2118Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
2119
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002120Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
2121Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
2122
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020021238 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2124Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
2125
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01002126Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
2127one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2128the match scrolls into view.
2129
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020021307 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2131Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2132Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2133
21349 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2135 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2136Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2137
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002138Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2139Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2140
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002141In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2142or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2143sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2144
2145GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2146doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2147
2148GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2149
2150Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2151Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2152
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002153Wish for NetBeans commands:
2154 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2155
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002156Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2157
21587.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2159there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2160do?
2161
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002162Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
216322)
2164
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002165New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2166- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002167- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002168 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2169
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002170"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
21712011 Feb 27)
2172
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002173Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2174^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2175
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002176When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2177exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
21789) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2179
2180g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2181the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2182
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002183Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2184crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2185
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002186Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2187number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2188
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002189Regexp engine performance:
2190- Profiling:
2191 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2192 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2193 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2194 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2195 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2196 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2197- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2198- Performance tests:
2199 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2200 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2201 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2202 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2203 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2204 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2205 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2206 'hlsearch'.
2207 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2208 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2209 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2210 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2211
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002212Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2213Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2214
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002215'beval' option should be global-local.
2216
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002217Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002218
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002219setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002220
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002221With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
22222010 Oct 24)
2223
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002224Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2225
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002226When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2227Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2228
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002229":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2230
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002231'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2232
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002233C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2234checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2235Issue 46.
2236
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002237Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2238
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002239Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2240gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2241
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002242":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2243accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2244
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002245Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2246setwinvar().
2247
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002248Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002249
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002250When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2251instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2252
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002253Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2254Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2255Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002256
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002257Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2258back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2259
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002260Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002261Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2262
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002263CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2264the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
2265FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
2266
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002267Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2268Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2269
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002270Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2271Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2272
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002273Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2274
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002275Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2276non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002277
2278iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2279Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2280or replace with a character and continue?
2281
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002282Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2283Requires configure check for localtime().
2284Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2285
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002286Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
2287Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
2288
2289Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2290
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002291Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2292Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2293path.
2294
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002295Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002296Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002297
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002298'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2299
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002300":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2301like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2302
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002303Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2304https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002305
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002306Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
23072010 Nov 5)
2308
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002309Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002310Jan 7)
2311
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002312Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2313
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002314With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2315entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2316Feb 12)
2317
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002318Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2319characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2320
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002321Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2322
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002323Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2324 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2325
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002326Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2327
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002328When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2329Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2330
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002331When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2332not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2333string value.
2334
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002335For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002336line argument -noregister.
2337
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002338When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2339missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2340
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002341When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2342doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002343
2344Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2345(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2346Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2347There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2348Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2349
2350":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2351highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2352to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2353
2354Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2355Probably needs a bit of work.
2356
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002357List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002358Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2359
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002360Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2361
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002362Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2363
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002364Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2365Sep 1)
2366
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002367Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2368
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002369Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2370on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2371
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002372Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
23732009 Jul 18)
2374
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002375Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2376window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2377Needs more work.
2378
2379Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2380
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002381When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2382few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2383
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002384'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002385(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2386
2387Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2388J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2389
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002390When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2391for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2392
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002393Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2394
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002395":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2396because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2397ex_docmd.c.
2398
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002399Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002400Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2401
2402string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2403for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2404
2405Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2406
2407'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
240820)
2409
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002410Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
24112009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2412
2413Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2414
2415Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
2416SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
2417
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002418When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2419indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2420(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2421
2422Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2423are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2424Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2425Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2426that doesn't have a window.
2427
2428When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2429doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2430
2431getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2432displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2433
2434":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2435
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002436There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2437was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2438perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2439
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002440Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2441
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002442Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2443command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2444
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002445Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2446does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2447
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002448opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2449height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002450very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002451
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002452Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2453(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2454
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002455Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002456(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2457
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002458Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2459char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2460
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002461Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2462Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2463
2464This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2465
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002466Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2467messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2468es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
24692009 Jan 26)
2470
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002471When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002472in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2473Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2474
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002475Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2476a modeline.
2477
2478Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2479Sergey Khorev)
2480
2481Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2482part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002483
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002484After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2485correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2486
2487Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2488(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2489
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002490shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002491'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2492Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2493unix-like shell?
2494
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002495Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2496register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2497(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2498
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002499Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2500Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2501
2502Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2503make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2504
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002505When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2506still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2507
2508"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2509(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2510
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002511Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2512that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2513ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2514Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2515
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002516MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2517doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2518probably causes this.
2519
2520'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020025212009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002522
2523Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2524 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2525 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2526(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2527
2528Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2529":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2530option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2531is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002532
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002533":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2534first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002535Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002536
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002537Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2538laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2539Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002540
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002541Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2542anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2543
2544On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2545doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2546Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2547Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2548
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002549When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2550'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2551fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2552the buffer to be unmodified.
2553Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2554another look at it.
2555
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002556c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2557(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2558
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002559You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2560error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2561Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2562at the other match for 0xBF.
2563
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002564When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2565argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2566
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002567Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2568backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2569
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002570When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2571line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2572
2573Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2574position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2575
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002576After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2577(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002578command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002579
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002580":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2581Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2582
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002583When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2584either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2585put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2586
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002587Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2588Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2589Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2590Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2591(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2592
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002593Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2594
2595ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002596
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002597Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2598(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2599escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2600an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002601This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2602July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002603Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2604work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2605
2606When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
260731)
2608
2609Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2610work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2611Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002612
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002613Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2614multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2615(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2616
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002617Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
26182008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002619Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002620
2621Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2622Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2623'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2624
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002625Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2626Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2627
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002628Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2629Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2630
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020026318 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2632 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2633 several).
2634 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2635 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2636 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2637Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2638
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002639The utf class table is missing some entries:
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002640 0x2212, minus sign
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002641 0x2217, star
2642 0x2500, bar
2643 0x26ab, circle
2644
2645Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2646line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2647
2648GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2649Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2650
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002651Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2652try the Cocoa version.
2653
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002654Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2655changed or the window is resized.
2656
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002657GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2658the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2659
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002660Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2661Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002662
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002663Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
26641) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2665
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002666C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2667with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2668Try to reproduce at work.
2669
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002670Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2671Is there a way to list all the files first?
2672
2673When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2674result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
267516)
2676
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002677Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2678(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2679
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002680Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2681Await response to question to make the register writable.
2682
2683Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
26841)
2685
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002686In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2687each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2688
2689try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2690
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002691try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2692
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002693":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2694Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2695
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002696Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2697
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002698Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2699Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2700
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002701Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2702Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2703Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002704
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002705When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2706and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2707
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002708Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2709 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2710
2711New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2712
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002713":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2714a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2715
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002716'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2717Likonen, March 19)
2718
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002719Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2720other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2721
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002722The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2723appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2724matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2725
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002726When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2727character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2728'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2729(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2730
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002731Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2732Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002733
2734More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2735
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002736Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2737http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2738
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002739Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2740back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2741Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002742
2743Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2744No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2745
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002746Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2747terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002748
2749Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2750
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002751Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2752but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2753that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002754
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002755Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2756Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2757
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002758Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2759popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2760size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2761This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2762
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002763When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2764it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2765
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002766Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2767then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2768files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002769Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2770indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2771":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002772in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2773quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002774Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002775
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002776When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2777parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2778neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2779particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2780Jun 3)
2781However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2782the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002783
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002784A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2785Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2786
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002787Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2788Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2789
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002790Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2791switch list is noticed:
2792 switch (i)
2793 {
2794 case 1:
2795 foobar:
2796 }
2797
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002798Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2799
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002800Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2801with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2802go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2803moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2804
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002805Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002806GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002807Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2808argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2809(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2810
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002811Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2812(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2813
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002814Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
28152007 Feb 8)
2816
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002817Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2818set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002819
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002820Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2821
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002822Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2823Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2824New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2825patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2826
2827Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2828Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2829
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002830Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002831label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2832
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002833Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2834with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2835Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002836
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002837Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2838
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002839Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2840Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2841only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2842
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002843Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2844Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002845Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002846properly?
2847
2848Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
28492007 Jun 21)
2850
2851When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2852Jun 18)
2853
2854If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2855
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002856Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2857windows. (Adam George)
2858
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002859In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2860the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2861
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002862C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2863
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002864":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2865
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002866When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002867error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002868
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002869GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002870use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2871
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002872Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2873if_ruby.c.
2874
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002875":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2876
2877The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2878it in keep_msg?
2879
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002880Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002881error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002882name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2883
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002884Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2885longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002886
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002887Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2888Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2889Also for ":w" without a file name.
2890The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002891
2892"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2893Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2894
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002895VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2896directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2897(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2898
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002899VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2900
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002901input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2902name?
2903
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002904Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2905
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002906When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2907(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002908Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002909will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2910
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002911gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2912This also fails with --remote.
2913
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002914When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
29152008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2916all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2917
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002918aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2919
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002920When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2921(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2922
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002923Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2924the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2925
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002926GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2927
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002928Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2929superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2930
2931Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2932character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2933
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002934Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2935Jun 5)
2936
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002937Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
29382008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2939Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2940
2941In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2942but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2943Jul 22)
2944
2945There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2946
2947Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2948":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2949somehow? Or use a new function.
2950
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002951Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2952
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002953Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2954moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2955that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2956
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002957The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2958
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002959When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002960cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2961the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2962
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002963These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2964 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2965 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2966 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2967
2968Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2969partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2970
2971In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2972buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2973reload it then?
2974
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002975For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2976
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002977Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2978only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2979
2980Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2981tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2982doesn't contain other directories.
2983
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002984Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2985Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2986
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002987Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2988 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2989 set background=dark
2990This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2991color is, not reset it.
2992
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002993Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2994start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2995show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2996middle?
2997
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002998Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2999
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003000When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
3001current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
3002the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
3003
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003004When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
3005Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
3006
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003007Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
3008Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
3009
3010Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
3011
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003012A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
3013Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
3014
3015Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
3016Dara, 2006 June 21)
3017
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003018Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
3019number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
3020
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003021After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
3022the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
3023
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003024Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003025
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003026Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
3027Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
3028
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003029Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010030302008 Sep 29)
3031
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003032In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
3033check the result of has("patch13").
3034
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003035Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
3036restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
3037
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003038Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
3039and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
3040
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003041Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
3042put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
3043
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003044Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
3045resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
3046
3047In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
3048can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
3049
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003050GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
3051maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
3052doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003053Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
3054visible.
3055
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01003056When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
3057differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003058
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003059The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
3060be only one.
3061
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003062Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003063"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
3064name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
3065Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003066
3067Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
3068(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
3069
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003070Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
3071as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
3072
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003073Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
307423)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003075
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003076":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
3077tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
3078Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003079
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003080When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
3081text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
3082latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
3083
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003084Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
3085no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
3086
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003087In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
3088VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
30892007 Oct 16)
3090
3091TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
3092Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
3093
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003094Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003095
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003096When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
3097typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
3098Sep 3, 11)
3099
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003100":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
3101this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
3102
3103When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
3104Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
3105restored. (Luc St-Louis)
3106
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02003107Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
31082010 Jun 30)
3109
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02003110Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
3111'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
3112(Kartik Agaram)
3113
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003114
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003115Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003116- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
3117 - manipulating the Visual selection?
3118- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
3119 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
3120 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
3121- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
3122 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
3123 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01003124- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
3125- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003126
3127
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003128More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003129- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
3130 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003131- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003132- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
3133 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003134- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
3135- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
3136- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
3137 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
3138 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003139- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003140- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
3141 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
3142- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
3143 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
3144- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
3145 21)
3146- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
3147 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
3148- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
3149 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003150- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
3151 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003152- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3153 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3154 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3155 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3156 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003157- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003158
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003159Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000031609 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3161 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3162 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3163 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3164 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3165 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3166 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3167 (Alan Schmitt)
3168 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003169 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3170 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000031719 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003172 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000031738 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031747 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3175 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3176 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031778 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003178 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020031797 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003180 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3181- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
3182 for multi-byte characters.
3183- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3184- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3185 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3186 been given values.
3187 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031887 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3189 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3190- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3191 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3192 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
31938 Add functions:
3194 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3195 Update 2004 Sep 10
3196 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3197 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003198 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003199 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3200 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3201 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3202 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3203 (2003 May 13)
3204 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3205 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003206 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3207 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003208 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3209 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3210 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032117 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3212 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032137 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3214 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000032158 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3216 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032177 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
32188 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3219 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
32207 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3221 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032227 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3223- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3224 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3225 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003226- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3227 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3228- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3229
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003230Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3231- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3232 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3233
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003234Quickfix/Location List:
3235- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3236 #2999)
3237- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3238 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3239 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3240 the quickfix buffer?
3241- Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar,
3242 2018 Jun 10, #2998)
3243- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3244 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3245- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3246 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3247 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
3248- This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
3249 (Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
3250- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3251- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3252 2007 Jan 1)
3253- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3254 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3255- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3256 errors. How do we get the rest?
32578 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3258 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3259 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3260 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
32617 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
3262 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003263
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003264Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003265- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3266 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032678 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3268 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3269 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3270 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3271 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3272 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032738 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3274 make Vim exit.
32757 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3276 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3277 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
32788 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3279 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3280 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
32816 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3282 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3283 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
32848 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3285 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3286 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3287 names in one buffer???
3288 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3289 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3290 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
32917 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3292 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3293 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003294 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3295 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032967 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3297 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
32987 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
32997 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033007 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3301 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3302 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3303 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
33047 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
33057 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
33067 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3307 to the match with the tag? Option?
33087 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
33097 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3310 (Sayre).
33117 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3312 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033137 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3314 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3315 match. Nvi can do it too.
33167 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3317 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3318 line 1\ line 2\\
3319 line 2\ line 3\\
3320 . line4/
33216 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3322 the way the shell is started?
33236 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3324 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3325
3326
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003327GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000033289 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033298 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3330 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3331 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000033328 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3333 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3334 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033359 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3336 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3337 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3338 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003339- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3340 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3341 blocked for now.
3342
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003343
3344Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003345- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3346 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033478 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3348 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3349 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033506 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3351 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000033528 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3353 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3354 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033557 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3356 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3357 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033587 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3359 2004 May 9)
33608 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3361 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3362 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3363 MS-Windows 98?
3364 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3365 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3366 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3367 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033688 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3369 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3370 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3371 doesn't work properly.
33728 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3373 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3374 appears in the right position. (Webb)
33759 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3376 button doesn't give popup menu.
3377 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3378 selection.
3379 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3380 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3381 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
33828 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3383 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3384 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3385 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
33868 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3387 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3388 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033897 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3390 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003391 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033927 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3393 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033946 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
33958 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3396 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3397 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
33988 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3399 know which keyboard is being used?
34007 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3401 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3402 area (Koloseike).
34038 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3404 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3405 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3406 the font name).
3407
3408
3409Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000034106 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3411 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3412 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3413 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3414 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034159 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3416 required and it's missing?
34178 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3418 wrong.
34199 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3420 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000034219 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003422 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3423 flag.
34248 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3425 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3426 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
34278 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
34286 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3429 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3430 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3431 the tooltips work though...
34327 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3433 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
34348 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3435 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3436 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3437
3438
3439Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010034409 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3441 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034429 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3443 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3444 through files.
34457 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3446 read long file names. (Schroeder)
34474 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3448 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3449 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3450 problem during a refresh.
34515 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3452 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3453 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3454 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3455 colors as it should.
3456 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3457 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3458
3459
3460Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003461- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034627 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3463 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034648 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3465 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3466 (Phillipps)
3467
3468
3469GUI:
34709 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3471 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
34729 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003473 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003474 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
34759 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3476 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
34778 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
3478 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
34798 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3480 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3481 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
34828 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3483 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3484 of where it is processing the output.
3485 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
34868 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3487 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010034888 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000034898 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3490 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3491 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020034928 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034938 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3494 browse().
34958 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3496 use that code? Or use console dialog.
34978 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3498 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000034997 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3500 - regexp on/off
3501 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3502 when all buffers/directory is used:
3503 - filter for file name
3504 when directory is used:
3505 - subdirectory on/off
3506 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035078 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3508 to avoid problems.
35098 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3510 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3511 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
35128 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3513 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3514 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
35158 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3516 up. Set erase character somehow?
35178 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3518 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3519 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3520 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
35218 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
35227 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3523 visible.
35247 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3525 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
35267 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3527 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
35288 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3529 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
35308 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3531 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3532 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3533 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3534- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
35354 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3536 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3537 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3538
3539
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003540Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000035418 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3542 a good fallback, thus use:
3543 $HOME
3544 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3545 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3546 $USERPROFILE
3547 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3548 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3549 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3550 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035518 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3552 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
35538 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3554 Should work like in the GUI version.
35558 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3556 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
35578 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3558 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
35598 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3560 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3561 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035628 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3563 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3564 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3565
3566
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003567Win32 console:
35689 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3569 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3570 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3571 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3572 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3573 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3574 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3575 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3576 and the file is not saved.
3577 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3578 long name.
35798 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3580 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
35817 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3582 besides the console.
35838 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
35849 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3585 <C-S-i>?
35869 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3587 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
35888 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3589 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003590
3591
3592Amiga:
35938 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3594 sequences.
35959 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3596 backslashes in result.
35978 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3598 all options, using white space separation.
3599
3600
3601Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003602- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036037 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3604 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3605 (Jack)
3606 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036078 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3608 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036098 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
36108 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
36119 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3612 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036139 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003614
3615
3616"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003617- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3618 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003619- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3620 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003621- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3622 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3623 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3624 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3625 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3626 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3627 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000036289 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3629 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000036309 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003631 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3632 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036338 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3634 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3635 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003636 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036377 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3638 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
36398 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3640 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3641 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036427 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3643 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003644- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3645 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036468 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3647 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3648 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3649 using the horizontal scrollbar.
36507 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3651 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3652 invocations belong together.
36538 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3654 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
36558 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3656 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3657 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003658 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000036598 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3660 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3661 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036628 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3663 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036647 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3665 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3666 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3667 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036687 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3669 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3670 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
36717 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3672 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3673 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
36747 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3675 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036767 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3677 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036789 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3679 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3680 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3681 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3682 script can be called.
36838 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3684 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3685 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036868 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3687 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000036888 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003689 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3690 configurable?
36918 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036928 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3693 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036948 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3695 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036968 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3697 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036989 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3699 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3700 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037017 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037028 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3703 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3704 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000037058 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3706 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003707 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3708 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037098 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3710 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
37119 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3712 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3713 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003714 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037157 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3716 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037177 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3718 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3719 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3720 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037218 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003722 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3723 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3724 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3725 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003726 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3727 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003728 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003729 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003730 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3731 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3732 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3733 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3734 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037358 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3736 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
37378 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3738 in lines that don't extend into the block?
37398 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3740 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3741 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
37428 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3743 'linebreak'.
37448 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3745 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3746 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037479 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3748 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3749 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3750 'magic' in history. (Margo)
37519 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3752 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037539 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
37549 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3755 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3756 cause another redraw, etc.
37578 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3758 must escape special characters in the pattern.
37598 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3760 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3761 ":w!!" for that.
3762 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3763 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003764 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037657 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3766 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3767 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3768 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3769 clipboard)
37707 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3771 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3772 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000037736 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3774 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3775 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037768 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3777 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
37788 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3779 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3780 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
37818 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3782 (e.g., ":w").
37838 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3784 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037858 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3786 script in do_cmdline().
37878 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3788 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3789 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3790 changes.
37918 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3792 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
37938 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3794 check for file marks. This can be slow.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037958 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3796 to skip catch_signals()?
37979 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3798 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3799 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3800 text?
38018 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3802 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
38038 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3804 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
38059 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3806 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3807 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3808 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3809 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
38107 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3811 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3812 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3813 in the list?
38148 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3815 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3816 instead of on button down.
38178 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
38189 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3819 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003820 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3821 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038228 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3823 character is typed.
38248 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3825 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
38268 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3827 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
38288 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3829 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3830 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3831 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3832 cygwin bash.
38337 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3834 Remember flags for backreferences.
38357 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3836 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
38377 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3838 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
38398 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3840 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
38417 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3842 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038437 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3844 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3845 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
38467 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3847 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
38488 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3849 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3850 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
38517 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3852 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003853
3854
3855I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
38569 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3857 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3858 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003859
3860
3861Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003862- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3863 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3864 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003865- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3866 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3867 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3868 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3869 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3870 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003871 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003872- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3873 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003874 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003875 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3876 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3877 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003878- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3879 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3880 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3881 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3882 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3883- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3884 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3885 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3886- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3887 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003888- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003889- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3890 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3891 character gets the highlighting.
3892- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3893 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3894- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3895 (Jennings)
3896- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003897- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003898- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003899 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003900- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3901 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3902 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3903- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3904 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3905 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3906 (Benzinger).
3907- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3908 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3909 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3910- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3911 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3912- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3913 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3914- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3915 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3916 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3917 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3918 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3919 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3920- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3921 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3922 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003923- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3924 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3925 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003926- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3927 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3928 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3929- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3930 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3931- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3932 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003933- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3934 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3935- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3936 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3937 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3938 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3939 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3940- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3941 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3942 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3943- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3944 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3945 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003946- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3947 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 +00003948- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3949 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3950 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3951 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3952 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3953- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3954 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3955
3956--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3957 *extensions-improvements*
3958
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003959Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3960- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3961 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3962 calling a function.
3963 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3964 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003965- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3966 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003967 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003968- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3969 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3970 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3971 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3972 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3973 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003974 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003975- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3976 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3977 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003978- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3979 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000039808 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3981 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3982 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3983 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003984- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3985 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003986
3987
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003988Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039898 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3990 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000039918 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3992 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000039938 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3994 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039958 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039969 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3997 - change to cursor position and curswant
3998 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3999 - how it works for folded lines
4000 - how it works with multi-byte characters
40019 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
4002 work too.
40038 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
4004 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
4005 text.
40068 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
40077 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
4008 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
40097 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
4010 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004011 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004012- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
4013
4014
4015Help:
4016- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
4017 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
4018- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
4019 to the other matches.
4020- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004021- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
4022 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
4023 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
4024 default contents.
4025- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
4026 height for the help window (and other windows).
4027- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
4028- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
4029- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
4030
4031
4032User Friendlier:
40338 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
4034 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
4035 Briscoe)
40368 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
40378 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
4038 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
4039 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
40408 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
4041 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
4042- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
4043 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004044- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
40459 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
4046 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
4047 item?).
4048 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040498 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000040507 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
4051 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
4052 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000040538 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
4054 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
4055 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
4056 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004057
4058
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00004059Tab pages:
40609 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040617 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
4062 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040638 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000040648 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040657 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040667 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00004067 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040688 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
4069 tab pages.
40707 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
4071
4072
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004073Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004074- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01004075 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004076- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
4077 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
4078 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
4079- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
4080 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004081- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
4082 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
4083 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004084- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
4085 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
4086 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004087- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
4088 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01004089- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004090 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
4091 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000040928 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
4093 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
40948 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
4095 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
40968 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
4097 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004098 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004099 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
4100 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
4101 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
4102 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00004103- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
4104 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00004105- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00004106- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
4107 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00004108- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004109 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004110- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004111 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004112- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
4113 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004114- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
4115 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
4116- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00004117 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004118 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
4119 in the affix file separately.
4120 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004121 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004122 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
4123 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
4124 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
4125- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
4126 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
4127 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
4128 specific prefixes with suffixes.
4129 Alternative:
4130 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
4131 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
4132 affix which is required.
4133- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004134 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004135- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
4136 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
4137 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004138- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
4139 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004140- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
4141 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
4142- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041438 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
4144 syntax items (to add @Spell).
4145 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
4146 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004147- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
4148 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4149 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4150 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041518 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4152 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041538 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
41548 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4155 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041567 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
41578 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4158 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4159 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4160 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004161
4162
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004163Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020041649 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4165 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020041668 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004167 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004168
4169Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004170 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4171 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041728 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4173 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020041748 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4175 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041768 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4177 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4178 user aware of this?
41798 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4180 commands skip over a closed fold.
41818 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
41828 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041837 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004184- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4185 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4186 missing line goes unnoticed.
4187 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004188- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4189 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4190 smoother?
4191- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4192 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004193- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4194 file can contain:
4195 args version.c main.c
4196 edit version.c
4197 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004198- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004199- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4200 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004201- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4202 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004203- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4204 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004205- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004206
4207Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004208- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4209 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4210 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4211 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042129 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4213 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4214 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4215 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020042169 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4217 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4218 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042198 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4220 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4221 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4222 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4223 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4224 item.
42258 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004226 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4227 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042288 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4229 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042308 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4231 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4232 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042337 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4234 so that the user can fix the problem.
42358 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4236 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042379 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
42388 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042398 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
42408 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042417 Searching and composing characters:
4242 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004243 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4244 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042458 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
42468 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
42478 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
4248 characters.
42498 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
42508 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4251 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
42527 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4253 'display' option to specify this.
42547 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4255 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4256- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4257 fontselector somehow.
4258- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4259 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4260- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4261 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4262- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4263 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4264 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4265 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4266 if a font exists?
4267- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004268 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004269- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4270 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004271- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
4272 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4273 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
4274 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004275- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4276 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004277 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004278- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
4279 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4280 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4281 But it's very complicated...
4282
4283
4284Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000042857 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004286- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4287- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4288 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004289- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4290 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004291- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4292- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4293 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004294- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4295 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004296- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4297 units as for the margins.
4298- Support right-to-left text?
42998 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4300 color.
4301
4302
4303Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043048 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4305 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
43068 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4307 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
43088 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4309 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000043107 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4311 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043128 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4313 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4314 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043157 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4316 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4317 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043188 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
43199 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4320 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043217 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4322 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000043237 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4324 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043258 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4326 change this for each release.
43278 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4328 pattern, but not in the body.
43298 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4330 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4331 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043328 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010043338 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004334 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4335 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043368 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4337 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
43388 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4339 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004340 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043418 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4342 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4343 used.
43448 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4345 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
43468 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4347 re-insert the [] if possible.
43488 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4349 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000043508 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4351 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4352 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4353 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4354 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043558 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4356 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
43578 Support for deleting syntax items:
4358 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4359 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4360 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
43618 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4362 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4363 a '<'. (Fleiner)
43647 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4365 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4366 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
43677 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4368 detected.
43698 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004370 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043718 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4372 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043738 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
43748 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
43757 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4376 ":mkvimrc".
43778 Improve c.vim:
4378 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4379 "c_strict_ansi".
4380 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
43818 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4382 current line while in Insert mode.
43838 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4384 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
43858 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4386 display position.
43878 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4388 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4389 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
43908 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4391 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4392 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000043937 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4394 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4395 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4396 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4397 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043987 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4399 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4400 E.g. for this html:
4401 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044027 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
44037 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4404 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044058 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
44068 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044077 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4408 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4409 completion?
44108 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4411 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
44127 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4413 select one of the sets.
44148 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4415 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4416 2, etc.
44178 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4418 highlighting (for "." command).
44198 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4420 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
44218 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
44227 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4423 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
44246 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4425 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4426- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4427 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4428- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004429- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4430 (for comment blocks).
4431- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4432 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4433 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4434 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4435 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4436 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4437 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4438 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4439 (Campbell)
4440 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4441 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
44427 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4443 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
44447 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4445 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4446 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
44477 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4448 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4449 messages. And external commands?
44508 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4451 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
44527 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4453 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4454
4455
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004456Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044578 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4458 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004459 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000044607 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4461 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4462 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044638 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
4464 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004465- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020044668 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4467 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4468 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4469 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4470 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4471 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000044727 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4473 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044748 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010044758 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4476 can be the plugin name.
4477 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4478 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044797 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4480 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4481 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4482 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4483 autocommand.
4484 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4485 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4486 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4487 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044887 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4489 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044906 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4491 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044928 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004493 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4494 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004495 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4496 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4497 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004498 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4499 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4500 3 2002
4501 Only add this when also implemented for
4502 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4503 be used.
4504 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004505 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4506 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4507 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4508 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4509 File.Open..." argument.
4510 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4511 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4512 with properties instead.
4513 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4514 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4515 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004516 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004517 crypt() encrypt string
4518 decrypt() decrypt string
4519 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4520 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004521 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004522 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004523 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004524 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004525 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004526 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4527 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004528 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4529 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004530 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004531 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4532 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4533 to allow the library to execute a command or
4534 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045357 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4536 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
45378 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4538 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045398 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4540 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045418 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045426 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000045438 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4544 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045458 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4546 option or environment variable.
45478 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045488 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004549 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000045507 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4551 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045528 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4553 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
45548 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
45558 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4556 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4557 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4558 charwise({expr}).
45597 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4560 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4561 buffer for this?
4562 result = scratch(string, command)
4563 result = apply(string, command)
4564 result = execute(string, command)
4565 "command" would use <> notation.
4566 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
45677 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004568
4569
4570Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000045716 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4572 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4573 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4574 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4575 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4576 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4577 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004578
4579
4580Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045817 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4582 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020045837 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4584 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4585 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4586 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045878 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4588 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4589 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4590 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004591 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045928 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
45939 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
45948 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
45957 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4596 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
45978 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4598 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4599 when starting up in a color terminal.
46008 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4601 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046028 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4603 function be improved?
46048 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4605 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4606 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4607 this be improved?
46088 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4609 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000046107 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4611 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046127 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4613 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
46147 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4615 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046167 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4617 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4618 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4619 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4620 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4621 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4622 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046238 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4624 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4625 using strcmp() too often?
46267 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4627 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4628 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4629 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4630 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4631 the two blocks to the memfile block.
46327 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4633 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4634 with an argument that can be messed with.
4635 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4636 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
46377 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4638- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
46398 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4640 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4641- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4642 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4643- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4644- Do profiling on:
4645 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004646 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4647 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4648 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4649 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4650 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4651 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004652 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046537 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4654 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4655 changed).
4656 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4657 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4658- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4659- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4660 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4661- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4662 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4663 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004664- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4665- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4666 cursor is right of the screen.
46678 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4668 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4669
4670
4671Code size:
46728 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4673- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4674 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
46758 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
46768 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4677 it.
46787 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4679 left out.
46808 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4681 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010046828 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004683
4684
4685Messages:
46868 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4687 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
46888 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4689 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
46908 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4691 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004692- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4693 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4694- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046958 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4696 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046979 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4698 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4699 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4700 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4701 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047028 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4703 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
47048 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4705 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4706 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4707 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4708 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4709 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004710- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004711 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047128 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4713 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4714 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4715 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4716 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4717 error messages, printing text, etc.
47188 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4719 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4720 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4721
4722
4723Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004724- screen_line():
4725 - insert/delete character stuff.
4726 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4727- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4728 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4729- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4730 waiting for a character.
47318 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4732 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4733 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004734
4735Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020047368 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047376 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4738- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4739 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4740 windows.
47417 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4742 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4743 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4744- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4745 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4746 (Goldfarb)
4747- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4748 bound windows.
4749- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4750 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004751- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004752- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4753 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4754 of lines but not with a single line).
4755
4756
4757Autoconf:
47588 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
47598 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4760 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4761- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4762 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4763- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4764- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4765- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4766
4767
4768Perl interface:
47698 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047707 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
47717 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
47726 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4773
4774
4775Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020047768 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4777 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047786 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4779 :libload internal-name libname
4780 :libunload internal-name
4781 :liblist
4782 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4783 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4784 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
47856 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4786
4787
4788Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000047899 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4790 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4791 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4792 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4793 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000047948 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4795 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4796 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004797 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004798 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000047997 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4800 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4801 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048028 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
48038 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4804 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048057 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4806 window for each tag.
48077 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
48087 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4809 bottom" search message.
48107 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4811 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4812 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004813- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4814- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004815- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4816 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4817 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048187 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4819 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4820 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4821 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
48227 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4823 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4824 :tagargs clear
4825 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4826 matching).
48277 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4828 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4829 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4830 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
48317 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4832 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
48337 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4834 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4835 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004836
4837
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004838Win32 GUI:
48398 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4840 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048417 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4842 (Mike McCollister)
48438 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4844 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4845 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4846 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4847 common part of the path.
48488 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
48498 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4850 gettext and menus work.
48518 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4852 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004853 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004854 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
48558 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4856 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
48578 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4858 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
48597 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4860 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
48617 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
48627 <Esc> should close a dialog.
48637 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4864 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4865 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4866 prompts.
48677 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4868 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4869 the file added into an already running Vim.
48707 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4871 functions to find the window title.
4872
4873
4874GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020048758 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004876- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4877 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
48787 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
48798 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
48806 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
48818 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4882 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
48839 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
48847 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
48858 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4886 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
48878 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4888 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4889 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
48908 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4891 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
48928 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4893 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4894 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4895 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048967 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
48978 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4898 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000048997 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4900 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4901 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049028 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
49038 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004904 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049058 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
49068 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
49078 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4908 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4909 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
49107 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4911 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4912 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
49137 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4914 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
49157 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4916 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4917 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4918 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049197 Should support multi-column menus.
4920- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4921 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4922- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
49238 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
49246 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4925 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
49267 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
49277 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4928 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4929 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
49307 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
49318 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4932 name can be chosen free.
49337 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4934 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
49356 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4936 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4937 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4938 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4939 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4940 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4941 things.
49427 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4943 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049447 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004945 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004946- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4947 where it was started from?
49487 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4949
4950
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004951Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020049529 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4953 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004954- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010049558 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4956 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4957 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4958 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
49598 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4960 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000049617 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4962 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4963 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4964 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000049657 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049668 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4967 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049688 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4969 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4970 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049717 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4972 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4973 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049748 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4975 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4976 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049778 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4978 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049798 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049806 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4981 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049827 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049837 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004984 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4985 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4986 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049875 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4988 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4989 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
49907 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4991 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4992 file.
49938 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4994 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4995 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004996- Add events to autocommands:
4997 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02004998 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004999 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
5000 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005001 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005002 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005003 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
5004 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
5005 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
5006 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005007 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005008 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
5009 the char.
5010 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
5011 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
5012 file from CVS).
5013 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
5014 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
5015 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
5016 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
5017 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
5018 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005019 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
5020 changes.
5021 WinResized - After a window has been resized
5022 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00005023- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005024 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005025 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005026 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
5027 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
5028 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
5029 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
5030 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
5031
5032
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005033Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005034- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
5035 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005036- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
5037 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
5038 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
5039 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
5040 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005041- Ideas from others:
5042 http://www.wholetomato.com/
5043 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
5044 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
5045 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
5046 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
5047 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
5048 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
5049 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
5050 Uses Perl for C++.
5051 Uses ctags to find the info:
5052 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
5053 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
5054 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
5055 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
5056 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
5057 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02005058 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005059 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
5060- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
5061
5062
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005063Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005064- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000050657 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
5066 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000050677 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
5068 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
5069 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050708 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
5071 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
50729 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
5073 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
5074 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050758 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
5076 - ignore/match case
5077 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050788 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
5079 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
5080 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
5081 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
5082 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
5083 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050848 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000050857 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
5086 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050878 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
5088 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
5089 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
5090 Should work for C++ and Java.
5091 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
50927 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
50937 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
5094 instead of words.
50958 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
50968 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
5097 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
50988 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
5099 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005100- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
5101 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005102- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
5103 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
5104 wildcards in the file name)?
5105- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
5106- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
5107- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
5108 be in another file).
5109- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
5110- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
5111- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
5112 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
5113- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
5114- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
5115- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005116- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
5117
5118
5119Command line editing:
51207 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
5121 line.
51228 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
5123 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
5124 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
5125- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
5126 lines wraps to start of line).
5127- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
5128 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
5129 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
5130 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
5131 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
5132 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
5133 cmdwin does now already.
5134 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
5135 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
5136 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
5137 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
5138 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5139 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5140 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5141 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5142 Problems:
5143 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5144 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5145 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5146 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5147 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5148 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5149 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5150 character in first column?
5151 - Implementation ideas:
5152 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5153 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5154 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5155 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5156 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5157 Mode.
5158
5159
5160Command line completion:
51618 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
51628 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5163 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
51648 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5165 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051668 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5167 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051687 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5169 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005170- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5171- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5172 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051738 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5174 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
51757 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5176 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5177- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5178 identifiers (Webb).
51798 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5180 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
51817 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5182 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5183- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5184 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5185- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5186 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5187 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005188
5189
5190Command line history:
5191- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5192 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5193 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005194 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005195- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5196 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5197
5198
5199Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000052009 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5201 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5202 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052038 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5204 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5205 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5206 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5207 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052088 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5209 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5210 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052117 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5212 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005213- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052147 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5215 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5216- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5217 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5218 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5219 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5220 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5221 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5222- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5223 Normal mode.
5224- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5225 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5226 are used.
5227- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5228- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5229- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5230
5231
5232'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010052339 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5234 char * veryLongName =
5235 "very long string"
5236 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052378 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052388 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5239 long_type foo =
5240 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052418 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5242 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005243 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052448 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5245 func(
5246 new String[] {
5247 "asdf",
5248 "asdf"
5249 }
5250 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010052518 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5252 (Chow Loong Jin)
5253 namespace {
5254 int
5255 func(int arg) {
5256 }
5257 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052586 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5259 func( arg1
5260 , arg2
5261 , arg3
5262 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000052637 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005264 func(
5265 int x) // indent like "(4"
5266 {
5267 if (a
5268 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052699 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5270 if (a)
5271 {
5272 if (b)
5273 {
5274 // {
5275 }
5276 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005277 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5278 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5279 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005280- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005281 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
52827 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5283- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5284 line).
5285- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5286- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5287 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005288- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5289 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5290- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5291 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5292- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5293- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5294 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
52958 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5296 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5297 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5298- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5299- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5300 lines start with "\item".
5301- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5302 /* here is a comment that
5303 is just autoindented, and
5304 nothing else */
5305- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
53067 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5307 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5308 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005309 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005310
5311
5312Java:
53138 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5314 Odendahl?
53158 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5316 "[i" commands and friends.
5317- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5318 (Jason)
5319- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5320 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5321
5322
5323'comments':
53248 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5325 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5326 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5327 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005328 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5329 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053307 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5331 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
53327 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
53336 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5334 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5335 regexp is used.
53368 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5337 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5338
5339
5340Virtual edit:
53418 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053427 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5343
5344
5345Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053468 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053478 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000053488 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005349 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000053508 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
5351 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005352 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5353 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000053548 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053558 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5356 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053578 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5358 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5359 the end of the line or before a ".".
53607 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5361 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
53627 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5363 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053646 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
53655 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5366 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5367 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5368 cursor is on.
5369
5370
5371Select mode:
53728 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5373 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
53747 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005375 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053767 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5377 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5378 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5379 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5380 normal_cmd().
5381 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5382 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5383
5384
5385Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020053868 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5387 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005388- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5389 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5390 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005391- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5392 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5393 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053948 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005395 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005396 where needed.
53977 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5398 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
53997 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5400 of each selected line.
54018 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
54028 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5403 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5404 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
54058 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5406 Ben Godfrey)
54077 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5408 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
54097 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5410 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054117 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005412 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005413 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
54148 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5415 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
54167 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5417 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5418 option!
54197 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5420 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5421 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5422 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5423 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5424 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5425 without changing the column.
54266 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054277 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5428 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054296 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5430 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
54316 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054326 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005433 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005434 or other special character.
54356 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5436
5437
5438More advanced repeating commands:
5439- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005440- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005441- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005442 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5443 "y." will repeat last yank.
5444 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5445 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5446 and/or pick an older command.
5447- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5448
5449
5450Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054518 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5452 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5453 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
54548 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
54557 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5456 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054578 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5458 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
54598 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000054607 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054618 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5462 entering search strings.
54638 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5464 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5465 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054668 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5467 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054687 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054697 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5470 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054716 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5472 abbreviations are to be used.
5473- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5474 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5475 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005476- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5477 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5478 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5479 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5480 Or implicit:
5481 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005482- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5483 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5484 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005485- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5486 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5487- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5488 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
54896 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5490 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5491 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5492 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005493- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5494 non-replace Insert mode?
5495- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005496- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5497- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5498 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5499- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005500 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005501- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5502 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5503- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5504- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5505 ":freekeys".
5506- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5507
5508
5509Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005510- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5511 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5512- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5513 folds when going to another line.
5514 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5515- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5516 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005517- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5518 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5519 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005520- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5521 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5522 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5523 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020055249 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5525 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005526
5527
5528Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010055299 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000055308 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005531 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005532 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005533 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005534 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010055359 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5536 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010055378 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5538 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000055398 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5540 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5541 Perl does it this way:
5542 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5543 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5544 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5545 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055468 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5547 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5548 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000055497 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5550 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000055518 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5552 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055537 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005554 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5555 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5556 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055577 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005558 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055597 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5560 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055618 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5562 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
55638 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5564 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020055657 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005566 example.
55678 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5568 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5569- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5570 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5571 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5572 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055738 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5574 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5575 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
55767 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5577 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000055787 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5579 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055808 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5581 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055828 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5583 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055848 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5585 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5586 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5587 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005588- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5589 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005590- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5591 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5592- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5593 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5594 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5595 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055968 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5597 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005598- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5599 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056008 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5601 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5602 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005603- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5604 i ignore case
5605 I use case
5606 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5607 v use Vi regexp syntax
5608 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5609 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5610 Perl uses these too:
5611 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5612 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5613 o compile only once (Perl only)
5614 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5615 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5616 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5617 following command.
5618 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5619- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5620 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5621 for search string)?
56227 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5623 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5624- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5625 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5626- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5627 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5628- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5629- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005630 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005631 a for the next file in the argument list
5632 f for file in the buffer list
5633 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005634 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5635 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005636 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5637 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5638- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056397 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005640 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056417 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5642 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5643 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5644 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
56456 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5646 effects.
56477 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5648 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5649 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000056507 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005651 Also ":dselect".
5652
5653
5654Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010056559 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5656 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5657 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056589 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5659 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020056608 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5661 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000056628 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5663 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5664 timestamp?
5665 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5666 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005667- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5668 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005669- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5670 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5671 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
56728 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5673 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5674 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5675 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
56768 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5677 only remember the lines that really changed.
56787 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5679 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5680 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5681 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005682- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5683 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5684- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5685 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5686- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5687 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5688 [-99].
5689- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5690- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005691- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5692 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5693
5694
5695Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056967 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5697 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5698 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5699 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
57008 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5701 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
57028 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5703 inode too.
57047 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005705 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5706 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057077 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5708 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5709- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5710 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5711- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5712 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
57137 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5714 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
57157 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5716 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
57178 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057187 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5719 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010057208 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5721 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5722 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005723
5724
5725Swap (.swp) files:
57268 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5727 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5728 there are short file name problems.
57298 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5730 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
57318 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
57328 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005733 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005734 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5735 file the same as the actual file?
5736 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057377 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5738 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
57397 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005740 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005741 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5742 enough room.
57437 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5744 or /var/preserve.
5745- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5746 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5747- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005748 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005749- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5750 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5751 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5752 cached list of which line is where.
5753
5754
5755Viminfo:
57567 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5757 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5758 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000057598 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5760 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5761 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057628 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5763 name. (Schild)
57648 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
57658 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057668 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057678 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5768 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5769 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5770 this?
57717 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
57727 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5773 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
57746 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5775 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5776 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5777- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5778 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5779
5780
5781Modelines:
57828 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5783 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5784 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005785- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5786 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5787 'shiftwidth'.
5788- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5789 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005790- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5791 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5792 modeline setting.
5793- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5794 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5795- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5796 .cpp files.
5797- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5798 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5799- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5800 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5801
5802
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005803Sessions:
58048 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5805 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
58067 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5807 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058088 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5809 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058108 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5811 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5812 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000058137 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5814 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000058157 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005816
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005817
5818Options:
58197 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5820 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058218 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5822 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5823 also be supported.
58248 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5825 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5826 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
58277 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005828
5829
5830External commands:
58318 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5832 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
58334 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5834 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5835 -f).
58364 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
58374 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5838 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
58394 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5840
5841
5842Multiple Windows:
58437 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
58448 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5845 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
58467 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5847 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5848 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000058497 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5850 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000058517 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5852 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058536 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5854 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005855 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005856 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
58577 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5858 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5859 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5860 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5861- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5862 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5863 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5864 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5865
5866
5867Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000058688 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058698 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5870 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058718 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 +000058728 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5873 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
58748 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5875 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5876 the mark was set.
58777 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5878 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5879 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5880 ":browse marks"?
58816 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058827 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5883 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
58847 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5885 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
58867 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5887 command).
58887 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5889 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5890 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5891 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
58925 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5893 mappings.
58946 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5895 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5896 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5897
5898
5899Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020059007 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005901 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005902- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5903 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000059048 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059057 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5906 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5907
5908
5909Writing files:
5910- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5911 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5912 shortname conversion.
59138 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
59148 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5915 file.
59168 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5917 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5918 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059196 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5920 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
59216 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5922 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
59236 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5924 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000059258 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005926 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
59277 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5928 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
59297 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5930 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5931 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5932 waiting for a character to be typed).
59338 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5934 line of the window, like "[time]".
5935 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5936 Automatic and/or with a command.
5937
5938
5939Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000059408 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5941 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000059428 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005943 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5944- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5945- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
59468 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5947 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005948- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005949 :s///N substitutes N times.
5950- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5951 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5952 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
59537 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5954 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5955 last line column 5.
59565 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5957 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5958 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5959 (Stanislav Sitar)
5960
5961
5962Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059638 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
59647 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
59658 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5966 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5967 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005968- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5969- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5970 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5971- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5972- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5973
5974
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005975Argument list:
59766 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5977 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5978 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
59796 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5980
5981
5982Registers:
59838 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059848 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5985 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5986 for every line.
59876 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5988 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5989 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5990- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5991 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5992- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5993 leader when line wraps?
5994- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5995 line in the range.
5996- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5997 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
59988 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5999 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00006000
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006001
6002Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060038 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000060048 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060057 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
60067 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
6007
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006008Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000060097 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
6010 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
6011 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
6012 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
6013 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
6014 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
6015 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00006016 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000060177 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
6018 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000060197 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
6020 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060218 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
6022 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000060237 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
6024 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
6025 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00006026- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00006027 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010060287 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
6029 window as a buffer-tab selection.
60308 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060317 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
6032 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
60338 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
6034 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060356 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060368 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
6037 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
6038 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
6039 in this Vim.
60408 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006041 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060428 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
6043 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
6044 have it apply to the following command.
60458 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
6046 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
6047 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
6048 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060497 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
6050 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060517 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
6052 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
6053 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
6054 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060556 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
60568 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
60579 Support ACLs on more systems.
60587 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
6059 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060607 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
6061 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
6062 (truncated to fit in the space).
60637 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
60648 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
60658 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
6066 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000060677 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006068 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
60697 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
6070 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060717 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060727 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
60737 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060748 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
60758 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
6076 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
6077 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
6078 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
60798 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060808 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060818 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
6082 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
6083 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
6084 does something like this. (Shah)
60857 Use growarray for replace stack.
60867 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
6087 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
60883 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060897 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
6090 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010060917 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
6092 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006093- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
6094- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
6095- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
6096- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
60977 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
6098 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
6099- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
6100 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02006101- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006102- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
6103 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
6104- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
6105 call "play newbeep.au").
6106- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
6107 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
6108 (Bhatt).
6109- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
6110 blockwise registers).
6111- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
6112 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
6113- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
6114 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
6115 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
6116 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006117- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061187 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
6119 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
6120- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
6121 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
6122 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
6123 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
6124 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000061258 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
6126 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061278 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6128 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6129 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6130 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6131 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6132- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00006133- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061347 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6135 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6136- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6137 not in column 1.
61386 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6139 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
61407 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6141- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006142- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006143 :redir #> bufname
6144 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006145- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6146 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006147- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6148 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6149 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
61506 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6151 console? (Klaus Hast)
6152- Add :delcr command:
6153 *:delcr*
6154 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6155 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6156 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6157 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6158 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006159 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006160- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6161- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6162 characters from 'isprint'.
6163- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6164- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6165 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6166- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6167 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6168 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6169- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6170- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6171 Nvi).
6172- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6173 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
61747 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6175- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6176 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
61776 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6178- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6179 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6180 macro).
6181- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006182- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6183 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6184- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
61858 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006186- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6187- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6188- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6189 if it is not the first or last window.
6190- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6191 there is one) instead of the file itself.
61927 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6193 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6194 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6195- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6196- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006197 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006198 many percent down the windows).
6199- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6200 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6201 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006202 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006203- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6204 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6205- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6206 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6207- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6208- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6209- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6210 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062118 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6212 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6213 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6214 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6215 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006216- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6217 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6218- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006219 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6220- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006221 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6222 (Webb).
6223- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006224 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006225- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6226 hex codes like 0xff).
6227- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6228 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6229 the last TYPED command.
6230- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6231- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6232- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6233 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006234- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062358 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6236 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6237 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006238- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006239 trailing '.'.
6240- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6241 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6242 find_file_in_path().
6243- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6244 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6245- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6246- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6247 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6248- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006249 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006250- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6251 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6252 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006253- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6254- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6255- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6256 to the minimal size.
6257- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6258- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6259- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6260- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6261- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006262- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6263 entered)?
6264- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6265 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006266- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006267- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6268- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6269- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6270- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6271- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6272 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006273- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062748 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6275 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6276 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6277 or in octal.
62787 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6279 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006280- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006281 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6282- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6283- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6284 insert line command).
6285- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6286- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6287- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6288- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6289- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6290 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006291- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006292 yet.
6293- Implement 'redraw' option.
6294- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6295 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062967 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6297 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006298 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6299 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063008 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6301 do it.
6302- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6303- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6304 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6305- Add text justification option.
6306- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6307- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6308 off".
6309- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6310- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6311- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006312 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006313- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006314- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006315- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6316 commands.
6317- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6318- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6319- :table command (Webb)
6320- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006321- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6322- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6323- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6324- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6325- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6326 (Demirel).
6327- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6328- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6329 for use in macro's and the like.
6330- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006331 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006332- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006333 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006334- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006335 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006336 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6337- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6338 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006339- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006340 mkopttab to make option table?
6341- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6342 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6343- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6344 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006345- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006346 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6347- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6348 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006349- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000063508 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6351 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6352 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6353 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6354 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063558 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6356 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6357 (Netherton)
63586 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6359 space after "(", for example.
63605 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6361 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6362 (Servatius Brandt)
6363
6364
6365From Elvis:
6366- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6367- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006368- Search patterns:
6369 \@ match word under cursor.
6370 but do:
6371 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6372 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
63738 ":window" command:
6374 :win + next window (up)
6375 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6376 :win - previous window (down)
6377 :win -- idem, wrapping
6378 :win nr to window number "nr"
6379 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
63807 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6381 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6382
6383
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006384From xvi:
6385- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6386- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6387
6388
6389From vile:
6390- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6391- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6392 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6393
6394
6395Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006396- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6397 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006398 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006399 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6400 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006401- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6402 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6403- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6404 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6405 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6406 current layout mirrored.
6407- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6408- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6409 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6410- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6411- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6412 font in each top-level window.
6413- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6414- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6415- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6416- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6417 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006418- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6419 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6420- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6421 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
64224 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6423 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6424 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6425 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006426 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006427 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6428 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6429- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6430 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6431 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6432
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006433vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006434vim: set fo+=n :