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Bram Moolenaar53bfca22012-04-13 23:04:47 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.3. Last change: 2012 Apr 13
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
12to look for "the next thing to do":
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14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
25
26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020030Issues can also be entered online: http://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/list
31Updates will be forwarded to the vim_dev maillist. Issues entered there will
32not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
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Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034 *known-bugs*
35-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
36
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +020037Go through list of maintainers that didn't respond. (Thilo Six, Mar 19)
38
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020039Go through more coverity reports.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010040
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020041Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
42
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +010043Stack trace of crash: http://vpaste.net/GBt9S
44(Alexandre Provencio)
45
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +020046":help!" gives error, should use current language. (thinkca, 2012 Apr 1)
47
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +010048Once syntax and other runtime files have been fixed: add "set cp" to
49check.vim. Use a function to run both with 'cp' and 'nocp'.
50
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +010051GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
52(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +010053
54Win32: When a directory name contains an exclamation mark, completion doesn't
55complete the contents of the directory. No escaping for the "!"? (Jan
56Stocker, 2012 Jan 5)
57
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +010058Issue 54: document behavior of -complete, also expands arg.
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +010059
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +010060Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
61not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +010062
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +020063Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
64Or use expand('<sid>')?
65
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +010066Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar causes
67the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan 12)
68Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
69
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +010070URXVT:
71- will get stuck if byte sequence does not containe expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +010072- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
73 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
74
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +010075When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
76for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
77Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +010078
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +010079When exiting with unsaved changes, selecting an existing file in the file
80dialog, there is no dialog to ask whether the existing file should be
81overwritten. (Felipe G. Nievinski, 2011 Dec 22)
82
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +020083Docs fix for v:register. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Sep 26, 27)
84v:register doesn't work exactly as expected. (David Fishburn, 2011 Sep 20)
85
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +010086Patch for: vimgrep fails when 'autochdir' is set. (Ben Fritz, 2012 Feb 4)
87
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020088Patch for: (Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 22)
89- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line
90 below/above).
91
92Patch for: (Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 24, updated patch)
938 ":sign unplace * file={filename}" should work. Also: ":sign unplace *
94 buffer={bufnr}". So one can remove all signs for one file/buffer.
95
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +020096Patch to add "onselected" callback for completion. (Taro Muraoka, 2011 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +010097Another for CompleteFuncOk. (Florian Klein, 2012 Jan 31)
98Name it "CompleteFuncDone".
99
100Patch for Make_mvc.mak and Make_ming.mak for Ruby support. (Yasuhiro
101Matsumoto, 2012 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200102
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100103Patch to add completion for :history command. (Dominique Pelle, 2012 Feb 26)
104
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +0200105Patch for 'backupcopy' default behavior for symlinks on Windows. (David Pope,
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001062012 Mar 21, update Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +0200107
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +0100108Use a count before "v" and "V" to select that many characters or lines?
109(Kikyous)
110
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200111Problem with winfixheight and resizing. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Sep 17)
112Patch Sep 18.
113
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200114Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
115And one for gui_x11.txt.
116
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100117":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
118finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
119Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
120
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200121Problem with l: dictionary being locked in a function. (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200122
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +0100123Issue 48: foldopen error can't be caught by try/catch
124
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200125Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
126they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
127
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100128Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
129
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100130Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
131Nov 20)
132
Bram Moolenaar53bfca22012-04-13 23:04:47 +0200133Patch to add ":py3do". (Lilydjwg, 2012 Apr 7)
134
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100135`[ moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
136(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
137
138Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
139
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200140Updated syntax file for ssh_config, maintainer doesn't respond.
141(Leonard Ehrenfried, 2011 Sep 26)
142
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100143BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
144Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
145
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200146"fC" doesn't position the cursor correctly when there are concealed
147characters. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Oct 11)
148
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100149Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
150Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
151
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +0100152Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
153
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100154Patch to support UTF-8 for Hangul. (Shawn Y.H. Kim, 2011 May 1)
155Needs more work. Pinged 2012 Jan 4.
156
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200157'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
158'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
159Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200160Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200161
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +0200162'cursorline' is drawn incorrectly in diff mode. Patch by Christian Brabandt,
1632012 Apr 2.
164
165'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
166highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
167
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200168With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
169(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
170need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
171
172Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
173only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
17421, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
175
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100176Win32: Does building a 64 bit version with VC9 give warnings for int
177conversions? (Mike Williams)
178
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100179Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
180New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
181
182Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
183Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
184
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +0100185Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
186Jan 19)
187
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +0200188Win32: default for 'backupcopy' is wrong for a symbolic link. (mklink one
189two). (Benjamin Fritz, 2012 Mar 15)
190
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200191Need to escape $HOME on Windows? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200192
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100193"2" in 'formatopions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
194Oct 26)
195
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200196Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
197
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200198With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
199register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200200
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200201In GTK Gvim, setting 'lines' and 'columns' to 99999 causes a crash (Tony
202Mechelynck, 2011 Apr 25). Can reproduce the crash sometimes:
203 gvim -N -u NONE --cmd 'set lines=99999 columns=99999'
204(gvim:25968): Gdk-WARNING **: Native Windows wider or taller than 65535 pixels are not supported
205The program 'gvim' received an X Window System error.
206This probably reflects a bug in the program.
207The error was 'RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)'.
208 (Details: serial 313 error_code 161 request_code 149 minor_code 8)
209 (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
210 that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
211 To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
212 option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
213 backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
214Check that number of pixels doesn't go above 65535?
215
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200216popup completion menu closes quickly when there is a fold in the buffer. (Jan
217Christoph Ebersbach, 2011 Jul 3)
218
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200219Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
220
221This line hangs Vim, because of syntax HL:
222call append(line, "INFO ....12....18....24....30....36....42....48....54....60....66....72....78%$")
223
224When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
225(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
226
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100227Setting $HOME on MS-Windows is not very well documented. Suggestion by Ben
228Fritz (2011 Oct 27).
229
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200230Bug: E685 error for func_unref(). (ZyX, 2010 Aug 5)
231
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200232Bug: Windows 7 64 bit system freezes when 'clipboard' set to "unnamed" and
233doing ":g/test/d". Putting every delete on the clipboard? (Robert Chan, 2011
234Jun 17)
235
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100236When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
237then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
238from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
239
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200240Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
241":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
24215)
243
244Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
245
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200246Changes to manpage plugin. (Elias Toivanen, 2011 Jul 25)
247
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200248On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
24964 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
250right type.
251
252string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
253(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
254
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200255Make 'formatprg' global-local. (Sung Pae)
256
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200257When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
258(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
259
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200260When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
261doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
262
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002637 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
264Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 19.
265
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200266maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
267mapping, how to restore the script ID?
268
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200269Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
270(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
271
272Highlighting stops working after changing it many times. Script to reproduce
273it: Pablo Contreras, 2010 Oct 12 Windows XP and 7. Font is never freed?
274
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200275When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
276indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
277the help file.
278
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200279After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
280Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
281
282Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
283
284"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
285
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200286Patch to support sorting on floating point number. (Alex Jakushev, 2010 Oct
28730)
288
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200289Patch to addd TextDeletePost and TextYankPost events. (Philippe Vaucher, 2011
290May 24) Update May 26.
291
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100292Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
293
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200294When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
295following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
296(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
297
298Problem with "syn sync gouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
299
300Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
3012010 Dec 18)
302
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200303With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
304number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
305Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
306
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02003078 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
308Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
309
3108 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
311 after typing something.
312Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
313function that resets did_cursorhold.
314Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 May 6.
315
3167 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
317Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
318Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
319
3209 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
321 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
322Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
323
324Patch to fix \%V item in regexp. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Nov 8)
325Update Nov 19. James Vega: still not right. Christian: it's difficult.
326
327Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
328Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
329
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200330In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
331or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
332sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
333
334GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
335doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
336
337GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
338
339Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
340Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
341
342Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
343
3447.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
345there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
346do?
347
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200348Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
34922)
350
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100351New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
352- move compflags to separate growarray?
353- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*", '+'. What would be
354 the maximum repeat for * and +?
355
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100356"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
3572011 Feb 27)
358
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200359Copy/paste between Vim and Google chrome doesn't work well for multi-byte
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200360characters. (Ben Haskell, 2010 Sep 17)
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200361When putting text in the cut buffer (when exiting) and conversion doesn't work
362properly, Prepend "ENC==={value of 'enc'}:" to the text and don't convert?
363Then it should at least work from Vim to Vim and in other applications it's
364clear why it doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200365
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200366Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
367^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
368
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100369When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
370exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
3719) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
372
373g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
374the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
375
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100376Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
377crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
378
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100379Python: Adding line to buffer other than the current one doesn't work
380correctly. (Rozbujnik, 2010 Dec 19)
381
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200382Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
383names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
384Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
385the system encoding (usually utf-8).
386
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200387Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
388Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
389
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200390'beval' option should be global-local.
391
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100392Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200393
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200394setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +0200395
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02003967 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
397 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
398 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
399
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200400getpos()/setpos() don't include curswant. getpos() could return a fifth
401element. setpos() could accept an optional fifth element.
402Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6. Check that new argument is optional
403and that it's documented.
404
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200405With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
4062010 Oct 24)
407
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100408Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
409Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
410
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200411Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
412
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200413When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
414Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
415
Bram Moolenaardc685ab2010-08-13 21:16:49 +0200416Test 73 fails on MS-Windows when compiled with DJGPP and run twice. How to
417delete the Xfind directory? Add an rmdir() function, just like we have
418mkdir().
419
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200420":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
421
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200422'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
423
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100424C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
425checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
426Issue 46.
427
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100428When 'paste' is changed with 'pastetoggle', the ruler doesn't reflect this
429right away. (Samuel Ferencik, 2010 Dec 7)
430
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200431Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
432
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100433Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
434gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
435
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200436":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
437accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
438
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200439Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
440setwinvar().
441
Bram Moolenaar9de99972010-08-09 22:33:06 +0200442Echo starts in the wrong column:
443 while 1 | let s = input('A') | echo 'R' | endw
444(Boyko Bantchev, 2010 Aug 9)
445
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100446Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
447
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100448When writing a file > 2Gbyte, the reported number of bytes is negative.
449(Antonio Colombo, 2010 Dec 18)
450
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200451Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200452(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200453
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200454When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
455instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
456
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100457Crash in setqflist(). (Benoit Mortgat, 2010 Nov 18)
458
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200459Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
460Winckler, 2011 May 11)
461Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100462
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100463Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
464back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
465
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100466Can 'undolevels' be a buffer-local option? Helps for making big changes in
467one file only, set 'ul' to -1 only for that buffer.
468Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 17. Needs test.
469
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100470Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200471Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
472
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100473CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
474the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
475FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
476
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200477Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
478Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
479
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +0200480Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
481Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
482
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +0100483I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
484Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
485an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +0100486
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200487Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
488
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100489Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
490non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100491
492iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
493Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
494or replace with a character and continue?
495
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100496Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
497Requires configure check for localtime().
498Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
499
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100500Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
501Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
502path.
503
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100504Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
505Dominique can't reproduc it.
506
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +0200507'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
508
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200509":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
510like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
511
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100512Coverity: ask someone to create new user: Dominique.
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200513Check if there are new reported defects: http://scan.coverity.com/rung2.html
514
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100515Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
5162010 Nov 5)
517
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100518Patch to use 'foldnextmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
519Jan 7)
520
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100521Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
522Only with "vim -u NONE".
523
524Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
525
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +0100526With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
527entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
528Feb 12)
529
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +0200530Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
531characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
532
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100533Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
534
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200535Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
536 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
537
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200538Undo problem: line not removed as expected when using setline() from Insert
539mode. (Israel Chauca, 2010 May 13, more in second msg)
540Break undo when CTRL-R = changes the text? Or save more lines?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100541
Bram Moolenaar1d689522010-05-28 20:54:39 +0200542Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to reproduce
543it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch 7.2.274.
544(Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27)
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100545Generally, folding with 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to
546find out why.
Bram Moolenaar1d689522010-05-28 20:54:39 +0200547
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200548Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
549
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +0200550When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
551Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
552
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100553Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file. Works OK for
554echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar 17)
555
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100556When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
557not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
558string value.
559
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200560":e ~br<Tab>" does not complete to ":e /home/bram/". Would need to use
561getpwent() to find all the matches.
562
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100563Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
564
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100565For running gvim on an USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
566line argument -noregister.
567
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100568When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
569missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
570
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200571When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
572doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100573
574Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
575(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
576Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
577There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
578Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
579
580":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
581highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
582to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
583
584Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
585Probably needs a bit of work.
586
587List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiware, 2009 Jul 18)
588Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
589
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200590Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
591
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100592Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
593
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200594Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
595Sep 1)
596
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100597Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
598
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +0200599Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
600on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
601
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100602Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
6032009 Jul 18)
604
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100605Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
606Added test, updates, June 23.
607
608Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
609window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
610Needs more work.
611
612Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
613
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100614When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
615few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
616
617'cmdwinheight is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
618(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
619
620Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
621J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
622
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200623When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
624for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
625
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +0200626Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
627
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200628Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
629
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100630When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
631
632":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
633because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
634ex_docmd.c.
635
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200636Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100637Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
638
639string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
640for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
641
642Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
643
644'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
64520)
646
647Unwanted file name escaping: ":echo input('file:' , '', 'file')"
648And use file name completion on a file with spaces. (Frederic Hardy, 2009 Mar
64923)
650
651Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
6522009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
653
654Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
655
656Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
657SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
658
659When 'foldmethod' is "indent", using >> on a line just above a fold makes the
660cursor line folded. (Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
661
662When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
663indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
664(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
665
666Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
667are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
668Ignore window options when not in the right window?
669Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
670that doesn't have a window.
671
672When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
673doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
674
675getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
676displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
677
678":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
679
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100680There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
681was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
682perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
683
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +0200684Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
685
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200686Support a 'systemencoding' option (for Unix). It specifies the encoding of
687file names. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 5). Useful on a latin1 or double-byte Asian
688system when 'encoding' is "utf-8".
689
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100690Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
691work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
692Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
693
694Win32 GUI: Changing manifest helps for dpi changes (Joe Castro, 2009 Mar 27)
695
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100696Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
697command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
698
699Win32: use different args for SearchPath()? (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2009 Jan 30)
700
701Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
702does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
703
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +0200704opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
705height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +0200706very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +0200707
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100708Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
709(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
710
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100711Session file generates error upon loading, cause bu --remote-silent-tab.
712(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
713
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100714Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
715char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
716
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100717A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (Zyx, 2010 Dec 25)
718
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100719Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
720messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
721es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
7222009 Jan 26)
723
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100724When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100725in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
726Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
727
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100728Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
729a modeline.
730
731Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
732Sergey Khorev)
733
734Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
735part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000736
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000737netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
738number to be below last visible line.
739
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100740After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
741correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
742
743Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
744(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
745
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100746shellescape() depends on 'shellshash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
747'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
748Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
749unix-like shell?
750
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100751Allow patches to add something to version.c, like with an official patch, so
752that :version output shows which patches have been applied.
753
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200754Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
755register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
756(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
757
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100758Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
759Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
760
761Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
762make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
763
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100764When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
765still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
766
767"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
768(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
769
770Update src/testdir/main.aap.
771
772"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7)
773
774Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
775that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
776ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
777Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
778
779Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
780
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000781Runtime files for Clojure. (Toralf Wittner, 2008 Jun 25)
782
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100783MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
784doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
785probably causes this.
786
787'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +02007882009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100789
790Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
791 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
792 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
793(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
794
795Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
796":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
797option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
798is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000799
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100800":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
801first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +0000802
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000803Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
804laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
805Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000806
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100807Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
808anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
809
810On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
811doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
812Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
813Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
814
815":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
816
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000817When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
818'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
819fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
820the buffer to be unmodified.
821Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
822another look at it.
823
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100824c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
825(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
826
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100827You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
828error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
829Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
830at the other match for 0xBF.
831
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000832Fix for matchparen HL doesn't work. beep.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000833
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100834When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
835argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
836
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000837Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
838backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
839
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200840Win32: bold font doesn't work when 'guifontwide' has been set. (Yue Wu, 2010
841Aug 23)
842
843When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
844line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
845
846Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
847position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
848
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000849After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
850(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000851command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000852
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000853":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
854Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
855
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100856Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
857Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
858
859When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
860either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
861put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
862
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000863Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
864Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
865Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
866Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
867(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
868
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100869Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
870
871ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000872
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000873Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
874(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
875escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
876an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000877This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
878July 7)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000879
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000880Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
8812008 May 14)
882
883Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
884Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
885'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
886
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100887Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
888Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
889
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000890Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
891Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
892
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100893Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
894
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000895The utf class table is missing some entries:
896 0x2212, minus sign
897 0x2217, star
898 0x2500, bar
899 0x26ab, circle
900
901Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
902line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
903
904GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
905Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
906
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100907Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
908try the Cocoa version.
909
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000910Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
911changed or the window is resized.
912
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100913GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
914the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
915
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000916Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
917Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000918
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000919Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
9201) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
921
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000922C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
923with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
924Try to reproduce at work.
925
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100926Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
927Is there a way to list all the files first?
928
929When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
930result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
93116)
932
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200933Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
934Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
935
936Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
937(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
938
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000939Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
940Await response to question to make the register writable.
941
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100942src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
943remark why.
944
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000945Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
9461)
947
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100948In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
949each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
950
951try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
952
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100953try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
954
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100955":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
956Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
957
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100958Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
959
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000960Including NFA regexp code:
961Use "\%#= to set the engine: 0 = automatic, 1 = backtracking, 2 = new.
962Useful in tests.
963Performance tests:
964- ~/vim/test/veryslow.js (file from Daniel Fetchinson)
965- ~/vim/test/slowsearch
966- ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100967- ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100968- ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000969- search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
970 'hlsearch'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000971
972Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
973Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
974
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000975Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
976Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
977Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000978
979C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
980(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
981
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100982Can't easily close the help window, like ":pc" closes the preview window and
983":ccl" closes the quickfix window. Add ":hclose". (Chris Gaal)
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200984Patch for :helpclose, Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100985
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000986When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
987and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
988
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000989Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
990 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
991
992New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
993
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200994":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
995a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
996
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000997'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
998Likonen, March 19)
999
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001000Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
1001other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
1002
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001003The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
1004appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
1005matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
1006
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001007When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
1008character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
1009'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
1010(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
1011
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001012Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
1013Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001014
1015More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
1016
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001017Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
1018http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
1019
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001020Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
1021back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
1022Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001023
1024Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
1025No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
1026
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001027Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
1028terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001029
1030Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
1031
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001032Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
1033but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
1034that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001035
1036When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
1037
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001038Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
1039Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
1040
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001041Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
1042popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
1043size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
1044This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
1045
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001046Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
1047a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
1048isn't right?
1049
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001050When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
1051it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
1052
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001053Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
1054then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
1055files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001056Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
1057indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
1058":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
1059in ":1find /**/file". This is for a files that unix "find" can find very
1060quick. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
1061Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001062
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001063When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
1064parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
1065neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
1066particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1067Jun 3)
1068However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
1069the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001070
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001071A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
1072Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
1073
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001074Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
1075Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
1076
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001077Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
1078switch list is noticed:
1079 switch (i)
1080 {
1081 case 1:
1082 foobar:
1083 }
1084
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001085Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
1086
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001087Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
1088with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
1089go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
1090moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
1091
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001092Patch to use Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen, 2010 Jul 30)
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001093Latest version: 2011 May 18
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +010010948 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
1095 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
1096 Version from Guopeng Wen that does this (2010 Dec 27)
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001097
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001098Windows installer should install 32-bit version of right-click handler also on
109964-bit systems. (Brian Cunningham, 2011 Dec 28)
1100
1101Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
1102Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
1103Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
1104argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
1105(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
1106
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001107Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
1108(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
1109
1110Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
1111makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
1112.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
1113 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
1114
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001115Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
11162007 Feb 8)
1117
1118Patch for Win32 clipboard under Cygwin. (Frodak Baksik, Feb 15)
1119 Sutcliffe says it works well.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001120 Update 2007 May 22 for Vim 7.1
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001121 Update 2008 Dec 2008 for Vim 7.2.xx (Sharonov)
1122
1123Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
1124set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001125
1126Win32: Patch for convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2)
1127
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001128Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
1129
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001130Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
1131Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
1132New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
1133patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
1134
1135Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
1136Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
1137
1138Win32: echo doesn't work for gvim.exe.mnf. Use inline file. Patch by Mathias
1139Michaelis. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/43765
1140Patch that includes this and does more by George Reilly, 2007 Feb 12
1141
1142Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
1143
1144Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
11452007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001146Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001147
1148Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00001149label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
1150
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001151Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
1152with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
1153Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001154
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001155Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
1156pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
1157
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001158Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
1159
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001160Win32: When there is 4 Gbyte of memory mch_avail_mem() doesn't work properly.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001161Unfinished patch by Jelle Geerts, 2008 Aug 24.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001162Let mch_avail_mem() return Kbyte instead?
1163
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001164Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
1165Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
1166only takes 'shellslash' into account.
1167
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001168Pressing the 'pastetoggle' key doesn't update the statusline. (Jan Christoph
1169Ebersbach, 2008 Feb 1)
1170
1171Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
1172Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
1173Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'filenecodings' is set
1174properly?
1175
1176Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
11772007 Jun 21)
1178
1179When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1180Jun 18)
1181
1182If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
1183
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001184Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
1185windows. (Adam George)
1186
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001187F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
1188modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
1189K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001190
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001191UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
1192to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
1193
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001194In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
1195the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
1196
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001197C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
1198
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001199":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
1200
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001201When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001202error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001203
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001204Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
1205use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
1206
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001207Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
1208if_ruby.c.
1209
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001210":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
1211
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001212Patch to dynamically load Python on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2009 Feb 16)
1213Needs more work.
1214
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001215The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
1216it in keep_msg?
1217
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001218Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001219error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001220name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
1221
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00001222Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
1223longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001224
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001225Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
1226Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
1227Also for ":w" without a file name.
1228The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001229
1230"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
1231Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
1232
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001233VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
1234directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
1235(Zoltan Arpadffy)
1236
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001237VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1238
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001239input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
1240name?
1241
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001242Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
1243
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001244When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
1245(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
1246Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
1247will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
1248
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001249gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
1250This also fails with --remote.
1251
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001252When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
12532008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
1254all places where buf_freeall() is called?
1255
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001256":python os.chdir('/tmp')" makes short buffer names invalid. (Xavier de Gaye)
1257Check directory and call shorten_fnames()?
1258
1259aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
1260
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001261When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
1262(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
1263
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001264Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
1265the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
1266
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001267GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
1268
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001269Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
1270superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
1271
1272Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
1273character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
1274
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001275Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
1276Jun 5)
1277
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001278Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
12792008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
1280Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
1281
1282In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
1283but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
1284Jul 22)
1285
1286There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
1287
1288Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
1289":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
1290somehow? Or use a new function.
1291
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001292Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
1293
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001294Mac: OS/X 10.4 with Python 2.5 installed: configure finds an extra argument
1295that breaks the build. (Brian Victor, 2008 Sep 1)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001296
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001297Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
1298moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
1299that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
1300
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001301The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
1302
1303Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1304loading all files.
1305
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001306Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
1307line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
1308after starting up?
1309
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001310When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001311cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
1312the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
1313
1314Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
1315has been created.
1316
1317Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
1318shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
1319fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
1320background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
1321A.Politz may work on this.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001322
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001323These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
1324 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
1325 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
1326 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
1327
1328Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
1329partly. (2006 Dec 7)
1330
1331In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
1332buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
1333reload it then?
1334
1335New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
1336previous version.
1337
1338For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
1339
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001340Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
1341only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
1342
1343Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
1344tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
1345doesn't contain other directories.
1346
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001347Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
1348 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
1349 set background=dark
1350This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
1351color is, not reset it.
1352
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001353Linux distributions:
1354- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
1355 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
1356 xfree-xterm".
1357- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
1358
1359Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
1360start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
1361show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
1362middle?
1363
1364When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001365(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001366connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
1367dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
1368
1369Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
1370
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001371When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
1372current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
1373the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
1374
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001375When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
1376Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
1377
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001378Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
1379 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
1380 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
1381 - getting colors in xterm
1382 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
1383
1384Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
1385Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
1386
1387Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
1388
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001389A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
1390Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
1391
1392Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
1393Dara, 2006 June 21)
1394
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001395Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
1396number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
1397
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001398After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
1399the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
1400
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001401Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
1402Does multi-byte printing with ":hardcopy" work? Add remark in documentation
1403about this.
1404
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001405Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
1406copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
1407error and stop using the connection to the server.
1408
1409Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
1410Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
1411
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001412Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010014132008 Sep 29)
1414
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001415In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
1416check the result of has("patch13").
1417
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001418Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
1419restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
1420
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001421Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
1422and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
1423
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001424Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
1425put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
1426
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001427Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
1428resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
1429
1430In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
1431can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
1432
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001433Completion menu disappears when using 'cursorcolumn'. (Sven-Hendrik Haase,
14342011 May 23)
1435
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001436GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
1437maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
1438doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001439Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
1440visible.
1441
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001442When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
1443differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001444
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001445The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
1446be only one.
1447
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001448"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
1449script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
1450
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001451It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
1452the function name before resolving it to a number?
1453 let d = {}
1454 fun! d.foo()
1455 echo "here"
1456 endfun
1457 call d.foo(9)
1458
1459Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
1460only set after Visual moded is ended.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001461Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
1462used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
1463
1464Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
1465output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
1466Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
1467
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001468Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001469"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
1470name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
1471Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001472
1473Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
1474(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
1475
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001476Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
1477as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
1478
1479Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
1480Jan 1)
1481
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001482Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
148323)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001484
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001485":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
1486tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
1487Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001488
1489xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1490buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1491Xterm 224 supports it!
1492
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001493When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
1494text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
1495latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
1496
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001497Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
1498
1499Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
1500no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
1501
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001502In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
1503VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
15042007 Oct 16)
1505
1506TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
1507Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
1508
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001509Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001510
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001511When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
1512typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
1513Sep 3, 11)
1514
1515When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
1516respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
1517the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
1518what happens for the GUI.
1519
1520X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1521pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1522clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1523Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1524Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1525clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
1526
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001527":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
1528this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
1529
1530When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
1531Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
1532restored. (Luc St-Louis)
1533
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001534Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
15352010 Jun 30)
1536
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001537
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001538At next release:
1539- Rename src/Makefile and create a new one like toplevel Makefile that
1540 creates auto/config.mk when it's not there? (Ben Schmidt, 2011 Feb 11)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001541- Improve plugin handling: Automatic updates, handle dependencies?
1542 E.g. Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001543
1544
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001545More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001546- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
1547 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001548- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
1549- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
1550 21)
1551- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
1552 patch May 10)
1553- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
1554 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
1555- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
1556 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
1557- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
1558- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
1559- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
1560 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
1561 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001562- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001563- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
1564 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
1565- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
1566 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
1567- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
1568 21)
1569- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
1570 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
1571- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
1572 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001573- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
1574 Sep 13)
1575- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
1576 Docs patch Oct 30)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001577- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
1578 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
1579 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
1580 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
1581 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar4d32c2d2010-07-18 22:10:01 +02001582- Patch to access screen under Python. (Marko Mahni, 2010 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02001583- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001584
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001585Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000015869 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
1587 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
1588 New patch 2004 Jun 16
1589 - selecting proportional font breaks display
1590 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
1591 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
1592 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
1593 (Alan Schmitt)
1594 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001595 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
1596 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000015979 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001598 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000015998 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016008 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00001601 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016027 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
1603 Update 2004 Sep 6.
1604 How does this work? Missing comments.
1605- Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001606 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31, update 2007 May 30)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001607 Version for latest MacVim: Tobia Conforto, 2009 Nov 23
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001608 More recent version: https://retracile.net/wiki/VimBreakIndent
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001609 Posted to vim-dev by Taylor Hedberg, 2011 Nov 25
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016108 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001611 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016127 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
1613 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
1614- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
1615 for multi-byte characters.
1616- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
1617- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
1618 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
1619 been given values.
1620 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
16218 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00001622 with an ESC sequence.
1623 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
1624 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
1625 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016267 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
1627 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
1628- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
1629 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
1630 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
16318 Add functions:
1632 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
1633 Update 2004 Sep 10
1634 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
1635 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001636 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001637 How to get the messages into the .po files?
Bram Moolenaar72597a52010-07-18 15:31:08 +02001638 strchars() Like strlen() and strwidth() but counting characters
1639 instead of bytes.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001640 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
1641 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
1642 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
1643 (2003 May 13)
1644 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
1645 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001646 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
1647 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001648 col('^') column of first non-white character.
1649 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
1650 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016517 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
1652 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
1653- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
1654 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
16557 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
1656 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000016578 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
1658 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016597 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
16608 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
1661 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
16627 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
1663 Kotchan has a patch for it)
16648 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
1665 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
1666 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
16677 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
1668- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
1669 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
1670 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001671- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
1672 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
1673- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
1674
1675
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001676Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001677- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
1678 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016798 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
1680 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
1681 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
1682 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
1683 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
1684 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016858 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
1686 make Vim exit.
16877 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
1688 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
1689 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
16908 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
1691 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
1692 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
16936 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
1694 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
1695 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
16968 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
1697 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
1698 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
1699 names in one buffer???
1700 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
1701 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
1702 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
17037 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
1704 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
1705 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00001706 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
1707 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017087 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
1709 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
17107 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
17117 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
17127 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
1713 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
17147 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
1715 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
1716 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
1717 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
17187 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
17197 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
17207 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
1721 to the match with the tag? Option?
17227 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
17237 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
1724 (Sayre).
17257 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
1726 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017277 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
1728 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
1729 match. Nvi can do it too.
17307 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
1731 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
1732 line 1\ line 2\\
1733 line 2\ line 3\\
1734 . line4/
17356 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
1736 the way the shell is started?
17376 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
1738 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
1739
1740
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001741GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000017429 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017438 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
1744 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
1745 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000017468 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
1747 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
1748 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017499 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
1750 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
1751 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
1752 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00001753- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
1754 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
1755 blocked for now.
1756
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001757
1758Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001759- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
1760 the screen.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000017618 non-ASCII font names don't work. Need to convert from 'encoding' and use
1762 the wide functions.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017638 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
1764 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
17658 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
1766 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
1767 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
17688 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
1769 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
17707 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1771 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1772 "lucida_console:h8").
17736 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
1774 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000017758 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
1776 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
1777 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017787 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
1779 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
1780 to use an opaque background in most places?
17818 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
1782 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
1783 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
17848 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
1785 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
1786 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
17877 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
1788 2004 May 9)
17898 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
1790 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
1791 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
1792 MS-Windows 98?
1793 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
1794 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
1795 file: Window moves with the cursor!
1796 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017978 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it
1798 appear. (Sami Salonen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017998 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
1800 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
1801 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
1802 doesn't work properly.
18038 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
1804 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
1805 appears in the right position. (Webb)
18069 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
1807 button doesn't give popup menu.
1808 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
1809 selection.
1810 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
1811 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
1812 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
18138 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
1814 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
1815 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
1816 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
18178 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
1818 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
1819 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018207 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
1821 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
1822 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
18237 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
1824 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00001825 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018267 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
1827 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018286 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
18298 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
1830 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
1831 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
18328 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
1833 know which keyboard is being used?
18347 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
1835 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
1836 area (Koloseike).
18378 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
1838 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
1839 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
1840 the font name).
1841
1842
1843Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000018446 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
1845 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
1846 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
1847 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
1848 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018499 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
1850 required and it's missing?
18518 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
1852 wrong.
18539 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
1854 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000018559 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001856 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
1857 flag.
18588 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
1859 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
1860 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
18618 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
18626 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
1863 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
1864 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
1865 the tooltips work though...
18667 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
1867 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
18688 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
1869 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
1870 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
1871
1872
1873Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010018749 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
1875 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018769 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
1877 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
1878 through files.
18797 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
1880 read long file names. (Schroeder)
18814 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
1882 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
1883 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
1884 problem during a refresh.
18855 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
1886 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
1887 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
1888 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
1889 colors as it should.
1890 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
1891 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
1892
1893
1894Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02001895- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018967 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
1897 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018988 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
1899 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
1900 (Phillipps)
1901
1902
1903GUI:
19049 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
1905 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
19069 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00001907 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001908 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
19099 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
1910 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
19118 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
1912 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
19138 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
1914 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
1915 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
19168 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
1917 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
1918 of where it is processing the output.
1919 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
19208 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
1921 doesn't work.
19228 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000019238 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
1924 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
1925 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020019268 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019278 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
1928 browse().
19298 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
1930 use that code? Or use console dialog.
19318 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
1932 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000019337 More features in the find/replace dialog:
1934 - regexp on/off
1935 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
1936 when all buffers/directory is used:
1937 - filter for file name
1938 when directory is used:
1939 - subdirectory on/off
1940 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019418 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
1942 to avoid problems.
19438 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
1944 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
1945 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
19468 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
1947 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
1948 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
19498 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
1950 up. Set erase character somehow?
19518 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
1952 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
1953 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
1954 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
19558 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
19567 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
1957 visible.
19587 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
1959 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
19607 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
1961 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
19628 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
1963 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
19648 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
1965 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
1966 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
1967 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
1968- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
19694 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
1970 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
1971 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
1972
1973
1974MSDOS/DJGPP:
19759 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
1976 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
1977 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
19788 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
1979 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
19809 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00001981 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
1982 write a file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019839 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
1984 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
1985 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
1986 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
19879 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
1988 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
1989 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
1990 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
1991 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
1992 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
1993 Make this work like in Win32 console.
1994 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
1995 key code. Use a translation table?
19969 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
1997 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
19988 Use DJGPP 2.03.
19998 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
2000 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
20018 setlocale() is bogus.
20028 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
2003 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
2004 Windows 95 system!
20058 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000020067 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002007 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
20087 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
2009 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
2010 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
20118 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
2012 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
20137 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
2014 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
2015 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
2016 "[New file]".
20177 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
2018 that is supported?
20198 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
20208 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
2021 Briscoe)
2022
2023
2024MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
20258 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
2026 gen_expand_wildcards().
20278 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
2028 Wagner.
20298 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
20308 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
2031 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000020328 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
2033 a good fallback, thus use:
2034 $HOME
2035 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
2036 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
2037 $USERPROFILE
2038 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
2039 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
2040 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
2041 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020428 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
2043 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
20448 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
2045 Should work like in the GUI version.
20468 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
2047 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
20488 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
2049 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
20508 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
2051 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
2052 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020538 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
2054 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
2055 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
2056
2057
2058Windows 95:
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +020020598 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002060 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
2061 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
20628 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
2063 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
2064
2065
2066Win32 console:
20679 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
2068 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
2069 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
2070 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
2071 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
2072 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
2073 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
2074 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
2075 and the file is not saved.
2076 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
2077 long name.
20788 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
2079 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
20807 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
2081 besides the console.
20828 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
20839 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
2084 <C-S-i>?
20859 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
2086 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
20878 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
2088 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020897 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
2090 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
2091 exiting.
2092
2093
2094Amiga:
20958 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
2096 sequences.
20979 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
2098 backslashes in result.
20998 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
2100 all options, using white space separation.
2101
2102
2103Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002104- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021057 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
2106 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
2107 (Jack)
2108 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000021098 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
2110 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021118 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
21128 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
21139 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
2114 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021159 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002116
2117
2118"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002119- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
2120 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002121- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
2122 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002123- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
2124 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
2125 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
2126 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
2127 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
2128 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
2129 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000021309 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
2131 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000021329 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002133 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
2134 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021358 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
2136 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
2137 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00002138 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021398 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the
2140 error number, it's not a regular error message.
21417 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
2142 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
21438 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
2144 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
2145 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021467 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
2147 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002148- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
2149 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021508 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
2151 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
2152 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
2153 using the horizontal scrollbar.
21547 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
2155 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
2156 invocations belong together.
21578 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
2158 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
21598 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
2160 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
2161 UnxUtils.zip archive.
2162 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
2163 Briscoe says it's not as good.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000021648 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000021658 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
2166 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
2167 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000021686 Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021698 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
2170 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021717 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
2172 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
2173 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
2174 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
21758 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
2176 defined.
21777 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
2178 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
2179 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
21807 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
2181 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
2182 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
21837 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
2184 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021857 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
2186 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021879 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
2188 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
2189 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
2190 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
2191 script can be called.
21928 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
2193 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
2194 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021958 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
2196 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000021978 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002198 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
2199 configurable?
22008 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
22019 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
2202 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
2203 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022048 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
2205 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000022068 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
2207 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022088 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
2209 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022109 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
2211 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
2212 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022137 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022148 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
2215 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
2216 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000022178 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
2218 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002219 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
2220 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022218 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
2222 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
22239 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
2224 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
2225 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002226 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022277 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
2228 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022297 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
2230 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
2231 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
2232 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022338 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002234 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
2235 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
2236 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
2237 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002238 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
2239 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00002240 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002241 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002242 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
2243 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
2244 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
2245 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
2246 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
22478 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
2248 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
22499 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
2250 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
2251 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022528 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
2253 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
22548 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
2255 in lines that don't extend into the block?
22568 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
2257 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
2258 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
22598 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
2260 'linebreak'.
22618 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
2262 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
2263 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022649 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
2265 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
2266 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
2267 'magic' in history. (Margo)
22689 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
2269 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
22709 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
2271 isn't updated).
22729 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
22739 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
2274 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
2275 cause another redraw, etc.
22768 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
2277 must escape special characters in the pattern.
22788 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
2279 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
2280 ":w!!" for that.
2281 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
2282 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00002283 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022847 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
2285 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
2286 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
2287 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
2288 clipboard)
22897 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
2290 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
2291 Waggoner)
22928 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
2293 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
2294 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000022956 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
2296 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
2297 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022988 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
2299 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
23008 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
2301 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
2302 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000023038 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023048 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
2305 (e.g., ":w").
23068 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
2307 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
23088 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
2309 for ">>".
23108 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
2311 script in do_cmdline().
23128 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
2313 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
2314 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
2315 changes.
23168 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
2317 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
23188 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
2319 check for file marks. This can be slow.
23207 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
2321 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
2322 needed.
2323 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
23248 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
2325 to skip catch_signals()?
23269 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
2327 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
2328 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
2329 text?
23308 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
2331 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
23328 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
2333 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
23349 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
2335 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
2336 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
2337 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
2338 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
23397 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
2340 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
2341 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
2342 in the list?
23438 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
2344 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
2345 instead of on button down.
23468 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
23479 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
2348 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002349 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
2350 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023518 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
2352 character is typed.
23538 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
2354 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
23558 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
2356 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
23578 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
2358 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
2359 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
2360 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
2361 cygwin bash.
23627 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
2363 Remember flags for backreferences.
23647 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
2365 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
23667 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
2367 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
23688 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
2369 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
23707 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
2371 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023727 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
2373 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
2374 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
23757 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
2376 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
23778 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
2378 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
2379 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
23807 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
2381 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002382
2383
2384I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
23859 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
2386 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
2387 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002388
2389
2390Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00002391- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
2392 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
2393 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002394- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
2395 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
2396 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
2397 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
2398 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
2399 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002400 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002401- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
2402 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00002403 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002404 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
2405 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
2406 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002407- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
2408 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
2409 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
2410 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
2411 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
2412- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
2413 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
2414 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
2415- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
2416 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002417- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002418- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
2419 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
2420 character gets the highlighting.
2421- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
2422 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
2423- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
2424 (Jennings)
2425- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
2426- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2427 errors. How do we get the rest?
2428- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002429- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002430 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
2431- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
2432 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
2433 first?
2434- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
2435 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
2436- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
2437 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
2438 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
2439- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
2440 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
2441 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
2442 (Benzinger).
2443- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
2444 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
2445 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
2446- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
2447 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
2448- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
2449 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
2450- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
2451 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
2452 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
2453 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
2454 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
2455 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
2456- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
2457 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
2458 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002459- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
2460 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
2461 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002462- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
2463 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
2464 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
2465- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
2466 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
2467- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
2468 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
2469- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim
2470 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2471- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
2472 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
2473- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
2474 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
2475 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
2476 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
2477 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
2478- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
2479 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
2480 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
2481- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
2482 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
2483 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00002484- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
2485 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 +00002486- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
2487 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
2488 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
2489 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
2490 in the vimrc file to be lost.
2491- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
2492 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
2493
2494--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
2495 *extensions-improvements*
2496
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002497Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
2498- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
2499 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
2500 calling a function.
2501 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
2502 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002503- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
2504 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
2505- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
2506 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
2507 http://clewn.sf.net.
2508 And the idevim plugin/script.
2509 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
2510 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
2511 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
2512 other window.
2513 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
2514 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2515 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
2516 in terminal mode.
2517- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
2518 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
2519 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
2520 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
2521 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
2522 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002523 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002524- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
2525 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
2526 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002527- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
2528 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002529- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
2530 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
2531 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000025328 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
2533 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
2534 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
2535 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00002536- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
2537 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002538
2539
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002540Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000025418 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
2542 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000025438 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
2544 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000025458 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
2546 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025478 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025487 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
25499 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
2550 - change to cursor position and curswant
2551 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
2552 - how it works for folded lines
2553 - how it works with multi-byte characters
25549 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
2555 work too.
25568 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
2557 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
2558 text.
25598 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
25607 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
2561 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
25627 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
2563 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002564 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002565- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
2566
2567
2568Help:
2569- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
2570 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
2571- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
2572 to the other matches.
2573- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
2574- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
2575- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
2576 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
2577 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
2578 default contents.
2579- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
2580 height for the help window (and other windows).
2581- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
2582- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
2583- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
2584
2585
2586User Friendlier:
25878 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
2588 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
2589 Briscoe)
25908 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
25918 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
2592 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
2593 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
25948 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
2595 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
2596- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
2597 ":mkplugin <file>"?
25988 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
2599 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
2600 'runtimepath'.
2601 " Vim plugin
2602 <main plugin code>
2603 " >>> plugin help start <<<
2604 <plugin docs>
2605- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
26069 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
2607 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
2608 item?).
2609 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026108 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
26117 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000026127 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
2613 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
2614 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000026158 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
2616 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
2617 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
2618 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002619
2620
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002621Tab pages:
26229 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000026237 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
2624 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000026258 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000026268 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000026278 :tabmove +N move tab page N pages forward
26288 :tabmove -N move tab page N pages backward
26297 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000026307 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002631 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000026327 Add local variables for each tab page?
26338 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
2634 tab pages.
26357 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000026367 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
2637 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002638
2639
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002640Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002641- have some way not to give spelling errors for a range of characters.
2642 E.g. for Chinese and other languages with specific characters for which we
2643 don't have a spell file. Useful when there is also text in other
2644 languages in the file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002645- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
2646 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
2647- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
2648 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
2649 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
2650- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
2651 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002652- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
2653 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
2654 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002655- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
2656 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
2657 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002658- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
2659 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002660- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002661 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
2662 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000026638 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
2664 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
26658 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
2666 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
26678 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
2668 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002669 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002670 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
2671 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
2672 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
2673 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00002674- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
2675 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00002676- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00002677- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
2678 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00002679- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002680 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002681- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002682 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002683- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
2684 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002685- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
2686 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
2687- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00002688 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002689 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
2690 in the affix file separately.
2691 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002692 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002693 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
2694 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
2695 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
2696- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
2697 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
2698 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
2699 specific prefixes with suffixes.
2700 Alternative:
2701 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
2702 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
2703 affix which is required.
2704- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002705 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002706- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
2707 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
2708 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002709- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
2710 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002711- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
2712 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
2713- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000027148 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
2715 syntax items (to add @Spell).
2716 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
2717 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002718- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
2719 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
2720 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
2721 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000027228 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
2723 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000027248 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
27258 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
2726 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000027277 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
27288 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
2729 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
2730 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
2731 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002732
2733
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002734Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000027359 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
2736 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaarc400cb92010-07-19 19:52:13 +02002737 It's quite big and badly documented though.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027388 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
2739 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
2740 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00002741 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
2742 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027437 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
2744 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
2745 location.
2746
2747
2748Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00002749 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
2750 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027518 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
2752 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000027538 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027549 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
2755 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027568 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
2757 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
2758 user aware of this?
27598 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
2760 commands skip over a closed fold.
27618 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
27628 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027637 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002764- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
2765 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
2766 missing line goes unnoticed.
2767 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002768- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
2769 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
2770 smoother?
2771- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
2772 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002773- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
2774 file can contain:
2775 args version.c main.c
2776 edit version.c
2777 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002778- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002779- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
2780 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002781- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
2782 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00002783- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
2784 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002785- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000027868 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002787 searches.
2788
2789
2790Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002791- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
2792 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
2793 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
2794 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027959 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
2796 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
2797 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
2798 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020027999 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
2800 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
2801 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028028 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
2803 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
2804 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
2805 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
2806 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
2807 item.
28088 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002809 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
2810 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028118 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
2812 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002813 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00002814 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028158 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
2816 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000028178 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
2818 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
2819 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028207 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
2821 so that the user can fix the problem.
28228 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
2823 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028249 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
28258 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028268 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
28278 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000028287 Searching and composing characters:
2829 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
2830 Add special item to match with a composing character, zero-width, so that
2831 one can replace a base character and keep the composing characters.
2832 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
2833 characters can be manipulated.
2834 Add a modifier to ignore composing characters, only compare base
2835 characters. Useful for Hebrew (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028368 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
28378 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
28388 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
2839 characters.
28408 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
28418 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
2842 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
28437 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
2844 'display' option to specify this.
28457 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
2846 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
2847- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
2848 fontselector somehow.
2849- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
2850 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
2851- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
2852 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
2853- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
2854 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
2855 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
2856 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
2857 if a font exists?
2858- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02002859 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002860- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
2861 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
28627 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
2863 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00002864- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
2865 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
2866 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
2867 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002868- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
2869 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
2870 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
2871- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
2872 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
2873 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
2874 But it's very complicated...
2875
2876
2877Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000028787 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002879- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
2880- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
2881 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00002882- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
2883 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002884- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
2885- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
2886 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002887- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
2888 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002889- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
2890 units as for the margins.
2891- Support right-to-left text?
28928 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
2893 color.
2894
2895
2896Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028978 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
2898 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
28998 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
2900 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
29018 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
2902 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000029037 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
2904 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029058 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
2906 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
2907 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029087 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
2909 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
2910 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029118 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
29129 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
2913 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029147 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
2915 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000029167 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
2917 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029188 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
2919 change this for each release.
29208 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
2921 pattern, but not in the body.
29228 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
2923 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
2924 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029258 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
29268 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
2927 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
2928 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
2929 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
29308 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
2931 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
29328 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
2933 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00002934 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029358 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
2936 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
2937 used.
29388 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
2939 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
29408 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
2941 re-insert the [] if possible.
29428 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
2943 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000029448 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
2945 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
2946 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
2947 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
2948 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029498 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
2950 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
29518 Support for deleting syntax items:
2952 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
2953 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
2954 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
29558 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
2956 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
2957 a '<'. (Fleiner)
29587 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
2959 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
2960 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
29617 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
2962 detected.
29638 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002964 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029658 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
2966 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029678 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
29688 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
29697 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
2970 ":mkvimrc".
29718 Improve c.vim:
2972 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
2973 "c_strict_ansi".
2974 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
29758 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
2976 current line while in Insert mode.
29778 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
2978 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
29798 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
2980 display position.
29818 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
2982 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
2983 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
29848 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
2985 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
2986 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029878 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
2988 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
2989 sequence.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000029907 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
2991 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
2992 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
2993 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
2994 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029957 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
2996 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
2997 E.g. for this html:
2998 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029997 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
30007 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
3001 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030028 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
30038 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030047 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
3005 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
3006 completion?
30078 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
3008 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
30097 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
3010 select one of the sets.
30118 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
3012 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
3013 2, etc.
30148 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
3015 highlighting (for "." command).
30168 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
3017 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
30188 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
30197 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
3020 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
30216 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
3022 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
3023- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
3024 when extending an already existing syntax file.
3025- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003026- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
3027 (for comment blocks).
3028- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
3029 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
3030 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
3031 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
3032 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
3033 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
3034 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
3035 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
3036 (Campbell)
3037 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
3038 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
30397 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
3040 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
30417 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
3042 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
3043 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
30447 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
3045 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
3046 messages. And external commands?
30478 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
3048 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
30497 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
3050 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
3051
3052
3053Built-in script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000030548 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
3055 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030567 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
3057 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
3058 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030598 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
3060 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003061- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
3062 2006 Dec 11.
3063- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020030648 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
3065 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
3066 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
3067 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
3068 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
3069 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000030707 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
3071 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030728 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
30738 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
3074 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
3075 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
3076 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
3077 nested packages?
3078 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
3079 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
3080 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030817 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
3082 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
3083 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
3084 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
3085 autocommand.
3086 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
3087 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
3088 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
3089 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030907 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
3091 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000030926 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
3093 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030948 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003095 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
3096 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
3097 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
3098 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
3099 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
3100 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
3101 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00003102 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
3103 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
3104 3 2002
3105 Only add this when also implemented for
3106 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
3107 be used.
3108 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00003109 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
3110 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
3111 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
3112 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
3113 File.Open..." argument.
3114 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
3115 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
3116 with properties instead.
3117 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
3118 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
3119 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003120 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003121 crypt() encrypt string
3122 decrypt() decrypt string
3123 base64enc() base 64 encoding
3124 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003125 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003126 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003127 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003128 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003129 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003130 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
3131 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003132 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
3133 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003134 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003135 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
3136 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003137 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
3138 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
3139 to allow the library to execute a command or
3140 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031417 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
3142 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
31438 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
3144 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031458 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
3146 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031478 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031487 Add optional arguments to user functions:
3149 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
31506 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000031518 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
3152 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031538 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
3154 option or environment variable.
31558 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031568 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003157 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000031587 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
3159 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031608 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
3161 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
31628 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
31638 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
3164 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
3165 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
3166 charwise({expr}).
31677 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
3168 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
3169 buffer for this?
3170 result = scratch(string, command)
3171 result = apply(string, command)
3172 result = execute(string, command)
3173 "command" would use <> notation.
3174 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
31757 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003176
3177
3178Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000031796 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
3180 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
3181 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
3182 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
3183 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
3184 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
3185 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003186
3187
3188Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000031897 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
3190 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020031917 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
3192 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
3193 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
3194 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000031958 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
3196 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
3197 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
3198 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02003199 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032008 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
3201 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
3202 repeating it in various system files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032038 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
32049 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
32058 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
32067 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
3207 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
32088 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
3209 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
3210 when starting up in a color terminal.
32118 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
3212 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032138 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
3214 function be improved?
32158 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
3216 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
3217 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
3218 this be improved?
32198 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
3220 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000032217 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
3222 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032237 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
3224 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
32257 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
3226 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020032277 MS-DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032287 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
3229 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
3230 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
3231 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
3232 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
3233 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
3234 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032358 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
3236 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
3237 using strcmp() too often?
32387 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
3239 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
3240 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
3241 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
3242 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
3243 the two blocks to the memfile block.
32447 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
3245 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
3246 with an argument that can be messed with.
3247 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
3248 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
32497 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
3250- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
32518 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
3252 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
3253- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
3254 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
3255- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
3256- Do profiling on:
3257 - :g/pat/normal cmd
3258 - 1000ii<Esc>
3259 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
3260 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
3261 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
3262 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
3263 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
3264 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003265 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032667 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
3267 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
3268 changed).
3269 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
3270 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
3271- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
3272- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
3273 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
3274- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
3275 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
3276 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
3277- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
3278 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
3279- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
3280- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
3281 cursor is right of the screen.
32828 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
3283 CTRL-C (it's slow).
3284
3285
3286Code size:
32878 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
3288- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
3289 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
32908 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
32918 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
3292 it.
32937 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
3294 left out.
32958 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
3296 can be removed.
32978 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
3298
3299
3300Messages:
33018 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
3302 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
33038 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
3304 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
33058 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
3306 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003307- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
3308 Perhaps after ten seconds?
3309- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033108 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
3311 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033129 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
3313 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
3314 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
3315 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
3316 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033178 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
3318 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
33198 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
3320 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
3321 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
3322 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
3323 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
3324 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003325- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003326 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033278 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
3328 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
3329 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
3330 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
3331 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
3332 error messages, printing text, etc.
33338 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
3334 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
3335 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
3336
3337
3338Screen updating:
33397 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
3340 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
3341 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
3342- screen_line():
3343 - insert/delete character stuff.
3344 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
3345- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
3346 dragging the status line with the mouse).
3347- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
3348 waiting for a character.
33498 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
3350 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
3351 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
33527 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003353
3354
3355Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020033568 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033576 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
3358- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
3359 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
3360 windows.
33617 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
3362 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
3363 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
3364- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
3365 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
3366 (Goldfarb)
3367- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
3368 bound windows.
3369- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
3370 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00003371- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003372- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
3373 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
3374 of lines but not with a single line).
3375
3376
3377Autoconf:
33788 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
33798 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
3380 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
3381- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
3382 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
3383- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
3384- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
3385- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
3386
3387
3388Perl interface:
33898 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033907 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
33917 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
33926 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
3393
3394
3395Shared libraries:
33966 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
3397 :libload internal-name libname
3398 :libunload internal-name
3399 :liblist
3400 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3401 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3402 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
34036 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
3404
3405
3406Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000034079 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
3408 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
3409 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
3410 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
3411 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000034128 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
3413 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
3414 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02003415 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003416 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000034178 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
3418 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
3419 several).
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003420 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
3421 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
3422 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000034237 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
3424 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
3425 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034268 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
34278 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
3428 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034297 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
3430 window for each tag.
34317 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
34327 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
3433 bottom" search message.
34347 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
3435 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
3436 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00003437- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
3438- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003439- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
3440 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
3441 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034427 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
3443 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
3444 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
3445 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
34467 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
3447 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
3448 :tagargs clear
3449 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
3450 matching).
34517 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
3452 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
3453 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
3454 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
34557 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
3456 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
34577 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
3458 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
3459 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003460
3461
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003462Win32 GUI:
34638 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
3464 the message and input?
34657 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
3466 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2
3467 dynamically?
34687 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
3469 (Mike McCollister)
34708 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
3471 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
3472 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
3473 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
3474 common part of the path.
34758 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
34768 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
3477 gettext and menus work.
34788 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
3479 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02003480 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003481 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
34828 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
3483 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
34848 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
3485 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
34867 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
3487 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
34887 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
34897 <Esc> should close a dialog.
34907 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
3491 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
3492 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
3493 prompts.
34947 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
3495 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
3496 the file added into an already running Vim.
34977 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
3498 functions to find the window title.
3499
3500
3501GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020035028 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003503- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
3504 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
35057 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
35068 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
35076 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
35088 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
3509 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
35109 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
35117 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
35128 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
3513 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
35148 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
3515 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
3516 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
35178 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
3518 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
35198 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
3520 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
3521 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
3522 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035237 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
35248 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
3525 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000035267 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
3527 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
3528 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035298 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
35308 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00003531 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035328 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
35338 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
35348 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
3535 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
3536 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
35377 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
3538 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
3539 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
35407 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
3541 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
35427 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
3543 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
3544 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
3545 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
35467 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
3547 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
35487 Should support multi-column menus.
3549- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
3550 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
3551- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
35528 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
35536 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
3554 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
35557 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
35567 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
3557 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
3558 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
35597 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
35608 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
3561 name can be chosen free.
35627 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
3563 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
35646 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
3565 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
3566 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
3567 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
3568 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
3569 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
3570 things.
35717 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
3572 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035737 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003574 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003575- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
3576 where it was started from?
35777 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
3578
3579
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003580Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020035819 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
3582 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003583- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010035848 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
3585 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
3586 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
3587 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
35888 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
3589 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000035907 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
3591 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
3592 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
3593 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000035947 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000035958 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
3596 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035978 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
3598 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
3599 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000036007 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
3601 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
3602 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036038 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
3604 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
3605 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036067 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option
3607 name?
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000036088 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
3609 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036108 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036116 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
3612 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000036137 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036147 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003615 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
3616 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
3617 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036185 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
3619 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
3620 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
36217 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
3622 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
3623 file.
36248 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
3625 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
3626 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003627- Add events to autocommands:
3628 Error - When an error happens
3629 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003630 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00003631 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
3632 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003633 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00003634 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00003635 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
3636 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003637 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00003638 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003639 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003640 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
3641 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
3642 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
3643 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003644 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003645 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
3646 the char.
3647 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
3648 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
3649 file from CVS).
3650 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
3651 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
3652 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
3653 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
3654 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
3655 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003656 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
3657 changes.
3658 WinResized - After a window has been resized
3659 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00003660- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003661 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003662 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003663 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
3664 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
3665 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
3666 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
3667 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
3668
3669
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003670Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003671- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
3672 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003673- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
3674 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
3675 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
3676 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
3677 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003678- Ideas from others:
3679 http://www.wholetomato.com/
3680 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
3681 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
3682 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
3683 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
3684 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
3685 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
3686 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
3687 Uses Perl for C++.
3688 Uses ctags to find the info:
3689 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
3690 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
3691 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
3692 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
3693 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
3694 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003695 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003696 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
3697- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
3698
3699
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003700Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003701- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000037027 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
3703 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000037047 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
3705 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
3706 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037078 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
3708 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
37099 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
3710 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
3711 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037128 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
3713 - ignore/match case
3714 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037158 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
3716 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
3717 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
3718 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
3719 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
3720 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037218 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000037227 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
3723 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037248 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
3725 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
3726 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
3727 Should work for C++ and Java.
3728 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
37297 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
37307 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
3731 instead of words.
37328 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
37338 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
3734 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
37358 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
3736 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003737- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
3738 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003739- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
3740 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
3741 wildcards in the file name)?
3742- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
3743- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
3744- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
3745 be in another file).
3746- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
3747- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
3748- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
3749 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
3750- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
3751- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
3752- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003753- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
3754
3755
3756Command line editing:
37577 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
3758 line.
37598 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
3760 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
3761 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
3762- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
3763 lines wraps to start of line).
3764- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
3765 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
3766 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
3767 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
3768 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
3769 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
3770 cmdwin does now already.
3771 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
3772 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
3773 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
3774 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
3775 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
3776 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
3777 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
3778 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
3779 Problems:
3780 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
3781 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
3782 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
3783 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
3784 - Normal: no ":" commands?
3785 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
3786 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
3787 character in first column?
3788 - Implementation ideas:
3789 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
3790 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
3791 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
3792 - sync undo after entering a command line?
3793 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
3794 Mode.
3795
3796
3797Command line completion:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000037988 Completing ":r ~br" should find matching user names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037998 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
38008 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
3801 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
38028 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
3803 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038048 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
3805 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038067 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
3807 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003808- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
3809- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
3810 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038118 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
3812 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
38137 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
3814 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
3815- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
3816 identifiers (Webb).
38178 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
3818 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
38197 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
3820 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
3821- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
3822 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
3823- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
3824 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
3825 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003826
3827
3828Command line history:
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +000038299 Remember which command lines were actually typed and were not loaded from
3830 viminfo. When writing viminfo append only these lines, so that lines from
3831 other Vim's are not overwritten.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003832- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
3833 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
3834 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
3835 completely resulted from one mapping.
3836- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
3837 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
3838
3839
3840Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000038419 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
3842 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
3843 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038448 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
3845 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
3846 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
3847 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
3848 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038498 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
3850 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
3851 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038527 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
3853 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003854- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020038559 Can't use multi-byte characters for 'matchpairs'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038567 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
3857 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
3858- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
3859 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
3860 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
3861 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
3862 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
3863 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
3864- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
3865 Normal mode.
3866- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
3867 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
3868 are used.
3869- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
3870- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
3871- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
3872
3873
3874'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010038759 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
3876 char * veryLongName =
3877 "very long string"
3878 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038798 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038808 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
3881 long_type foo =
3882 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038838 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
3884 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003885 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038868 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
3887 func(
3888 new String[] {
3889 "asdf",
3890 "asdf"
3891 }
3892 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010038938 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
3894 (Chow Loong Jin)
3895 namespace {
3896 int
3897 func(int arg) {
3898 }
3899 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039006 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
3901 func( arg1
3902 , arg2
3903 , arg3
3904 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000039057 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003906 func(
3907 int x) // indent like "(4"
3908 {
3909 if (a
3910 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039119 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
3912 if (a)
3913 {
3914 if (b)
3915 {
3916 // {
3917 }
3918 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00003919 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
3920 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
3921 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003922- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003923 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
39247 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
3925- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
3926 line).
3927- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
3928- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
3929 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
39307 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines.
3931- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
3932 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
3933- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
3934 code), unless the line starts with "*".
3935- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
3936- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
3937 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
39388 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
3939 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
3940 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
3941- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
3942- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
3943 lines start with "\item".
3944- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
3945 /* here is a comment that
3946 is just autoindented, and
3947 nothing else */
3948- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
39497 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
3950 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
3951 indents.
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00003952 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and spaces used for indent,
3953 when the indent remains the same or increases.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003954
3955
3956Java:
39578 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
3958 Odendahl?
39598 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
3960 "[i" commands and friends.
3961- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
3962 (Jason)
3963- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
3964 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
3965
3966
3967'comments':
39688 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
3969 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
3970 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
3971 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00003972 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
3973 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039747 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
3975 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
39767 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
39776 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
3978 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
3979 regexp is used.
39808 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
3981 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
3982
3983
3984Virtual edit:
39858 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039867 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
3987
3988
3989Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039908 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039918 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000039928 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00003993 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000039948 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
3995 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003996 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
3997 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000039988 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039997 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
4000 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040018 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
4002 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040038 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
4004 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
4005 the end of the line or before a ".".
40067 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
4007 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
40087 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
4009 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040106 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
40115 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
4012 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
4013 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
4014 cursor is on.
4015
4016
4017Select mode:
40188 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
4019 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
40207 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
4021 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743
40227 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
4023 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
4024 contains 'C' or 'A'.
4025 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
4026 normal_cmd().
4027 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4028 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4029
4030
4031Visual mode:
4032- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
4033 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
4034 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004035- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
4036 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
4037 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040388 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004039 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004040 where needed.
40417 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
4042 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
40437 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
4044 of each selected line.
40458 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
40468 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4047 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4048 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
40498 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
4050 Ben Godfrey)
40517 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
4052 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
40537 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
4054 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
40557 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
4056 Young is working on this)
40577 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004058 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004059 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
40608 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
4061 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
40627 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
4063 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
4064 option!
40657 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
4066 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
4067 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
4068 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
4069 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
4070 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
4071 without changing the column.
40726 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040737 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
4074 current buffer.
40757 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
40766 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
4077 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
40786 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040796 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004080 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004081 or other special character.
40826 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
4083
4084
4085More advanced repeating commands:
4086- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000040877 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004088 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004089- Add "gn": repeat last movement command. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004090- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004091 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
4092 "y." will repeat last yank.
4093 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
4094 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
4095 and/or pick an older command.
4096- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
4097
4098
4099Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041008 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
4101 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
4102 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
41038 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
41047 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
4105 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041068 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
4107 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
41088 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000041097 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041108 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
4111 entering search strings.
41128 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
4113 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
4114 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041158 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
4116 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041178 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
4118 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
4119 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
41207 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041217 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
4122 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041236 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
4124 abbreviations are to be used.
4125- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
4126 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
4127 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004128- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
4129 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
4130 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
4131 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
4132 Or implicit:
4133 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004134- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
4135 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
4136 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004137- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
4138 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
4139- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
4140 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
41416 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
4142 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
4143 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
4144 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004145- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
4146 non-replace Insert mode?
4147- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004148- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
4149- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
4150 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
4151- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004152 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004153- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
4154 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
4155- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
4156- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
4157 ":freekeys".
4158- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
4159
4160
4161Incsearch:
4162- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
4163- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
4164 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
4165 up every time.
4166- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
4167 folds when going to another line.
4168- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
4169 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
4170 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
4171 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
4172- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
4173 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
4174
4175
4176Searching:
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000041778 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00004178 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004179 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004180 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004181 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010041829 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
4183 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010041848 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
4185 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000041868 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
4187 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
4188 Perl does it this way:
4189 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
4190 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
4191 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
4192 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041938 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
4194 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
4195 number?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010041968 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
4197 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
4198 before each line.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000041997 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
4200 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000042018 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
4202 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000042037 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004204 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
4205 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
4206 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
42077 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
4208 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000042097 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004210 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042117 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
4212 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042138 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
4214 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
42158 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
4216 line.
42177 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
4218 example.
42198 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
4220 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
4221- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
4222 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
4223 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
4224 Alternative: use matchit.vim
42258 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
42268 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
4227 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
4228 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
42297 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
4230 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000042317 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
4232 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042338 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
4234 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042358 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
4236 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042378 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
4238 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
4239 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
4240 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004241- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
4242 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004243- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
4244 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
4245- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
4246 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
4247 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
4248 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042498 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
4250 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004251- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
4252 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042538 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
4254 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
4255 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004256- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
4257 i ignore case
4258 I use case
4259 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
4260 v use Vi regexp syntax
4261 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
4262 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
4263 Perl uses these too:
4264 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
4265 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
4266 o compile only once (Perl only)
4267 s single line expression (we don't need it)
4268 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
4269 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
4270 following command.
4271 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
4272- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
4273 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
4274 for search string)?
42757 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
4276 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
4277- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
4278 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
4279- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
4280 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
4281- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
4282- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004283 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004284 a for the next file in the argument list
4285 f for file in the buffer list
4286 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004287 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
4288 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004289 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
4290 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
4291- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042927 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004293 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042947 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
4295 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
4296 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
4297 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
42986 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
4299 effects.
43007 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
4301 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
4302 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000043037 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004304 Also ":dselect".
4305
4306
4307Undo:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043089 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
4309 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020043108 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
4311 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
4312 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
43138 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
4314 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043158 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
4316 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
4317 timestamp?
4318 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
4319 indent?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043208 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
4321 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
4322 was changed outside of Vim.
4323 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
4324 storing the differences.
Bram Moolenaar23c347c2010-07-14 20:57:00 +02004325 Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list
4326 of about 10 last reloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004327- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
4328 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004329- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
4330 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
4331 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
43328 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
4333 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
4334 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
4335 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
43368 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
4337 only remember the lines that really changed.
43387 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
4339 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
4340 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
4341 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004342- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
4343 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
4344- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
4345 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
4346- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
4347 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
4348 [-99].
4349- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
4350- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004351- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
4352 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
4353
4354
4355Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043567 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
4357 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
4358 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
4359 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
43608 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
4361 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
43628 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
4363 inode too.
43647 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004365 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
4366 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043677 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
4368 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
4369- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
4370 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
4371- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
4372 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
43737 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
4374 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
43757 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
4376 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
43778 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000043788 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004379 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
43807 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
4381 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010043828 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
4383 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
4384 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004385
4386
4387Swap (.swp) files:
43888 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
4389 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
4390 there are short file name problems.
43918 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
4392 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
43938 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
43948 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004395 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004396 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
4397 file the same as the actual file?
4398 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043997 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
4400 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
44017 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004402 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004403 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
4404 enough room.
44057 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
4406 or /var/preserve.
4407- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
4408 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
4409- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
4410 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
4411- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
4412 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
4413 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
4414 cached list of which line is where.
4415
4416
4417Viminfo:
44187 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
4419 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
4420 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000044218 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
4422 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
4423 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044248 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
4425 name. (Schild)
44268 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
44278 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044288 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044298 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
4430 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
4431 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
4432 this?
44337 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
44347 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
4435 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
44366 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
4437 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
4438 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
4439- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
4440 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
4441
4442
4443Modelines:
44448 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
4445 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
4446 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004447- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
4448 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
4449 'shiftwidth'.
4450- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
4451 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004452- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
4453 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
4454 modeline setting.
4455- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
4456 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
4457- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
4458 .cpp files.
4459- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
4460 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
4461- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
4462 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
4463
4464
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004465Sessions:
44668 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
4467 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
44687 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
4469 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044708 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
4471 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044728 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
4473 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
4474 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000044757 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
4476 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000044777 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00004478
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004479
4480Options:
44817 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
4482 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044838 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
4484 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
4485 also be supported.
44868 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
4487 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
4488 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
44897 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
44907 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
4491 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004492
4493
4494External commands:
44958 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
4496 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
44974 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
4498 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
4499 -f).
45004 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
45014 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
4502 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
45034 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
4504
4505
4506Multiple Windows:
45077 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
45088 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
4509 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
45107 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
4511 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
4512 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045137 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
4514 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000045157 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
4516 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045176 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
4518 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004519 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004520 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
45217 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
4522 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
4523 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
4524 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
4525- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
4526 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
4527 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
4528 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
4529
4530
4531Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045328 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045338 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
4534 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000045358 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 +000045368 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
4537 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
45388 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
4539 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
4540 the mark was set.
45417 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
4542 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
4543 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
4544 ":browse marks"?
45456 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045467 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
4547 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
45487 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
4549 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
45507 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
4551 command).
45527 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
4553 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
4554 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
4555 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
45565 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
4557 mappings.
45586 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
4559 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
4560 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
4561
4562
4563Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020045647 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01004565 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'filenecoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004566- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
4567 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000045688 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045697 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
4570 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
4571
4572
4573Writing files:
4574- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
4575 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
4576 shortname conversion.
45778 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
45788 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
4579 file.
45808 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
4581 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
4582 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045836 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
4584 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
45856 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
4586 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
45876 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
4588 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000045898 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004590 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
45917 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
4592 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
45937 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
4594 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
4595 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
4596 waiting for a character to be typed).
45978 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
4598 line of the window, like "[time]".
4599 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
4600 Automatic and/or with a command.
4601
4602
4603Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000046048 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
4605 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000046068 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004607 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
4608- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
4609- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
46108 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
4611 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004612- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004613 :s///N substitutes N times.
4614- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
4615 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
4616 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
46177 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
4618 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
4619 last line column 5.
46205 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
4621 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
4622 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
4623 (Stanislav Sitar)
4624
4625
4626Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046278 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
46287 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
46298 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
4630 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
4631 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004632- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
4633- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
4634 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
4635- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
4636- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
4637
4638
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004639Argument list:
46406 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
4641 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
4642 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
46436 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
4644
4645
4646Registers:
46478 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
46488 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
4649 around in windows.
46508 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
4651 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
4652 for every line.
46536 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
4654 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
4655 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
4656- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
4657 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
4658- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
4659 leader when line wraps?
4660- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
4661 line in the range.
4662- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
4663 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
46648 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
4665 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004666
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004667
4668Debug mode:
46697 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
46708 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000046718 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046727 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00004673 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
4674 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
4675 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046767 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
46777 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
4678
4679
4680Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010046819 Python: be able to define a Python function that can be called directly
4682 from Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value.
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000046837 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
4684 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
4685 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
4686 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
4687 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
4688 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
4689 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004690 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000046917 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
4692 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000046937 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
4694 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046958 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
4696 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046977 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
4698 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
4699 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00004700- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00004701 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047027 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
4703 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010047047 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
4705 window as a buffer-tab selection.
47068 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047076 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5)
47087 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
4709 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
4710 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004711 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
4712 Assign them to a v: variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047137 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
4714 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
47158 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
4716 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047176 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047188 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
4719 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
4720 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
4721 in this Vim.
47228 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004723 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047248 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
4725 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
4726 have it apply to the following command.
47278 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
4728 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
4729 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
4730 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047317 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
4732 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047337 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
4734 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
4735 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
4736 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047376 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
47388 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
47399 Support ACLs on more systems.
47407 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
4741 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047427 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
4743 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
4744 (truncated to fit in the space).
47457 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
47468 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
47478 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
4748 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000047497 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004750 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
47517 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
4752 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047537 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047547 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
47557 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047568 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
47578 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
4758 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
4759 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
4760 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
47618 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
47626 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
4763 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004764 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047658 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047668 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
4767 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
4768 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
4769 does something like this. (Shah)
47707 Use growarray for replace stack.
47717 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
4772 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
47733 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047747 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
4775 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010047767 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
4777 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004778- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
4779- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
4780- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
4781- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
47827 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
4783 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
4784- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
4785 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02004786- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004787- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
4788 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
4789- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
4790 call "play newbeep.au").
4791- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
4792 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
4793 (Bhatt).
4794- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
4795 blockwise registers).
4796- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
4797 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
4798- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
4799 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
4800 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
4801 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004802- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048037 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
4804 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
4805- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
4806 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
4807 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
4808 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
4809 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000048108 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
4811 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048128 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
4813 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
4814 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
4815 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
4816 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
4817- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00004818- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048197 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
4820 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
4821- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
4822 not in column 1.
48236 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
4824 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
48257 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
4826- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004827- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004828 :redir #> bufname
4829 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00004830- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
4831 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004832- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
4833 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
4834 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
48356 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
4836 console? (Klaus Hast)
4837- Add :delcr command:
4838 *:delcr*
4839 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
4840 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
4841 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
4842 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
4843 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
4844 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
4845- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
4846- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
4847 characters from 'isprint'.
4848- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
4849- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
4850 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
4851- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
4852 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
4853 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
4854- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
4855- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
4856 Nvi).
4857- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
4858 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
48597 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
4860- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
4861 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
48626 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
4863- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
4864 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
4865 macro).
4866- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004867- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
4868 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
4869- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
48708 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004871- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
4872- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
4873- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
4874 if it is not the first or last window.
4875- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
4876 there is one) instead of the file itself.
48777 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
4878 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
4879 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
4880- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
4881- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004882 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004883 many percent down the windows).
4884- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
4885 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
4886 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
4887- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
4888 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
4889- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
4890 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
4891- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
4892- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
4893- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
4894 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048958 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
4896 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
4897 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
4898 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
4899 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004900- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
4901 t_bs is set? (Webb)
4902- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004903 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
4904- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004905 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
4906 (Webb).
4907- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004908 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004909- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
4910 hex codes like 0xff).
4911- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
4912 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
4913 the last TYPED command.
4914- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
4915- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
4916- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
4917 should also work?
4918- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
49198 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
4920 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
4921 name.
4922- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
4923 trailing '.'.
4924- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
4925 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
4926 find_file_in_path().
4927- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
4928 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
4929- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
4930- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
4931 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
4932- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004933 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004934- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
4935 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
4936 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004937- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004938 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
4939- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
4940- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
4941- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
4942 to the minimal size.
4943- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
4944- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
4945- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
4946- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
4947- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004948- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
4949 entered)?
4950- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
4951 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004952- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004953- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
4954- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
4955- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
4956- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
4957- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
4958 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004959- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049608 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
4961 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
4962 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
4963 or in octal.
49647 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
4965 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004966- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004967 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
4968- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
4969- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
4970 insert line command).
4971- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
4972- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
4973- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
4974- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
4975- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
4976 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004977- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004978 yet.
4979- Implement 'redraw' option.
4980- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
4981 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049827 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
4983 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00004984 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
4985 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049868 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
4987 do it.
4988- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
4989- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
4990 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
4991- Add text justification option.
4992- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
4993- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
4994 off".
4995- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
4996- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
4997- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004998 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004999- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02005000- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005001- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
5002- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
5003 commands.
5004- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
5005- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
5006- :table command (Webb)
5007- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005008- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
5009- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5010- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5011- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5012- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5013 (Demirel).
5014- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
5015- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
5016 for use in macro's and the like.
5017- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005018 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005019- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005020 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005021- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005022 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005023 a window to become smaller (Webb).
5024- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
5025 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005026- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005027 mkopttab to make option table?
5028- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
5029 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
5030- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
5031 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005032- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005033 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
5034- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
5035 cursor?
5036- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
5037- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
50385 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
5039 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000050408 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
5041 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
5042 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
5043 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
5044 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050458 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
5046 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
5047 (Netherton)
50486 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
5049 space after "(", for example.
50505 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
5051 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
5052 (Servatius Brandt)
5053
5054
5055From Elvis:
5056- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
5057- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005058- Search patterns:
5059 \@ match word under cursor.
5060 but do:
5061 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5062 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
50638 ":window" command:
5064 :win + next window (up)
5065 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5066 :win - previous window (down)
5067 :win -- idem, wrapping
5068 :win nr to window number "nr"
5069 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
50707 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5071 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5072
5073
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005074From xvi:
5075- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5076- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5077
5078
5079From vile:
5080- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5081- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5082 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5083
5084
5085Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005086- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5087 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
5088 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
5089 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5090 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005091- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5092 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5093- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5094 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5095 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
5096 current layout mirrored.
5097- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
5098- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
5099 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
5100- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
5101- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
5102 font in each top-level window.
5103- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
5104- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
5105- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
5106- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
5107 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
5108- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
5109 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
5110 mentioned in the tags file.
5111 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
5112 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
5113- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
5114 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
5115- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
5116 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
51174 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
5118 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
5119 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
5120 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005121 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005122 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
5123 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
5124- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
5125 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
5126 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
5127
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00005128When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
5129empty line would appear.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005130
5131vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
5132vim: set fo+=n :