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Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 Jan 19
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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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30 *known-bugs*
31-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
32
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +000033Hashtable implementation:
34- Use hashtable for variables and syntax keywords.
35
36":grep": display progress (filename, every second or so)
37Can ":grep" made faster somehow? Do profiling.
38
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +000039Sanity check of eval.c:
40- Go through the code for magic braces.
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000041
42Mention Rsync command on runtime.php page:
43 rsync -avzcP --delete --exclude="dos" --delete-excluded ftp.nluug.nl::Vim/runtime/ vim63-runtime
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +000044
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000045netrw plugin:
46- provide :Explore and :Sexplore like the old file explorer?
47- alignment of long listing isn't very good.
48
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +000049Better way to get temp file for tcltags and vimspell scripts. (javier Pena)
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +000050Possibly leave out code for temp directory.
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +000051
Bram Moolenaar8a283e52005-01-06 23:28:25 +000052When allocating a new variable, a search is done for an empty entry. May
53waste a lot of time if there isn't one. Keep an index of available entry,
54none available, or unknown.
55
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +000056patch for QuickFixCmdPre and QuickFixCmdPost autocommands. (Ciaran McCreesh,
572005 Jan 1)
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Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +000059New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +000060- add remark in version7.txt
61- check if it works for pixmap loaded from a file.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +000062
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +000063Explain Lists, Dicts, |:for| etc. in the user manual |usr_41.txt|.
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Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +000065Awaiting response:
66- Patch for mch_FullName() also in Vim 6.3? os_mswin.c
67- Win32: "gvim -V100" should use dialog with scrollbar. Using
68 gui_mch_dialog() would be good, but need to move display_errors() to after
69 creating the window, so that s_hwnd is valid.
70 How to add a scrollbar to the dialog?
71- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
72 the screen.
73- Included NetBeans patches (Gordon Prieur, Oct 20)
74 See two messages for list of changed files. Additionally:
75 doc/eval.txt
76 Docs for message E680.
77 Docs for ":nbkey".
78 Asked Gordon to send the differences again, some parts apparently are
79 missing.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +000080
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000081
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000082PLANNED FOR VERSION 7.0:
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000083
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000084- For string variables, use length instead of NUL termination?
85 + can include NUL characters
86 - setline() will have problems with NL vs NUL.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +000087 Can use list of numbers instead (inefficient though).
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +000088 Also: for strings up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, VAR_STRINGX.
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +000089- new DATA TYPES:
90 - None? (or use empty string?)
Bram Moolenaarbac234e2005-01-17 22:21:07 +000091 See ~/vim/ideas.txt.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000092- Add SPELLCHECKER, with easy to add support for many languages.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000093 8 Add spell checking. Use "ispell -a" somehow.
94 ~/vim/patches/wm_vim-5_4d.zip can be used as an example (includes
95 ispell inside Vim). Gautam Iyer has an example with "aspell".
96 "engspchk" from Charles Campbell is a good way. Support for
97 approximate-regexps will help (agrep http://www.tgries.de/agrep/).
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000098 - Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to
99 existing syntax items (to add @Spell). Add ":syntax contains
100 {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn cluster" but change
101 the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
102 - Keep wordlist in syntax group, load it only once and use it several
103 times later. Sort of global syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000104 - Use wordlists from openoffice (myspell). Work together with them to
105 update the wordlist. (Adri Verhoef, Aad Nales)
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +0000106 - Patch from Marcin Dalecki. (2004 Dec) Uses ispell
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000107 implements "undercurl" attribute. But how to set its color?
108 Perhaps use "guicurl=Red" instead?
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +0000109 If underline and undercurl are both there use undercurl only.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000110- REFACTORING: The main() function is very long. Move parts to separate
111 functions, especially loops. Ideas from Walter Briscoe (2003 Apr 3, 2004
112 Feb 9).
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +0000113 Move the printing stuff to hardcopy.c.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +0000114- Improve the interface between the generic GUI code and the system-specific
115 code. Generic code handles text window with scrollbars, system-specific
116 code menu, toolbar, etc.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000117- Support using "**" in filename for ":next", ":vimgrep", etc., so that a
118 directory tree can be searched.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000119- Store messages to allow SCROLLING BACK for all commands. And other "less"
120 like commands.
121- "INTELLISENSE". First cleanup the Insert-mode completion.
122 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
123 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +0000124 of http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000125 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000126 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000127 Can't call it Intellisense, it is a trademark by Microsoft.
128 Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
129 - It's not possible to have one solution for all languages. Design an
130 interface for completion plugins. The matches can be done in a
131 Vim-script list.
132 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
133 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
134 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
135 - Use ctags for other languages. Writing a file could trigger running
136 ctags, merging the tags of the changed file.
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000137 Also see "Visual Assist" http://www.wholetomato.com/products:
138 - Put the list of choices right under the place where they would be
139 inserted.
140 - Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000141- UNDO TREE: keep all states of the text, don't delete undo info.
142 When making a change, instead of clearing any future undo (thus redo)
143 info, make a new branch.
144 To navigate through the undo tree number the states of the text
145 sequentially and make it possible to go through the tree in that order.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +0000146 Use "g+++" to go forward, "g---" to go backward. Can mix - and +.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000147 Could also use timestamps (to show the time and/or jump to a state five
148 minutes ago). (David Schweikert)
149 To go from one state to another: backtrack to a common state, then forward
150 again.
151 Only difficult thing: When going back in time, how to find the previous
152 text state in the tree?
153 Show the list of changes in a window to be able to select a version?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000154- PERSISTENT UNDO: store undo in a file.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000155 Use timestamps, so that a version a certain time ago can be found and info
156 before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum time to
157 keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc. For the file use dot and
158 extension: ".filename.un~" (like swapfile but "un~" instead of "swp").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001597 Support WINDOW TABS. Works like several pages, each with their own
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000160 split windows. Patch for GTK 1.2 passed on by Christian Michon, 2004 Jan 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000161 Don't forget to provide an "X" to close a tab.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000162 Also for the console!
163 In Emacs these are called frames. Could also call them "pages".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +0000164 Use "1gt" - "99gt" to switch to a tab?
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000165 Simple patch for GTK by Luis M (nov 7).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000166- EMBEDDING: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
167 For Xwindows this can be done with XReparentWindow().
168 For GTK Neil Bird has a patch to use Vim like a widget.
169- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
170 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
171- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye,
172 assisted by Mikolaj Machowski. Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it
173 generic. Also found here: http://skawina.eu.org/mikolaj/vimgdb
174 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
175 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
176 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
177 other window.
178 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
179 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
180 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
181 in terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000182- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
183 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
184 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
185 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000186- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
187 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
188 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000189- Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
190 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
191 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001928 Support four composing/combining characters, needed for Hebrew. (Ron Aaron)
193 Add the 'maxcombining' option to set the nr. of composing characters.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000194 At the same time support more colors (use two bytes when necessary).
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000195- Add a few more things to 'diffopt': "horizontal", "vertical",
196 "foldcolumn". (Benji Fisher, 2004 Jun 21)
197- FileChangedShellPost autocommand event: after (not) reloading a changed
198 file. Can be used to update statusline oslt.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000199- VimResized autocmd event: When the Vim window has been resized (SIGWINCH)
200 patch from Yakov Lerner, 2003 July 24.
201 It's not clear that this doesn't cause problems when the executed
202 commands do something like changing 'lines'. Esp. because the
203 screen has not yet been allocated with the new size.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +0000204- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
205 the Vim shell project can help: http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00002068 When a file is change outside of Vim and unmodified in Vim there is no
207 simple way to automatically reload the file. Either add an option for
208 this or make it simple to have the FileChangedShell invoke the normal
209 action, telling it what to do.
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000210- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
Bram Moolenaar798c5a72005-01-16 22:06:30 +0000211- Mac: Unicode input and display (Eckehard Berns, 2004 June 27)
212 Other patch from Da Woon Jung, 2005 Jan 16.
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +00002138 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
214 New patch 2004 Jun 16
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +00002159 Add cursor-column highlighting. Enable it with 'cursorcolumn' option,
216 set highlighting with "CursorColumn" group. Useful for aligning text.
217 Also cursor-row highlighting. Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto for
218 underlining the cursor line: 2004 Jun 17. Should use highlight group
219 instead.
220 Alternative: when 'number' is set highlight the number of the current
221 line.
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +00002227 Make ":startinsert" command work directly for functions and scripts?
223 Also make it possible to append (it's difficult at end of line).
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000224- When using 'incsearch" CTRL-R CTRL-W gets the word under the cursor, but
225 the part that already matched is doubled then. Remove the part of the
226 word that would be doubled. Make it work line CTRL-N in Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000227- Add Lua interface? (Wolfgang Oertl)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000228- "onemore" flag in 'virtualedit': move cursor past end of line. Patch by
229 Mattias Flodin (2004 Jul 30)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000230- In a :s command multi-byte characters should also be upper/lower cased
231 with \u, \U, etc.
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000232
233Support ":set syntax=cpp.doxygen"? Suggested patch by Michael Geddes (9 Aug
2342004). Should also work for 'filetype'.
235
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000236For manipulating buffers without opening a new window, support Virtual
237windows. Example:
238 :virtwin let l = GetBufLine(4, 10)
239 :fun GetBufLine(bufnr, lnum)
240 : exe "buffer " . a:bufnr
241 : return getline(lnum)
242 :endfun
243The getline() and setline() functions could work for other buffers, using a
244Virtual window.
245A Virtual window only exists for one command. There can be several (for
246nested commands). The window works as if it comes after the last window, size
247is the Vim window size, but it's never displayed.
248
249Win32: In the generated batch files, use $VIMRUNTIME if it's set. Examples by
250Mathias Michaelis (2004 Sep 6)
251Also place vimtutor.bat in %windir%?
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000252
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000253Add gui_mch_browsedir() for Motif, KDE and Mac OS/X.
254
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000255HTML indenting can be slow, find out why. Any way to do some kind of
256profiling for Vim script?
257
Bram Moolenaar0d660222005-01-07 21:51:51 +0000258List data type performance:
259- Cache the length of a List?
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000260- Cache the last used index?
Bram Moolenaar0d660222005-01-07 21:51:51 +0000261- Use blocks of items, so that finding an item by index is faster?
262
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000263Dictionary data type performance:
264- Use a hash to locate items
265
Bram Moolenaarf1ab3802005-01-15 22:17:32 +0000266Updated Ruby interface. (Ryan Paul)
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000267
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000268Awaiting updated patches:
269 --- awaiting updated patch ---
270 7 Add patch from Wall for this one ( ~/Mail/oldmail/wall/in.00019 ):
271 'flipcase' variable: upper/lowercase pairs.
272 Insert comma's between pairs and allow a range, make it look like
273 'isfname'. E.g. ":set flipcase=a-zA-Z,xX,23-33:143-153". The colon to
274 separate the from and to part is optional.
275 Resp: no time now.
276 8 Add GTK 2.3 file dialog support. Patch by Grahame Bowland, 2004 Mar
277 15, but it doesn't use "initdir" or "dflt". (will update patch)
278 8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
279 Aric Blumer has a patch for this.
280 He will update the patch for 6.3.
281 Autocommands:
282 7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
283 Update 2004 Sep 6.
284 How does this work? Missing comments.
285 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
286 Update 2004 Sep 10
287 More docs. Search in 'runtimepath'?
288 How to get the messages into the .po files?
289 --- did not respond (yet) --
290 - Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
291 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31)
292 Asked for improvements 2004 Dec 20.
293 7 Make "5dd" on last-but-one-line not delete anything (Vi compatible).
294 Add flag in 'cpoptions' for this. When not present, "2dd" in the last
295 line should delete the last line. Patch from greenx 2002 Apr 11.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000296 8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
297 (28 feb 2002).
298 7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
299 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
300 - Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
301 for multi-byte characters.
302 - Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
303 - Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
304 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
305 been given values.
306 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
307 8 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
308 with an ESC sequence. Ideas in: ~/vim/patches/vikas.xtermcolors .
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +0000309 7 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
Bram Moolenaar6cc16192005-01-08 21:49:45 +0000310 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000311 - Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
312 line in between columns (e.g. for 'textwidth').
313 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
314 8 Add functions:
315 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
316 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
317 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
318 (2003 May 13)
319 system({cmd}, {expr}) Filter {expr} through the shell command
320 {cmd} and return the result.
321 (Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
322 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
323 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
324 7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
325 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
326 - Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
327 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000328 7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
329 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
330 8 Lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk (uncrypted).
331 Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23.
332 7 Support a stronger encryption. Jason Holt implemented AES (May 6 2003).
333 7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
334 8 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
335 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
336 7 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
337 Kotchan has a patch for it)
338 8 Add term entries for function keys on xterm with alt and ctrl (new in
339 pl 94). E.g., Control adds ";5" in "<Esc>[20;5~". Find a generic way
340 to prepend a modifier in console mode, to avoid having to specify each
341 individual modified key.
342 Steve Wall has a patch (2002 Mar 12) for adding function keys up to 37,
343 with modifiers.
344 8 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
345 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
346 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
347 7 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
348 - findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
349 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
350 incomplete patch Mar 18)
351 - Set user variables to the names of the actually used user vimrc file,
352 the first directory looked for user plugins/syntax files.
353 $MYVIMRC for .vimrc, $MYGVIMRC for .gvimrc, $MYRUNTIME/plugin for
354 runtime files?
355 Also: when the environment variable exists, use it. If it doesn't
356 exist, set it. Requires good names: $VIM_USER_VIMRC $VIM_USER_DIR
357 - The Replace dialog takes "\r" literal, unless "replace all" is used.
358 Need to escape backslashes.
359 Win32: the text to replace with isn't remembered.
360 - For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
361 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000362
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +0000363Check if file explorer can handle directory names and links with a single
364quote. (Nieko Maatjes, 2005 Jan 4)
365
366
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000367Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00003689 In Ex mode, "u" undoes all changes, not just the last one. (John Cowan)
3698 In Ex mode, an empty file doesn't have a first line, "1p" should fail.
3708 In Ex mode, "1,3" should print three lines.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003718 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
372 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
373 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
374 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
375 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
376 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
3778 ":change" in a single-line file adds an empty line. When the file used to
378 be longer a "~" line is displayed, but there really is an empty line.
379 (Haakon Riiser, 2003 Dec 3 and Dec 16)
3808 ":append" and ":insert" in an empty file add an extra empty line. (Haakon
381 Riiser, 2003 Dec 3) Test for ML_EMPTY.
3828 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
383 make Vim exit.
3847 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
385 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
386 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
3878 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
388 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
389 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
3906 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
391 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
392 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
3938 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
394 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
395 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
396 names in one buffer???
397 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
398 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
399 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
4007 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
401 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
402 command was one command.
4037 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
404 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
4057 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
4067 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
4077 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
408 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
4097 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
410 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
411 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
412 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
4137 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
4147 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
4157 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
416 to the match with the tag? Option?
4177 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
4187 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
419 (Sayre).
4207 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
421 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004227 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
423 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
424 match. Nvi can do it too.
4257 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
426 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
427 line 1\ line 2\\
428 line 2\ line 3\\
429 . line4/
4306 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
431 the way the shell is started?
4326 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
433 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
434
435
436GTK+ 1 (OK in GTK 2):
4378 When menus are disabled, 'm' removed from 'guioptions', Alt-F still pops
438 up the File menu. Cannot reproduce this: gives a warning for a NULL
439 pointer if the menu was never displayed.
4408 When using "gvim -geom 40x30" or setting 'columns' in .gvimrc or with a
441 GUIEnter autocommand, the width is still set to fit the toolbar. Also
442 happens when changing the font. How to avoid that the toolbar specifies
443 the minimal window width?
4448 When using a theme with different scrollbars (gtkstep), the scrollbars can
445 be too narrow. (Drazen Kacar)
4468 Font "7x14" has a bold version "7x14bold". Try to find the bold font by
447 appending "bold" when there are not 14 dashes.
448
449GTK+ GUI known bugs:
4508 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
451 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
452 creating a label?
4539 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
454 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
455 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
456 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
4577 DND doesn't work with KDE (also with GTK 1).
458
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000459KDE GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000460- There is no active maintenance and "yzis" is supposed to replace it.
461- With the default 'guifont' value bold text differs in size from normal
462 text, causing the display to be messed up.
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000463- Error messages when starting up. The "tip of the day" box is empty.
464- Encoding of menu items needs to be converted. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000465
466Win32 GUI known bugs:
4678 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
468 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
4698 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
470 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
471 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
4728 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
473 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
4747 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
475 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
476 "lucida_console:h8").
4776 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
478 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00004798 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
480 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
481 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004827 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
483 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
484 to use an opaque background in most places?
4858 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
486 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
487 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
4888 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
489 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
490 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
4917 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
492 2004 May 9)
4938 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
494 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
495 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
496 MS-Windows 98?
497 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
498 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
499 file: Window moves with the cursor!
500 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
5018 When activating the Vim window with mouse click, don't move cursor to
502 mouse position. Catch WM_MOUSEACTIVATE. (Luevelsmeyer)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005038 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it
504 appear. (Sami Salonen)
5058 Windows NT: writing to aux.* makes Vim hang. (Acevedo)
5068 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
507 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
508 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
509 doesn't work properly.
5108 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
511 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
512 appears in the right position. (Webb)
5139 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
514 button doesn't give popup menu.
515 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
516 selection.
517 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
518 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
519 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
5208 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
521 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
522 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
523 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
5248 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
525 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
526 be read.
5278 MessageBox used for error messages can be too big. There is no way to
528 scroll it, or even hit the OK button (but you can hit return).
529 Use a scrollable window.
5307 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
531 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
532 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
5337 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
534 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
535 scroll? Need to be able to get out of hit-enter prompt with the mouse
536 anyway.
5377 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
538 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
5397 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using
540 "/min" as the command name. (Rogall)
5416 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
5428 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
543 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
544 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
5458 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
546 know which keyboard is being used?
5477 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
548 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
549 area (Koloseike).
5508 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
551 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
552 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
553 the font name).
554
555
556Athena and Motif:
5579 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
558 required and it's missing?
5598 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
560 wrong.
5619 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
562 be off by default.
5639 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
564 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
565 flag.
5668 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
567 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
568 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
5698 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
5706 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
571 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
572 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
573 the tooltips work though...
5747 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
575 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
5768 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
577 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
578 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
579
580
581Athena GUI:
5829 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
583 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
584 through files.
5857 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
586 read long file names. (Schroeder)
5874 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
588 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
589 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
590 problem during a refresh.
5915 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
592 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
593 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
594 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
595 colors as it should.
596 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
597 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
598
599
600Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006017 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
602 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006038 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
604 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
605 (Phillipps)
606
607
608GUI:
6099 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
610 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
6119 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
612 e.g. on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
613 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
6149 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
615 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
6168 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
617 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
6188 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
619 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
620 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
6218 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
622 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
623 of where it is processing the output.
624 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
6258 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
626 doesn't work.
6278 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
6288 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006298 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
630 browse().
6318 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
632 use that code? Or use console dialog.
6338 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
634 error message disappears too quick.
6358 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
636 to avoid problems.
6378 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
638 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
639 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
6408 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
641 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
642 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
6438 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
644 up. Set erase character somehow?
6458 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
646 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
647 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
648 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
6498 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
6507 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
651 visible.
6527 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
653 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
6547 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
655 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
6568 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
657 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
6588 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
659 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
660 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
661 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
662- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
6634 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
664 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
665 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
666
667
668MSDOS/DJGPP:
6699 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
670 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
671 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
6728 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
673 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
6749 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
675 code and reduce static data.
6769 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
677 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
678 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
679 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
6809 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
681 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
682 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
683 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
684 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
685 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
686 Make this work like in Win32 console.
687 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
688 key code. Use a translation table?
6899 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
690 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
6918 Use DJGPP 2.03.
6928 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
693 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
6948 setlocale() is bogus.
6958 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
696 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
697 Windows 95 system!
6988 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
6997 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g. in keyword completion) on a 8088
700 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
7017 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
702 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
703 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
7048 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
705 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
7067 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
707 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
708 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
709 "[New file]".
7107 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
711 that is supported?
7128 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
7138 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
714 Briscoe)
715
716
717MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
7188 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
719 gen_expand_wildcards().
7208 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
721 Wagner.
7228 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
7238 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
724 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
7258 Should $USERPROFILE be used instead of $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH?
7268 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
727 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
7288 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
729 Should work like in the GUI version.
7308 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
731 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
7328 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
733 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
7348 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
735 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
736 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
7378 ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means directory "#bb"
738 in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
7398 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
740 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
741 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
742
743
744Windows 95:
7458 Editing a file by it's short file name and writing it, makes the long file
746 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
747 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
7488 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
749 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
750
751
752Win32 console:
7539 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
754 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
755 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
756 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
757 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
758 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
759 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
760 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
761 and the file is not saved.
762 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
763 long name.
7648 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
765 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
7667 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
767 besides the console.
7688 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
7699 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
770 <C-S-i>?
7719 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
772 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
7738 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
774 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00007757 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
776 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
777 exiting.
778
779
780Amiga:
7818 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
782 sequences.
7839 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
784 backslashes in result.
7858 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
786 all options, using white space separation.
787
788
789Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00007907 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard
791 Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff
792 Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00007937 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
794 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
795 (Jack)
796 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
7978 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear
798 to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17)
7998 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00008009 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher)
801 - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost.
8028 The Vim/About menu doesn't work.
8038 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV.
8048 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
8058 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
8069 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
807 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
8089 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when
809 scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher)
8109 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two
811 seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher)
8129 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
8138 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige)
8148 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige)
815
816
817"Small" problems:
8188 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
819 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
820 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000821 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00008229 When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
823 'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though
824 the fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to
825 check for the buffer to be unmodified.
8268 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the
827 error number, it's not a regular error message.
8287 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
829 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
8308 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
831 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
832 for redirection.
8337 There is no way to change directory and go back without changing the local
834 and/or global directory. Add a way to find out if the current window uses
835 a local directory. Add cdcmd() that returns ":cd" or ":lcd"?
8367 After running "make test" the window title is sometimes not restored.
837 Mostly sticks at "test3.in", but not always. Appears to happen more often
838 when compiled with Python (threading).
8397 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
840 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00008418 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
842 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
843 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
844 using the horizontal scrollbar.
8457 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
846 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
847 invocations belong together.
8488 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
849 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
8508 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
851 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
852 UnxUtils.zip archive.
853 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
854 Briscoe says it's not as good.
8558 'fillchars' doesn't work for multi-byte characters.
8569 Editing a XML file with a long line is extremely slow. Example file from
857 Randy Parker (Dec 13). Editing the dictionaries for engspchk plugin with
858 syntax highlighting is also very slow.
859 Limit the searching for items to a few hundred characters?
8608 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
861 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
8627 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names:
863 use "~/" when possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00008647 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
865 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
866 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
867 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
8688 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
869 defined.
8707 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
871 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
872 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
8737 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
874 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
875 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
8767 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
877 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
8787 "[p" doesn't work in Visual mode. (David Brown)
8797 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
880 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
8819 The argument <f-args> of a user command doesn't handle backslashes
882 properly. "Cmd \ e" is one argument, "Cmd \\ e" still is one argument.
883 "Cmd \ e" is two arguments, first one ending in space. (Kontra Gergely)
8849 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
885 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
886 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
887 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
888 script can be called.
8898 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
890 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
891 works.
8929 When a syntax region does not use "keepend" and a contained item does use
893 "extend", this makes the outer region stop at the end of the contained
894 region. (Lutz Eymers) Another example Nov 14 2002.
8958 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
896 CTRL-C.
8977 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X
898 server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp
899 of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK
900 doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it
901 won't work for GTK anyway.
9028 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error
903 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid.
9048 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
905 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
906 configurable?
9078 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
9089 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
909 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
910 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
9118 ":s!from!to!" works, but ":smagic!from!to!" doesn't. It sees the "!" as a
912 flag to to the command. Same for ":snomagic". (Johan Spetz)
9138 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
914 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
9158 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
916 always written, even when the original file already exists.
9177 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter,
918 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space.
9199 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
920 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
921 written.
9229 The "Error detected while processing modelines" message should have an
923 error number.
9247 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00009258 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
926 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
927 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
9288 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
929 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
9309 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
931 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
932 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
933 one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00009347 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
935 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
9367 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
937 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
9387 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
939 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
940 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
941 direction, not horizontally?
9428 When using CTRL-D after ":help", restrict the number of matches to a
943 thousand, otherwise using CTRL-D without an argument takes too long.
9448 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000945 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
946 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
947 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
948 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000949 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
950 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000951 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000952 - Should interpreted CTRL-L as a page break.
953 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
954 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
955 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
956 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
957 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
9588 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
959 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
9609 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
961 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
962 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00009638 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
964 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
9658 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
966 in lines that don't extend into the block?
9678 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
968 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
969 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
9708 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
971 'linebreak'.
9728 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
973 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
974 (Helmut Stiegler)
9758 With 'virtualedit' set, a blockwise Visual selection that starts and ends
976 in a tab, "<" shifts too much. (Helmut Stiegler)
9779 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
978 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
979 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
980 'magic' in history. (Margo)
9819 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
982 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
9839 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
984 isn't updated).
9859 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
9869 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
987 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
988 cause another redraw, etc.
9898 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
990 must escape special characters in the pattern.
9918 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
992 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
993 ":w!!" for that.
994 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
995 restore file to readonly afterwards.
9967 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
997 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
998 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
999 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
1000 clipboard)
10017 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
1002 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
1003 Waggoner)
10048 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
1005 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
1006 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000010076 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
1008 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
1009 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000010108 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
1011 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
10128 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
1013 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
1014 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
10158 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
1016 (e.g., ":w").
10178 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
1018 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
10198 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
1020 for ">>".
10218 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
1022 script in do_cmdline().
10238 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
1024 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
1025 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
1026 changes.
10278 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
1028 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
10298 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
1030 check for file marks. This can be slow.
10317 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
1032 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
1033 needed.
1034 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
10358 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
1036 to skip catch_signals()?
10379 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
1038 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
1039 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
1040 text?
10418 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
1042 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
10438 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
1044 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
10459 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
1046 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
1047 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
1048 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
1049 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
10507 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
1051 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
1052 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
1053 in the list?
10548 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
1055 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
1056 instead of on button down.
10578 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
10589 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
1059 reaching the end of the available buffer.
10608 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
1061 character is typed.
10628 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
1063 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
10648 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
1065 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
10668 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
1067 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
1068 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
1069 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
1070 cygwin bash.
10717 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
1072 Remember flags for backreferences.
10737 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
1074 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
10757 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
1076 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
10778 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
1078 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
10797 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
1080 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000010817 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
1082 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
1083 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
10847 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
1085 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
10868 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
1087 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
1088 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
10897 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
1090 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
10917 After ":%d" an undo reports the number of lines added as if there still
1092 was one line.
1093
1094
1095I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
10969 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
1097 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
1098 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001099
1100
1101Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00001102- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
1103 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
1104 "xterm" when exiting with an ESC sequence. Vim 2 obtains the old title
1105 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
1106 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
1107 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001108- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
1109 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
1110 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
1111 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
1112 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
1113- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
1114 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
1115 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
1116- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
1117 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
1118- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
1119 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
1120 character gets the highlighting.
1121- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
1122 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
1123- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
1124 (Jennings)
1125- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
1126- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
1127 errors. How do we get the rest?
1128- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
1129- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
1130 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
1131- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
1132 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
1133 first?
1134- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
1135 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
1136- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
1137 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
1138 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
1139- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
1140 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
1141 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
1142 (Benzinger).
1143- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
1144 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
1145 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
1146- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
1147 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
1148- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
1149 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
1150- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
1151 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
1152 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
1153 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
1154 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
1155 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
1156- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
1157 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
1158 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
1159- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
1160 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
1161 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
1162- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
1163 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
1164- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
1165 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
1166- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim
1167 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1168- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
1169 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
1170- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
1171 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
1172 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
1173 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
1174 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
1175- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
1176 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
1177 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
1178- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
1179 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
1180 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001181- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
1182 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 +00001183- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
1184 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
1185 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
1186 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
1187 in the vimrc file to be lost.
1188- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
1189 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
1190
1191--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
1192 *extensions-improvements*
1193
1194Documentation:
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000011958 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
1196 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000011978 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
1198 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000011998 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012007 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
12019 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
1202 - change to cursor position and curswant
1203 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
1204 - how it works for folded lines
1205 - how it works with multi-byte characters
12069 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
1207 work too.
12088 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
1209 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
1210 text.
12118 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
12127 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
1213 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
12147 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
1215 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
1216- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
1217
1218
1219Help:
1220- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
1221 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
1222- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
1223 to the other matches.
1224- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
1225- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
1226- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
1227 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
1228 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
1229 default contents.
1230- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
1231 height for the help window (and other windows).
1232- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
1233- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
1234- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
1235
1236
1237User Friendlier:
12388 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
1239 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
1240 Briscoe)
12418 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
12428 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
1243 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
1244 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
12458 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
1246 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
1247- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
1248 ":mkplugin <file>"?
12498 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
1250 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
1251 'runtimepath'.
1252 " Vim plugin
1253 <main plugin code>
1254 " >>> plugin help start <<<
1255 <plugin docs>
1256- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
12579 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
1258 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
1259 item?).
1260 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012618 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
12627 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
1263
1264
1265Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012668 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
1267 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
1268 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
12697 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
1270 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
1271 location.
1272
1273
1274Folding:
1275 (commands still available: zg zG zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zw zW zy zY;
1276 secondary: zB zS zT zZ)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000012778 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012788 Add different highlighting for a fold line depending on the fold level.
1279 (Noel Henson)
12808 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
1281 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
1282 user aware of this?
12838 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
1284 commands skip over a closed fold.
12858 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
12868 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012877 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001288- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
1289 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
1290 missing line goes unnoticed.
1291 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001292- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
1293 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
1294 smoother?
1295- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
1296 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
1297- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
1298- Add 'hidecomment' option: don't display comments in /* */ and after //.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001299 Or is the conceal patch from Vince Negri a more generic solution?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001300- "zu": undo change in manual fold. "zU" redo change in manual fold. How to
1301 implement this?
1302- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
1303 cursor.
1304- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3": set fold level for a region.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001305- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000013068 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001307 searches.
1308
1309
1310Multi-byte characters:
13119 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
1312 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
1313 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
1314 byte).
13158 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
1316 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
1317 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
1318 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
1319 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
1320 item.
13218 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
1322 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
13238 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
1324 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001325 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00001326 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013278 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
1328 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
13297 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
1330 so that the user can fix the problem.
13318 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
1332 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013339 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
13348 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013358 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
13368 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013378 "ga" should show all composing characters, also if there are more than 2.
13387 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
13398 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
13408 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
13418 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
1342 characters.
13438 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
13448 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
1345 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
13467 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
1347 'display' option to specify this.
13487 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
1349 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
1350- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
1351 fontselector somehow.
1352- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
1353 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
1354- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
1355 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
1356- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
1357 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
1358 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
1359 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
1360 if a font exists?
1361- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar6cc16192005-01-08 21:49:45 +00001362 convert_input() for Mac GUI and RiscOS GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001363- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
1364 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
13657 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
1366 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
1367- Make 'langmap' accept multi-byte characters.
1368- Do we need the reverse of 'keymap', like 'langmap' but with files and
1369 multi-byte characters? E.g., when using a Russian keyboard.
1370- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
1371 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
1372 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
1373- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
1374 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
1375 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
1376 But it's very complicated...
1377
1378
1379Printing:
1380- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
1381- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
1382 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001383- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
1384 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001385- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
1386- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
1387 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001388- PostScript: only works for 7-bit ASCII and EBCDIC. Should support
1389 different 'encoding' values somehow.
1390- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
1391 units as for the margins.
1392- Support right-to-left text?
13938 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
1394 color.
1395
1396
1397Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013988 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
1399 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
14008 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
1401 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
14028 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
1403 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
14048 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
1405 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
1406 ":wq file".
14078 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
14089 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
1409 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
14107 Make syntax keyword table configurable. Set number of bits used with
1411 ":syn clear [hashbits]", so that we don't need to reallocate the table.
1412 minimal 4 bits, maximal 16. (Campbell)
14137 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
1414 Search highlighting.
14158 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
1416 change this for each release.
14178 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
1418 pattern, but not in the body.
14198 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
1420 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
1421 instead of the containing item.
14228 For keywords, allow to define the size of the hash table with ":syn
1423 clear". Change KHASH_ defines into variables stored in buffer struct.
1424 Use something else than linear linked list from the hash table. (Campbell)
14258 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
14268 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
1427 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
1428 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
1429 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
14308 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
1431 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
14328 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
1433 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
1434 Or highlight the matching paren when the cursor is on one.
14358 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
14368 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
1437 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
1438 used.
14398 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
1440 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
14418 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
1442 re-insert the [] if possible.
14438 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
1444 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014458 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
1446 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
14478 Support for deleting syntax items:
1448 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
1449 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
1450 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
14518 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
1452 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
1453 a '<'. (Fleiner)
14547 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
1455 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
1456 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
14577 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
1458 detected.
14598 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
1460 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
14618 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
1462 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014638 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
14648 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
14657 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
1466 ":mkvimrc".
14678 Improve c.vim:
1468 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
1469 "c_strict_ansi".
1470 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
14718 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
1472 current line while in Insert mode.
14738 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
1474 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
14758 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
1476 display position.
14778 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
1478 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
1479 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
14808 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
1481 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
1482 highlighting starts.
14837 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
1484 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
1485 E.g. for this html:
1486 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
14877 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed
1488 (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"):
1489 :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display=""
14907 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
14917 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
1492 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014937 Command line completion for ":find" should search in 'path'.
14948 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
14958 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
14968 Add more command line completion for :sign.
14977 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
1498 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
1499 completion?
15008 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
1501 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
15027 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
1503 select one of the sets.
15048 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
1505 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
1506 2, etc.
15078 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
1508 highlighting (for "." command).
15098 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
1510 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
15118 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
15127 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
1513 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
15146 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
1515 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
1516- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
1517 when extending an already existing syntax file.
1518- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001519- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
1520 (for comment blocks).
1521- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
1522 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
1523 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
1524 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
1525 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
1526 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
1527 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
1528 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
1529 (Campbell)
1530 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
1531 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
15327 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
1533 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
15347 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
1535 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
1536 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
15377 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
1538 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
1539 messages. And external commands?
15408 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
1541 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
15427 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
1543 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
1544
1545
1546Built-in script language:
15478 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
1548 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015498 exists("&&option") tests if 'option' is actually implemented. Useful for
1550 'shellslash', for example.
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +00001551- Add "{range}source": execute lines from a buffer.
1552 Alternative: Allow range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command.
1553 (Webb)
1554 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015558 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
15568 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
1557 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
1558 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
1559 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
1560 nested packages?
1561 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
1562 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
1563 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
15647 Make globpath() also work with "**" and upwards search. (Brian Medley)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000015657 Add the markclear() function to delete a mark in another buffer. Charles
1566 Campbell (2004 Jan 9)
1567 http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#Patch
1568 Implement setmark(markname, lnum [, col [, filename]]) instead?
1569 When "lnum" is zero delete the mark.
1570 When "filename" has no wildcards and there is no matching buffer, add
1571 the buffer (unlisted).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015727 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
1573 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
1574 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
1575 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
1576 autocommand.
1577 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
1578 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
1579 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
1580 file belongs to a sourced script?
15817 Add "n" flag to search() function, just like searchpair(). (Alexey
1582 Marinichev)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015837 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
1584 signs and/or 'number'.
15858 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00001586 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
1587 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
1588 3 2002
1589 Only add this when also implemented for
1590 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
1591 be used.
1592 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00001593 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
1594 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
1595 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
1596 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
1597 File.Open..." argument.
1598 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
1599 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
1600 with properties instead.
1601 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
1602 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
1603 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001604 sprintf(format, arg, ..) How to prevent a crash???
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001605 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
1606 mkdir(dir) Create directory
1607 copy(from, to) Copy a file
1608 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
1609 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
1610 input(prompt, complete) like input() but do specified completion
1611 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
1612 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
1613 Visual block mode.
1614 tagtype(tag) get type of tag (also checks if it exists)
1615 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001616 getbufline() get line from any buffer
1617 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
1618 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001619 sort() Sort a newline-separated string. Also:
1620 ":sort".
1621 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
1622 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
1623 to allow the library to execute a command or
1624 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001625 char2hex() convert char string to hex string. XX
1626 hex2char() convert hex string to char string. XX
16277 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
1628 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
16298 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
1630 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
16318 Pass the executable name to the Vim scripts in some way. As v:argv0?
16328 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
16338 When starting to source a vim script, delete all functions that it has
1634 previously defined? Avoids using ":fun!" all the time.
16357 Add optional arguments to user functions:
1636 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
16376 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
16388 Add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var" just ignore.
16398 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
1640 option or environment variable.
16418 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
16427 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the
1643 stack available (separated with '\n').
16448 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
1645 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
16468 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
16478 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
1648 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
1649 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
1650 charwise({expr}).
16517 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
1652 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
1653 buffer for this?
1654 result = scratch(string, command)
1655 result = apply(string, command)
1656 result = execute(string, command)
1657 "command" would use <> notation.
1658 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
16597 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
16607 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an
1661 option for the search path. (Sekera)
16627 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001663
1664
1665Robustness:
16668 This pattern in syntax/java.vim causes a recursive call of regmatch():
1667 syn match javaStringError +"\([^"\\]\|\\.\)*$+
1668 A long line with a " in it can cause a crash when it runs out of stack
1669 space (on systems where this isn't caught). How can we catch this for
1670 more systems?
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000016716 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
1672 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
1673 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
1674 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
1675 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
1676 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
1677 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001678
1679
1680Performance:
16818 Loading plugins takes startup time. Only load the part that is used to
1682 trigger the rest, and load the rest when it's needed?
16838 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
16849 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
16858 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
16867 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
1687 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
16888 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
1689 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
1690 when starting up in a color terminal.
16918 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
1692 Win16.
16939 Setting GUI options in the console (e.g., 'guifont') should not cause a
1694 redraw.
16958 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
1696 function be improved?
16978 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
1698 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
1699 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
1700 this be improved?
17018 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
1702 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000017037 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
1704 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017057 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
1706 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
17077 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
1708 lot of abbreviations).
17097 DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
17107 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
1711 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
1712 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
1713 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
1714 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
1715 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
1716 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
17178 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the
1718 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was
1719 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating
1720 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)?
17218 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
1722 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
1723 using strcmp() too often?
17247 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
1725 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
1726 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
1727 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
1728 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
1729 the two blocks to the memfile block.
17307 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
1731 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
1732 with an argument that can be messed with.
1733 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
1734 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
17357 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
1736- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
17378 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
1738 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
1739- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
1740 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
1741- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
1742- Do profiling on:
1743 - :g/pat/normal cmd
1744 - 1000ii<Esc>
1745 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
1746 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1747 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
1748 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
1749 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
1750 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
1751 - editing a vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
17527 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
1753 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
1754 changed).
1755 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
1756 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
1757- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
1758- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
1759 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
1760- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
1761 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
1762 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
1763- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
1764 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
1765- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
1766- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
1767 cursor is right of the screen.
17688 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
1769 CTRL-C (it's slow).
1770
1771
1772Code size:
17738 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
1774- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
1775 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
17768 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
17778 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
1778 it.
17797 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
1780 left out.
17818 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
1782 can be removed.
17838 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
1784
1785
1786Messages:
17878 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
1788 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
17898 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
1790 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
17918 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
1792 script.
17938 "vim --version" output goes to stderr, should be stdout. Can all output
1794 from messages using printf() go to stdout?
1795- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
1796 Perhaps after ten seconds?
1797- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
17989 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
1799 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
1800 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
1801 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
1802 redrawing.
18037 Add an option, which is a regexp, that disables warning messages which
1804 match that regexp (Tsirkin).
18058 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
1806 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
18078 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
1808 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
1809 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
1810 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
1811 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
1812 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
1813- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
1814 sleep before second message?
18158 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
1816 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
1817 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
1818 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
1819 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
1820 error messages, printing text, etc.
18218 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
1822 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
1823 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
1824
1825
1826Screen updating:
18277 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
1828 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
1829 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
1830- screen_line():
1831 - insert/delete character stuff.
1832 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
1833- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
1834 dragging the status line with the mouse).
1835- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
1836 waiting for a character.
18378 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
1838 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
1839 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
18407 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001841
1842
1843Scrolling:
18448 Add "zm" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
18456 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
1846- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
1847 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
1848 windows.
18497 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
1850 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
1851 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
1852- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
1853 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
1854 (Goldfarb)
1855- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
1856 bound windows.
1857- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
1858 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00001859- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001860- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
1861 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
1862 of lines but not with a single line).
1863
1864
1865Autoconf:
18668 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
18678 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
1868 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
1869- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
1870 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
1871- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
1872- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
1873- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
1874
1875
1876Perl interface:
18778 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018787 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
18797 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
18806 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
1881
1882
1883Shared libraries:
18846 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
1885 :libload internal-name libname
1886 :libunload internal-name
1887 :liblist
1888 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
1889 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
1890 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
18916 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
1892
1893
1894Tags:
18958 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
1896 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
18978 Add a function that returns the line in the tags file for a matching tag.
1898 Can be used to extract more info (class name, inheritance, etc.) (Rico
1899 Hendriks)
19007 Count before CTRL-]: jump to N'th match
19018 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
19028 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
1903 to type the tag number directly.
19047 Add a tag-select window. Works like ":cwindow". (Michal Malecki)
19057 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
1906 window for each tag.
19077 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
19087 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
1909 bottom" search message.
19107 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
1911 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
1912 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
19137 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
1914 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
1915 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
1916 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
19177 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
1918 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
1919 :tagargs clear
1920 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
1921 matching).
19227 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
1923 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
1924 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
1925 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
19267 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
1927 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
19287 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
1929 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
1930 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001931
1932
1933Security:
1934- nothing at the moment
1935
1936
1937Win32 GUI:
19388 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
1939 the message and input?
19407 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1941 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2
1942 dynamically?
19437 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
1944 (Mike McCollister)
19458 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
1946 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
1947 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
1948 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
1949 common part of the path.
19508 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
19518 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
1952 gettext and menus work.
19538 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
1954 return in every console.
1955 Also: Look at how Emacs does runs external commands:
1956 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
19578 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
1958 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
19598 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
1960 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
19617 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
1962 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
19637 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
19647 <Esc> should close a dialog.
19657 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
1966 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
1967 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
1968 prompts.
19697 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
1970 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
1971 the file added into an already running Vim.
19727 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
1973 functions to find the window title.
1974
1975
1976GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019778 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS.
1978- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
1979 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
19807 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
19818 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
19826 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
19838 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
1984 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
19859 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
19867 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
19878 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
1988 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
19898 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
1990 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
1991 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
19928 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
1993 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
19948 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
1995 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
1996 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
1997 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019987 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
19998 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
2000 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
20017 Add some code to handle proportional fonts? Need to draw each character
2002 separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font is not exactly
2003 double-width. (Maeda)
20048 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
20058 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00002006 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020078 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
20088 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
20098 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
2010 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
2011 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
20127 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
2013 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
2014 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
20157 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
2016 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
20177 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
2018 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
2019 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
2020 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
20217 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
2022 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
20237 Should support multi-column menus.
2024- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
2025 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
2026- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
20278 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
20286 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
2029 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
20307 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
20317 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
2032 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
2033 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
20347 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
20358 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
2036 name can be chosen free.
20377 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
2038 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
20396 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
2040 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
2041 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
2042 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
2043 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
2044 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
2045 things.
20467 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
2047 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020487 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
2049 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
2050- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
2051 where it was started from?
20527 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
2053
2054
2055VMS:
2056- Improvement: rewrite term/TTY handling.
2057- Improvement: create VMS GTK runtime libraries on OpenVMS 7.1-2 (today GTK
2058 works just on 7.3).
2059
2060
2061Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000020627 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
2063 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
2064 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
2065 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020668 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g.
2067 "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc".
20688 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
2069 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
2070 difficult).
20718 Also trigger CursorHold in Insert mode?
20727 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that user
2073 can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the kind
2074 of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
20758 Can't use ":normal" in CursorHold autocommands. Make the CursorHold event
2076 insert a special key code, and call the autocommand functions from a
2077 higher level, so that vgetc() isn't used recursively.
20788 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
2079 And anything else?
20808 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
2081 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
2082 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
20838 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
20848 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
2085 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
20866 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
2087 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
20887 Add a way to skip an autocommand if going from one *.c file to another *.c
2089 file.
20907 When trying to open a directory, don't load the file but trigger an
2091 autocommand event OpenDirectory.
20927 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
2093 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate
2094 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type
2095 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard)
20965 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
2097 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
2098 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
20997 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
2100 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
2101 file.
21028 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
2103 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
2104 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002105- Add events to autocommands:
2106 Error - When an error happens
2107 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
2108 InsertEnter - Entering Insert mode
2109 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
2110 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode
2111 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00002112 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00002113 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
2114 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00002115 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002116 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002117 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
2118 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
2119 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
2120 window title)
2121 BufReadAction - replaces reading a file
2122 BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file
2123 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
2124 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the
2125 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor.
2126 Set v:char to the character, can be changed.
2127 (not triggered when 'paste' is set).
2128 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
2129 the char.
2130 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
2131 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
2132 file from CVS).
2133 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
2134 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
2135 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
2136 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
2137 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
2138 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
2139 WinResized - When a window has been resized
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002140- Add autocommand to be executed every so many seconds? For writing the
2141 file now and then ('autosave').
2142 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
2143 'autosave' 'aw' number (default 0)
2144 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
2145 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
2146 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
2147 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
2148 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
2149
2150
2151Insert mode completion/expansion:
21528 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
2153 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
21549 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
2155 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
2156 (Webb)
21578 The code has become too complex. Redesign it, or at least add proper
2158 comments.
21598 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
2160 - ignore/match case
2161 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021628 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
21638 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
2164 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
2165 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
2166 Should work for C++ and Java.
2167 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
21687 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
21697 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
2170 instead of words.
21718 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
21728 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
2173 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
21748 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
2175 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
2176- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
2177 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
2178 wildcards in the file name)?
2179- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
2180- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
2181- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
2182 be in another file).
2183- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
2184- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
2185- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
2186 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
2187- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
2188- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
2189- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
21908 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
2191 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
2192 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
2193 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
2194- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
2195
2196
2197Command line editing:
21987 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
2199 line.
22008 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
2201 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
2202 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
2203- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
2204 lines wraps to start of line).
2205- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
2206 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
2207 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
2208 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
2209 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
2210 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
2211 cmdwin does now already.
2212 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
2213 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
2214 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
2215 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
2216 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
2217 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
2218 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
2219 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
2220 Problems:
2221 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
2222 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
2223 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
2224 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
2225 - Normal: no ":" commands?
2226 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
2227 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
2228 character in first column?
2229 - Implementation ideas:
2230 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
2231 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
2232 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
2233 - sync undo after entering a command line?
2234 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
2235 Mode.
2236
2237
2238Command line completion:
22398 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
22408 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
2241 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
22428 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
2243 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022447 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
2245 edited. (Sven Guckes)
22467 Add completion for when entering an expression after CTRL-R= and "=.
2247 (Servatius Brandt)
2248- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
2249- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
2250 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
22518 For ":find" and ":sfind" expand files found in 'path'.
22528 Add cmdline completion for the ":debug" command.
22538 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
2254 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
22557 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
2256 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
2257- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
2258 identifiers (Webb).
22598 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
2260 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
22617 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
2262 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
2263- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
2264 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
2265- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
2266 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
2267 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
2268- Add completion for Environment variables: ":echo $SH<Tab>" -> "$SHELL".
2269
2270
2271Command line history:
2272- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
2273 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
2274 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
2275 completely resulted from one mapping.
2276- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
2277 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
2278
2279
2280Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000022819 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
2282 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
2283 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022848 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
2285 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
2286 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
2287 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
2288 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
22897 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
2290 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022917 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
2292 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
2293- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
2294 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
2295 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
2296 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
2297 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
2298 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
2299- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
2300 Normal mode.
2301- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
2302 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
2303 are used.
2304- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
2305- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
2306- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
2307
2308
2309'cindent', 'smartindent':
23108 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with line break in arguments:
2311 Foo::Foo (int one,
2312 int two)
2313 : something(4)
2314 {}
23158 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with multiple lines:
2316 Foo::Foo (int one, int two)
2317 : something(4),
2318 somethingelse(3)
2319 {}
23209 Too much indent for "lulu": (Uwe Zeisberger)
2321 int main ()
2322 {
2323 if (lala)
2324 do
2325 ++(*lolo);
2326 while (lili
2327 && lele);
2328 lulu;
2329 }
23309 Function gets extra indent: (Jamax)
2331 void function(int param) {
2332 if (false)
2333 return;
2334 }
23359 brace not indented correctly:
2336 case 'c': if (cond)
2337 {
2338 Should align with "if" in case statement.
23397 Allow aligning a closing ")" with the line above, instead of the matching
2340 "(": (Riehm) if (asdfasdf &&
2341 asdf
2342 )
23438 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
2344 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
23458 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
2346 func(
2347 new String[] {
2348 "asdf",
2349 "asdf"
2350 }
2351 );
23527 Separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
2353 func(
2354 int x) // indent like "(4"
2355 {
2356 if (a
2357 && b) // indent like "(0"
23588 Strange problem with this code, "hello" is indented wrong: (Gary Holloway)
2359 main() { char foo[] = "/*";
2360 /* This is a comment; the indentation of C
2361 * source below this comment gets messed up due to the string above.
2362 */
2363 hello
23649 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
2365 if (a)
2366 {
2367 if (b)
2368 {
2369 // {
2370 }
2371 } <-- this is indented incorrect
23729 Wrong indent for cino=(4, removing the (void) fixes it: (Zellner)
2373 (void) MyFancyFunction(
2374 argument);
2375- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
2376 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
23777 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
2378- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
2379 line).
2380- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
2381- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
2382 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
23837 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines.
2384- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
2385 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
2386- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
2387 code), unless the line starts with "*".
2388- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
2389- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
2390 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
23918 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
2392 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
2393 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
2394- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
2395- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
2396 lines start with "\item".
2397- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
2398 /* here is a comment that
2399 is just autoindented, and
2400 nothing else */
2401- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
24027 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
2403 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
2404 indents.
2405 And/or: Add option to copy indent as-is, without changing spaces to tabs.
2406 also for 'autoindent'. 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and
2407 spaces used for indent, when the indent remains the same or increases.
2408
2409
2410Java:
24118 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
2412 Odendahl?
24138 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
2414 "[i" commands and friends.
2415- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
2416 (Jason)
2417- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
2418 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
2419
2420
2421'comments':
24228 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
2423 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
2424 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
2425 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00002426 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
2427 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024287 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
2429 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
24307 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
24316 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
2432 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
2433 regexp is used.
24348 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
2435 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
2436
2437
2438Virtual edit:
24398 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
24407 Add a mode where the cursor is only allowed to go one character after the
2441 end of the line?
24427 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
2443
2444
2445Text objects:
24468 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
24477 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
2448 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
24498 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
2450 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
2451 the end of the line or before a ".".
24527 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
2453 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
24547 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
2455 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024566 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
24575 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
2458 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
2459 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
2460 cursor is on.
2461
2462
2463Select mode:
24648 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
2465 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
24667 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
2467 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743
24687 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
2469 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
2470 contains 'C' or 'A'.
2471 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
2472 normal_cmd().
2473 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
2474 - Typing text replaces the selection.
2475
2476
2477Visual mode:
2478- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
2479 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
2480 is in the top line.
24818 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
2482 text. make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
2483 where needed.
24847 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
2485 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
24867 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
2487 of each selected line.
24888 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
24898 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
2490 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
2491 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
24928 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
2493 Ben Godfrey)
24947 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
2495 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
24967 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
2497 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
24987 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
2499 Young is working on this)
25007 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00002501 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002502 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
25038 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
2504 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
25057 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
2506 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
2507 option!
25087 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
2509 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
2510 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
2511 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
2512 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
2513 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
2514 without changing the column.
25156 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025167 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
2517 current buffer.
25187 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
25196 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
2520 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
25216 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
25226 ":'<,'>source" should read the selected lines and ":source" them.
25236 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
2524 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
2525 or other special character.
25266 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
2527
2528
2529More advanced repeating commands:
2530- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
25317 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
2532 the command line so that it can be repeated?
2533- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
2534 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
2535 "y." will repeat last yank.
2536 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
2537 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
2538 and/or pick an older command.
2539- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
2540
2541
2542Mappings and Abbreviations:
25438 Let ":verbose map xx" report where the mapping was set, just like with
2544 ":verbose set".
25458 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
2546 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
2547 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
25488 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
25497 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
2550 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
25518 ":verbose map" could show the script where the mapping was defined.
2552 m_script_ID can be used.
25538 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
2554 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
25558 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
25568 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
2557 entering search strings.
25588 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
2559 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
2560 not the <Space>.
25618 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS).
25628 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
2563 (?) work.
25647 ":verbose map" should display where a mapping was defined, like ":verbose
2565 set".
25668 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
2567 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
2568 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
25697 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
25707 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q",
2571 that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger'
2572 option.
25737 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
2574 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
25757 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character
2576 (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for
2577 mapping a key to do something and then completion.
25787 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
25796 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
2580 abbreviations are to be used.
2581- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
2582 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
2583 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
2584- Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping.
2585- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
2586 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
2587 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002588- Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in
2589 <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this?
2590- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
2591 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
2592- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
2593 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
25946 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
2595 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
2596 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
2597 hit another character.
2598- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
2599 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
2600 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
2601 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
2602 Or implicit:
2603 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
2604- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
2605 non-replace Insert mode?
2606- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
26076 Alias for Normal mode commands, works like :substitute? Would allow
2608 mappings with arguments.
2609- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
2610- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
2611 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
2612- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
2613 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
2614- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
2615 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
2616- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
2617- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
2618 ":freekeys".
2619- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
2620
2621
2622Incsearch:
2623- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
2624- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
2625 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
2626 up every time.
2627- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
2628 folds when going to another line.
2629- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
2630 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
2631 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
2632 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
2633- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
2634 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
2635
2636
2637Searching:
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000026387 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
2639 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026408 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\(([^()]*\@@[^()]*)\)\@r". \@@ stands
2641 for "go recursive here" and \@r marks the recursive atom.
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000026427 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002643 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
2644 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
2645 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
26467 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
2647 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000026487 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
2649 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for an offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026507 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
2651 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026528 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
2653 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
26548 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
2655 line.
26567 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
2657 example.
26588 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
2659 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
2660- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
2661 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
2662 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
2663 Alternative: use matchit.vim
26648 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
26658 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
2666 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
2667 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
26687 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
2669 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000026707 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
2671 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026728 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
2673 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
2674 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
26758 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
2676 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
26778 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
2678 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
2679 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
2680 search pattern.
2681- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
2682 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
2683- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
2684 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
2685 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
2686 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
26877 Add POSIX regexp, like Nvi, with 'extended' option? It's like very-magic.
2688- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
2689 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
2690- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
2691 i ignore case
2692 I use case
2693 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
2694 v use Vi regexp syntax
2695 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
2696 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
2697 Perl uses these too:
2698 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
2699 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
2700 o compile only once (Perl only)
2701 s single line expression (we don't need it)
2702 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
2703 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
2704 following command.
2705 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
2706- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
2707 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
2708 for search string)?
27097 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
2710 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
2711- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
2712 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
2713- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
2714 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
2715- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
2716- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
2717 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
2718 a for the next file in the argument list
2719 f for file in the buffer list
2720 w for file edited in a window.
2721 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
2722 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
2723 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
2724 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
2725- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027267 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
2727 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
27287 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
2729 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
2730 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
2731 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
27326 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
2733 effects.
27347 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
2735 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
2736 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
27377 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron)
2738 Also ":dselect".
2739
2740
2741Undo:
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00002742- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
2743 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002744- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
2745 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
2746 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
27478 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
2748 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
2749 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
2750 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
27518 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
2752 only remember the lines that really changed.
27537 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
2754 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
2755 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
2756 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002757- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
2758 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
2759- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
2760 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
2761- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
2762 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
2763 [-99].
2764- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
2765- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
2766- Store undo info in a file that survives until the next edit. Then it's
2767 possible to undo to before the current editing session. Combined with
2768 viminfo?
2769- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
2770 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
2771
2772
2773Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027747 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
2775 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
2776 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
2777 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
27788 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
2779 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
27808 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
2781 inode too.
27827 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
2783 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use. (or the highest
2784 number in use plus one?)
27857 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
2786 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
2787- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
2788 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
2789- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
2790 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
27917 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
2792 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
27937 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
2794 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
27958 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
27968 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
2797 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
27987 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
2799 internal use and for when executing an external program?
2800
2801
2802Swap (.swp) files:
28038 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
2804 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
2805 there are short file name problems.
28068 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
2807 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
28088 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
28098 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
2810 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
2811 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
2812 file the same as the actual file?
2813 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028147 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
2815 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
28167 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
2817 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
2818 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
2819 enough room.
28207 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
2821 or /var/preserve.
2822- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
2823 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
2824- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
2825 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
2826- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
2827 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
2828 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
2829 cached list of which line is where.
2830
2831
2832Viminfo:
28337 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
2834 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
2835 else's viminfo file.
28368 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
2837 name. (Schild)
28388 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
28398 Remember the last used register for "@@".
28408 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
2841 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
2842 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
2843 this?
28447 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
28457 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
2846 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
28476 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
2848 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
2849 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
2850- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
2851 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
2852
2853
2854Modelines:
28558 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
2856 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
2857 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
2858- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
2859 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
2860 modeline setting.
2861- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
2862 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
2863- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
2864 .cpp files.
2865- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
2866 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
2867- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
2868 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
2869
2870
2871Options:
28728 Make ":mksession" store buffer-specific options for the specific buffer.
28738 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
2874 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
28757 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only
2876 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the
2877 side effect.
28788 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
2879 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
2880 default value.
28818 Should ":mksession" restore the current directory when writing the
2882 session, or the directory where the session file is? Probably need a word
2883 in 'sessionoptions' to make a choice:
2884 "curdir" (cd to current directory when session file was generated)
2885 "sessiondir" (cd to directory of session file)
2886 "nodir" (don't cd at all)
28878 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
2888 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
2889 also be supported.
28908 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
2891 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
2892 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
28937 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
28947 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
2895 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
28967 Add plugins for formatting. Should be able to make a choice depending on
2897 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
2898
2899
2900External commands:
29018 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
2902 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
29034 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
2904 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
2905 -f).
29064 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
29074 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
2908 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
29094 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
2910
2911
2912Multiple Windows:
29137 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
29148 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
2915 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
29167 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
2917 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
2918 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
29197 Add a 'winfixwidth' option, similar to 'winfixheight'.
29206 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
2921 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
2922 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
2923 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
29247 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
2925 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
2926 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
2927 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
2928- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
2929 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
2930 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
2931 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
2932
2933
2934Marks:
29358 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
2936 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
29378 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m?
29388 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
2939 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
29408 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
2941 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
2942 the mark was set.
29437 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
2944 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
2945 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
2946 ":browse marks"?
29476 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029487 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
2949 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
29507 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
2951 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
29527 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
2953 command).
29547 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
2955 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
2956 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
2957 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
29585 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
2959 mappings.
29606 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
2961 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
2962 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
2963
2964
2965Digraphs:
29667 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
2967 Also the keymap?
2968- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line
2969 below/above).
2970- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
2971 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000029728 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029737 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
2974 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
2975
2976
2977Writing files:
2978- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
2979 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
2980 shortname conversion.
29818 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
29828 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
2983 file.
29848 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
2985 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
2986 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
29877 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
2988 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
29896 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
2990 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
29916 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
2992 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
29936 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
2994 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
29958 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
2996 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
29977 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
2998 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
29997 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
3000 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
3001 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
3002 waiting for a character to be typed).
30038 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
3004 line of the window, like "[time]".
3005 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
3006 Automatic and/or with a command.
3007
3008
3009Substitute:
30108 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
3011 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
3012- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
3013- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
30148 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
3015 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
3016- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
3017 :s///N substitutes N times.
3018- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
3019 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
3020 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
30217 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
3022 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
3023 last line column 5.
30245 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
3025 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
3026 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
3027 (Stanislav Sitar)
3028
3029
3030Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030318 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
30327 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
30338 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
3034 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
3035 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
30367 Checkout sysmouse() for FreeBSD console mouse support.
3037- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
3038- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
3039 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
3040- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
3041- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
3042
3043
3044Crypt and security:
30458 Also crypt the swapfile, each block separately. Change mf_write() and
3046 mf_read(). How to get b_p_key to these functions?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003047
3048
3049Argument list:
30506 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
3051 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
3052 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
30536 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
3054
3055
3056Registers:
30578 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
30588 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
3059 around in windows.
30608 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
3061 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
3062 for every line.
30636 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
3064 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
3065 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
3066- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
3067 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
3068- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
3069 leader when line wraps?
3070- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
3071 line in the range.
3072- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
3073 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
30748 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
3075 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00003076
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003077
3078Debug mode:
30797 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
30808 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000030818 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030827 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00003083 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
3084 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
3085 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030867 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
30877 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
3088
3089
3090Various improvements:
30918 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
3092 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00003093- Perhaps ":cexpr" could read errors from a list?
3094 Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
3095 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030966 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of
3097 errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000030987 Add a ":cstring" command. Works like ":cfile" but reads from a string
3099 variable. Also accept a list variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031006 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5)
31017 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
3102 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
3103 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
31047 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
3105 window as a buffer-tab selection.
31067 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
3107 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
31088 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
3109 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031107 Add a ":cpfile", go in the other direction as ":cnfile".
31116 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031128 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
3113 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
3114 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
3115 in this Vim.
31168 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
3117 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
31188 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
3119 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
3120 have it apply to the following command.
31218 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
3122 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
3123 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
3124 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031257 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
3126 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031277 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
3128 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
3129 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
3130 without modifier (unless mapped).
31318 Add ":breakdel *": delete all breakpoints.
31327 Support ":browse edit" in console, using explorer.vim?
31336 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
31348 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
31359 Support ACLs on more systems.
31367 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
3137 highlighted differently.
31388 Allow using "**" as a wildcard in commands like ":next" and ":args".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031397 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
3140 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
3141 (truncated to fit in the space).
31427 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
31438 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
31448 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
3145 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000031467 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003147 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
31487 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
3149 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031507 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031517 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
31527 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031538 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
31548 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
3155 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
3156 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
3157 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
31588 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
31596 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
3160 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
31618 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
31628 Use confirm/dialog stuff to ask the user, when a file has changed outside
3163 of Vim, if he wants to reload it. Triggered when focus gained, after
3164 shell command, when entering another buffer, etc..
3165 Also do this when editing a new file, and another application creates
3166 the file before doing ":w" in Vim.
3167 Also check if the file protection has changed. When checking a file into
3168 RCS it is made read-only, when checking out it is made read-write.
31698 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
3170 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
3171 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
3172 does something like this. (Shah)
31737 Use growarray for replace stack.
31747 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
3175 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
31763 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
31778 Make "more" prompt accept command characters, like "hit-enter" prompt?
3178 Or extend it with more commands, like "less": 'b' for back, 'j' for one
3179 line down, etc.
31808 For the "--more--" prompt, support the 'b'ack command for more commands.
3181 Possible implementation: Do it at a very low level, caching the lines that
3182 are on the screen (with highlight attributes). Avoids that changes have
3183 to be made for all functions that list something.
31847 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
3185 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
3186- Keep a list of most recently used files for each window, use "[o" to go
3187 back (older file) and "]n" to go forward (newer file) (like ^O and ^I for
3188 jumps) (Webb). Use ":files" and ":ls" to list the files in history order.
31897 Add a history of recently accessed buffer. Maybe make "2 CTRL-^" jump to
3190 the 2nd previously visited buffer, "3 CTRL-^" to the third, etc. Or use
3191 "3 g CTRL-^" for this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003192- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
3193- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
3194- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
3195- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
31967 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
3197 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
3198- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
3199 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
3200- Remove mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
3201- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
3202 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
3203- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
3204 call "play newbeep.au").
3205- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
3206 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
3207 (Bhatt).
3208- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
3209 blockwise registers).
3210- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
3211 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
3212- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
3213 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
3214 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
3215 noticeable.
32169 When using ":w <fname>" it's possible that this file is loaded in another
3217 buffer. Give a warning right away, don't wait for a shell command.
3218- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032197 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
3220 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
3221- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
3222 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
3223 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
3224 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
3225 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +000032267 Add a way to define an item list with a pattern in 'formatoptions'. The
3227 'n' flag doesn't work for "6.3" or "6a.".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032288 Add 'formatexpr' option: Used for formatting operator "gq" instead of the
3229 builtin formatting or 'formatprg'.
32308 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
3231 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
3232 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
3233 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
3234 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
3235- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
32367 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
3237 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
3238- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
3239 not in column 1.
32406 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
3241 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
32427 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
3243- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
32448 findmatchlimit() should be able to skip comments. Solves problem of
3245 matching the '{' in /* if (foo) { */ (Fiveash)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003246- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00003247 :redir @r> register (append)
3248 :redir #> bufname
3249 :redir #>> bufname (append)
3250 :redir => variable
3251 :redir =>> variable (append)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003252- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
3253 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
3254 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
32556 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
3256 console? (Klaus Hast)
3257- Add :delcr command:
3258 *:delcr*
3259 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
3260 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
3261 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
3262 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
3263 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
3264 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
3265- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
3266- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
3267 characters from 'isprint'.
3268- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
3269- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
3270 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
3271- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
3272 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
3273 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
3274- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
3275- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
3276 Nvi).
3277- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
3278 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
32797 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
3280- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
3281 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
32826 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
3283- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
3284 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
3285 macro).
3286- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
3287- Add command like ":ts" that shows the output of "[I" and asks for a match
3288 to jump to. (Zellner)
3289- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
3290 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
3291- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
32928 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
3293- Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null".
3294- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
3295- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
3296- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
3297 if it is not the first or last window.
3298- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
3299 there is one) instead of the file itself.
33007 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
3301 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
3302 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
3303- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
3304- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
3305 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
3306 many percent down the windows).
3307- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
3308 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
3309 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
3310- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
3311 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
3312- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
3313 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
3314- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
3315- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
3316- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
3317 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
3318- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
3319- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
33208 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
3321 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
3322 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
3323 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
3324 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003325- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
3326 t_bs is set? (Webb)
3327- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
3328 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
3329- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline (Demirel). Store
3330 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
3331 (Webb).
3332- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
3333 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
3334- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
3335 hex codes like 0xff).
3336- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
3337 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
3338 the last TYPED command.
3339- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
3340- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
3341- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
3342 should also work?
3343- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
33448 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
3345 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
3346 name.
3347- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
3348 trailing '.'.
3349- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
3350 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
3351 find_file_in_path().
3352- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
3353 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
3354- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
3355- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
3356 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
3357- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
3358 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
3359- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
3360 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
3361 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
3362- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
3363 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
3364- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
3365- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
3366- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
3367 to the minimal size.
3368- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
3369- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
3370- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
3371- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
3372- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
3373- Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw').
3374- Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line:
3375 "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ???
3376- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
3377 entered)?
3378- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
3379 as an output filter.
3380- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
3381- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
3382- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
3383- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
3384- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
3385- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
3386 lines.
3387- Uppercase characters in ex commands can be made lowercase?
33888 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
3389 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
3390 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
3391 or in octal.
33927 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
3393 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
3394- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
3395 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
3396- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
3397- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
3398 insert line command).
3399- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
3400- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
3401- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
3402- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
3403- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
3404 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
3405- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
3406 yet.
3407- Implement 'redraw' option.
3408- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
3409 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003410- Use pipes for filtering on Unix. Requires using fork() to be able to read
3411 and write at the same time, or some select() mechanism.
34127 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
3413 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
34148 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
3415 do it.
3416- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
3417- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
3418 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
3419- Add text justification option.
3420- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
3421- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
3422 off".
3423- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
3424- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
3425- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
3426 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
3427- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
3428- If file does not exists, check if directory exists.
3429- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
3430- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
3431 commands.
3432- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
3433- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
3434- :table command (Webb)
3435- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
3436- Make it possible for a user to define a new operator. Implementation with
3437 internal scripting language or Perl?
3438- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
3439- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
3440- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
3441- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
3442- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
3443 (Demirel).
3444- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
3445- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
3446 for use in macro's and the like.
3447- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
3448 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
3449- Add possibility to put output of ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
3450 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
3451- 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really
3452 read-only mode).
3453- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
3454 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
3455 a window to become smaller (Webb).
3456- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
3457 proportionally (Webb).
3458- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
3459 mkopttab to make option table?
3460- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
3461 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
3462- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
3463 (Haritsis).
3464- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
3465 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
3466- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
3467 cursor?
3468- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
3469- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
34705 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
3471 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000034728 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
3473 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
3474 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
3475 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
3476 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034778 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
3478 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
3479 (Netherton)
34806 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
3481 space after "(", for example.
34825 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
3483 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
3484 (Servatius Brandt)
3485
3486
3487From Elvis:
3488- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
3489- Add ":alias" command.
3490- fontchanges recognized "\\fB" etc.
3491- Search patterns:
3492 \@ match word under cursor.
3493 but do:
3494 \@w match the word under the cursor?
3495 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
34968 ":window" command:
3497 :win + next window (up)
3498 :win ++ idem, wrapping
3499 :win - previous window (down)
3500 :win -- idem, wrapping
3501 :win nr to window number "nr"
3502 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
35037 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
3504 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
3505
3506
3507From Nvi:
3508- 'searchincr' option, alias for 'incsearch'?
3509- 'leftright' option, alias for 'nowrap'?
3510- Have a look at "vi/doc/vi.chart", for Nvi specialties.
35118 Add 'keytime', time in 1/10 sec for mapping timeout?
3512- Add 'filec' option as an alternative for 'wildchar'.
35136 Support Nvi command names as an alias:
3514 :bg :hide
3515 :fg fname :buf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
3516 :dis b :ls
3517 :Edit fname :split fname
3518 :Fg fname :sbuf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
3519 :Next :snext (can't do this, already use :Next)
3520 :Previous :sprevious
3521 :Tag :stag
3522
3523
3524From xvi:
3525- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
3526- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
3527
3528
3529From vile:
3530- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
3531- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
3532 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
3533
3534
3535Far future and "big" extensions:
3536- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
3537 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
3538- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
3539 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
3540 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
3541 current layout mirrored.
3542- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
3543- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
3544 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
3545- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
3546- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
3547 font in each top-level window.
3548- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
3549- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
3550- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
3551- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
3552 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
3553- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
3554 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
3555 mentioned in the tags file.
3556 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
3557 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
3558- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
3559 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
3560- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
3561 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
35624 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
3563 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
3564 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
3565 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
3566 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
3567 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
3568 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
3569- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
3570 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
3571 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
3572
3573
3574vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
3575vim: set fo+=n :