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Bram Moolenaar541f92d2015-06-19 13:27:23 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.4. Last change: 2015 Jun 19
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
12to look for "the next thing to do":
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14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020030Issues can also be entered online: http://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/list
31Updates will be forwarded to the vim_dev maillist. Issues entered there will
32not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
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Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034 *known-bugs*
35-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
36
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +010037Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +010038- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
39 matches everywhere.
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +010040- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
41 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +010042- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +020043- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
44 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +010045- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +010046- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
47 2013 Dec 11)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +010048- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin Szamotulski
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +010049 Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +010050- Difference in NFA and old engine. (Brett Stahlman, 2014 Nov 5)
Bram Moolenaar251835e2014-02-24 02:51:51 +010051- Bug when using \>. (Ramel, 2014 Feb 2) (Aaron Bohannon, 2014 Feb 13)
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +020052- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
53- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
54 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
Bram Moolenaardbc28022014-07-26 13:40:44 +020055- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +010056- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
57 2015 Feb 7)
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020058- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
59 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
60 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +010061- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
62- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +010063- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +010064- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
65 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
66 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
67 col and vcol when moving to another line.
Bram Moolenaar0122c402015-02-03 19:13:34 +010068- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
69 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +020070
Bram Moolenaardbc28022014-07-26 13:40:44 +020071Still using freed memory after using setloclist(). (lcd, 2014 Jul 23)
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020072More info Jul 24. Not clear why.
73
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +010074Better .ico file for Windows. (Pat Suwalski, 2015 Feb 13)
75Waiting for response on remark from Edward Fox.
Bram Moolenaar0122c402015-02-03 19:13:34 +010076
Bram Moolenaardbc28022014-07-26 13:40:44 +020077Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
78(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
79Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
Bram Moolenaardb6ea062014-07-10 22:01:47 +020080
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020081Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
82work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +020083
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +010084Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
85
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +020086Regression for v_b_A. (Ingo Karkat, 2015 May 18)
87
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +010088":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
89directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
90
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +020091Patch on issue 365.
92
93Patch to add "vsplit" to 'switchbuf'. (Brook Hong, 2015 Jun 4)
94
95patch to fix that "p" in Visual mode does not break line in expected place.
96(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2015 May 23)
97
98Patch to fix that wide characters do not work properly after exiting.
99(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 May 24) Better patch to come.
100
101Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
102
103keymap for Russian typewriter layout. (Danwerspb, 2015 May 15)
104
105Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
106Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
107
Bram Moolenaar541f92d2015-06-19 13:27:23 +0200108The entries added by matchaddpos() are returned by getmatches() but can't be
109set with setmatches(). (lcd47, 2014 Jun 29)
110Patch by Christian, 2015 Jun 16.
111
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200112Invalid memory access in regexp.c. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 May 23)
113
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +0200114Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
115changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
116and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
117Perhaps we can use ":silent window"?
118
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200119Patch for :[count]tag" not always working. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 May 19)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +0200120
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200121Include the LogiPat plugin in the distribution?
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +0200122
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200123Patch to fix that ":cnext" jumps to the wrong column. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015
124May 17, second patch)
125
126Pull request for jcukenwintype.vim. (Denis Proskurin, 2015 May 15)
127
128Patch for appending in Visual mode with 'linebreak' set.
129(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 1)
130
131Patch to make CTRL-A in Visual mode increment all Visually selected numbers.
132Same for decrement with CTRL-X. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 8)
Bram Moolenaar541f92d2015-06-19 13:27:23 +0200133Update Jun 9.
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +0200134
Bram Moolenaarf3c2afb2015-03-02 23:16:07 +0100135C indent: should recognize C11 raw strings. (Mark Lodato, 2015 Mar 1)
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200136Need to recognize R"string" for 'cindent'.
Bram Moolenaarf3c2afb2015-03-02 23:16:07 +0100137
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200138Updated phpcomplete. (Mikolaj Machowski, 2015 May 6)
139
140Patch to detect background terminal color in xterm. (Lubomir Rintel, 2015 Jun
1411)
142
143Patch to fix that in command-line window first character is erased
144when conceallevel is set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 May 12)
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +0100145
Bram Moolenaar541f92d2015-06-19 13:27:23 +0200146Patch to make Lua 5.3 and later work. (Felix Schnizlein, 2015 Jun 11)
147
148Patch to make \U in a string accept up to 8 characters. (Christian Brabandt,
1492015 Jun 12) Does this break existing scripts?
150
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +0100151Crash when changing the 'tags' option from a remote command.
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200152(Benjamin Fritz, 2015 Mar 18, stack trace Mar 20)
153
154Patch on issue 361.
155
156Patch on issue 362.
Bram Moolenaard8b77f72015-03-05 21:21:19 +0100157
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200158Gvim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
159
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200160Can src/GvimExt/Make_cyg.mak be removed?
161Same for src/xxd/Make_cyg.mak
162
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200163Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200164
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +0100165MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
166wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
167
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100168Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
169specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
170
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200171Patch to force redraw after ":syn spell" command. (Christian, 2015 May 8)
172
Bram Moolenaar541f92d2015-06-19 13:27:23 +0200173Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
174(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12)
175Is this the right solution?
176
177Patch for langmap not working properly with mapping in Command-line mode.
178Issue 376.
179
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200180Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200181inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200182
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100183Better greek spell checking. Issue 299.
184
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200185Patch to add 'completeselect' option. Specifies how to select a candidate in
186insert completion. (Shougo, 2013 May 29)
187Update to add to existing 'completeopt'. 2013 May 30
Bram Moolenaar541f92d2015-06-19 13:27:23 +0200188Updated update: Shougo 2015 Jun 12
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200189
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100190When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
191is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
192
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200193Patch to fix equivalence classes in regexp. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Jun 2)
194
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100195Weird encryption problems on Windows. (Ben Fritz, 2015 Feb 13)
196Goes away when disabling the swap file. (might1, Feb 16)
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +0200197
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +0200198MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
199(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
200
Bram Moolenaard8b77f72015-03-05 21:21:19 +0100201The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
202wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100203
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +0200204Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
205(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +0100206
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200207ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
2082014 Sep 11)
209
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200210Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
211Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +0100212
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +0100213When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
214filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
215initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
216
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100217Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
218
Bram Moolenaar0122c402015-02-03 19:13:34 +0100219Patch to add an argument to ":ls" for specific kinds of buffers.
220(Marcin Szamotulski, 2015 Jan 31)
221
222Crash when using R syntax. (Jakson Alves de Aquino, 2015 Jan 30)
223Memory freed by ":syn clear" but still referenced, syntax items referenced
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100224from two windows? Stopped happening (Feb 5).
Bram Moolenaar0122c402015-02-03 19:13:34 +0100225
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100226Patch for an extra argument to matchadd() for conceal. (Christian Brabandt,
2272015 Feb 17, update Feb 19)
228
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200229Patch to add v:completed_item. (Shougo Matsu, 2013 Nov 29).
230Update 2015 May 30.
231
232Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
233OK to not block marks?
234
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100235Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
236
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200237Patch on issue 79: use 'path' option for filename completion.
238
Bram Moolenaar0122c402015-02-03 19:13:34 +0100239Patch to add 'belloff' option. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 31)
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100240Update Feb 6.
Bram Moolenaar0122c402015-02-03 19:13:34 +0100241
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +0100242Patch for drag&drop reordering of GUI tab pages reordering.
243(Ken Takata, 2013 Nov 22, second one, also by Masamichi Abe)
244
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +0100245Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
246
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100247When 'balloonexpr' returns a list the result has a trailing newline.
248Just remove one trailing newline. (lcd, 2014 Oct 17)
249
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +0200250Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200251
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +0100252Patch to add GUI colors to the terminal, when it supports it. (ZyX, 2013 Jan
25326, update 2013 Dec 14, another 2014 Nov 22)
254
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100255Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
256(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
257
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +0200258When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
259any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
260
261Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +0200262
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100263Patch to add the EndOfBuffer highlight group, used instead of NonText for "~"
264lines. (Marco Hinz, 2014 Nov 2)
265
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100266Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100267
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +0100268Should be easy to highlight all matches with 'incsearch'. Idea by Itchyny,
2692015 Feb 6.
270
Bram Moolenaar2f3b5102014-11-19 18:54:17 +0100271Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what happened
272before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about keeping the
273last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
274
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100275":q!" should reset modified flag for current buffer, if another buffer is
276modified no need to abandon it again.
277Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 21.
278Update from Hirohito Higashi, 2014 Nov 21.
279With test, Nov 23.
280
281Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014 Dec 4.
282Is this a good solution?
283
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200284Patch to allow setting w:quickfix_title via setqflist() and setloclist()
285functions. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 8, update May 21)
286Patch to add getlocstack() / setlocstack(). (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 14)
287Second one. Update May 22.
288Update by Daniel Hahler, 2014 Jul 4, Aug 14, Oct 14, Oct 15.
289
290Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
291(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
292
293Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
294
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100295Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
296Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
297was already defined.
298(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
299
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200300Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
301
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200302Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +0100303Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100304Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
305Updated patch from Charles, Dec 29.
306
307Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200308
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200309Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
310(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
311
312Delete old code in os_msdos.c, mch_FullName().
313
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +0100314Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
315(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
316
Bram Moolenaar2f3b5102014-11-19 18:54:17 +0100317Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
318change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
319them: ":repeats".
320
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100321Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
322
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100323Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
324should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
325history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
326Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
327
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200328"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
329Jun 8)
330
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +0100331Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
332insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
333
334Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100335Update Dec 6.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200336
337Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12)
338
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100339No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
340
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +0200341Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
342(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
343Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
344arguments.
345
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200346Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100347
348PHP syntax is extremely slow. (Anhad Jai Singh, 2014 Jan 19)
349
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200350Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
3510x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
352New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
353compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
354
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100355Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +0100356Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Has a problem (email 2015 Jan 7).
357Update 2015 Jan 10.
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +0100358
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200359Win32: patch to use 64 bit stat() if possible. (Ken Takata, 2014 May 12)
360More tests May 14. Update May 29. Update Aug 10.
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +0200361
362Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
363right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200364its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +0200365
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100366Can we make ":unlet $VAR" use unsetenv() to delete the env var?
367What for systems that don't have unsetenv()?
368
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100369Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
370
Bram Moolenaar0122c402015-02-03 19:13:34 +0100371Patch to add TabNew, TabNewEntered and TabClosed autocommand events.
372(Felipe Morales, 2015 Feb 1)
373
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100374This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
375 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
376This neither: (ZyX)
377 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
378
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200379'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
380Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
381from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100382
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200383Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
3842014 Jun 8)
385
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +0200386Patch to load TCL dynamically. (Ken Takata, 2014 Sep 20)
387
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100388Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
389Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
390Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
391User view:
392- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Be able to look into
393 the files before deciding to install.
394- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
395- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
396 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
397 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
398 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
399 on vim.org.
400- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
401 there. Can manually update when really needed.
402- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
403- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
404- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
405- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
406Implementation:
407- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
408 plugin separate.
409- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
410 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
411 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
412- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
413 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
414- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
415 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
416 installing.
417Out of scope:
418- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
419- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
420 useful).
421
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200422Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
423normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100424
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +0200425CTRL-] in Visual mode uses the selected text as a tag. This does not work
426when preceded with CTRL-W. (Patrick Hemmer, 2014 Jun 28)
427
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200428When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
429menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
430
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200431Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
432(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
433
434":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
435various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100436
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +0200437Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +0200438(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
439
Bram Moolenaar946e27a2014-06-25 18:50:27 +0200440Patch to add sortuniq(). (Cade Forester, 2014 Mar 19)
441Or add uniq() instead? Patch by lcd47, but it has problems.
442
443Patch to support sorting on floating point number. (Alex Jakushev, 2010 Oct
44430)
445
446Patch to support expression argument to sort() instead of a function name.
447Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 May 31.
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +0200448Or should we add a more general mechanism, like a lambda() function?
449Patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Sep 16.
Bram Moolenaar946e27a2014-06-25 18:50:27 +0200450
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100451Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
452Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
453https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
454
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200455VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
456instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
457
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100458Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200459Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100460
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +0200461Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +0200462command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100463
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200464Patch to get MSVC version in a nicer way. (Ken Takata, 2014 Jul 24)
465
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100466Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
467
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100468Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
469highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100470
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200471Go through more coverity reports.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100472
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +0200473The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
474For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
475
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100476Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +0200477possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100478
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100479Include Haiku port? (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
480
481Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200482
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200483Patch to right-align signs. (James Kolb (email james), 2013 Sep 23)
484
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100485Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
486
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200487With "$" in 'cpoptions' the popup menu isn't fully drawn. (Matti Niemenmaa,
4882013 Sep 5)
489
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100490Patch to add "ntab" item in 'listchars' to repeat first character. (Nathaniel
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100491Braun, pragm, 2013 Oct 13) A better solution 2014 Mar 5.
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100492
493Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
4943. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
495
Bram Moolenaar1a42b4b2013-07-28 18:29:08 +0200496/[b-a] gives error E16, should probably be E769.
497
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01004987 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
499 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
500 "lucida_console:h8").
501Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
502
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200503:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
504
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200505Python: Extended funcrefs: use func_T* structure in place of char_u* function
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100506names.
507(ZyX, 2013 Jul 15, update Sep 22, 24, 28; Update 2013 Dec 15, 2014 Jan 6)
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100508Also fixes Bug: E685 error for func_unref(). (ZyX, 2010 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200509
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200510Patch to add funcref to Lua. (Luis Carvalho, 2013 Sep 4)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200511With tests: Sep 5.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200512
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100513Patch to fix that on suckless Terminal mousewheel up does not work.
514(Ralph Eastwood, 2013 Nov 25)
515
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200516Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
517
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200518Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
519
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100520When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
521(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
522
523Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
524Dec 13.
525
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100526Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
527buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
528
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200529GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
530(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
531
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100532Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
533registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
534
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +0200535Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
536
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +0200537The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
538(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
539Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
540
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200541The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
542- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
543- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
544
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100545Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
546Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
547reliably?
548
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200549Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file.
550That is, calling a dictionary function on an autoloaded dict.
551Works OK for echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar
55217)
553Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Mar 23.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200554Not 100% sure this is the right solution.
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200555
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100556Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
557(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
558
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100559Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
560(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
561
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02005628 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
563 defined.
564Issue 28.
565
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200566Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
5672013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +0100568
569Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
570
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200571Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
5725)
573
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200574Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
575carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
576
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200577Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
578highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
579
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +0100580Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200581
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200582Patch to add the bufferlist() function. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2013 May 5)
Bram Moolenaare6ae6222013-05-21 21:01:10 +0200583May 17: with winlist() and tabpagelist().
584May 19: with local variables.
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200585May 28: with options
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200586
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200587Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +020058828) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200589
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200590Patch from Christian Brabandt to make the "buffer" argument for ":sign place"
591optional. (2013 Jul 12)
592
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200593Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
594
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +0100595Patch to check whether a buffer is quickfix or a location list.
596(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Dec 9)
597
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100598Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
599
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100600Issue 54: document behavior of -complete, also expands arg.
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100601
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200602- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
603 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
604Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200605
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200606Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200607
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200608Patch to set antialiasing style on Windows. (Ondrej Balaz, 2013 Mar 14)
609Needs a different check for CLEARTYPE_QUALITY.
610
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200611In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
612process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
613a reboot.
614
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100615Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100616Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
617Ben Fritz: problem with 'selection' set to "exclusive".
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100618Updated to current Vim, not quite right yet. (Ben Fritz, 2014 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100619
620Patch to select the next or previous text object if there isn't one under the
621cursor. (Daniel Thau, 2013 Nov 20)
622
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100623patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
624
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100625Bug caused by patch 7.3.1288? Issue 183.
626I can't reproduce it.
627
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100628Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
629not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100630
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200631Patch to add assignments in cscope. (Uli Meis, Estabrooks, 2012 Sep 1)
632Alternate patch by Gary Johnson, Sep 4.
633
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200634Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
635Or use expand('<sid>')?
636
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100637Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
638
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100639Patch to add functions for signs. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100640
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200641Do we need some way (option) to show the sign column even when there are no
642signs? Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22.
643
644Patch to remove flicker from popup menu. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Aug 15)
645
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +0100646Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
647
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100648b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
6497)
650
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +0200651Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
652compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
653
654Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
655Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
656vim.bindeval().
657
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200658Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
6592012 Aug 4)
660
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100661Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
662(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
663
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100664Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
665But use Gnome instead of GTK?
666
667Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
668Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
669Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200670
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200671Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
672loading all files.
673
674Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
675line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
676after starting up?
677
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200678Patch to add ":ldo" and ":cdo", execute commands over quickfix list and
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +0200679location list. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2013 Jun 2, update 2015 Mar 21)
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200680
Bram Moolenaardc8b25c2013-07-06 13:58:22 +02006818 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
682 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
683
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200684MS-Windows resizing problems:
685- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
686 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
687- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
688 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
689 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100690
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +0100691Patch to use Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen, 2010 Jul 30)
692Latest version: 2011 May 18
6938 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
694 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
695 Version from Guopeng Wen that does this (2010 Dec 27)
696Alternative: MSI installer: https://github.com/petrkle/vim-msi/
697Or the one on Issue 279
698
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200699'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200700
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200701Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200702of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
703
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200704Patch to add tagfunc(). Cleaned up by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 22.
705
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100706Help for 'b:undo_indent'. (Thilo Six, 2012 May 28)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200707Also question if examples are correct.
708
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200709The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
710Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
711But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200712
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200713Patch to support user name completion on MS-Windows. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012
714Aug 16)
715
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100716When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
717is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
718
Bram Moolenaar07d87792014-07-19 14:04:47 +0200719xterm supports escape sequences to mark a paste operation. Need to be
720enabled. (Bruno Sutic, 2014 Jul 11) How to know the terminal supports this?
721
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100722URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100723- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100724- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
725 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
726
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +0200727Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
728(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
729Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
730
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200731Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +0200732New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200733
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100734When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
735for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
736Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100737
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200738Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
739
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200740Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
74124)
742
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200743Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
744
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100745Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
746
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200747Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
748Apr 18)
749
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200750Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
751And one for gui_x11.txt.
752
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100753":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
754finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
755Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
756
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200757Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
758
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100759Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
760
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200761Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
762they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
763
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100764Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
765
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100766Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
767Nov 20)
768
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200769Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200770Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200771
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100772`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100773(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
774
775Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
776
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100777BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
778Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
779
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100780Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
781Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
782
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +0100783Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
784
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100785Patch to support UTF-8 for Hangul. (Shawn Y.H. Kim, 2011 May 1)
786Needs more work. Pinged 2012 Jan 4.
787
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200788Issue 64: when 'incsearch' is on can't paste LF on command line.
789
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200790On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
7912012 Jun 19)
792
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200793'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
794'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
795Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200796Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +0200797
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200798With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
799(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
800need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
801
802Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
803only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
80421, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
805
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100806The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
807support combining characters. (Charles Campbell)
808
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +0200809'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
810highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
811
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100812Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
813New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
814
815Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
816Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
817
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +0100818Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
819Jan 19)
820
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +0200821Need to escape $HOME on Windows? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21, discussion 2013 Jul 4)
822Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different meaning already.
823Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200824
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +0200825"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100826Oct 26)
827
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200828Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
829
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200830With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
831register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200832
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200833Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
834
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200835When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
836(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
837
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100838Setting $HOME on MS-Windows is not very well documented. Suggestion by Ben
839Fritz (2011 Oct 27).
840
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200841Bug: Windows 7 64 bit system freezes when 'clipboard' set to "unnamed" and
842doing ":g/test/d". Putting every delete on the clipboard? (Robert Chan, 2011
843Jun 17)
844
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100845When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
846then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
847from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
848
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200849Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
850":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
85115)
852
853Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
854
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200855BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
856cleared. See test64.
857
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200858Changes to manpage plugin. (Elias Toivanen, 2011 Jul 25)
859
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200860Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200861effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200862Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
863
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +0200864Patch for variable tabstops. On github (Christian Brabandt, 2014 May 15)
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +0200865Update Aug 16 (email).
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200866
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200867On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
86864 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
869right type.
870
871string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
872(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
873
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200874Make 'formatprg' global-local. (Sung Pae)
875
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200876When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
877(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200878When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
879following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
880(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200881
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200882When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
883doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
884
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100885Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
886
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02008877 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
888Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 19.
889
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200890maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
891mapping, how to restore the script ID?
892
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200893Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
894(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
895
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200896When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
897indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
898the help file.
899
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200900After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
901Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
902
903Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
904
905"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
906
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200907Patch to addd TextDeletePost and TextYankPost events. (Philippe Vaucher, 2011
908May 24) Update May 26.
909
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100910Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
911
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +0200912Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200913
914Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
9152010 Dec 18)
916
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200917With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
918number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
919Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
920
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200921Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
922Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
923
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02009248 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
925Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
926
9278 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
928 after typing something.
929Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
930function that resets did_cursorhold.
931Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 May 6.
932
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +0100933Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
934one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
935the match scrolls into view.
936
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02009377 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
938Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
939Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
940
9419 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
942 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
943Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
944
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200945Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
946Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
947
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200948In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
949or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
950sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
951
952GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
953doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
954
955GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
956
957Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
958Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
959
960Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
961
9627.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
963there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
964do?
965
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200966Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
96722)
968
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100969New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
970- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200971- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100972 the maximum repeat for * and +?
973
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100974"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
9752011 Feb 27)
976
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200977Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
978^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
979
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +0100980'colorcolumn' has higher priority than hlsearch. Should probably be the other
981way around. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 19)
982
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100983When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
984exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
9859) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
986
987g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
988the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
989
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100990Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
991crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
992
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200993Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
994number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
995
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200996Regexp engine performance:
997- Profiling:
998 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
999 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
1000 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
1001 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
1002 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
1003 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
1004- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
1005- Performance tests:
1006 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
1007 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
1008 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
1009 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
1010 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
1011 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
1012 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
1013 'hlsearch'.
1014 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
1015 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
1016 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
1017 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
1018
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001019Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1020names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1021Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1022the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1023
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001024Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
1025Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
1026
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001027'beval' option should be global-local.
1028
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001029Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001030
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001031setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02001032
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +020010337 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
1034 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
1035 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
1036
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001037With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
10382010 Oct 24)
1039
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001040Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
1041Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
1042
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001043Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
1044
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02001045When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
1046Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
1047
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001048":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
1049
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001050'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
1051
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01001052C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
1053checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
1054Issue 46.
1055
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001056Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
1057
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001058Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
1059gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
1060
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001061":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
1062accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
1063
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001064Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
1065setwinvar().
1066
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001067Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
1068
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001069When writing a file > 2Gbyte, the reported number of bytes is negative.
1070(Antonio Colombo, 2010 Dec 18)
1071
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001072When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
1073instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
1074
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001075Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
1076Winckler, 2011 May 11)
1077Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001078
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001079Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
1080back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
1081
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001082Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001083Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
1084
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001085CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
1086the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
1087FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
1088
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001089Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
1090Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
1091
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001092Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
1093Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
1094
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +01001095I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
1096Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
1097an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001098
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001099Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
1100
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01001101Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
1102non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001103
1104iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
1105Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
1106or replace with a character and continue?
1107
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001108Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
1109Requires configure check for localtime().
1110Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
1111
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001112Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
1113Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
1114
1115Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
1116
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001117Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
1118Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
1119path.
1120
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001121Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001122Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001123
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02001124'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
1125
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001126":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
1127like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
1128
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001129Coverity: ask someone to create new user: Dominique.
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02001130Check if there are new reported defects: http://scan.coverity.com/rung2.html
1131
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001132Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
11332010 Nov 5)
1134
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001135Patch to use 'foldnextmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
1136Jan 7)
1137
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001138Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
1139Only with "vim -u NONE".
1140
1141Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
1142
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001143With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
1144entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
1145Feb 12)
1146
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02001147Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
1148characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
1149
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001150Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
1151
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001152Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
1153 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
1154
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02001155Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
1156
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02001157When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
1158Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
1159
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001160When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
1161not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
1162string value.
1163
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001164Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
1165
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001166For running gvim on an USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
1167line argument -noregister.
1168
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001169When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
1170missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
1171
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001172When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
1173doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001174
1175Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
1176(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
1177Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
1178There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
1179Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
1180
1181":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
1182highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
1183to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
1184
1185Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
1186Probably needs a bit of work.
1187
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001188Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
1189Added test, updates, June 23.
1190Updated for 7.4: http://litcave.rudi.ir/farsi_vim.diff
1191With modification for Tatweel character: https://dpaste.de/VmFw
1192Remark from Ameretat Reith (2014 Oct 13)
1193
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001194List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001195Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
1196
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001197Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
1198
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001199Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
1200
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001201Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
1202Sep 1)
1203
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001204Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
1205
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02001206Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
1207on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
1208
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001209Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
12102009 Jul 18)
1211
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001212Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
1213window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
1214Needs more work.
1215
1216Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
1217
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001218When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
1219few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
1220
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001221'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001222(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
1223
1224Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
1225J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
1226
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001227When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
1228for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
1229
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02001230Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
1231
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001232Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
1233
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001234When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
1235
1236":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
1237because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
1238ex_docmd.c.
1239
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001240Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001241Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
1242
1243string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
1244for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
1245
1246Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
1247
1248'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
124920)
1250
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001251Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
12522009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
1253
1254Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
1255
1256Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
1257SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
1258
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001259When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
1260indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
1261(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
1262
1263Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
1264are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
1265Ignore window options when not in the right window?
1266Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
1267that doesn't have a window.
1268
1269When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
1270doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
1271
1272getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
1273displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
1274
1275":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
1276
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001277There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
1278was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
1279perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
1280
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02001281Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
1282
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001283Support a 'systemencoding' option (for Unix). It specifies the encoding of
1284file names. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 5). Useful on a latin1 or double-byte Asian
1285system when 'encoding' is "utf-8".
1286
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001287Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
1288command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
1289
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001290Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
1291does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
1292
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001293opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
1294height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02001295very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001296
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001297Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
1298(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
1299
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001300Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001301(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
1302
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001303Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
1304char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
1305
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001306Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
1307Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
1308
1309This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
1310
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001311A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001312
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001313Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
1314messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
1315es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
13162009 Jan 26)
1317
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001318When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001319in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
1320Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
1321
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001322Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
1323a modeline.
1324
1325Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
1326Sergey Khorev)
1327
1328Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
1329part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001330
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001331netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
1332number to be below last visible line.
1333
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001334After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
1335correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
1336
1337Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
1338(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
1339
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001340shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001341'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
1342Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
1343unix-like shell?
1344
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001345Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
1346register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
1347(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
1348
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001349Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
1350Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
1351
1352Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
1353make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
1354
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001355When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
1356still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
1357
1358"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
1359(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
1360
1361Update src/testdir/main.aap.
1362
1363"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7)
1364
1365Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
1366that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
1367ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
1368Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
1369
1370Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001371Maybe call it v:motiontype.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001372
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001373MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
1374doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
1375probably causes this.
1376
1377'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020013782009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001379
Bram Moolenaar9d98fe92013-08-03 18:35:36 +02001380Patch to support strikethrough next to bold and italic. (Christian Brabandt,
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +010013812013 Jul 30) Update from Ken Takata, 2013 Oct 12.
Bram Moolenaar9d98fe92013-08-03 18:35:36 +02001382
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001383Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
1384 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
1385 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
1386(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
1387
1388Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
1389":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
1390option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
1391is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001392
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001393":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
1394first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001395Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001396
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001397Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
1398laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
1399Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001400
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001401Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
1402anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
1403
1404On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
1405doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
1406Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
1407Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
1408
1409":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
1410
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001411When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
1412'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
1413fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
1414the buffer to be unmodified.
1415Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
1416another look at it.
1417
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001418c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
1419(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
1420
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001421You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
1422error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
1423Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
1424at the other match for 0xBF.
1425
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001426When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
1427argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
1428
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001429Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
1430backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
1431
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001432When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
1433line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
1434
1435Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
1436position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
1437
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001438After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
1439(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001440command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001441
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001442":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
1443Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
1444
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001445Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
1446Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
1447
1448When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
1449either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
1450put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
1451
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001452Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
1453Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
1454Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
1455Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
1456(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
1457
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001458Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
1459
1460ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001461
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001462Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
1463(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
1464escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
1465an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001466This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
1467July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001468Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
1469work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
1470
1471When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
147231)
1473
1474Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
1475work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
1476Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001477
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001478Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
14792008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001480Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001481
1482Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
1483Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
1484'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
1485
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001486Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
1487Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
1488
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001489Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
1490Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
1491
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020014928 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
1493 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
1494 several).
1495 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
1496 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
1497 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
1498Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
1499
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001500Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
1501
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001502The utf class table is missing some entries:
1503 0x2212, minus sign
1504 0x2217, star
1505 0x2500, bar
1506 0x26ab, circle
1507
1508Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
1509line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
1510
1511GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
1512Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
1513
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001514Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
1515try the Cocoa version.
1516
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001517Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
1518changed or the window is resized.
1519
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001520GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
1521the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
1522
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001523Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
1524Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001525
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001526Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
15271) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
1528
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001529C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
1530with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
1531Try to reproduce at work.
1532
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001533Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
1534Is there a way to list all the files first?
1535
1536When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
1537result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
153816)
1539
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001540Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
1541(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
1542
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001543Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
1544Await response to question to make the register writable.
1545
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001546src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
1547remark why.
1548
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001549Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
15501)
1551
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001552In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
1553each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
1554
1555try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1556
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001557try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
1558
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001559":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
1560Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
1561
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001562Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
1563
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001564Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
1565Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
1566
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001567Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
1568Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
1569Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001570
1571C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
1572(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
1573
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001574When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
1575and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
1576
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001577Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
1578 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
1579
1580New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
1581
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001582":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
1583a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
1584
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001585'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
1586Likonen, March 19)
1587
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001588Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
1589other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
1590
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001591The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
1592appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
1593matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
1594
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001595When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
1596character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
1597'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
1598(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
1599
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001600Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
1601Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001602
1603More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
1604
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001605Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
1606http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
1607
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001608Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
1609back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
1610Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001611
1612Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
1613No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
1614
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001615Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
1616terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001617
1618Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
1619
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001620Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
1621but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
1622that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001623
1624When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
1625
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001626Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
1627Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
1628
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001629Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
1630popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
1631size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
1632This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
1633
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001634Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
1635a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
1636isn't right?
1637
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001638When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
1639it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
1640
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001641Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
1642then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
1643files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001644Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
1645indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
1646":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001647in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
1648quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001649Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001650
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001651When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
1652parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
1653neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
1654particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1655Jun 3)
1656However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
1657the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001658
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001659A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
1660Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
1661
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001662Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
1663Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
1664
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001665Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
1666switch list is noticed:
1667 switch (i)
1668 {
1669 case 1:
1670 foobar:
1671 }
1672
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001673Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
1674
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001675Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
1676with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
1677go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
1678moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
1679
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001680Windows installer should install 32-bit version of right-click handler also on
168164-bit systems. (Brian Cunningham, 2011 Dec 28)
1682
1683Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
1684Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
1685Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
1686argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
1687(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
1688
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001689Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
1690(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
1691
1692Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
1693makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
1694.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
1695 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
1696
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001697Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
16982007 Feb 8)
1699
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001700Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
1701set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001702
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001703Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
1704
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001705Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
1706Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
1707New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
1708patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
1709
1710Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
1711Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
1712
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001713Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
1714
1715Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
17162007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001717Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001718
1719Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00001720label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
1721
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001722Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
1723with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
1724Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001725
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001726Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
1727pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001728Patches from Ken Takata might help (2014 Apr 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001729
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001730Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
1731
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001732Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
1733Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
1734only takes 'shellslash' into account.
1735
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001736Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
1737Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001738Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001739properly?
1740
1741Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
17422007 Jun 21)
1743
1744When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1745Jun 18)
1746
1747If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
1748
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001749Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
1750windows. (Adam George)
1751
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001752F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
1753modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
1754K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001755
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001756UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
1757to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
1758
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001759In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
1760the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
1761
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001762C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
1763
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001764":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
1765
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001766When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001767error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001768
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001769Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
1770use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
1771
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001772Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
1773if_ruby.c.
1774
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001775":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
1776
1777The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
1778it in keep_msg?
1779
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001780Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001781error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001782name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
1783
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00001784Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
1785longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001786
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001787Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
1788Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
1789Also for ":w" without a file name.
1790The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001791
1792"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
1793Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
1794
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001795VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
1796directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
1797(Zoltan Arpadffy)
1798
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001799VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1800
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001801input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
1802name?
1803
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001804Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
1805
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001806When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
1807(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
1808Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
1809will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
1810
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001811gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
1812This also fails with --remote.
1813
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001814When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
18152008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
1816all places where buf_freeall() is called?
1817
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001818aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
1819
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001820When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
1821(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
1822
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001823Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
1824the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
1825
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001826GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
1827
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001828Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
1829superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
1830
1831Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
1832character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
1833
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001834Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
1835Jun 5)
1836
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001837Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
18382008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
1839Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
1840
1841In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
1842but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
1843Jul 22)
1844
1845There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
1846
1847Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
1848":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
1849somehow? Or use a new function.
1850
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001851Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
1852
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001853Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
1854moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
1855that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
1856
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001857The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
1858
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001859When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001860cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
1861the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
1862
1863Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
1864has been created.
1865
1866Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
1867shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
1868fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
1869background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
1870A.Politz may work on this.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001871
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001872These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
1873 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
1874 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
1875 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
1876
1877Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
1878partly. (2006 Dec 7)
1879
1880In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
1881buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
1882reload it then?
1883
1884New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
1885previous version.
1886
1887For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
1888
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001889Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
1890only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
1891
1892Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
1893tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
1894doesn't contain other directories.
1895
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001896Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
1897Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
1898
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001899Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
1900 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
1901 set background=dark
1902This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
1903color is, not reset it.
1904
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001905Linux distributions:
1906- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
1907 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
1908 xfree-xterm".
1909- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
1910
1911Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
1912start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
1913show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
1914middle?
1915
1916When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001917(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001918connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
1919dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
1920
1921Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
1922
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001923When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
1924current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
1925the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
1926
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001927When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
1928Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
1929
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001930Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
1931 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
1932 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
1933 - getting colors in xterm
1934 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
1935
1936Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
1937Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
1938
1939Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
1940
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001941A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
1942Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
1943
1944Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
1945Dara, 2006 June 21)
1946
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001947Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
1948number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
1949
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001950After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
1951the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
1952
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001953Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001954
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001955Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
1956copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
1957error and stop using the connection to the server.
1958
1959Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
1960Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
1961
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001962Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010019632008 Sep 29)
1964
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001965In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
1966check the result of has("patch13").
1967
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001968Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
1969restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
1970
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001971Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
1972and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
1973
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001974Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
1975put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
1976
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001977Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
1978resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
1979
1980In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
1981can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
1982
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001983GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
1984maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
1985doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001986Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
1987visible.
1988
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001989When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
1990differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001991
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001992The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
1993be only one.
1994
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001995"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
1996script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
1997
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001998It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
1999the function name before resolving it to a number?
2000 let d = {}
2001 fun! d.foo()
2002 echo "here"
2003 endfun
2004 call d.foo(9)
2005
2006Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
2007only set after Visual moded is ended.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002008Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
2009used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
2010
2011Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
2012output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
2013Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
2014
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002015Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002016"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
2017name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
2018Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002019
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002020printf() uses the field width in bytes. Can it be made character width,
2021perhaps with a modifier? What does Posix say?
2022
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002023Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
2024(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
2025
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002026Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
2027as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
2028
2029Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
2030Jan 1)
2031
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002032Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
203323)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002034
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002035":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
2036tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
2037Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002038
2039xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
2040buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
2041Xterm 224 supports it!
2042
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002043When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
2044text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
2045latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
2046
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002047Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
2048
2049Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
2050no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
2051
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002052In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
2053VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
20542007 Oct 16)
2055
2056TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
2057Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
2058
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002059Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002060
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002061When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
2062typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
2063Sep 3, 11)
2064
2065When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
2066respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
2067the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
2068what happens for the GUI.
2069
2070X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
2071pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
2072clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
2073Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
2074Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
2075clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
2076
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002077":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
2078this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
2079
2080When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
2081Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
2082restored. (Luc St-Louis)
2083
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002084Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
20852010 Jun 30)
2086
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02002087Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
2088'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
2089(Kartik Agaram)
2090
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002091
Bram Moolenaare6ae6222013-05-21 21:01:10 +02002092At next release:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002093- Build a huge version by default.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002094- Improve plugin handling: Automatic updates, handle dependencies?
2095 E.g. Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002096
2097
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002098More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002099- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
2100 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002101- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
2102- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
2103 21)
2104- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
2105 patch May 10)
2106- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
2107 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
2108- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
2109 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
2110- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
2111- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
2112- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
2113 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
2114 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002115- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002116- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
2117 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
2118- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
2119 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
2120- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
2121 21)
2122- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
2123 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
2124- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
2125 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002126- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
2127 Sep 13)
2128- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02002129 Docs patch Oct 30, update David Burgin (glts) 2013 Aug 24, 2014 Oct 10)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02002130- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
2131 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
2132 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
2133 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
2134 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02002135- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002136
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002137Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000021389 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
2139 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
2140 New patch 2004 Jun 16
2141 - selecting proportional font breaks display
2142 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
2143 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
2144 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
2145 (Alan Schmitt)
2146 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002147 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
2148 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000021499 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002150 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000021518 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000021528 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00002153 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000021547 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
2155 Update 2004 Sep 6.
2156 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000021578 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002158 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020021597 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002160 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
2161- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
2162 for multi-byte characters.
2163- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
2164- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
2165 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
2166 been given values.
2167 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
21688 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002169 with an ESC sequence.
2170 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
2171 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
2172 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000021737 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
2174 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
2175- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
2176 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
2177 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
21788 Add functions:
2179 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
2180 Update 2004 Sep 10
2181 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
2182 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00002183 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002184 How to get the messages into the .po files?
2185 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
2186 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
2187 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
2188 (2003 May 13)
2189 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
2190 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002191 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
2192 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002193 col('^') column of first non-white character.
2194 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
2195 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000021967 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
2197 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
2198- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
2199 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
22007 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
2201 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000022028 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
2203 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000022047 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
22058 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
2206 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
22077 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
2208 Kotchan has a patch for it)
22098 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
2210 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
2211 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
22127 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
2213- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
2214 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
2215 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002216- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
2217 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
2218- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
2219
2220
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002221Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002222- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
2223 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022248 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
2225 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
2226 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
2227 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
2228 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
2229 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022308 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
2231 make Vim exit.
22327 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2233 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2234 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
22358 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2236 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2237 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
22386 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2239 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2240 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
22418 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2242 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2243 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2244 names in one buffer???
2245 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2246 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2247 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
22487 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2249 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2250 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002251 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2252 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022537 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2254 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
22557 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
22567 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
22577 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
2258 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
22597 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
2260 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
2261 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
2262 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
22637 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
22647 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
22657 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
2266 to the match with the tag? Option?
22677 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
22687 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
2269 (Sayre).
22707 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
2271 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022727 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
2273 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
2274 match. Nvi can do it too.
22757 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
2276 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
2277 line 1\ line 2\\
2278 line 2\ line 3\\
2279 . line4/
22806 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
2281 the way the shell is started?
22826 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
2283 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
2284
2285
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002286GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000022879 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022888 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
2289 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
2290 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000022918 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
2292 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
2293 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022949 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
2295 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
2296 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
2297 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00002298- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
2299 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
2300 blocked for now.
2301
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002302
2303Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002304- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
2305 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023068 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
2307 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
23088 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
2309 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
2310 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
23118 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
2312 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023136 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
2314 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000023158 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
2316 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
2317 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023187 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
2319 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
2320 to use an opaque background in most places?
23218 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
2322 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
2323 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023247 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
2325 2004 May 9)
23268 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
2327 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
2328 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
2329 MS-Windows 98?
2330 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
2331 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
2332 file: Window moves with the cursor!
2333 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023348 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
2335 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
2336 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
2337 doesn't work properly.
23388 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
2339 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
2340 appears in the right position. (Webb)
23419 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
2342 button doesn't give popup menu.
2343 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
2344 selection.
2345 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
2346 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
2347 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
23488 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
2349 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
2350 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
2351 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
23528 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
2353 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
2354 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023557 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
2356 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
2357 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
23587 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
2359 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00002360 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023617 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
2362 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023636 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
23648 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
2365 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
2366 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
23678 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
2368 know which keyboard is being used?
23697 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
2370 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
2371 area (Koloseike).
23728 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
2373 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
2374 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
2375 the font name).
2376
2377
2378Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000023796 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
2380 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
2381 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
2382 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
2383 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023849 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
2385 required and it's missing?
23868 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
2387 wrong.
23889 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
2389 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000023909 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002391 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
2392 flag.
23938 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
2394 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
2395 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
23968 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
23976 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
2398 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
2399 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
2400 the tooltips work though...
24017 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
2402 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
24038 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
2404 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
2405 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
2406
2407
2408Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010024099 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
2410 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024119 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
2412 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
2413 through files.
24147 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
2415 read long file names. (Schroeder)
24164 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
2417 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
2418 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
2419 problem during a refresh.
24205 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
2421 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
2422 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
2423 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
2424 colors as it should.
2425 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
2426 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
2427
2428
2429Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02002430- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024317 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
2432 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024338 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
2434 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
2435 (Phillipps)
2436
2437
2438GUI:
24399 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
2440 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
24419 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00002442 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002443 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
24449 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
2445 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
24468 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
2447 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
24488 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
2449 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
2450 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
24518 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
2452 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
2453 of where it is processing the output.
2454 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
24558 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
2456 doesn't work.
24578 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000024588 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
2459 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
2460 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020024618 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024628 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
2463 browse().
24648 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
2465 use that code? Or use console dialog.
24668 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
2467 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000024687 More features in the find/replace dialog:
2469 - regexp on/off
2470 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
2471 when all buffers/directory is used:
2472 - filter for file name
2473 when directory is used:
2474 - subdirectory on/off
2475 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024768 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
2477 to avoid problems.
24788 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
2479 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
2480 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
24818 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
2482 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
2483 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
24848 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
2485 up. Set erase character somehow?
24868 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
2487 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
2488 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
2489 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
24908 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
24917 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
2492 visible.
24937 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
2494 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
24957 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
2496 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
24978 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
2498 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
24998 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
2500 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
2501 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
2502 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
2503- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
25044 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
2505 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
2506 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
2507
2508
2509MSDOS/DJGPP:
25109 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
2511 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
2512 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
25138 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
2514 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
25159 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00002516 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
2517 write a file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025189 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
2519 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
2520 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
2521 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
25229 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
2523 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
2524 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
2525 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
2526 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
2527 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
2528 Make this work like in Win32 console.
2529 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
2530 key code. Use a translation table?
25319 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
2532 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
25338 Use DJGPP 2.03.
25348 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
2535 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
25368 setlocale() is bogus.
25378 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
2538 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
2539 Windows 95 system!
25408 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000025417 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002542 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
25437 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
2544 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
2545 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
25468 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
2547 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
25487 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
2549 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
2550 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
2551 "[New file]".
25527 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
2553 that is supported?
25548 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
25558 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
2556 Briscoe)
2557
2558
2559MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
25608 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
2561 gen_expand_wildcards().
25628 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
2563 Wagner.
25648 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
25658 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
2566 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000025678 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
2568 a good fallback, thus use:
2569 $HOME
2570 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
2571 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
2572 $USERPROFILE
2573 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
2574 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
2575 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
2576 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025778 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
2578 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
25798 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
2580 Should work like in the GUI version.
25818 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
2582 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
25838 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
2584 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
25858 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
2586 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
2587 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025888 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
2589 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
2590 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
2591
2592
2593Windows 95:
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +020025948 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002595 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
2596 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
25978 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
2598 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
2599
2600
2601Win32 console:
26029 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
2603 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
2604 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
2605 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
2606 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
2607 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
2608 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
2609 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
2610 and the file is not saved.
2611 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
2612 long name.
26138 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
2614 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
26157 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
2616 besides the console.
26178 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
26189 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
2619 <C-S-i>?
26209 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
2621 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
26228 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
2623 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026247 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
2625 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
2626 exiting.
2627
2628
2629Amiga:
26308 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
2631 sequences.
26329 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
2633 backslashes in result.
26348 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
2635 all options, using white space separation.
2636
2637
2638Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002639- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026407 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
2641 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
2642 (Jack)
2643 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000026448 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
2645 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026468 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
26478 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
26489 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
2649 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026509 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002651
2652
2653"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002654- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
2655 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002656- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
2657 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002658- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
2659 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
2660 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
2661 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
2662 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
2663 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
2664 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000026659 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
2666 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000026679 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002668 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
2669 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026708 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
2671 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
2672 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00002673 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026747 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
2675 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
26768 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
2677 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
2678 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026797 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
2680 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002681- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
2682 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026838 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
2684 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
2685 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
2686 using the horizontal scrollbar.
26877 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
2688 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
2689 invocations belong together.
26908 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
2691 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
26928 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
2693 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
2694 UnxUtils.zip archive.
2695 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
2696 Briscoe says it's not as good.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000026978 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
2698 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
2699 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027008 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
2701 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027027 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
2703 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
2704 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
2705 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027067 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
2707 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
2708 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
27097 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
2710 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
2711 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
27127 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
2713 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027147 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
2715 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027169 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
2717 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
2718 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
2719 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
2720 script can be called.
27218 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
2722 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
2723 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027248 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
2725 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000027268 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002727 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
2728 configurable?
27298 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
27309 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
2731 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
2732 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027338 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
2734 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027358 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
2736 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027378 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
2738 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027399 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
2740 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
2741 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027427 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027438 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
2744 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
2745 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000027468 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
2747 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002748 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
2749 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027508 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
2751 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
27529 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
2753 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
2754 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002755 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027567 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
2757 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027587 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
2759 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
2760 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
2761 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027628 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002763 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
2764 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
2765 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
2766 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002767 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
2768 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00002769 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002770 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002771 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
2772 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
2773 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
2774 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
2775 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
27768 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
2777 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
27789 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
2779 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
2780 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027818 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
2782 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
27838 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
2784 in lines that don't extend into the block?
27858 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
2786 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
2787 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
27888 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
2789 'linebreak'.
27908 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
2791 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
2792 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027939 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
2794 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
2795 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
2796 'magic' in history. (Margo)
27979 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
2798 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
27999 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
2800 isn't updated).
28019 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
28029 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
2803 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
2804 cause another redraw, etc.
28058 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
2806 must escape special characters in the pattern.
28078 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
2808 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
2809 ":w!!" for that.
2810 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
2811 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00002812 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028137 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
2814 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
2815 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
2816 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
2817 clipboard)
28187 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
2819 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
2820 Waggoner)
28218 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
2822 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
2823 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000028246 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
2825 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
2826 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028278 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
2828 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
28298 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
2830 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
2831 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000028328 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028338 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
2834 (e.g., ":w").
28358 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
2836 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
28378 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
2838 for ">>".
28398 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
2840 script in do_cmdline().
28418 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
2842 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
2843 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
2844 changes.
28458 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
2846 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
28478 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
2848 check for file marks. This can be slow.
28497 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
2850 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
2851 needed.
2852 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
28538 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
2854 to skip catch_signals()?
28559 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
2856 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
2857 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
2858 text?
28598 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
2860 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
28618 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
2862 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
28639 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
2864 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
2865 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
2866 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
2867 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
28687 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
2869 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
2870 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
2871 in the list?
28728 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
2873 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
2874 instead of on button down.
28758 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
28769 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
2877 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002878 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
2879 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028808 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
2881 character is typed.
28828 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
2883 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
28848 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
2885 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
28868 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
2887 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
2888 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
2889 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
2890 cygwin bash.
28917 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
2892 Remember flags for backreferences.
28937 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
2894 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
28957 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
2896 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
28978 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
2898 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
28997 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
2900 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029017 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
2902 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
2903 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
29047 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
2905 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
29068 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
2907 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
2908 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
29097 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
2910 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002911
2912
2913I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
29149 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
2915 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
2916 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002917
2918
2919Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00002920- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
2921 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
2922 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002923- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
2924 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
2925 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
2926 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
2927 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
2928 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002929 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002930- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
2931 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00002932 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002933 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
2934 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
2935 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002936- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
2937 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
2938 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
2939 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
2940 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
2941- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
2942 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
2943 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
2944- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
2945 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002946- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002947- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
2948 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
2949 character gets the highlighting.
2950- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
2951 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
2952- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
2953 (Jennings)
2954- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
2955- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2956 errors. How do we get the rest?
2957- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002958- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002959 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
2960- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
2961 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
2962 first?
2963- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
2964 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
2965- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
2966 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
2967 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
2968- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
2969 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
2970 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
2971 (Benzinger).
2972- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
2973 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
2974 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
2975- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
2976 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
2977- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
2978 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
2979- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
2980 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
2981 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
2982 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
2983 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
2984 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
2985- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
2986 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
2987 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002988- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
2989 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
2990 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002991- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
2992 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
2993 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
2994- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
2995 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
2996- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
2997 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002998- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
2999 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3000- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3001 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3002 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3003 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3004 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3005- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3006 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3007 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3008- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3009 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3010 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003011- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3012 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 +00003013- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3014 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3015 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3016 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3017 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3018- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3019 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3020
3021--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3022 *extensions-improvements*
3023
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003024Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3025- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3026 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3027 calling a function.
3028 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3029 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003030- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3031 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
3032- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
3033 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
3034 http://clewn.sf.net.
3035 And the idevim plugin/script.
3036 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
3037 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
3038 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
3039 other window.
3040 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
3041 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
3042 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
3043 in terminal mode.
3044- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3045 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3046 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3047 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3048 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3049 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003050 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003051- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3052 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3053 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003054- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3055 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003056- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
3057 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
3058 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030598 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3060 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3061 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3062 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003063- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3064 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003065
3066
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003067Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000030688 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3069 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000030708 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3071 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000030728 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3073 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030748 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030757 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
30769 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3077 - change to cursor position and curswant
3078 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3079 - how it works for folded lines
3080 - how it works with multi-byte characters
30819 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3082 work too.
30838 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3084 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3085 text.
30868 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
30877 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3088 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
30897 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3090 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003091 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003092- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3093
3094
3095Help:
3096- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3097 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3098- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3099 to the other matches.
3100- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
3101- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
3102- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3103 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3104 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3105 default contents.
3106- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3107 height for the help window (and other windows).
3108- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3109- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3110- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3111
3112
3113User Friendlier:
31148 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3115 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3116 Briscoe)
31178 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
31188 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3119 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3120 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
31218 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3122 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3123- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3124 ":mkplugin <file>"?
31258 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
3126 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
3127 'runtimepath'.
3128 " Vim plugin
3129 <main plugin code>
3130 " >>> plugin help start <<<
3131 <plugin docs>
3132- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
31339 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3134 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3135 item?).
3136 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031378 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
31387 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000031397 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
3140 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
3141 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000031428 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
3143 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
3144 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
3145 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003146
3147
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003148Tab pages:
31499 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031507 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
3151 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000031528 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000031538 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000031547 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000031557 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00003156 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000031577 Add local variables for each tab page?
31588 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
3159 tab pages.
31607 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031617 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
3162 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00003163
3164
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003165Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003166- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
3167 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
3168- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
3169 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
3170 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
3171- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
3172 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003173- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
3174 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
3175 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003176- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
3177 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
3178 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003179- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
3180 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01003181- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003182 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
3183 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000031848 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
3185 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
31868 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
3187 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
31888 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
3189 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003190 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00003191 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
3192 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
3193 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
3194 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00003195- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
3196 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00003197- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00003198- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
3199 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00003200- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003201 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003202- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003203 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003204- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
3205 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003206- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
3207 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
3208- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00003209 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003210 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3211 in the affix file separately.
3212 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003213 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003214 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3215 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3216 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3217- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3218 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3219 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3220 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3221 Alternative:
3222 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3223 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3224 affix which is required.
3225- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003226 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003227- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3228 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3229 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003230- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3231 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003232- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3233 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3234- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000032358 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3236 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3237 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3238 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003239- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3240 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3241 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3242 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000032438 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3244 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000032458 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
32468 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3247 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000032487 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
32498 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3250 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3251 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3252 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003253
3254
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003255Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020032569 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
3257 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000032589 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
3259 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaarc400cb92010-07-19 19:52:13 +02003260 It's quite big and badly documented though.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032618 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
3262 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
3263 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003264 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
3265 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032667 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
3267 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
3268 location.
3269
3270
3271Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003272 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3273 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032748 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3275 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000032768 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032779 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
3278 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032798 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3280 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3281 user aware of this?
32828 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3283 commands skip over a closed fold.
32848 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
32858 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032867 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003287- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3288 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3289 missing line goes unnoticed.
3290 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003291- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3292 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3293 smoother?
3294- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3295 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003296- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3297 file can contain:
3298 args version.c main.c
3299 edit version.c
3300 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003301- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003302- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3303 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003304- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3305 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003306- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3307 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003308- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000033098 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003310 searches.
3311
3312
3313Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003314- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3315 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3316 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3317 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033189 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3319 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3320 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3321 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020033229 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3323 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3324 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033258 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3326 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3327 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3328 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3329 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3330 item.
33318 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003332 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3333 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033348 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3335 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003336 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00003337 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033388 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3339 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000033408 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3341 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3342 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033437 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3344 so that the user can fix the problem.
33458 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3346 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033479 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
33488 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033498 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
33508 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000033517 Searching and composing characters:
3352 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003353 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3354 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033558 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
33568 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
33578 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
3358 characters.
33598 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
33608 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3361 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
33627 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3363 'display' option to specify this.
33647 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3365 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3366- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3367 fontselector somehow.
3368- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3369 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3370- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3371 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3372- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3373 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3374 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3375 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3376 if a font exists?
3377- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003378 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003379- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3380 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
33817 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
3382 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003383- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
3384 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3385 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
3386 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003387- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3388 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
3389 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
3390- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
3391 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
3392 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
3393 But it's very complicated...
3394
3395
3396Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000033977 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003398- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3399- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3400 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003401- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3402 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003403- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3404- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3405 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003406- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3407 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003408- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3409 units as for the margins.
3410- Support right-to-left text?
34118 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
3412 color.
3413
3414
3415Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034168 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
3417 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
34188 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
3419 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
34208 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
3421 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000034227 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
3423 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034248 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
3425 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
3426 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034277 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
3428 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
3429 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034308 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
34319 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
3432 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034337 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
3434 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000034357 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
3436 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034378 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
3438 change this for each release.
34398 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
3440 pattern, but not in the body.
34418 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
3442 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
3443 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034448 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
34458 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
3446 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
3447 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
3448 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02003449 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
3450 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034518 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
3452 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
34538 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
3454 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00003455 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034568 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
3457 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
3458 used.
34598 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
3460 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
34618 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
3462 re-insert the [] if possible.
34638 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
3464 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000034658 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
3466 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
3467 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
3468 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
3469 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034708 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
3471 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
34728 Support for deleting syntax items:
3473 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
3474 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
3475 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
34768 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
3477 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
3478 a '<'. (Fleiner)
34797 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
3480 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
3481 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
34827 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
3483 detected.
34848 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003485 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034868 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
3487 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034888 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
34898 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
34907 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
3491 ":mkvimrc".
34928 Improve c.vim:
3493 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
3494 "c_strict_ansi".
3495 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
34968 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
3497 current line while in Insert mode.
34988 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
3499 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
35008 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
3501 display position.
35028 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
3503 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
3504 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
35058 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
3506 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
3507 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035088 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
3509 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
3510 sequence.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000035117 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
3512 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
3513 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
3514 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
3515 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035167 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
3517 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
3518 E.g. for this html:
3519 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035207 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
35217 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
3522 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035238 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
35248 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035257 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
3526 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
3527 completion?
35288 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
3529 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
35307 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
3531 select one of the sets.
35328 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
3533 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
3534 2, etc.
35358 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
3536 highlighting (for "." command).
35378 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
3538 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
35398 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
35407 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
3541 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
35426 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
3543 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
3544- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
3545 when extending an already existing syntax file.
3546- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003547- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
3548 (for comment blocks).
3549- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
3550 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
3551 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
3552 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
3553 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
3554 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
3555 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
3556 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
3557 (Campbell)
3558 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
3559 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
35607 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
3561 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
35627 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
3563 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
3564 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
35657 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
3566 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
3567 messages. And external commands?
35688 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
3569 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
35707 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
3571 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
3572
3573
3574Built-in script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000035758 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
3576 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02003577 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000035787 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
3579 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
3580 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035818 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
3582 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003583- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
3584 2006 Dec 11.
3585- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020035868 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
3587 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
3588 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
3589 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
3590 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
3591 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000035927 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
3593 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035948 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
35958 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
3596 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
3597 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
3598 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
3599 nested packages?
3600 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
3601 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
3602 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036037 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
3604 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
3605 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
3606 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
3607 autocommand.
3608 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
3609 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
3610 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
3611 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036127 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
3613 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036146 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
3615 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036168 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003617 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
3618 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
3619 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
3620 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
3621 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
3622 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
3623 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00003624 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
3625 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
3626 3 2002
3627 Only add this when also implemented for
3628 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
3629 be used.
3630 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00003631 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
3632 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
3633 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
3634 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
3635 File.Open..." argument.
3636 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
3637 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
3638 with properties instead.
3639 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
3640 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
3641 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003642 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003643 crypt() encrypt string
3644 decrypt() decrypt string
3645 base64enc() base 64 encoding
3646 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003647 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003648 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003649 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003650 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003651 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003652 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
3653 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003654 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
3655 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003656 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003657 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
3658 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003659 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
3660 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
3661 to allow the library to execute a command or
3662 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036637 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
3664 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
36658 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
3666 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036678 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
3668 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036698 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036707 Add optional arguments to user functions:
3671 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
36726 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000036738 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
3674 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036758 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
3676 option or environment variable.
36778 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036788 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003679 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000036807 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
3681 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036828 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
3683 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
36848 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
36858 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
3686 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
3687 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
3688 charwise({expr}).
36897 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
3690 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
3691 buffer for this?
3692 result = scratch(string, command)
3693 result = apply(string, command)
3694 result = execute(string, command)
3695 "command" would use <> notation.
3696 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
36977 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003698
3699
3700Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000037016 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
3702 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
3703 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
3704 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
3705 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
3706 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
3707 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003708
3709
3710Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000037117 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
3712 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020037137 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
3714 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
3715 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
3716 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000037178 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
3718 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
3719 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
3720 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02003721 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000037228 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
3723 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
3724 repeating it in various system files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037258 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
37269 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
37278 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
37287 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
3729 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
37308 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
3731 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
3732 when starting up in a color terminal.
37338 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
3734 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037358 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
3736 function be improved?
37378 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
3738 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
3739 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
3740 this be improved?
37418 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
3742 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000037437 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
3744 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037457 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
3746 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
37477 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
3748 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020037497 MS-DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037507 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
3751 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
3752 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
3753 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
3754 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
3755 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
3756 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037578 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
3758 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
3759 using strcmp() too often?
37607 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
3761 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
3762 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
3763 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
3764 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
3765 the two blocks to the memfile block.
37667 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
3767 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
3768 with an argument that can be messed with.
3769 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
3770 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
37717 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
3772- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
37738 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
3774 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
3775- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
3776 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
3777- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
3778- Do profiling on:
3779 - :g/pat/normal cmd
3780 - 1000ii<Esc>
3781 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
3782 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
3783 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
3784 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
3785 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
3786 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003787 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037887 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
3789 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
3790 changed).
3791 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
3792 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
3793- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
3794- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
3795 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
3796- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
3797 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
3798 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
3799- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
3800 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
3801- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
3802- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
3803 cursor is right of the screen.
38048 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
3805 CTRL-C (it's slow).
3806
3807
3808Code size:
38098 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
3810- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
3811 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
38128 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
38138 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
3814 it.
38157 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
3816 left out.
38178 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
3818 can be removed.
38198 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
3820
3821
3822Messages:
38238 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
3824 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
38258 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
3826 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
38278 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
3828 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003829- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
3830 Perhaps after ten seconds?
3831- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038328 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
3833 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038349 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
3835 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
3836 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
3837 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
3838 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038398 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
3840 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
38418 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
3842 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
3843 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
3844 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
3845 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
3846 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003847- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003848 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038498 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
3850 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
3851 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
3852 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
3853 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
3854 error messages, printing text, etc.
38558 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
3856 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
3857 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
3858
3859
3860Screen updating:
38617 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
3862 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
3863 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
3864- screen_line():
3865 - insert/delete character stuff.
3866 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
3867- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
3868 dragging the status line with the mouse).
3869- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
3870 waiting for a character.
38718 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
3872 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
3873 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
38747 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003875
3876
3877Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020038788 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038796 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
3880- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
3881 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
3882 windows.
38837 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
3884 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
3885 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
3886- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
3887 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
3888 (Goldfarb)
3889- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
3890 bound windows.
3891- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
3892 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00003893- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003894- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
3895 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
3896 of lines but not with a single line).
3897
3898
3899Autoconf:
39008 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
39018 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
3902 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
3903- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
3904 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
3905- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
3906- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
3907- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
3908
3909
3910Perl interface:
39118 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039127 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
39137 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
39146 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
3915
3916
3917Shared libraries:
39186 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
3919 :libload internal-name libname
3920 :libunload internal-name
3921 :liblist
3922 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3923 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3924 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
39256 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
3926
3927
3928Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000039299 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
3930 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
3931 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
3932 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
3933 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000039348 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
3935 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
3936 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02003937 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003938 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000039397 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
3940 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
3941 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039428 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
39438 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
3944 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039457 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
3946 window for each tag.
39477 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
39487 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
3949 bottom" search message.
39507 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
3951 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
3952 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00003953- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
3954- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003955- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
3956 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
3957 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039587 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
3959 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
3960 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
3961 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
39627 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
3963 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
3964 :tagargs clear
3965 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
3966 matching).
39677 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
3968 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
3969 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
3970 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
39717 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
3972 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
39737 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
3974 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
3975 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003976
3977
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003978Win32 GUI:
39798 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
3980 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039817 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
3982 (Mike McCollister)
39838 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
3984 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
3985 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
3986 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
3987 common part of the path.
39888 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
39898 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
3990 gettext and menus work.
39918 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
3992 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02003993 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003994 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
39958 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
3996 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
39978 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
3998 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
39997 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4000 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
40017 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
40027 <Esc> should close a dialog.
40037 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4004 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4005 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4006 prompts.
40077 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4008 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4009 the file added into an already running Vim.
40107 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4011 functions to find the window title.
4012
4013
4014GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020040158 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004016- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4017 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
40187 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
40198 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
40206 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
40218 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4022 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
40239 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
40247 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
40258 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4026 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
40278 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4028 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4029 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
40308 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4031 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
40328 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4033 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4034 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4035 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040367 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
40378 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4038 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000040397 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4040 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4041 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040428 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
40438 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004044 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040458 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
40468 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
40478 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4048 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4049 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
40507 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4051 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4052 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
40537 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4054 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
40557 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4056 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4057 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4058 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
40597 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
4060 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
40617 Should support multi-column menus.
4062- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4063 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4064- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
40658 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
40666 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4067 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
40687 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
40697 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4070 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4071 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
40727 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
40738 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4074 name can be chosen free.
40757 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4076 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
40776 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4078 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4079 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4080 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4081 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4082 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4083 things.
40847 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4085 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040867 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004087 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004088- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4089 where it was started from?
40907 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4091
4092
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004093Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020040949 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4095 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004096- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010040978 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4098 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4099 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4100 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
41018 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4102 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000041037 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4104 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4105 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4106 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000041077 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000041088 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4109 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041108 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4111 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4112 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000041137 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4114 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4115 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041168 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4117 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4118 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041197 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option
4120 name?
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000041218 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4122 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041238 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041246 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4125 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000041267 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041277 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004128 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4129 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4130 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041315 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4132 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4133 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
41347 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4135 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4136 file.
41378 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4138 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4139 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004140- Add events to autocommands:
4141 Error - When an error happens
4142 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004143 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00004144 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
4145 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004146 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00004147 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004148 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4149 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004150 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004151 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004152 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4153 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4154 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4155 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004156 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004157 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4158 the char.
4159 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4160 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4161 file from CVS).
4162 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4163 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4164 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4165 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4166 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4167 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004168 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4169 changes.
4170 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4171 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004172- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004173 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004174 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004175 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4176 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4177 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4178 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4179 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4180
4181
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004182Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004183- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4184 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004185- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4186 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4187 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4188 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4189 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004190- Ideas from others:
4191 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4192 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4193 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4194 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
4195 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
4196 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
4197 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
4198 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
4199 Uses Perl for C++.
4200 Uses ctags to find the info:
4201 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
4202 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
4203 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
4204 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
4205 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
4206 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02004207 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004208 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4209- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4210
4211
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004212Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004213- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000042147 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4215 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000042167 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4217 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4218 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042198 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4220 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
42219 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4222 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4223 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042248 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4225 - ignore/match case
4226 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042278 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4228 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4229 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4230 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4231 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4232 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042338 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000042347 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4235 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042368 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4237 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4238 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4239 Should work for C++ and Java.
4240 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
42417 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
42427 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4243 instead of words.
42448 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
42458 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4246 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
42478 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4248 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004249- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4250 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004251- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4252 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4253 wildcards in the file name)?
4254- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4255- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4256- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4257 be in another file).
4258- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4259- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4260- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4261 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4262- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4263- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4264- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004265- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4266
4267
4268Command line editing:
42697 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4270 line.
42718 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4272 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4273 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4274- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4275 lines wraps to start of line).
4276- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4277 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4278 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4279 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4280 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4281 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4282 cmdwin does now already.
4283 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4284 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4285 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4286 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4287 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4288 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4289 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4290 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4291 Problems:
4292 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4293 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4294 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4295 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4296 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4297 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4298 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4299 character in first column?
4300 - Implementation ideas:
4301 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4302 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4303 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4304 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4305 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4306 Mode.
4307
4308
4309Command line completion:
43108 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
43118 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4312 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
43138 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4314 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043158 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4316 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043177 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4318 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004319- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4320- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4321 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043228 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4323 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
43247 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4325 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4326- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4327 identifiers (Webb).
43288 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4329 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
43307 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4331 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4332- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4333 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4334- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4335 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4336 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004337
4338
4339Command line history:
4340- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4341 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4342 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
4343 completely resulted from one mapping.
4344- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4345 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4346
4347
4348Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000043499 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4350 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4351 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043528 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4353 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4354 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4355 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4356 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043578 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4358 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4359 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043607 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4361 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004362- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020043639 Can't use multi-byte characters for 'matchpairs'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043647 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4365 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4366- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4367 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4368 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4369 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4370 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4371 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4372- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4373 Normal mode.
4374- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4375 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4376 are used.
4377- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4378- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4379- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4380
4381
4382'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010043839 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4384 char * veryLongName =
4385 "very long string"
4386 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043878 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043888 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
4389 long_type foo =
4390 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043918 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
4392 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00004393 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043948 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
4395 func(
4396 new String[] {
4397 "asdf",
4398 "asdf"
4399 }
4400 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010044018 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
4402 (Chow Loong Jin)
4403 namespace {
4404 int
4405 func(int arg) {
4406 }
4407 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044086 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
4409 func( arg1
4410 , arg2
4411 , arg3
4412 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000044137 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004414 func(
4415 int x) // indent like "(4"
4416 {
4417 if (a
4418 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044199 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
4420 if (a)
4421 {
4422 if (b)
4423 {
4424 // {
4425 }
4426 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00004427 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
4428 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
4429 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004430- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004431 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
44327 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
4433- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
4434 line).
4435- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
4436- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
4437 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004438- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
4439 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
4440- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
4441 code), unless the line starts with "*".
4442- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
4443- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
4444 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
44458 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
4446 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
4447 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
4448- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
4449- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
4450 lines start with "\item".
4451- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
4452 /* here is a comment that
4453 is just autoindented, and
4454 nothing else */
4455- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
44567 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
4457 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
4458 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01004459 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004460
4461
4462Java:
44638 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
4464 Odendahl?
44658 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
4466 "[i" commands and friends.
4467- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
4468 (Jason)
4469- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
4470 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
4471
4472
4473'comments':
44748 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
4475 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
4476 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
4477 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004478 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
4479 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044807 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
4481 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
44827 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
44836 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
4484 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
4485 regexp is used.
44868 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
4487 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
4488
4489
4490Virtual edit:
44918 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044927 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
4493
4494
4495Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044968 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044978 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000044988 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00004499 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000045008 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
4501 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004502 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
4503 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000045048 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045057 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
4506 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045078 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
4508 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045098 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
4510 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
4511 the end of the line or before a ".".
45127 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
4513 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
45147 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
4515 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045166 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
45175 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
4518 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
4519 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
4520 cursor is on.
4521
4522
4523Select mode:
45248 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
4525 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
45267 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02004527 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045287 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
4529 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
4530 contains 'C' or 'A'.
4531 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
4532 normal_cmd().
4533 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4534 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4535
4536
4537Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020045388 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
4539 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004540- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
4541 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
4542 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004543- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
4544 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
4545 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045468 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004547 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004548 where needed.
45497 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
4550 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
45517 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
4552 of each selected line.
45538 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
45548 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4555 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4556 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
45578 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
4558 Ben Godfrey)
45597 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
4560 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
45617 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
4562 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
45637 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
4564 Young is working on this)
45657 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004566 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004567 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
45688 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
4569 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
45707 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
4571 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
4572 option!
45737 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
4574 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
4575 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
4576 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
4577 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
4578 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
4579 without changing the column.
45806 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045817 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
4582 current buffer.
45837 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
45846 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
4585 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
45866 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045876 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004588 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004589 or other special character.
45906 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
4591
4592
4593More advanced repeating commands:
4594- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000045957 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004596 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02004597- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004598- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004599 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
4600 "y." will repeat last yank.
4601 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
4602 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
4603 and/or pick an older command.
4604- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
4605
4606
4607Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046088 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
4609 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
4610 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
46118 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
46127 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
4613 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046148 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
4615 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
46168 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000046177 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046188 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
4619 entering search strings.
46208 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
4621 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
4622 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046238 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
4624 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046258 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
4626 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
4627 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
46287 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046297 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
4630 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046316 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
4632 abbreviations are to be used.
4633- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
4634 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
4635 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004636- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
4637 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
4638 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
4639 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
4640 Or implicit:
4641 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004642- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
4643 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
4644 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004645- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
4646 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
4647- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
4648 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
46496 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
4650 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
4651 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
4652 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004653- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
4654 non-replace Insert mode?
4655- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004656- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
4657- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
4658 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
4659- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004660 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004661- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
4662 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
4663- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
4664- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
4665 ":freekeys".
4666- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
4667
4668
4669Incsearch:
4670- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
4671- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
4672 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
4673 up every time.
4674- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
4675 folds when going to another line.
4676- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
4677 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
4678 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
4679 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
4680- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
4681 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
4682
4683
4684Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010046859 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000046868 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00004687 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004688 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004689 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004690 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010046919 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
4692 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010046938 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
4694 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000046958 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
4696 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
4697 Perl does it this way:
4698 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
4699 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
4700 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
4701 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047028 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
4703 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
4704 number?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010047058 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
4706 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
4707 before each line.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000047087 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
4709 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000047108 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
4711 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000047127 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004713 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
4714 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
4715 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
47167 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
4717 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000047187 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004719 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047207 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
4721 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047228 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
4723 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
47248 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
4725 line.
47267 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
4727 example.
47288 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
4729 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
4730- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
4731 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
4732 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
4733 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047348 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
4735 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
4736 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
47377 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
4738 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000047397 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
4740 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047418 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
4742 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047438 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
4744 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047458 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
4746 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
4747 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
4748 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004749- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
4750 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004751- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
4752 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
4753- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
4754 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
4755 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
4756 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047578 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
4758 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004759- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
4760 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047618 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
4762 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
4763 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004764- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
4765 i ignore case
4766 I use case
4767 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
4768 v use Vi regexp syntax
4769 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
4770 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
4771 Perl uses these too:
4772 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
4773 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
4774 o compile only once (Perl only)
4775 s single line expression (we don't need it)
4776 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
4777 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
4778 following command.
4779 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
4780- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
4781 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
4782 for search string)?
47837 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
4784 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
4785- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
4786 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
4787- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
4788 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
4789- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
4790- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004791 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004792 a for the next file in the argument list
4793 f for file in the buffer list
4794 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004795 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
4796 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004797 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
4798 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
4799- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048007 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004801 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048027 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
4803 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
4804 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
4805 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
48066 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
4807 effects.
48087 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
4809 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
4810 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000048117 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004812 Also ":dselect".
4813
4814
4815Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010048169 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
4817 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
4818 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048199 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
4820 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020048218 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
4822 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
4823 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
48248 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
4825 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000048268 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
4827 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
4828 timestamp?
4829 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
4830 indent?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048318 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
4832 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
4833 was changed outside of Vim.
4834 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
4835 storing the differences.
Bram Moolenaar23c347c2010-07-14 20:57:00 +02004836 Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list
4837 of about 10 last reloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004838- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
4839 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004840- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
4841 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
4842 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
48438 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
4844 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
4845 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
4846 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
48478 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
4848 only remember the lines that really changed.
48497 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
4850 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
4851 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
4852 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004853- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
4854 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
4855- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
4856 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
4857- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
4858 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
4859 [-99].
4860- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
4861- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004862- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
4863 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
4864
4865
4866Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048677 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
4868 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
4869 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
4870 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
48718 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
4872 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
48738 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
4874 inode too.
48757 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004876 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
4877 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048787 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
4879 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
4880- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
4881 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
4882- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
4883 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
48847 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
4885 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
48867 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
4887 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
48888 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000048898 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004890 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
48917 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
4892 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010048938 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
4894 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
4895 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004896
4897
4898Swap (.swp) files:
48998 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
4900 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
4901 there are short file name problems.
49028 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
4903 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
49048 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
49058 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004906 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004907 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
4908 file the same as the actual file?
4909 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049107 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
4911 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
49127 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004913 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004914 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
4915 enough room.
49167 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
4917 or /var/preserve.
4918- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
4919 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
4920- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
4921 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
4922- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
4923 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
4924 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
4925 cached list of which line is where.
4926
4927
4928Viminfo:
49297 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
4930 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
4931 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000049328 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
4933 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
4934 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049358 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
4936 name. (Schild)
49378 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
49388 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000049398 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049408 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
4941 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
4942 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
4943 this?
49447 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
49457 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
4946 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
49476 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
4948 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
4949 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
4950- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
4951 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
4952
4953
4954Modelines:
49558 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
4956 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
4957 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004958- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
4959 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
4960 'shiftwidth'.
4961- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
4962 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004963- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
4964 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
4965 modeline setting.
4966- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
4967 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
4968- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
4969 .cpp files.
4970- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
4971 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
4972- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
4973 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
4974
4975
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004976Sessions:
49778 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
4978 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
49797 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
4980 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049818 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
4982 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049838 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
4984 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
4985 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000049867 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
4987 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000049887 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00004989
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004990
4991Options:
49927 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
4993 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049948 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
4995 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
4996 also be supported.
49978 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
4998 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
4999 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
50007 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
50017 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
5002 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01005003 Also do 'sidescrolloff'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005004
5005
5006External commands:
50078 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5008 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
50094 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5010 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5011 -f).
50124 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
50134 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5014 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
50154 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5016
5017
5018Multiple Windows:
50197 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
50208 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5021 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
50227 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5023 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5024 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000050257 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5026 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000050277 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5028 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050296 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5030 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005031 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005032 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
50337 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5034 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5035 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5036 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5037- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5038 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5039 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5040 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5041
5042
5043Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000050448 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050458 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5046 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000050478 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050488 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5049 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
50508 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5051 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5052 the mark was set.
50537 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5054 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5055 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5056 ":browse marks"?
50576 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050587 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5059 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
50607 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5061 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
50627 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5063 command).
50647 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5065 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5066 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5067 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
50685 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5069 mappings.
50706 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5071 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5072 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5073
5074
5075Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020050767 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005077 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005078- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5079 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000050808 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050817 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5082 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5083
5084
5085Writing files:
5086- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5087 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5088 shortname conversion.
50898 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
50908 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5091 file.
50928 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5093 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5094 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050956 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5096 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
50976 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5098 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
50996 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5100 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000051018 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005102 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
51037 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5104 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
51057 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5106 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5107 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5108 waiting for a character to be typed).
51098 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5110 line of the window, like "[time]".
5111 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5112 Automatic and/or with a command.
5113
5114
5115Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000051168 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5117 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000051188 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005119 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5120- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5121- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
51228 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5123 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005124- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005125 :s///N substitutes N times.
5126- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5127 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5128 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
51297 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5130 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5131 last line column 5.
51325 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5133 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5134 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5135 (Stanislav Sitar)
5136
5137
5138Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051398 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
51407 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
51418 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5142 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5143 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005144- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5145- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5146 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5147- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5148- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5149
5150
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005151Argument list:
51526 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5153 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5154 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
51556 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5156
5157
5158Registers:
51598 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051608 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5161 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5162 for every line.
51636 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5164 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5165 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5166- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5167 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5168- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5169 leader when line wraps?
5170- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5171 line in the range.
5172- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5173 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
51748 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5175 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005176
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005177
5178Debug mode:
51797 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
51808 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000051818 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051827 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00005183 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
5184 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
5185 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051867 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
51877 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5188
5189
5190Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000051917 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5192 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5193 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5194 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5195 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5196 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5197 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005198 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000051997 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5200 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000052017 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5202 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052038 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5204 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052057 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5206 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5207 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005208- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005209 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052107 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
5211 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010052127 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5213 window as a buffer-tab selection.
52148 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052157 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
5216 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
5217 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005218 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
5219 Assign them to a v: variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052207 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5221 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
52228 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5223 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052246 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052258 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5226 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5227 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5228 in this Vim.
52298 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005230 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052318 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5232 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5233 have it apply to the following command.
52348 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5235 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5236 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5237 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052387 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5239 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052407 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5241 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5242 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5243 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052446 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
52458 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
52469 Support ACLs on more systems.
52477 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5248 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052497 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5250 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5251 (truncated to fit in the space).
52527 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
52538 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
52548 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5255 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000052567 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005257 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
52587 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5259 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052607 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052617 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
52627 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052638 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
52648 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5265 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5266 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5267 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
52688 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
52696 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
5270 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00005271 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01005272 Patch to add async functionality. (Geoff Greer, 2013 Sep 1 and later)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052738 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052748 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5275 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5276 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5277 does something like this. (Shah)
52787 Use growarray for replace stack.
52797 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5280 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
52813 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052827 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5283 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010052847 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5285 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005286- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5287- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5288- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5289- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
52907 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5291 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5292- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5293 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005294- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005295- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5296 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5297- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5298 call "play newbeep.au").
5299- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5300 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5301 (Bhatt).
5302- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5303 blockwise registers).
5304- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5305 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5306- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5307 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5308 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5309 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005310- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053117 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5312 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5313- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5314 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5315 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5316 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5317 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000053188 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5319 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053208 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5321 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5322 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5323 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5324 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5325- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005326- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053277 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5328 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5329- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5330 not in column 1.
53316 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5332 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
53337 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5334- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005335- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005336 :redir #> bufname
5337 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005338- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5339 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005340- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5341 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5342 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
53436 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5344 console? (Klaus Hast)
5345- Add :delcr command:
5346 *:delcr*
5347 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
5348 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
5349 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
5350 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
5351 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
5352 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
5353- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
5354- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
5355 characters from 'isprint'.
5356- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
5357- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
5358 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
5359- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
5360 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
5361 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
5362- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
5363- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
5364 Nvi).
5365- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
5366 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
53677 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
5368- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
5369 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
53706 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
5371- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
5372 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
5373 macro).
5374- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005375- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
5376 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
5377- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
53788 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005379- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
5380- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
5381- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
5382 if it is not the first or last window.
5383- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
5384 there is one) instead of the file itself.
53857 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
5386 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
5387 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
5388- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
5389- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005390 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005391 many percent down the windows).
5392- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
5393 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
5394 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02005395 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005396- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
5397 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
5398- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
5399 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
5400- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
5401- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
5402- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
5403 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054048 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
5405 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
5406 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
5407 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
5408 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005409- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
5410 t_bs is set? (Webb)
5411- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005412 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
5413- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005414 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
5415 (Webb).
5416- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005417 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005418- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
5419 hex codes like 0xff).
5420- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
5421 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
5422 the last TYPED command.
5423- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
5424- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
5425- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
5426 should also work?
5427- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
54288 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
5429 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
5430 name.
5431- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
5432 trailing '.'.
5433- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
5434 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
5435 find_file_in_path().
5436- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
5437 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
5438- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
5439- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
5440 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
5441- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005442 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005443- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
5444 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
5445 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005446- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
5447- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
5448- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
5449 to the minimal size.
5450- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
5451- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
5452- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
5453- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
5454- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005455- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
5456 entered)?
5457- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
5458 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005459- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005460- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
5461- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
5462- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
5463- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
5464- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
5465 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005466- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054678 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
5468 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
5469 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
5470 or in octal.
54717 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
5472 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005473- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005474 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
5475- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
5476- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
5477 insert line command).
5478- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
5479- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
5480- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
5481- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
5482- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
5483 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005484- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005485 yet.
5486- Implement 'redraw' option.
5487- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
5488 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054897 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
5490 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00005491 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
5492 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054938 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
5494 do it.
5495- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
5496- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
5497 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
5498- Add text justification option.
5499- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
5500- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
5501 off".
5502- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
5503- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
5504- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005505 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005506- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02005507- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005508- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
5509- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
5510 commands.
5511- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
5512- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
5513- :table command (Webb)
5514- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005515- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
5516- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5517- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5518- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5519- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5520 (Demirel).
5521- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
5522- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
5523 for use in macro's and the like.
5524- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005525 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005526- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005527 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005528- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005529 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005530 a window to become smaller (Webb).
5531- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
5532 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005533- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005534 mkopttab to make option table?
5535- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
5536 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
5537- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
5538 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005539- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005540 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
5541- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
5542 cursor?
5543- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
5544- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
55455 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
5546 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000055478 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
5548 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
5549 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
5550 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
5551 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055528 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
5553 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
5554 (Netherton)
55556 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
5556 space after "(", for example.
55575 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
5558 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
5559 (Servatius Brandt)
5560
5561
5562From Elvis:
5563- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
5564- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005565- Search patterns:
5566 \@ match word under cursor.
5567 but do:
5568 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5569 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
55708 ":window" command:
5571 :win + next window (up)
5572 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5573 :win - previous window (down)
5574 :win -- idem, wrapping
5575 :win nr to window number "nr"
5576 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
55777 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5578 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5579
5580
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005581From xvi:
5582- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5583- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5584
5585
5586From vile:
5587- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5588- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5589 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5590
5591
5592Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005593- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5594 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
5595 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
5596 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5597 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005598- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5599 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5600- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5601 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5602 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
5603 current layout mirrored.
5604- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
5605- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
5606 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
5607- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
5608- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
5609 font in each top-level window.
5610- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
5611- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
5612- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
5613- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
5614 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
5615- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
5616 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
5617 mentioned in the tags file.
5618 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
5619 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
5620- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
5621 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
5622- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
5623 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
56244 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
5625 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
5626 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
5627 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005628 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005629 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
5630 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
5631- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
5632 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
5633 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
5634
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00005635When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
5636empty line would appear.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005637
5638vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
5639vim: set fo+=n :