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Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.4. Last change: 2013 Oct 05
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 Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +020037Problem positioning the cursor after auto-formatting without a comment. (Tor
38Perkins, 2013 Sep 1)
39
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +020040Using \1 in pattern goes one line too far. (Bohr Shaw, 2013 Sep 5)
41Column is OK. "/\v(^.+\n)\1/e" (John Little, Sep 5)
42Also, matches start of 2nd line, not the whole line.
43
44Error for incomplete help argument. (John Beckett, 2013 Sep 12)
45
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +020046Popup menu: first item is not selected when typing more than one character?
47
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +020048Should win_redr_custom() not be allowed to use recursively?
49(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Aug 15)
50
51NFA engine combining character mismatch. (glts, 2013 Aug 27)
52Remark Dominique, Aug 27
53
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020054Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
55work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +020056
57Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
58
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +020059Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
60
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020061Update for Clojure ftplugin. (Sung Pae). Await discussion about formatting in
62ftplugins.
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +020063
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020064Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +020065
66Patch to avoid problem with colon in file name. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Sep
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200675) Only copy file name when needed: Sep 9.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +020068
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020069Patch to make #N in 'cino' stop not indenting #lines. (Christian Brabandt,
702013 Sep 25)
71
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +020072Include systemverilog file? Two votes yes.
73
74Wrapping around end of file does not work for "." after "cgn". (Dimitar
75Dimitrov)
76Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22
77
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +020078Clang error for integer overflow. (Dominique Pelle, 2013 Sep 21)
79
80Patch to add v:hlsearch. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 22)
81
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +020082Problem with 'spellsuggest' file, only works for some words.
83(Cesar Romani, 2013 Aug 20) Depends on file name? (Aug 24)
84Additional remark by glts: the suggested words are marked bad?
85
86Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
87
88Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaardd007ed2013-07-09 15:44:17 +020089
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +020090Patch to make has() check for Vim version and patch at the same time.
91(Marc Weber, 2013 Jun 7)
92
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020093Patch to fix Visual-block insert using cursor keys. (Christian Brabandt, 2013
94Sep 28) With test Sept 29.
95
96VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
97instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
98
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010099Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
100highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100101
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200102Win32: When a directory name contains an exclamation mark, completion doesn't
103complete the contents of the directory. No escaping for the "!"? (Jan
104Stocker, 2012 Jan 5; 2013 Aug 20)
105Patch 2013 Sept 10, test: Sept 11.
106
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200107Go through more coverity reports.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100108
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200109Bug: Does not skip over expression with dict member properly. (ZyX, 2013 Sep
11029)
111
112Patch to make ColorScheme autocommand match with the colorscheme name instead
113of the buffer name. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Sep 25)
114
115Patch to right-align signs. (James Kolb (email james), 2013 Sep 23)
116
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200117With "$" in 'cpoptions' the popup menu isn't fully drawn. (Matti Niemenmaa,
1182013 Sep 5)
119
120"gUgn" cannot be repeated, while "dgn" can. (Dimitar Dimitrov)
121Patch by Christian Brabandt (2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +0200122
123Several Win32 functions are not using Unicode.
124Patches to fix this. (Ken Takata, 2013 Aug 9)
Bram Moolenaar1a42b4b2013-07-28 18:29:08 +0200125
126/[b-a] gives error E16, should probably be E769.
127
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200128:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
129
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200130Python: Extended funcrefs: use func_T* structure in place of char_u* function
131names. (ZyX, 2013 Jul 15, update Sep 22, 24, 28)
132
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200133Patch to add funcref to Lua. (Luis Carvalho, 2013 Sep 4)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200134With tests: Sep 5.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200135
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200136Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
137
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +0200138Patch to make external commands work with multi-byte characters on Win32 when
139'encoding' differs from the active codepage. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Aug 5)
140
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200141Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
142
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200143Fold can't be opened after ":move". (Ein Brown)
144Patch from Christian Brabandt doesn't fix it completely.
145
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200146GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
147(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
148
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +0200149Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
150
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +0200151The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
152(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
153Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
154
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200155The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
156- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
157- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
158
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200159Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file.
160That is, calling a dictionary function on an autoloaded dict.
161Works OK for echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar
16217)
163Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Mar 23.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200164Not 100% sure this is the right solution.
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200165
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200166Patch to support expression argument to sort() instead of a function name.
167Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 May 31.
168Or should we add a more general mechanism, like lambda functions?
169
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100170Problem caused by patch 7.3.638: window->open does not update window
171correctly. Issue 91.
172
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001738 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
174 defined.
175Issue 28.
176
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200177Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
1782013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +0100179
180Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
181
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200182Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
1835)
184
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200185Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
186carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
187
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200188Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
189highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
190
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200191Two highlighting bugs. (Zyx, 2013 Aug 18)
192
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200193Patch to add the bufferlist() function. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2013 May 5)
Bram Moolenaare6ae6222013-05-21 21:01:10 +0200194May 17: with winlist() and tabpagelist().
195May 19: with local variables.
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200196May 28: with options
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200197
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200198Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +020019928) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200200
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200201Patch from Christian Brabandt to make the "buffer" argument for ":sign place"
202optional. (2013 Jul 12)
203
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200204Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
205
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200206Patch to allow setting w:quickfix_title via setqflist() and setloclist()
207functions. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 8, update May 21)
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200208Patch to add getlocstack() / setlocstack(). (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200209Second one. Update May 22.
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200210
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100211Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
212
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200213TCL: With MSVC 2010 doesn't find Tcl_FindExecutable. (tux)
214Patch to define it. (Ken Takata, 2013 Aug 12) Is this right?
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200215Probably not: http://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/detail?id=167
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200216
Bram Moolenaardc8b25c2013-07-06 13:58:22 +0200217MS-Windows: Patch to make tests copy files to avoid changing the fileformat of
218the files under version control. (Taro Muraoka, 2013 Jul 5)
219
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100220Issue 54: document behavior of -complete, also expands arg.
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100221
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200222- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
223 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
224Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200225
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200226Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200227
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +0100228v:register is not directly reset to " after a delete command that specifies a
229register. It is reset after the next command. (Steve Vermeulen, 2013 Mar 16)
230
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100231'ff' is wrong for one-line file without EOL. (Issue 77)
232
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200233Patch to set antialiasing style on Windows. (Ondrej Balaz, 2013 Mar 14)
234Needs a different check for CLEARTYPE_QUALITY.
235
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200236In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
237process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
238a reboot.
239
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200240MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
241(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
Bram Moolenaar9a7224b2012-04-30 15:56:52 +0200242
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100243patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
244
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100245Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
246not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100247
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200248Patch to add assignments in cscope. (Uli Meis, Estabrooks, 2012 Sep 1)
249Alternate patch by Gary Johnson, Sep 4.
250
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200251Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
252Or use expand('<sid>')?
253
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100254Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
255
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100256Patch to add functions for signs. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100257
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200258Do we need some way (option) to show the sign column even when there are no
259signs? Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22.
260
261Patch to remove flicker from popup menu. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Aug 15)
262
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200263Patch to use directX to draw text on Windows. Adds the 'renderoptions'
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200264option. (Taro Muraoka, 2013 Jan 25, update 2013 Apr 3, May 14)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200265Fixes this problem:
2668 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
267 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
268 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100269
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200270Patch to add 'completeselect' option. Specifies how to select a candidate in
271insert completion. (Shougo, 2013 May 29)
272Update to add to existing 'completeopt'. 2013 May 30
273
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +0100274Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
275
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100276b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
2777)
278
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +0200279Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
280compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
281
282Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
283Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
284vim.bindeval().
285
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200286Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
2872012 Aug 4)
288
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100289Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
290(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
291
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100292Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
293But use Gnome instead of GTK?
294
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200295Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
296Saito, 2013 Apr 24)
297
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100298Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
299Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
300Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200301
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200302Crash in autocmd that unloads buffers in a BufUnload event. (Andrew Pimlott,
3032012 Aug 11) Disallow :new when BufUnload is being handled?
304
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200305Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
306
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200307Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
308loading all files.
309
310Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
311line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
312after starting up?
313
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200314Patch to add ":ldo" and ":cdo", execute commands over quickfix list and
315location list. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2013 Jun 2)
316
Bram Moolenaardc8b25c2013-07-06 13:58:22 +02003178 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
318 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
319
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200320MS-Windows resizing problems:
321- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
322 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
323- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
324 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
325 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100326
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200327'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200328
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200329Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200330of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
331
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200332Patch to add tagfunc(). Cleaned up by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 22.
333
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100334Help for 'b:undo_indent'. (Thilo Six, 2012 May 28)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200335Also question if examples are correct.
336
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100337It should be possible to make globpath() return a list instead of a string,
338like with glob(). (Greg Novack, 2012 Nov 2)
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200339Patch by Adnan Zafar, 2013 Jul 15.
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100340
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200341The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
342Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
343But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200344
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200345Patch to support user name completion on MS-Windows. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012
346Aug 16)
347
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200348Have an option for spell checking to not mark any Chinese, Japanese or other
349double-width characters as error. Or perhaps all characters above 256.
350(Bill Sun) Helps a lot for mixed Asian and latin text.
351
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100352When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
353is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
354
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100355URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100356- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100357- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
358 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
359
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200360Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +0200361New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200362
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100363When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
364for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
365Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100366
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200367Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
368
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200369Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
37024)
371
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200372Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
373
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200374Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
375Apr 18)
376
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200377Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
378And one for gui_x11.txt.
379
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200380- Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
381 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31, update 2007 May 30)
382 Version for latest MacVim: Tobia Conforto, 2009 Nov 23
383 More recent version: https://retracile.net/wiki/VimBreakIndent
384 Posted to vim-dev by Taylor Hedberg, 2011 Nov 25
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200385 Update by Taylor Hedberg, 2013 May 30.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200386 Updated for Vim 7.4 by Ken Takata, 2013 Oct 5.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200387
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100388":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
389finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
390Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
391
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200392Problem with l: dictionary being locked in a function. (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200393
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200394Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
395
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100396Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
397
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200398Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
399they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
400
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100401Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
402
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100403Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
404Nov 20)
405
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200406Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200407Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200408
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100409`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100410(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
411
412Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
413
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100414BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
415Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
416
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100417Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
418Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
419
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +0100420Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
421
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100422Patch to support UTF-8 for Hangul. (Shawn Y.H. Kim, 2011 May 1)
423Needs more work. Pinged 2012 Jan 4.
424
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200425Issue 64: when 'incsearch' is on can't paste LF on command line.
426
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200427On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
4282012 Jun 19)
429
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200430'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
431'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
432Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200433Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +0200434
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200435With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
436(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
437need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
438
439Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
440only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
44121, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
442
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +0200443'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
444highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
445
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100446Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
447New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
448
449Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
450Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
451
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +0100452Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
453Jan 19)
454
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +0200455Need to escape $HOME on Windows? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21, discussion 2013 Jul 4)
456Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different meaning already.
457Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200458
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +0200459"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100460Oct 26)
461
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200462Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
463
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200464With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
465register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200466
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200467Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
468
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200469When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
470(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
471
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100472Setting $HOME on MS-Windows is not very well documented. Suggestion by Ben
473Fritz (2011 Oct 27).
474
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200475Bug: E685 error for func_unref(). (ZyX, 2010 Aug 5)
476
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200477Bug: Windows 7 64 bit system freezes when 'clipboard' set to "unnamed" and
478doing ":g/test/d". Putting every delete on the clipboard? (Robert Chan, 2011
479Jun 17)
480
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100481When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
482then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
483from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
484
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200485Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
486":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
48715)
488
489Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
490
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200491BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
492cleared. See test64.
493
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200494Changes to manpage plugin. (Elias Toivanen, 2011 Jul 25)
495
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200496Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200497effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200498Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
499
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200500Patch for variable tabstops.
501
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200502On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
50364 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
504right type.
505
506string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
507(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
508
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200509Make 'formatprg' global-local. (Sung Pae)
510
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200511When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
512(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200513When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
514following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
515(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200516
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200517When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
518doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
519
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02005207 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
521Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 19.
522
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200523maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
524mapping, how to restore the script ID?
525
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200526Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
527(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
528
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200529When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
530indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
531the help file.
532
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200533After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
534Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
535
536Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
537
538"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
539
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200540Patch to support sorting on floating point number. (Alex Jakushev, 2010 Oct
54130)
542
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200543Patch to addd TextDeletePost and TextYankPost events. (Philippe Vaucher, 2011
544May 24) Update May 26.
545
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100546Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
547
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +0200548Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200549
550Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
5512010 Dec 18)
552
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200553With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
554number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
555Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
556
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200557Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
558Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
559
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02005608 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
561Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
562
5638 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
564 after typing something.
565Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
566function that resets did_cursorhold.
567Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 May 6.
568
5697 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
570Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
571Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
572
5739 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
574 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
575Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
576
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200577Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
578Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
579
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200580In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
581or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
582sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
583
584GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
585doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
586
587GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
588
589Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
590Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
591
592Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
593
5947.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
595there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
596do?
597
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200598Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
59922)
600
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100601New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
602- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200603- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100604 the maximum repeat for * and +?
605
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100606"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
6072011 Feb 27)
608
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200609Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
610^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
611
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +0100612'colorcolumn' has higher priority than hlsearch. Should probably be the other
613way around. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 19)
614
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100615When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
616exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
6179) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
618
619g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
620the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
621
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100622Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
623crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
624
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200625Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
626number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
627
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200628Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
629- \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
630
631Regexp engine performance:
632- Profiling:
633 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
634 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
635 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
636 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
637 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
638 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
639- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
640- Performance tests:
641 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
642 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
643 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
644 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
645 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
646 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
647 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
648 'hlsearch'.
649 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
650 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
651 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
652 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
653
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200654Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
655names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
656Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
657the system encoding (usually utf-8).
658
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100659Patch to add GUI colors to the terminal, when it supports it. (ZyX, 2013 Jan
66026)
661
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200662Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
663Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
664
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200665'beval' option should be global-local.
666
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100667Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200668
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200669setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +0200670
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02006717 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
672 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
673 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
674
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200675getpos()/setpos() don't include curswant. getpos() could return a fifth
676element. setpos() could accept an optional fifth element.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200677Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6. Again 2013 Aug 22.
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200678
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200679With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
6802010 Oct 24)
681
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100682Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
683Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
684
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200685Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
686
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200687When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
688Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
689
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200690":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
691
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200692'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
693
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100694C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
695checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
696Issue 46.
697
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100698When 'paste' is changed with 'pastetoggle', the ruler doesn't reflect this
699right away. (Samuel Ferencik, 2010 Dec 7)
700
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200701Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
702
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100703Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
704gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
705
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200706":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
707accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
708
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200709Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
710setwinvar().
711
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100712Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
713
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100714When writing a file > 2Gbyte, the reported number of bytes is negative.
715(Antonio Colombo, 2010 Dec 18)
716
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200717Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200718(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200719
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200720When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
721instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
722
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100723Crash in setqflist(). (Benoit Mortgat, 2010 Nov 18)
724
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200725Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
726Winckler, 2011 May 11)
727Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100728
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100729Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
730back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
731
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100732Can 'undolevels' be a buffer-local option? Helps for making big changes in
733one file only, set 'ul' to -1 only for that buffer.
734Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 17. Needs test.
735
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100736Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200737Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
738
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100739CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
740the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
741FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
742
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200743Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
744Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
745
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +0200746Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
747Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
748
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +0100749I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
750Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
751an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +0100752
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200753Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
754
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100755Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
756non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100757
758iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
759Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
760or replace with a character and continue?
761
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100762Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
763Requires configure check for localtime().
764Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
765
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100766Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
767Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
768
769Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
770
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100771Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
772Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
773path.
774
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100775Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200776Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100777
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +0200778'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
779
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200780":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
781like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
782
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100783Coverity: ask someone to create new user: Dominique.
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200784Check if there are new reported defects: http://scan.coverity.com/rung2.html
785
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100786Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
7872010 Nov 5)
788
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100789Patch to use 'foldnextmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
790Jan 7)
791
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100792Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
793Only with "vim -u NONE".
794
795Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
796
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +0100797With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
798entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
799Feb 12)
800
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +0200801Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
802characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
803
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100804Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
805
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200806Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
807 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
808
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200809Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
810
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +0200811When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
812Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
813
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100814When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
815not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
816string value.
817
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100818Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
819
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100820For running gvim on an USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
821line argument -noregister.
822
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100823When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
824missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
825
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200826When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
827doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100828
829Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
830(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
831Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
832There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
833Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
834
835":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
836highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
837to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
838
839Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
840Probably needs a bit of work.
841
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100842List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100843Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
844
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200845Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
846
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100847Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
848
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200849Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
850Sep 1)
851
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100852Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
853
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +0200854Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
855on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
856
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100857Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
8582009 Jul 18)
859
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100860Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
861Added test, updates, June 23.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200862Updated for 7.4: http://litcave.rudi.ir/farsi_vim.diff
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100863
864Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
865window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
866Needs more work.
867
868Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
869
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100870When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
871few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
872
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100873'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100874(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
875
876Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
877J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
878
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200879When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
880for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
881
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +0200882Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
883
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200884Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
885
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100886When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
887
888":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
889because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
890ex_docmd.c.
891
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200892Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100893Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
894
895string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
896for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
897
898Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
899
900'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
90120)
902
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100903Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
9042009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
905
906Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
907
908Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
909SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
910
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100911When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
912indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
913(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
914
915Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
916are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
917Ignore window options when not in the right window?
918Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
919that doesn't have a window.
920
921When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
922doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
923
924getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
925displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
926
927":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
928
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100929There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
930was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
931perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
932
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +0200933Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
934
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200935Support a 'systemencoding' option (for Unix). It specifies the encoding of
936file names. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 5). Useful on a latin1 or double-byte Asian
937system when 'encoding' is "utf-8".
938
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100939Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
940command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
941
942Win32: use different args for SearchPath()? (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2009 Jan 30)
943
944Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
945does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
946
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +0200947opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
948height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +0200949very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +0200950
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100951Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
952(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
953
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100954Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100955(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
956
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100957Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
958char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
959
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100960A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (Zyx, 2010 Dec 25)
961
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100962Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
963messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
964es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
9652009 Jan 26)
966
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100967When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100968in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
969Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
970
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100971Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
972a modeline.
973
974Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
975Sergey Khorev)
976
977Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
978part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000979
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000980netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
981number to be below last visible line.
982
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100983After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
984correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
985
986Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
987(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
988
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200989shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100990'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
991Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
992unix-like shell?
993
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200994Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
995register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
996(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
997
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100998Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
999Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
1000
1001Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
1002make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
1003
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001004When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
1005still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
1006
1007"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
1008(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
1009
1010Update src/testdir/main.aap.
1011
1012"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7)
1013
1014Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
1015that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
1016ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
1017Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
1018
1019Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001020Maybe call it v:motiontype.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001021
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001022MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
1023doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
1024probably causes this.
1025
1026'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020010272009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001028
Bram Moolenaar9d98fe92013-08-03 18:35:36 +02001029Patch to support strikethrough next to bold and italic. (Christian Brabandt,
10302013 Jul 30)
1031
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001032Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
1033 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
1034 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
1035(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
1036
1037Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
1038":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
1039option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
1040is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001041
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001042":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
1043first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001044
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001045Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
1046laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
1047Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001048
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001049Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
1050anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
1051
1052On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
1053doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
1054Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
1055Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
1056
1057":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
1058
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001059When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
1060'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
1061fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
1062the buffer to be unmodified.
1063Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
1064another look at it.
1065
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001066c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
1067(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
1068
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001069You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
1070error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
1071Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
1072at the other match for 0xBF.
1073
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001074When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
1075argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
1076
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001077Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
1078backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
1079
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001080When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
1081line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
1082
1083Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
1084position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
1085
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001086After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
1087(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001088command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001089
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001090":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
1091Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
1092
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001093Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
1094Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
1095
1096When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
1097either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
1098put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
1099
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001100Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
1101Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
1102Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
1103Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
1104(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
1105
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001106Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
1107
1108ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001109
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001110Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
1111(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
1112escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
1113an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001114This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
1115July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001116Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
1117work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
1118
1119When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
112031)
1121
1122Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
1123work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
1124Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001125
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001126Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
11272008 May 14)
1128
1129Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
1130Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
1131'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
1132
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001133Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
1134Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
1135
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001136Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
1137Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
1138
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020011398 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
1140 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
1141 several).
1142 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
1143 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
1144 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
1145Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
1146
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001147Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
1148
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001149The utf class table is missing some entries:
1150 0x2212, minus sign
1151 0x2217, star
1152 0x2500, bar
1153 0x26ab, circle
1154
1155Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
1156line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
1157
1158GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
1159Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
1160
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001161Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
1162try the Cocoa version.
1163
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001164Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
1165changed or the window is resized.
1166
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001167GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
1168the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
1169
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001170Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
1171Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001172
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001173Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
11741) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
1175
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001176C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
1177with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
1178Try to reproduce at work.
1179
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001180Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
1181Is there a way to list all the files first?
1182
1183When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
1184result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
118516)
1186
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001187Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
1188Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
1189
1190Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
1191(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
1192
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001193Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
1194Await response to question to make the register writable.
1195
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001196src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
1197remark why.
1198
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001199Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
12001)
1201
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001202In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
1203each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
1204
1205try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1206
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001207try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
1208
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001209":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
1210Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
1211
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001212Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
1213
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001214Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
1215Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
1216
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001217Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
1218Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
1219Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001220
1221C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
1222(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
1223
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001224Can't easily close the help window, like ":pc" closes the preview window and
1225":ccl" closes the quickfix window. Add ":hclose". (Chris Gaal)
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001226Patch for :helpclose, Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001227
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001228When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
1229and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
1230
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001231Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
1232 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
1233
1234New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
1235
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001236":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
1237a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
1238
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001239'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
1240Likonen, March 19)
1241
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001242Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
1243other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
1244
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001245The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
1246appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
1247matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
1248
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001249When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
1250character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
1251'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
1252(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
1253
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001254Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
1255Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001256
1257More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
1258
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001259Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
1260http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
1261
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001262Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
1263back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
1264Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001265
1266Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
1267No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
1268
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001269Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
1270terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001271
1272Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
1273
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001274Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
1275but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
1276that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001277
1278When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
1279
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001280Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
1281Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
1282
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001283Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
1284popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
1285size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
1286This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
1287
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001288Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
1289a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
1290isn't right?
1291
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001292When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
1293it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
1294
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001295Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
1296then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
1297files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001298Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
1299indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
1300":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
1301in ":1find /**/file". This is for a files that unix "find" can find very
1302quick. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
1303Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001304
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001305When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
1306parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
1307neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
1308particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1309Jun 3)
1310However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
1311the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001312
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001313A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
1314Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
1315
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001316Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
1317Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
1318
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001319Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
1320switch list is noticed:
1321 switch (i)
1322 {
1323 case 1:
1324 foobar:
1325 }
1326
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001327Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
1328
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001329Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
1330with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
1331go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
1332moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
1333
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001334Patch to use Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen, 2010 Jul 30)
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001335Latest version: 2011 May 18
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +010013368 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
1337 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
1338 Version from Guopeng Wen that does this (2010 Dec 27)
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +02001339Alternative: MSI installer: https://github.com/petrkle/vim-msi/
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001340
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001341Windows installer should install 32-bit version of right-click handler also on
134264-bit systems. (Brian Cunningham, 2011 Dec 28)
1343
1344Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
1345Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
1346Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
1347argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
1348(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
1349
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001350Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
1351(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
1352
1353Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
1354makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
1355.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
1356 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
1357
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001358Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
13592007 Feb 8)
1360
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001361Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
1362set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001363
1364Win32: Patch for convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2)
1365
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001366Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
1367
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001368Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
1369Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
1370New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
1371patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
1372
1373Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
1374Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
1375
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001376Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
1377
1378Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
13792007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001380Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001381
1382Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00001383label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
1384
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001385Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
1386with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
1387Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001388
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001389Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
1390pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
1391
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001392Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
1393
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001394Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
1395Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
1396only takes 'shellslash' into account.
1397
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001398Pressing the 'pastetoggle' key doesn't update the statusline. (Jan Christoph
1399Ebersbach, 2008 Feb 1)
1400
1401Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
1402Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001403Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001404properly?
1405
1406Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
14072007 Jun 21)
1408
1409When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1410Jun 18)
1411
1412If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
1413
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001414Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
1415windows. (Adam George)
1416
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001417F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
1418modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
1419K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001420
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001421UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
1422to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
1423
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001424In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
1425the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
1426
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001427C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
1428
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001429":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
1430
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001431When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001432error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001433
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001434Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
1435use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
1436
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001437Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
1438if_ruby.c.
1439
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001440":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
1441
1442The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
1443it in keep_msg?
1444
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001445Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001446error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001447name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
1448
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00001449Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
1450longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001451
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001452Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
1453Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
1454Also for ":w" without a file name.
1455The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001456
1457"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
1458Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
1459
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001460VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
1461directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
1462(Zoltan Arpadffy)
1463
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001464VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1465
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001466input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
1467name?
1468
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001469Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
1470
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001471When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
1472(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
1473Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
1474will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
1475
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001476gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
1477This also fails with --remote.
1478
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001479When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
14802008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
1481all places where buf_freeall() is called?
1482
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001483aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
1484
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001485When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
1486(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
1487
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001488Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
1489the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
1490
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001491GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
1492
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001493Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
1494superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
1495
1496Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
1497character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
1498
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001499Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
1500Jun 5)
1501
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001502Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
15032008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
1504Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
1505
1506In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
1507but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
1508Jul 22)
1509
1510There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
1511
1512Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
1513":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
1514somehow? Or use a new function.
1515
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001516Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
1517
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001518Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
1519moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
1520that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
1521
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001522The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
1523
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001524When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001525cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
1526the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
1527
1528Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
1529has been created.
1530
1531Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
1532shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
1533fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
1534background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
1535A.Politz may work on this.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001536
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001537These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
1538 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
1539 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
1540 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
1541
1542Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
1543partly. (2006 Dec 7)
1544
1545In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
1546buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
1547reload it then?
1548
1549New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
1550previous version.
1551
1552For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
1553
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001554Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
1555only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
1556
1557Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
1558tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
1559doesn't contain other directories.
1560
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001561Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
1562 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
1563 set background=dark
1564This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
1565color is, not reset it.
1566
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001567Linux distributions:
1568- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
1569 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
1570 xfree-xterm".
1571- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
1572
1573Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
1574start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
1575show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
1576middle?
1577
1578When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001579(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001580connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
1581dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
1582
1583Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
1584
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001585When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
1586current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
1587the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
1588
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001589When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
1590Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
1591
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001592Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
1593 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
1594 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
1595 - getting colors in xterm
1596 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
1597
1598Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
1599Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
1600
1601Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
1602
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001603A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
1604Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
1605
1606Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
1607Dara, 2006 June 21)
1608
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001609Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
1610number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
1611
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001612After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
1613the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
1614
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001615Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001616
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001617Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
1618copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
1619error and stop using the connection to the server.
1620
1621Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
1622Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
1623
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001624Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010016252008 Sep 29)
1626
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001627In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
1628check the result of has("patch13").
1629
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001630Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
1631restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
1632
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001633Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
1634and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
1635
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001636Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
1637put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
1638
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001639Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
1640resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
1641
1642In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
1643can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
1644
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001645GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
1646maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
1647doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001648Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
1649visible.
1650
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001651When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
1652differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001653
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001654The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
1655be only one.
1656
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001657"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
1658script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
1659
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001660It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
1661the function name before resolving it to a number?
1662 let d = {}
1663 fun! d.foo()
1664 echo "here"
1665 endfun
1666 call d.foo(9)
1667
1668Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
1669only set after Visual moded is ended.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001670Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
1671used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
1672
1673Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
1674output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
1675Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
1676
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001677Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001678"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
1679name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
1680Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001681
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001682printf() uses the field width in bytes. Can it be made character width,
1683perhaps with a modifier? What does Posix say?
1684
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001685Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
1686(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
1687
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001688Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
1689as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
1690
1691Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
1692Jan 1)
1693
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001694Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
169523)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001696
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001697":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
1698tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
1699Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001700
1701xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1702buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1703Xterm 224 supports it!
1704
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001705When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
1706text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
1707latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
1708
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001709Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
1710
1711Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
1712no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
1713
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001714In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
1715VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
17162007 Oct 16)
1717
1718TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
1719Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
1720
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001721Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001722
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001723When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
1724typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
1725Sep 3, 11)
1726
1727When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
1728respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
1729the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
1730what happens for the GUI.
1731
1732X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1733pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1734clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1735Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1736Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1737clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
1738
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001739":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
1740this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
1741
1742When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
1743Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
1744restored. (Luc St-Louis)
1745
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001746Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
17472010 Jun 30)
1748
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001749
Bram Moolenaare6ae6222013-05-21 21:01:10 +02001750At next release:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001751- Build a huge version by default.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001752- Improve plugin handling: Automatic updates, handle dependencies?
1753 E.g. Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001754
1755
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001756More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001757- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
1758 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001759- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
1760- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
1761 21)
1762- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
1763 patch May 10)
1764- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
1765 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
1766- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
1767 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
1768- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
1769- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
1770- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
1771 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
1772 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001773- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001774- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
1775 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
1776- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
1777 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
1778- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
1779 21)
1780- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
1781 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
1782- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
1783 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001784- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
1785 Sep 13)
1786- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001787 Docs patch Oct 30, update David Burgin (glts) 2013 Aug 24)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001788- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
1789 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
1790 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
1791 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
1792 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02001793- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001794
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001795Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000017969 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
1797 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
1798 New patch 2004 Jun 16
1799 - selecting proportional font breaks display
1800 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
1801 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
1802 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
1803 (Alan Schmitt)
1804 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001805 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
1806 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000018079 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001808 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000018098 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000018108 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00001811 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000018127 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
1813 Update 2004 Sep 6.
1814 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000018158 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001816 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020018177 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001818 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
1819- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
1820 for multi-byte characters.
1821- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
1822- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
1823 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
1824 been given values.
1825 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
18268 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00001827 with an ESC sequence.
1828 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
1829 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
1830 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000018317 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
1832 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
1833- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
1834 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
1835 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
18368 Add functions:
1837 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
1838 Update 2004 Sep 10
1839 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
1840 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001841 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001842 How to get the messages into the .po files?
Bram Moolenaar72597a52010-07-18 15:31:08 +02001843 strchars() Like strlen() and strwidth() but counting characters
1844 instead of bytes.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001845 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
1846 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
1847 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
1848 (2003 May 13)
1849 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
1850 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001851 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
1852 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001853 col('^') column of first non-white character.
1854 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
1855 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000018567 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
1857 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
1858- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
1859 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
18607 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
1861 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000018628 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
1863 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000018647 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
18658 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
1866 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
18677 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
1868 Kotchan has a patch for it)
18698 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
1870 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
1871 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
18727 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
1873- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
1874 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
1875 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001876- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
1877 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
1878- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
1879
1880
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001881Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001882- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
1883 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018848 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
1885 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
1886 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
1887 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
1888 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
1889 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018908 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
1891 make Vim exit.
18927 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
1893 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
1894 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
18958 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
1896 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
1897 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
18986 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
1899 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
1900 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
19018 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
1902 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
1903 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
1904 names in one buffer???
1905 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
1906 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
1907 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
19087 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
1909 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
1910 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00001911 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
1912 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019137 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
1914 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
19157 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
19167 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
19177 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
1918 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
19197 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
1920 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
1921 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
1922 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
19237 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
19247 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
19257 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
1926 to the match with the tag? Option?
19277 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
19287 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
1929 (Sayre).
19307 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
1931 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019327 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
1933 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
1934 match. Nvi can do it too.
19357 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
1936 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
1937 line 1\ line 2\\
1938 line 2\ line 3\\
1939 . line4/
19406 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
1941 the way the shell is started?
19426 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
1943 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
1944
1945
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001946GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019479 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019488 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
1949 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
1950 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000019518 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
1952 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
1953 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019549 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
1955 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
1956 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
1957 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00001958- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
1959 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
1960 blocked for now.
1961
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001962
1963Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001964- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
1965 the screen.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000019668 non-ASCII font names don't work. Need to convert from 'encoding' and use
1967 the wide functions.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019688 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
1969 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
19708 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
1971 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
1972 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
19738 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
1974 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
19757 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1976 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1977 "lucida_console:h8").
19786 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
1979 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000019808 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
1981 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
1982 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019837 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
1984 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
1985 to use an opaque background in most places?
19868 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
1987 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
1988 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019897 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
1990 2004 May 9)
19918 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
1992 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
1993 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
1994 MS-Windows 98?
1995 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
1996 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
1997 file: Window moves with the cursor!
1998 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019998 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
2000 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
2001 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
2002 doesn't work properly.
20038 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
2004 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
2005 appears in the right position. (Webb)
20069 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
2007 button doesn't give popup menu.
2008 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
2009 selection.
2010 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
2011 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
2012 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
20138 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
2014 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
2015 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
2016 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
20178 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
2018 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
2019 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020207 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
2021 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
2022 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
20237 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
2024 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00002025 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020267 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
2027 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020286 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
20298 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
2030 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
2031 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
20328 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
2033 know which keyboard is being used?
20347 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
2035 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
2036 area (Koloseike).
20378 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
2038 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
2039 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
2040 the font name).
2041
2042
2043Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000020446 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
2045 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
2046 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
2047 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
2048 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020499 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
2050 required and it's missing?
20518 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
2052 wrong.
20539 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
2054 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000020559 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002056 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
2057 flag.
20588 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
2059 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
2060 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
20618 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
20626 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
2063 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
2064 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
2065 the tooltips work though...
20667 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
2067 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
20688 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
2069 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
2070 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
2071
2072
2073Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010020749 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
2075 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020769 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
2077 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
2078 through files.
20797 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
2080 read long file names. (Schroeder)
20814 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
2082 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
2083 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
2084 problem during a refresh.
20855 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
2086 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
2087 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
2088 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
2089 colors as it should.
2090 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
2091 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
2092
2093
2094Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02002095- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020967 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
2097 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020988 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
2099 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
2100 (Phillipps)
2101
2102
2103GUI:
21049 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
2105 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
21069 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00002107 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002108 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
21099 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
2110 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
21118 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
2112 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
21138 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
2114 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
2115 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
21168 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
2117 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
2118 of where it is processing the output.
2119 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
21208 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
2121 doesn't work.
21228 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000021238 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
2124 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
2125 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020021268 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021278 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
2128 browse().
21298 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
2130 use that code? Or use console dialog.
21318 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
2132 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000021337 More features in the find/replace dialog:
2134 - regexp on/off
2135 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
2136 when all buffers/directory is used:
2137 - filter for file name
2138 when directory is used:
2139 - subdirectory on/off
2140 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021418 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
2142 to avoid problems.
21438 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
2144 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
2145 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
21468 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
2147 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
2148 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
21498 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
2150 up. Set erase character somehow?
21518 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
2152 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
2153 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
2154 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
21558 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
21567 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
2157 visible.
21587 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
2159 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
21607 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
2161 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
21628 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
2163 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
21648 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
2165 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
2166 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
2167 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
2168- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
21694 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
2170 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
2171 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
2172
2173
2174MSDOS/DJGPP:
21759 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
2176 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
2177 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
21788 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
2179 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
21809 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00002181 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
2182 write a file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021839 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
2184 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
2185 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
2186 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
21879 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
2188 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
2189 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
2190 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
2191 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
2192 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
2193 Make this work like in Win32 console.
2194 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
2195 key code. Use a translation table?
21969 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
2197 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
21988 Use DJGPP 2.03.
21998 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
2200 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
22018 setlocale() is bogus.
22028 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
2203 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
2204 Windows 95 system!
22058 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000022067 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002207 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
22087 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
2209 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
2210 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
22118 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
2212 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
22137 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
2214 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
2215 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
2216 "[New file]".
22177 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
2218 that is supported?
22198 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
22208 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
2221 Briscoe)
2222
2223
2224MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
22258 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
2226 gen_expand_wildcards().
22278 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
2228 Wagner.
22298 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
22308 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
2231 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000022328 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
2233 a good fallback, thus use:
2234 $HOME
2235 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
2236 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
2237 $USERPROFILE
2238 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
2239 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
2240 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
2241 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022428 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
2243 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
22448 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
2245 Should work like in the GUI version.
22468 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
2247 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
22488 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
2249 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
22508 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
2251 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
2252 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022538 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
2254 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
2255 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
2256
2257
2258Windows 95:
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +020022598 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002260 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
2261 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
22628 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
2263 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
2264
2265
2266Win32 console:
22679 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
2268 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
2269 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
2270 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
2271 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
2272 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
2273 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
2274 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
2275 and the file is not saved.
2276 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
2277 long name.
22788 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
2279 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
22807 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
2281 besides the console.
22828 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
22839 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
2284 <C-S-i>?
22859 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
2286 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
22878 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
2288 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022897 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
2290 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
2291 exiting.
2292
2293
2294Amiga:
22958 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
2296 sequences.
22979 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
2298 backslashes in result.
22998 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
2300 all options, using white space separation.
2301
2302
2303Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002304- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023057 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
2306 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
2307 (Jack)
2308 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000023098 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
2310 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023118 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
23128 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
23139 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
2314 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023159 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002316
2317
2318"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002319- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
2320 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002321- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
2322 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002323- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
2324 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
2325 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
2326 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
2327 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
2328 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
2329 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000023309 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
2331 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000023329 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002333 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
2334 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023358 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
2336 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
2337 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00002338 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023397 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
2340 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
23418 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
2342 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
2343 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023447 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
2345 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002346- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
2347 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023488 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
2349 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
2350 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
2351 using the horizontal scrollbar.
23527 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
2353 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
2354 invocations belong together.
23558 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
2356 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
23578 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
2358 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
2359 UnxUtils.zip archive.
2360 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
2361 Briscoe says it's not as good.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000023628 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
2363 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
2364 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023658 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
2366 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023677 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
2368 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
2369 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
2370 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023717 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
2372 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
2373 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
23747 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
2375 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
2376 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
23777 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
2378 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023797 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
2380 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023819 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
2382 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
2383 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
2384 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
2385 script can be called.
23868 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
2387 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
2388 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023898 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
2390 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000023918 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002392 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
2393 configurable?
23948 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
23959 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
2396 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
2397 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023988 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
2399 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000024008 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
2401 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024028 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
2403 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024049 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
2405 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
2406 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024077 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024088 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
2409 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
2410 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000024118 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
2412 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002413 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
2414 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024158 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
2416 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
24179 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
2418 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
2419 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002420 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024217 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
2422 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024237 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
2424 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
2425 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
2426 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024278 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002428 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
2429 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
2430 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
2431 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002432 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
2433 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00002434 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002435 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002436 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
2437 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
2438 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
2439 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
2440 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
24418 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
2442 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
24439 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
2444 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
2445 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024468 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
2447 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
24488 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
2449 in lines that don't extend into the block?
24508 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
2451 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
2452 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
24538 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
2454 'linebreak'.
24558 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
2456 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
2457 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024589 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
2459 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
2460 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
2461 'magic' in history. (Margo)
24629 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
2463 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
24649 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
2465 isn't updated).
24669 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
24679 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
2468 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
2469 cause another redraw, etc.
24708 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
2471 must escape special characters in the pattern.
24728 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
2473 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
2474 ":w!!" for that.
2475 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
2476 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00002477 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024787 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
2479 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
2480 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
2481 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
2482 clipboard)
24837 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
2484 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
2485 Waggoner)
24868 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
2487 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
2488 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000024896 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
2490 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
2491 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024928 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
2493 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
24948 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
2495 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
2496 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000024978 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024988 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
2499 (e.g., ":w").
25008 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
2501 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
25028 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
2503 for ">>".
25048 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
2505 script in do_cmdline().
25068 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
2507 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
2508 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
2509 changes.
25108 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
2511 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
25128 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
2513 check for file marks. This can be slow.
25147 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
2515 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
2516 needed.
2517 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
25188 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
2519 to skip catch_signals()?
25209 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
2521 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
2522 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
2523 text?
25248 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
2525 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
25268 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
2527 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
25289 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
2529 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
2530 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
2531 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
2532 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
25337 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
2534 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
2535 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
2536 in the list?
25378 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
2538 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
2539 instead of on button down.
25408 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
25419 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
2542 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002543 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
2544 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025458 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
2546 character is typed.
25478 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
2548 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
25498 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
2550 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
25518 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
2552 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
2553 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
2554 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
2555 cygwin bash.
25567 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
2557 Remember flags for backreferences.
25587 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
2559 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
25607 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
2561 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
25628 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
2563 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
25647 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
2565 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025667 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
2567 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
2568 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
25697 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
2570 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
25718 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
2572 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
2573 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
25747 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
2575 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002576
2577
2578I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
25799 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
2580 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
2581 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002582
2583
2584Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00002585- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
2586 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
2587 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002588- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
2589 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
2590 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
2591 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
2592 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
2593 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002594 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002595- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
2596 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00002597 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002598 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
2599 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
2600 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002601- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
2602 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
2603 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
2604 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
2605 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
2606- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
2607 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
2608 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
2609- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
2610 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002611- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002612- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
2613 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
2614 character gets the highlighting.
2615- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
2616 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
2617- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
2618 (Jennings)
2619- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
2620- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2621 errors. How do we get the rest?
2622- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002623- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002624 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
2625- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
2626 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
2627 first?
2628- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
2629 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
2630- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
2631 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
2632 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
2633- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
2634 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
2635 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
2636 (Benzinger).
2637- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
2638 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
2639 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
2640- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
2641 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
2642- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
2643 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
2644- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
2645 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
2646 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
2647 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
2648 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
2649 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
2650- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
2651 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
2652 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002653- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
2654 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
2655 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002656- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
2657 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
2658 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
2659- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
2660 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
2661- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
2662 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
2663- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim
2664 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2665- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
2666 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
2667- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
2668 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
2669 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
2670 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
2671 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
2672- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
2673 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
2674 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
2675- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
2676 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
2677 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00002678- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
2679 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 +00002680- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
2681 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
2682 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
2683 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
2684 in the vimrc file to be lost.
2685- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
2686 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
2687
2688--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
2689 *extensions-improvements*
2690
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002691Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
2692- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
2693 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
2694 calling a function.
2695 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
2696 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002697- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
2698 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
2699- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
2700 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
2701 http://clewn.sf.net.
2702 And the idevim plugin/script.
2703 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
2704 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
2705 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
2706 other window.
2707 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
2708 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2709 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
2710 in terminal mode.
2711- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
2712 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
2713 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
2714 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
2715 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
2716 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002717 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002718- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
2719 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
2720 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002721- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
2722 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002723- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
2724 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
2725 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000027268 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
2727 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
2728 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
2729 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00002730- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
2731 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002732
2733
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002734Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027358 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
2736 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000027378 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
2738 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000027398 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
2740 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027418 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027427 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
27439 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
2744 - change to cursor position and curswant
2745 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
2746 - how it works for folded lines
2747 - how it works with multi-byte characters
27489 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
2749 work too.
27508 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
2751 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
2752 text.
27538 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
27547 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
2755 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
27567 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
2757 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002758 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002759- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
2760
2761
2762Help:
2763- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
2764 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
2765- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
2766 to the other matches.
2767- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
2768- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
2769- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
2770 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
2771 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
2772 default contents.
2773- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
2774 height for the help window (and other windows).
2775- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
2776- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
2777- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
2778
2779
2780User Friendlier:
27818 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
2782 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
2783 Briscoe)
27848 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
27858 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
2786 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
2787 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
27888 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
2789 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
2790- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
2791 ":mkplugin <file>"?
27928 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
2793 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
2794 'runtimepath'.
2795 " Vim plugin
2796 <main plugin code>
2797 " >>> plugin help start <<<
2798 <plugin docs>
2799- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
28009 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
2801 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
2802 item?).
2803 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028048 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
28057 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000028067 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
2807 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
2808 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000028098 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
2810 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
2811 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
2812 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002813
2814
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002815Tab pages:
28169 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000028177 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
2818 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000028198 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000028208 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000028217 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000028227 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002823 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000028247 Add local variables for each tab page?
28258 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
2826 tab pages.
28277 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000028287 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
2829 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002830
2831
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002832Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002833- have some way not to give spelling errors for a range of characters.
2834 E.g. for Chinese and other languages with specific characters for which we
2835 don't have a spell file. Useful when there is also text in other
2836 languages in the file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002837- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
2838 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
2839- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
2840 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
2841 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
2842- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
2843 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002844- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
2845 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
2846 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002847- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
2848 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
2849 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002850- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
2851 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002852- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002853 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
2854 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000028558 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
2856 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
28578 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
2858 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
28598 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
2860 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002861 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002862 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
2863 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
2864 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
2865 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00002866- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
2867 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00002868- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00002869- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
2870 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00002871- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002872 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002873- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002874 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002875- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
2876 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002877- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
2878 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
2879- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00002880 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002881 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
2882 in the affix file separately.
2883 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002884 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002885 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
2886 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
2887 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
2888- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
2889 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
2890 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
2891 specific prefixes with suffixes.
2892 Alternative:
2893 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
2894 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
2895 affix which is required.
2896- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002897 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002898- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
2899 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
2900 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002901- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
2902 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002903- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
2904 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
2905- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000029068 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
2907 syntax items (to add @Spell).
2908 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
2909 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002910- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
2911 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
2912 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
2913 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000029148 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
2915 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000029168 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
29178 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
2918 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000029197 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
29208 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
2921 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
2922 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
2923 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002924
2925
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002926Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000029279 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
2928 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaarc400cb92010-07-19 19:52:13 +02002929 It's quite big and badly documented though.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029308 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
2931 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
2932 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00002933 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
2934 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029357 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
2936 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
2937 location.
2938
2939
2940Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00002941 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
2942 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029438 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
2944 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000029458 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029469 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
2947 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029488 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
2949 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
2950 user aware of this?
29518 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
2952 commands skip over a closed fold.
29538 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
29548 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029557 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002956- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
2957 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
2958 missing line goes unnoticed.
2959 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002960- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
2961 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
2962 smoother?
2963- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
2964 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002965- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
2966 file can contain:
2967 args version.c main.c
2968 edit version.c
2969 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002970- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002971- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
2972 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002973- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
2974 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00002975- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
2976 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002977- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000029788 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002979 searches.
2980
2981
2982Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002983- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
2984 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
2985 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
2986 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029879 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
2988 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
2989 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
2990 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020029919 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
2992 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
2993 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029948 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
2995 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
2996 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
2997 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
2998 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
2999 item.
30008 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003001 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3002 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030038 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3004 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003005 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00003006 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030078 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3008 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000030098 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3010 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3011 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030127 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3013 so that the user can fix the problem.
30148 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3015 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030169 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
30178 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030188 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
30198 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000030207 Searching and composing characters:
3021 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
3022 Add special item to match with a composing character, zero-width, so that
3023 one can replace a base character and keep the composing characters.
3024 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3025 characters can be manipulated.
3026 Add a modifier to ignore composing characters, only compare base
3027 characters. Useful for Hebrew (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030288 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
30298 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
30308 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
3031 characters.
30328 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
30338 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3034 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
30357 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3036 'display' option to specify this.
30377 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3038 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3039- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3040 fontselector somehow.
3041- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3042 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3043- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3044 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3045- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3046 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3047 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3048 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3049 if a font exists?
3050- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003051 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003052- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3053 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
30547 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
3055 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003056- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
3057 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3058 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
3059 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003060- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3061 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
3062 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
3063- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
3064 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
3065 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
3066 But it's very complicated...
3067
3068
3069Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000030707 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003071- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3072- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3073 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003074- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3075 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003076- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3077- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3078 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003079- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3080 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003081- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3082 units as for the margins.
3083- Support right-to-left text?
30848 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
3085 color.
3086
3087
3088Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030898 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
3090 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
30918 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
3092 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
30938 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
3094 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000030957 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
3096 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030978 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
3098 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
3099 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031007 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
3101 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
3102 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031038 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
31049 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
3105 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031067 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
3107 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000031087 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
3109 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031108 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
3111 change this for each release.
31128 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
3113 pattern, but not in the body.
31148 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
3115 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
3116 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031178 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
31188 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
3119 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
3120 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
3121 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02003122 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
3123 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031248 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
3125 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
31268 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
3127 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00003128 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031298 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
3130 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
3131 used.
31328 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
3133 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
31348 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
3135 re-insert the [] if possible.
31368 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
3137 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000031388 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
3139 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
3140 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
3141 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
3142 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031438 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
3144 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
31458 Support for deleting syntax items:
3146 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
3147 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
3148 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
31498 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
3150 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
3151 a '<'. (Fleiner)
31527 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
3153 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
3154 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
31557 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
3156 detected.
31578 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003158 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031598 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
3160 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031618 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
31628 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
31637 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
3164 ":mkvimrc".
31658 Improve c.vim:
3166 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
3167 "c_strict_ansi".
3168 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
31698 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
3170 current line while in Insert mode.
31718 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
3172 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
31738 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
3174 display position.
31758 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
3176 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
3177 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
31788 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
3179 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
3180 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031818 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
3182 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
3183 sequence.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000031847 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
3185 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
3186 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
3187 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
3188 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031897 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
3190 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
3191 E.g. for this html:
3192 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031937 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
31947 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
3195 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031968 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
31978 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031987 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
3199 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
3200 completion?
32018 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
3202 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
32037 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
3204 select one of the sets.
32058 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
3206 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
3207 2, etc.
32088 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
3209 highlighting (for "." command).
32108 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
3211 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
32128 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
32137 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
3214 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
32156 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
3216 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
3217- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
3218 when extending an already existing syntax file.
3219- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003220- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
3221 (for comment blocks).
3222- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
3223 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
3224 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
3225 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
3226 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
3227 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
3228 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
3229 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
3230 (Campbell)
3231 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
3232 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
32337 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
3234 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
32357 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
3236 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
3237 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
32387 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
3239 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
3240 messages. And external commands?
32418 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
3242 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
32437 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
3244 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
3245
3246
3247Built-in script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000032488 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
3249 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02003250 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032517 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
3252 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
3253 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032548 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
3255 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003256- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
3257 2006 Dec 11.
3258- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020032598 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
3260 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
3261 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
3262 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
3263 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
3264 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000032657 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
3266 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032678 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
32688 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
3269 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
3270 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
3271 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
3272 nested packages?
3273 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
3274 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
3275 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032767 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
3277 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
3278 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
3279 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
3280 autocommand.
3281 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
3282 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
3283 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
3284 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032857 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
3286 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032876 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
3288 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032898 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003290 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
3291 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
3292 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
3293 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
3294 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
3295 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
3296 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00003297 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
3298 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
3299 3 2002
3300 Only add this when also implemented for
3301 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
3302 be used.
3303 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00003304 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
3305 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
3306 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
3307 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
3308 File.Open..." argument.
3309 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
3310 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
3311 with properties instead.
3312 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
3313 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
3314 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003315 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003316 crypt() encrypt string
3317 decrypt() decrypt string
3318 base64enc() base 64 encoding
3319 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003320 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003321 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003322 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003323 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003324 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003325 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
3326 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003327 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
3328 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003329 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003330 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
3331 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003332 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
3333 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
3334 to allow the library to execute a command or
3335 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033367 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
3337 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
33388 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
3339 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033408 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
3341 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033428 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033437 Add optional arguments to user functions:
3344 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
33456 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000033468 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
3347 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033488 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
3349 option or environment variable.
33508 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033518 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003352 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000033537 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
3354 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033558 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
3356 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
33578 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
33588 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
3359 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
3360 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
3361 charwise({expr}).
33627 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
3363 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
3364 buffer for this?
3365 result = scratch(string, command)
3366 result = apply(string, command)
3367 result = execute(string, command)
3368 "command" would use <> notation.
3369 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
33707 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003371
3372
3373Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000033746 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
3375 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
3376 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
3377 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
3378 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
3379 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
3380 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003381
3382
3383Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000033847 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
3385 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020033867 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
3387 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
3388 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
3389 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000033908 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
3391 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
3392 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
3393 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02003394 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000033958 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
3396 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
3397 repeating it in various system files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033988 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
33999 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
34008 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
34017 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
3402 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
34038 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
3404 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
3405 when starting up in a color terminal.
34068 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
3407 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034088 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
3409 function be improved?
34108 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
3411 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
3412 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
3413 this be improved?
34148 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
3415 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000034167 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
3417 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034187 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
3419 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
34207 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
3421 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020034227 MS-DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034237 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
3424 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
3425 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
3426 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
3427 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
3428 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
3429 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034308 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
3431 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
3432 using strcmp() too often?
34337 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
3434 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
3435 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
3436 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
3437 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
3438 the two blocks to the memfile block.
34397 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
3440 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
3441 with an argument that can be messed with.
3442 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
3443 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
34447 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
3445- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
34468 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
3447 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
3448- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
3449 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
3450- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
3451- Do profiling on:
3452 - :g/pat/normal cmd
3453 - 1000ii<Esc>
3454 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
3455 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
3456 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
3457 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
3458 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
3459 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003460 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034617 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
3462 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
3463 changed).
3464 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
3465 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
3466- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
3467- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
3468 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
3469- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
3470 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
3471 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
3472- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
3473 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
3474- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
3475- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
3476 cursor is right of the screen.
34778 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
3478 CTRL-C (it's slow).
3479
3480
3481Code size:
34828 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
3483- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
3484 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
34858 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
34868 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
3487 it.
34887 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
3489 left out.
34908 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
3491 can be removed.
34928 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
3493
3494
3495Messages:
34968 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
3497 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
34988 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
3499 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
35008 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
3501 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003502- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
3503 Perhaps after ten seconds?
3504- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035058 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
3506 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035079 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
3508 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
3509 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
3510 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
3511 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035128 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
3513 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
35148 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
3515 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
3516 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
3517 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
3518 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
3519 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003520- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003521 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035228 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
3523 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
3524 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
3525 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
3526 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
3527 error messages, printing text, etc.
35288 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
3529 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
3530 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
3531
3532
3533Screen updating:
35347 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
3535 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
3536 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
3537- screen_line():
3538 - insert/delete character stuff.
3539 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
3540- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
3541 dragging the status line with the mouse).
3542- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
3543 waiting for a character.
35448 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
3545 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
3546 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
35477 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003548
3549
3550Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020035518 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035526 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
3553- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
3554 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
3555 windows.
35567 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
3557 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
3558 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
3559- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
3560 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
3561 (Goldfarb)
3562- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
3563 bound windows.
3564- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
3565 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00003566- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003567- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
3568 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
3569 of lines but not with a single line).
3570
3571
3572Autoconf:
35738 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
35748 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
3575 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
3576- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
3577 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
3578- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
3579- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
3580- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
3581
3582
3583Perl interface:
35848 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035857 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
35867 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
35876 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
3588
3589
3590Shared libraries:
35916 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
3592 :libload internal-name libname
3593 :libunload internal-name
3594 :liblist
3595 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3596 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3597 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
35986 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
3599
3600
3601Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000036029 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
3603 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
3604 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
3605 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
3606 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000036078 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
3608 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
3609 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02003610 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003611 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000036127 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
3613 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
3614 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036158 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
36168 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
3617 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036187 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
3619 window for each tag.
36207 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
36217 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
3622 bottom" search message.
36237 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
3624 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
3625 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00003626- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
3627- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003628- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
3629 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
3630 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036317 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
3632 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
3633 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
3634 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
36357 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
3636 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
3637 :tagargs clear
3638 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
3639 matching).
36407 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
3641 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
3642 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
3643 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
36447 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
3645 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
36467 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
3647 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
3648 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003649
3650
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003651Win32 GUI:
36528 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
3653 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036547 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
3655 (Mike McCollister)
36568 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
3657 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
3658 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
3659 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
3660 common part of the path.
36618 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
36628 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
3663 gettext and menus work.
36648 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
3665 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02003666 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003667 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
36688 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
3669 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
36708 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
3671 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
36727 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
3673 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
36747 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
36757 <Esc> should close a dialog.
36767 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
3677 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
3678 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
3679 prompts.
36807 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
3681 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
3682 the file added into an already running Vim.
36837 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
3684 functions to find the window title.
3685
3686
3687GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020036888 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003689- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
3690 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
36917 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
36928 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
36936 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
36948 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
3695 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
36969 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
36977 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
36988 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
3699 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
37008 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
3701 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
3702 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
37038 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
3704 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
37058 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
3706 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
3707 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
3708 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037097 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
37108 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
3711 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000037127 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
3713 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
3714 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037158 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
37168 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00003717 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037188 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
37198 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
37208 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
3721 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
3722 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
37237 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
3724 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
3725 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
37267 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
3727 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
37287 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
3729 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
3730 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
3731 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
37327 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
3733 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
37347 Should support multi-column menus.
3735- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
3736 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
3737- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
37388 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
37396 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
3740 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
37417 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
37427 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
3743 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
3744 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
37457 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
37468 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
3747 name can be chosen free.
37487 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
3749 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
37506 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
3751 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
3752 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
3753 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
3754 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
3755 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
3756 things.
37577 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
3758 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037597 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003760 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003761- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
3762 where it was started from?
37637 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
3764
3765
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003766Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020037679 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
3768 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003769- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010037708 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
3771 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
3772 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
3773 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
37748 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
3775 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000037767 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
3777 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
3778 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
3779 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000037807 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000037818 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
3782 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037838 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
3784 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
3785 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000037867 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
3787 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
3788 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037898 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
3790 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
3791 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037927 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option
3793 name?
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000037948 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
3795 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037968 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037976 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
3798 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000037997 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038007 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003801 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
3802 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
3803 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038045 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
3805 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
3806 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
38077 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
3808 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
3809 file.
38108 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
3811 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
3812 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003813- Add events to autocommands:
3814 Error - When an error happens
3815 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003816 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00003817 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
3818 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003819 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00003820 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00003821 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
3822 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003823 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00003824 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003825 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003826 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
3827 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
3828 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
3829 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003830 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003831 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
3832 the char.
3833 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
3834 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
3835 file from CVS).
3836 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
3837 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
3838 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
3839 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
3840 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
3841 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003842 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
3843 changes.
3844 WinResized - After a window has been resized
3845 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00003846- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003847 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003848 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003849 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
3850 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
3851 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
3852 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
3853 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
3854
3855
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003856Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003857- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
3858 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003859- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
3860 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
3861 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
3862 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
3863 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003864- Ideas from others:
3865 http://www.wholetomato.com/
3866 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
3867 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
3868 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
3869 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
3870 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
3871 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
3872 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
3873 Uses Perl for C++.
3874 Uses ctags to find the info:
3875 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
3876 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
3877 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
3878 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
3879 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
3880 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003881 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003882 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
3883- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
3884
3885
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003886Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003887- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000038887 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
3889 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000038907 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
3891 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
3892 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038938 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
3894 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
38959 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
3896 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
3897 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038988 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
3899 - ignore/match case
3900 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039018 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
3902 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
3903 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
3904 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
3905 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
3906 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039078 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000039087 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
3909 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039108 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
3911 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
3912 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
3913 Should work for C++ and Java.
3914 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
39157 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
39167 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
3917 instead of words.
39188 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
39198 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
3920 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
39218 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
3922 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003923- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
3924 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003925- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
3926 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
3927 wildcards in the file name)?
3928- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
3929- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
3930- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
3931 be in another file).
3932- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
3933- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
3934- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
3935 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
3936- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
3937- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
3938- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003939- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
3940
3941
3942Command line editing:
39437 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
3944 line.
39458 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
3946 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
3947 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
3948- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
3949 lines wraps to start of line).
3950- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
3951 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
3952 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
3953 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
3954 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
3955 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
3956 cmdwin does now already.
3957 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
3958 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
3959 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
3960 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
3961 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
3962 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
3963 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
3964 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
3965 Problems:
3966 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
3967 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
3968 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
3969 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
3970 - Normal: no ":" commands?
3971 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
3972 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
3973 character in first column?
3974 - Implementation ideas:
3975 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
3976 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
3977 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
3978 - sync undo after entering a command line?
3979 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
3980 Mode.
3981
3982
3983Command line completion:
39848 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
39858 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
3986 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
39878 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
3988 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039898 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
3990 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039917 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
3992 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003993- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
3994- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
3995 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039968 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
3997 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
39987 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
3999 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4000- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4001 identifiers (Webb).
40028 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4003 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
40047 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4005 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4006- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4007 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4008- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4009 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4010 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004011
4012
4013Command line history:
4014- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4015 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4016 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
4017 completely resulted from one mapping.
4018- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4019 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4020
4021
4022Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000040239 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4024 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4025 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040268 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4027 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4028 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4029 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4030 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040318 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4032 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4033 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040347 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4035 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004036- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020040379 Can't use multi-byte characters for 'matchpairs'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040387 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4039 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4040- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4041 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4042 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4043 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4044 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4045 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4046- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4047 Normal mode.
4048- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4049 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4050 are used.
4051- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4052- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4053- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4054
4055
4056'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010040579 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4058 char * veryLongName =
4059 "very long string"
4060 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040618 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000040628 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
4063 long_type foo =
4064 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040658 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
4066 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00004067 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040688 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
4069 func(
4070 new String[] {
4071 "asdf",
4072 "asdf"
4073 }
4074 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010040758 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
4076 (Chow Loong Jin)
4077 namespace {
4078 int
4079 func(int arg) {
4080 }
4081 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040826 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
4083 func( arg1
4084 , arg2
4085 , arg3
4086 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000040877 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004088 func(
4089 int x) // indent like "(4"
4090 {
4091 if (a
4092 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040939 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
4094 if (a)
4095 {
4096 if (b)
4097 {
4098 // {
4099 }
4100 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00004101 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
4102 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
4103 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004104- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004105 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
41067 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
4107- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
4108 line).
4109- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
4110- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
4111 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004112- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
4113 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
4114- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
4115 code), unless the line starts with "*".
4116- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
4117- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
4118 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
41198 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
4120 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
4121 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
4122- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
4123- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
4124 lines start with "\item".
4125- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
4126 /* here is a comment that
4127 is just autoindented, and
4128 nothing else */
4129- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
41307 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
4131 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
4132 indents.
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00004133 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and spaces used for indent,
4134 when the indent remains the same or increases.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004135
4136
4137Java:
41388 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
4139 Odendahl?
41408 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
4141 "[i" commands and friends.
4142- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
4143 (Jason)
4144- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
4145 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
4146
4147
4148'comments':
41498 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
4150 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
4151 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
4152 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004153 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
4154 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041557 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
4156 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
41577 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
41586 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
4159 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
4160 regexp is used.
41618 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
4162 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
4163
4164
4165Virtual edit:
41668 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041677 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
4168
4169
4170Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041718 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041728 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000041738 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00004174 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000041758 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
4176 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004177 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
4178 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000041798 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041807 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
4181 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041828 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
4183 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041848 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
4185 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
4186 the end of the line or before a ".".
41877 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
4188 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
41897 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
4190 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041916 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
41925 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
4193 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
4194 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
4195 cursor is on.
4196
4197
4198Select mode:
41998 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
4200 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
42017 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02004202 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042037 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
4204 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
4205 contains 'C' or 'A'.
4206 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
4207 normal_cmd().
4208 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4209 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4210
4211
4212Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020042138 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
4214 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004215- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
4216 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
4217 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004218- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
4219 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
4220 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042218 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004222 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004223 where needed.
42247 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
4225 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
42267 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
4227 of each selected line.
42288 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
42298 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4230 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4231 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
42328 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
4233 Ben Godfrey)
42347 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
4235 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
42367 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
4237 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
42387 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
4239 Young is working on this)
42407 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004241 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004242 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
42438 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
4244 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
42457 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
4246 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
4247 option!
42487 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
4249 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
4250 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
4251 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
4252 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
4253 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
4254 without changing the column.
42556 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042567 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
4257 current buffer.
42587 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
42596 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
4260 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
42616 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042626 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004263 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004264 or other special character.
42656 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
4266
4267
4268More advanced repeating commands:
4269- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000042707 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004271 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02004272- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004273- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004274 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
4275 "y." will repeat last yank.
4276 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
4277 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
4278 and/or pick an older command.
4279- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
4280
4281
4282Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042838 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
4284 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
4285 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
42868 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
42877 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
4288 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042898 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
4290 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
42918 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000042927 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042938 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
4294 entering search strings.
42958 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
4296 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
4297 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042988 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
4299 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043008 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
4301 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
4302 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
43037 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043047 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
4305 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043066 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
4307 abbreviations are to be used.
4308- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
4309 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
4310 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004311- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
4312 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
4313 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
4314 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
4315 Or implicit:
4316 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004317- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
4318 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
4319 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004320- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
4321 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
4322- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
4323 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
43246 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
4325 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
4326 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
4327 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004328- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
4329 non-replace Insert mode?
4330- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004331- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
4332- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
4333 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
4334- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004335 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004336- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
4337 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
4338- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
4339- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
4340 ":freekeys".
4341- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
4342
4343
4344Incsearch:
4345- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
4346- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
4347 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
4348 up every time.
4349- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
4350 folds when going to another line.
4351- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
4352 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
4353 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
4354 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
4355- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
4356 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
4357
4358
4359Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010043609 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000043618 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00004362 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004363 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004364 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004365 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010043669 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
4367 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010043688 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
4369 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000043708 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
4371 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
4372 Perl does it this way:
4373 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
4374 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
4375 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
4376 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043778 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
4378 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
4379 number?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010043808 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
4381 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
4382 before each line.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000043837 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
4384 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000043858 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
4386 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000043877 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004388 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
4389 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
4390 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
43917 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
4392 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000043937 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004394 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043957 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
4396 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043978 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
4398 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
43998 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
4400 line.
44017 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
4402 example.
44038 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
4404 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
4405- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
4406 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
4407 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
4408 Alternative: use matchit.vim
44098 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
44108 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
4411 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
4412 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
44137 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
4414 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000044157 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
4416 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044178 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
4418 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044198 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
4420 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044218 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
4422 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
4423 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
4424 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004425- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
4426 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004427- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
4428 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
4429- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
4430 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
4431 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
4432 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044338 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
4434 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004435- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
4436 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044378 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
4438 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
4439 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004440- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
4441 i ignore case
4442 I use case
4443 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
4444 v use Vi regexp syntax
4445 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
4446 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
4447 Perl uses these too:
4448 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
4449 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
4450 o compile only once (Perl only)
4451 s single line expression (we don't need it)
4452 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
4453 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
4454 following command.
4455 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
4456- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
4457 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
4458 for search string)?
44597 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
4460 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
4461- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
4462 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
4463- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
4464 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
4465- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
4466- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004467 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004468 a for the next file in the argument list
4469 f for file in the buffer list
4470 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004471 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
4472 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004473 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
4474 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
4475- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044767 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004477 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044787 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
4479 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
4480 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
4481 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
44826 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
4483 effects.
44847 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
4485 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
4486 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000044877 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004488 Also ":dselect".
4489
4490
4491Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010044929 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
4493 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
4494 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044959 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
4496 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020044978 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
4498 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
4499 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
45008 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
4501 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045028 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
4503 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
4504 timestamp?
4505 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
4506 indent?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045078 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
4508 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
4509 was changed outside of Vim.
4510 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
4511 storing the differences.
Bram Moolenaar23c347c2010-07-14 20:57:00 +02004512 Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list
4513 of about 10 last reloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004514- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
4515 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004516- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
4517 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
4518 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
45198 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
4520 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
4521 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
4522 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
45238 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
4524 only remember the lines that really changed.
45257 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
4526 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
4527 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
4528 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004529- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
4530 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
4531- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
4532 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
4533- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
4534 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
4535 [-99].
4536- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
4537- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004538- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
4539 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
4540
4541
4542Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045437 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
4544 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
4545 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
4546 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
45478 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
4548 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
45498 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
4550 inode too.
45517 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004552 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
4553 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045547 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
4555 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
4556- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
4557 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
4558- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
4559 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
45607 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
4561 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
45627 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
4563 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
45648 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000045658 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004566 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
45677 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
4568 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010045698 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
4570 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
4571 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004572
4573
4574Swap (.swp) files:
45758 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
4576 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
4577 there are short file name problems.
45788 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
4579 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
45808 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
45818 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004582 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004583 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
4584 file the same as the actual file?
4585 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045867 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
4587 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
45887 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004589 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004590 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
4591 enough room.
45927 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
4593 or /var/preserve.
4594- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
4595 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
4596- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
4597 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
4598- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
4599 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
4600 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
4601 cached list of which line is where.
4602
4603
4604Viminfo:
46057 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
4606 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
4607 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000046088 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
4609 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
4610 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046118 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
4612 name. (Schild)
46138 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
46148 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000046158 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046168 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
4617 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
4618 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
4619 this?
46207 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
46217 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
4622 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
46236 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
4624 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
4625 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
4626- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
4627 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
4628
4629
4630Modelines:
46318 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
4632 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
4633 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004634- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
4635 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
4636 'shiftwidth'.
4637- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
4638 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004639- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
4640 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
4641 modeline setting.
4642- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
4643 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
4644- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
4645 .cpp files.
4646- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
4647 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
4648- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
4649 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
4650
4651
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004652Sessions:
46538 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
4654 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
46557 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
4656 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046578 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
4658 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046598 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
4660 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
4661 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000046627 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
4663 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000046647 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00004665
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004666
4667Options:
46687 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
4669 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046708 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
4671 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
4672 also be supported.
46738 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
4674 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
4675 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
46767 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
46777 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
4678 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01004679 Also do 'sidescrolloff'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004680
4681
4682External commands:
46838 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
4684 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
46854 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
4686 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
4687 -f).
46884 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
46894 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
4690 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
46914 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
4692
4693
4694Multiple Windows:
46957 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
46968 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
4697 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
46987 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
4699 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
4700 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000047017 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
4702 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000047037 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
4704 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047056 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
4706 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004707 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004708 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
47097 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
4710 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
4711 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
4712 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
4713- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
4714 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
4715 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
4716 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
4717
4718
4719Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047208 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047218 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
4722 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000047238 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 +000047248 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
4725 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
47268 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
4727 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
4728 the mark was set.
47297 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
4730 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
4731 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
4732 ":browse marks"?
47336 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047347 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
4735 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
47367 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
4737 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
47387 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
4739 command).
47407 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
4741 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
4742 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
4743 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
47445 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
4745 mappings.
47466 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
4747 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
4748 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
4749
4750
4751Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020047527 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004753 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004754- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
4755 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000047568 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047577 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
4758 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
4759
4760
4761Writing files:
4762- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
4763 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
4764 shortname conversion.
47658 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
47668 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
4767 file.
47688 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
4769 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
4770 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047716 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
4772 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
47736 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
4774 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
47756 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
4776 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000047778 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004778 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
47797 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
4780 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
47817 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
4782 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
4783 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
4784 waiting for a character to be typed).
47858 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
4786 line of the window, like "[time]".
4787 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
4788 Automatic and/or with a command.
4789
4790
4791Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000047928 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
4793 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000047948 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004795 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
4796- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
4797- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
47988 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
4799 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004800- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004801 :s///N substitutes N times.
4802- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
4803 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
4804 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
48057 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
4806 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
4807 last line column 5.
48085 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
4809 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
4810 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
4811 (Stanislav Sitar)
4812
4813
4814Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048158 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
48167 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
48178 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
4818 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
4819 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004820- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
4821- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
4822 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
4823- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
4824- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
4825
4826
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004827Argument list:
48286 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
4829 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
4830 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
48316 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
4832
4833
4834Registers:
48358 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
48368 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
4837 around in windows.
48388 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
4839 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
4840 for every line.
48416 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
4842 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
4843 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
4844- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
4845 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
4846- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
4847 leader when line wraps?
4848- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
4849 line in the range.
4850- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
4851 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
48528 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
4853 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004854
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004855
4856Debug mode:
48577 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
48588 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000048598 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048607 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00004861 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
4862 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
4863 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048647 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
48657 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
4866
4867
4868Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000048697 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
4870 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
4871 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
4872 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
4873 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
4874 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
4875 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004876 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000048777 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
4878 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000048797 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
4880 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048818 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
4882 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000048837 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
4884 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
4885 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00004886- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00004887 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000048887 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
4889 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010048907 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
4891 window as a buffer-tab selection.
48928 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048937 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
4894 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
4895 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004896 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
4897 Assign them to a v: variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048987 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
4899 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
49008 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
4901 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049026 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049038 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
4904 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
4905 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
4906 in this Vim.
49078 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004908 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049098 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
4910 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
4911 have it apply to the following command.
49128 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
4913 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
4914 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
4915 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049167 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
4917 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049187 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
4919 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
4920 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
4921 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049226 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
49238 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
49249 Support ACLs on more systems.
49257 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
4926 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049277 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
4928 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
4929 (truncated to fit in the space).
49307 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
49318 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
49328 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
4933 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000049347 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004935 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
49367 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
4937 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049387 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049397 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
49407 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049418 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
49428 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
4943 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
4944 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
4945 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
49468 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
49476 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
4948 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004949 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049508 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049518 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
4952 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
4953 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
4954 does something like this. (Shah)
49557 Use growarray for replace stack.
49567 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
4957 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
49583 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049597 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
4960 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010049617 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
4962 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004963- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
4964- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
4965- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
4966- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
49677 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
4968 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
4969- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
4970 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02004971- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004972- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
4973 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
4974- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
4975 call "play newbeep.au").
4976- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
4977 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
4978 (Bhatt).
4979- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
4980 blockwise registers).
4981- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
4982 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
4983- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
4984 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
4985 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
4986 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004987- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049887 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
4989 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
4990- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
4991 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
4992 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
4993 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
4994 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000049958 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
4996 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049978 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
4998 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
4999 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5000 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5001 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5002- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005003- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050047 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5005 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5006- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5007 not in column 1.
50086 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5009 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
50107 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5011- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005012- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005013 :redir #> bufname
5014 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005015- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5016 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005017- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5018 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5019 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
50206 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5021 console? (Klaus Hast)
5022- Add :delcr command:
5023 *:delcr*
5024 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
5025 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
5026 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
5027 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
5028 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
5029 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
5030- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
5031- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
5032 characters from 'isprint'.
5033- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
5034- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
5035 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
5036- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
5037 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
5038 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
5039- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
5040- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
5041 Nvi).
5042- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
5043 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
50447 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
5045- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
5046 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
50476 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
5048- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
5049 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
5050 macro).
5051- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005052- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
5053 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
5054- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
50558 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005056- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
5057- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
5058- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
5059 if it is not the first or last window.
5060- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
5061 there is one) instead of the file itself.
50627 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
5063 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
5064 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
5065- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
5066- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005067 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005068 many percent down the windows).
5069- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
5070 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
5071 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02005072 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005073- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
5074 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
5075- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
5076 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
5077- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
5078- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
5079- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
5080 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050818 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
5082 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
5083 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
5084 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
5085 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005086- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
5087 t_bs is set? (Webb)
5088- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005089 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
5090- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005091 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
5092 (Webb).
5093- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005094 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005095- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
5096 hex codes like 0xff).
5097- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
5098 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
5099 the last TYPED command.
5100- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
5101- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
5102- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
5103 should also work?
5104- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
51058 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
5106 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
5107 name.
5108- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
5109 trailing '.'.
5110- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
5111 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
5112 find_file_in_path().
5113- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
5114 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
5115- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
5116- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
5117 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
5118- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005119 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005120- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
5121 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
5122 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005123- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
5124- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
5125- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
5126 to the minimal size.
5127- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
5128- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
5129- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
5130- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
5131- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005132- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
5133 entered)?
5134- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
5135 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005136- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005137- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
5138- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
5139- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
5140- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
5141- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
5142 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005143- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051448 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
5145 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
5146 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
5147 or in octal.
51487 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
5149 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005150- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005151 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
5152- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
5153- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
5154 insert line command).
5155- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
5156- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
5157- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
5158- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
5159- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
5160 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005161- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005162 yet.
5163- Implement 'redraw' option.
5164- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
5165 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051667 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
5167 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00005168 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
5169 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051708 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
5171 do it.
5172- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
5173- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
5174 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
5175- Add text justification option.
5176- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
5177- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
5178 off".
5179- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
5180- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
5181- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005182 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005183- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02005184- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005185- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
5186- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
5187 commands.
5188- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
5189- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
5190- :table command (Webb)
5191- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005192- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
5193- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5194- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5195- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5196- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5197 (Demirel).
5198- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
5199- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
5200 for use in macro's and the like.
5201- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005202 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005203- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005204 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005205- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005206 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005207 a window to become smaller (Webb).
5208- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
5209 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005210- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005211 mkopttab to make option table?
5212- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
5213 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
5214- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
5215 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005216- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005217 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
5218- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
5219 cursor?
5220- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
5221- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
52225 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
5223 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000052248 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
5225 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
5226 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
5227 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
5228 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052298 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
5230 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
5231 (Netherton)
52326 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
5233 space after "(", for example.
52345 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
5235 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
5236 (Servatius Brandt)
5237
5238
5239From Elvis:
5240- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
5241- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005242- Search patterns:
5243 \@ match word under cursor.
5244 but do:
5245 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5246 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
52478 ":window" command:
5248 :win + next window (up)
5249 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5250 :win - previous window (down)
5251 :win -- idem, wrapping
5252 :win nr to window number "nr"
5253 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
52547 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5255 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5256
5257
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005258From xvi:
5259- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5260- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5261
5262
5263From vile:
5264- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5265- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5266 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5267
5268
5269Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005270- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5271 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
5272 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
5273 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5274 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005275- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5276 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5277- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5278 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5279 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
5280 current layout mirrored.
5281- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
5282- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
5283 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
5284- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
5285- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
5286 font in each top-level window.
5287- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
5288- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
5289- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
5290- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
5291 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
5292- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
5293 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
5294 mentioned in the tags file.
5295 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
5296 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
5297- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
5298 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
5299- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
5300 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
53014 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
5302 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
5303 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
5304 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005305 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005306 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
5307 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
5308- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
5309 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
5310 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
5311
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00005312When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
5313empty line would appear.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005314
5315vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
5316vim: set fo+=n :