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Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.2. Last change: 2020 Jun 21
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020041Include src/po/vim.pot ?
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +020042
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +020043See if resizing a terminal can be fixed.
44
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010045Vim9 script:
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020046Making everything work:
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +020047- Error for "g:var: string = 'value'"
48- Make func()->append('$') work - value is last argument, not first. #6305
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020049- possible memory leak in test_vim9_func through compile_nested_function.
50- memory leaks in test_vim9_expr
51- memory leaks in test_vim9_script
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +020052- more return types depending on the first argument, like sort().
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +020053- Check that when sourcing a Vim9 script, only the global items can be used.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020054- Make "true" and "false" work in vim9script
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +020055- Test that a function defined inside a :def function is local to that
56 function, g: functions can be defined and script-local functions cannot be
57 defined.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020058- make 0 == 'string' fail on the script level, like inside :def.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020059- Check that when using a user function name without prefix, it does not find
60 a global function. Prefixing g: is required.
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +020061- Compile: for [key, value] in items(map)
62- Assignment to dict doesn't work:
63 let ret: dict<string> = #{}
64 ret[i] = string(i)
65- Appending to dict item doesn't work:
66 let d[i] ..= value
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020067- Compile replacement of :s command: s/pat/\=expr/
68- Compile redir to local variable: var_redir_start().
69- Compile builtin functions that access local variables:
70 islocked()
71- Expand `=expr` in :next, :argedit, :argadd, :argdelete, :drop
72- Expand `=expr` in :vimgrep, :vimgrepadd, :lvimgrep, :lvimgrepadd
73- Expand `=expr` in :mkspell
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020074- When evaluating constants for script variables, some functions could work:
75 has('asdf'), len('string')
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020076- Support type for ":let"/":const" at script level for Vim9 script.
77 (Ben Jackson, #5671)
78 Can we share the code from ex_let_const() between direct execution and
79 compiling?
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +020080- Implement "as Name" in "import Item as Name from ..."
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020081- Disallow unlet for local/script/imported vars
82- Make "++nr" work.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020083- Make closures work:
84 - Create closure in a loop. Need to make a list of them.
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020085- expandcmd() with `=expr` in filename uses legacy expression.
86- eval_expr() in ex_cexpr()
87- eval_expr() call in dbg_parsearg() and debuggy_find()
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +020088- has() is compiled as a constant, but some checks are dynamic.
89 Check for dynamic values, such as "gui_running".
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020090New syntax and functionality:
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020091Improve error checking:
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +010092- "echo Func()" is an error if Func() does not return anything.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +020093Test:
94- Using a Vim9 autoload script (functions must be global).
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +020095Also:
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +020096- For range: make table of first ASCII character with flag to quickly check if
97 it can be a Vim9 command. E.g. "+" can, but "." can't.
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +010098- better implementation for partial and tests for that.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010099- Make "g:imported = Export.exported" work in Vim9 script.
100- Make Foo.Bar() work to call the dict function. (#5676)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100101- Error in any command in "vim9script" aborts sourcing.
102- Find a way to test expressions in legacy and Vim9 script without duplication
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100103- Fix memory leaks for test_vim9_disassemble, test_vim9_expr, test_vim9_script
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100104- Test each level of expressions properly, with type checking
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100105- Test try/catch and throw better, also nested.
106 Test return inside try/finally jumps to finally and then returns.
107- call autoload function.
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100108- Implement more expressions, e.g. [a:b]
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100109- can use func as reference:
110 def SomeFunc() ...
111 map(list, SomeFunc)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100112- Test: Function declared inside a :def function is local, disappears at the
113 end of the function. Unless g: is used, just like with variables.
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100114- implement :type
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +0200115- import type declaration?
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100116- implement class
117- implement interface
118- predefined class: Promise<T>
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200119- implement enum
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100120- Make accessing varargs faster: arg[expr]
121 EVAL expr
122 LOADVARARG (varags idx)
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200123Further improvements:
124- compile options that are an expression, e.g. "expr:" in 'spellsuggest',
125 'foldexpr', 'foldtext', 'printexpr', 'diffexpr', 'patchexpr', 'charconvert',
126 'balloonexpr', 'includeexpr', 'indentexpr', 'formatexpr'.
Bram Moolenaar2cfb4a22020-05-07 18:56:00 +0200127- Make inline function work, to be used as a funcref:
128 let ref = def(arg: type): rettype
129 body
130 enddef
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200131- compile get_lambda_tv() in popup_add_timeout()
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200132- inline call to map() and filter()
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200133- compile "skip" argument of searchpair()
134- compile "expr" and "call" expression of a channel in channel_exe_cmd()?
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100135
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200136Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100137- With some sequence get get hidden finished terminal buffer. (#5768)
138 Cannot close popup terminal (#5744)
139 Buffer can't be wiped, gets status "aF". (#5764)
140 Is buf->nwindows incorrect?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100141- popup_clear() and popup_close() should close the terminal popup, and
142 make the buffer hidden. #5745
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200143- Cursor not updated before a redraw, making it jump. (#5943)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100144- With terminal in popup, allow for popup_hide() to temporarily hide it.?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100145- Fire some autocommand event after a new popup window was created and
146 positioned? PopupNew? Could be used to set some options or move it out of
147 the way. (#5737)
148 However, it may also cause trouble, changing the popup of another plugin.
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200149- Use popup (or popup menu) for command line completion
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100150- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not
151 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544)
152- Implement flip option.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200153- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200154 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100155- Match does not have right BG color if line length equals popup width.
156 (#5658)
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200157- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100158 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for these.
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +0100159- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200160
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200161Text properties:
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200162- :goto does not go to the right place when test properties are present.
163 (#5930)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100164- "cc" does not call inserted_bytes(). (Axel Forsman, #5763)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100165- Get E685 with a sequence of commands. (#5674)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100166- Combining text property with 'cursorline' does not always work (Billie
167 Cleek, #5533)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100168- Text properties spanning more than one line. #5683
Bram Moolenaar09c6f262019-11-17 15:55:14 +0100169- See remarks at top of src/textprop.c
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200170
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100171'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200172- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
173 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100174- :s@pat/tern@ doesn't include "/" in the pattern. (Takahiro Yoshihara, #3637)
175 pass delim to do_search() ?
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200176- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200177- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200178- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
179 isn't one?
180 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
181
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200182Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100183- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200184- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100185- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200186
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200187Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200188- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100189- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
190 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200191- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100192- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200193- Termdebug does not work when Vim was build with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
194 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
195 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100196- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100197- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
198 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100199 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100200 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200201
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200202Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200203- No support for underline color, t_8u.
Bram Moolenaar2c7f8c52020-04-20 19:52:53 +0200204- When started with ":terminal ++close" and the shell exits but there is a
205 background process, the window remains open, because the channel still
206 exists (and output still shows). Perhaps close the window when an explicit
207 ++close was used? (#5931)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200208- Using "CTRL-W :confirm quite" and selecting "yes" should work like ":quit!".
209 (Harm te Hennepe, #6129)
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100210- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
211 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200212 A bit like using CTRL-W N first.
213 Jump back like with "a" when any key is typed.
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100214 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100215- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100216- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
217 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200218- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
219 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200220- GUI: hang until key typed. (#3530)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200221- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200222- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
223 #2977)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200224- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
225 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
226- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
227 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200228- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
229 is disabled.
230- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
231- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
232 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200233- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
234 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
235 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
236- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
237- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
238 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
239- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
240 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200241
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200242Error numbers available:
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200243E489, E610, E611, E653, E856
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200244
245Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? It is only used for completion.
246
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200247Patch to use collaction based sorting. (Christian Brabandt, #6229)
248
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200249Can we detect true color support? https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728
250Try setting a color then request the current color, like using t_u7.
251
252Check out PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
253Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
254(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
255Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
256- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
257 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
258 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
259- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
260 covered by the above change.
261So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
262same thing.
263Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200264
Bram Moolenaard1caa942020-04-10 22:10:56 +0200265Buffer autocommands are a bit inconsistent. Add a separate set of
266autocommands for the buffer lifecycle:
267 BufIsCreated (after buffer ID exists)
268 BufIsLoaded (after buffer ID has content)
269 BufIsUnloaded (after buffer ID no longer has)
270 BufIsWiped (after buffer ID was wiped)
271 BufIsRenamed (after buffer ID gets another name)
272The buffer list and windows are locked, no changes possible
273
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200274How about removing Atari MiNT support?
275 src/Make_mint.mak, src/os_mint.h, matches with __MINT__
276
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200277Patch to make :q work with local arglist. (Christian Brabandt, #6286)
278
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100279Patch to fix drawing error with DirectX. (James Grant, #5688)
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200280Causes flicker on resizing. Workaround from Ken Takata.
281How about only setting the attribute when part of the Vim window is offscreen?
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200282
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100283File marks merging has duplicates since 7.4.1925. (Ingo Karkat, #5733)
284
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200285"make test_gui" crashed in submenu_change(). Fix and remove workaround in
286add_pixmap_args().
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200287Athena is OK.
288Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200289Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
290manager. Problem with Motif?
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200291
Bram Moolenaar73fef332020-06-21 22:12:03 +0200292Patch to add :argdedupe. (Nir Lichtman, #6235)
293
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200294:map output does not clear the reset of the command line.
295(#5623, also see #5962)
296
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200297Problem with auto-formatting - inserting space and putting cursor before added
298character. (#6154)
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200299
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200300undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
301
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100302When 'lazyredraw' is set sometimes the title is not updated.
303(Jason Franklin, 2020 Feb 3) Looks like a race condition.
304
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200305Regexp to search for duplicate lines does not work correctly:
306/\(^.*\n\)\1 (Chris Morgan, #6239)
307
Bram Moolenaar7ceefb32020-05-01 16:07:38 +0200308With bash ":make" does not set v:shell_error. Possible solution: set
309'shellpipe' to "2>&1| tee %s; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]}" #5994
Bram Moolenaar191acfd2020-03-27 20:42:43 +0100310
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200311Using mode() when "/pat" is used in Visual mode returns "v" instead of "c",
312which is not useful. Return "c/v" instead. And "c/o" when using "d/pat".
313#6127
314
315When 'fileignorecase' is set ":e testfile.c" works to edit TestFile.c, but
316":find testfile.c" does not ignore case.
317Might be related to #6088.
318
Bram Moolenaar47e13952020-05-12 22:49:12 +0200319When changing the crypt key the buffer should be considered modified.
320Like when changing 'fileformat'. Save the old key in save_file_ff().
321(Ninu-Ciprian Marginean)
322
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100323Strange sequence of BufWipeout and BufNew events while doing omni-complete.
324(Paul Jolly, #5656)
325Get BufDelete without preceding BufNew. (Paul Jolly, #5694)
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100326 Later more requests for what to track.
327 Should we add new events that don't allow any buffer manipulation?
328 Really only for dealing with appearing and disappearing buffers, load and
329 unload.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100330BufWinenter event not fired when saving unnamed buffer. (Paul Jolly, #5655)
Bram Moolenaareab6dff2020-03-01 19:06:45 +0100331Another spurious BufDelete. (Dani Dickstein, #5701)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100332
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200333Wrong error when using local arglist. (Harm te Hennepe, #6133)
334
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100335Request to support <Cmd> in mappings, similar to how Neovim does this.
336(Daniel Hahler, #4784)
337
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200338Test loose_clipboard() by selecting text before suspending.
339
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200340Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
341
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100342:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019
343Dec 19)
344
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200345Patch to add an option to enable/disable VTP. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, #5344)
346Should have three values: empty, "off", "on". Name it 'winterm'?
347
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100348Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
349May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200350Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
351remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200352Also #4994: window-local options not always restored, related to using :badd.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100353Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200354
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100355When 'backupdir' has a path ending in double slash (meaning: use full path of
356the file) combined with 'patchmode' the file name is wrong. (#5791)
357
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200358Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100359Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_"
360in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200361Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
362(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200363
Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +0100364Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426)
365ex_next() should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd().
366
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200367Help for ":argadd fname" says that if "fname" is already in the argument list
368that entry is used. But instead it's always added. (#6210)
369Add flag AL_FIND_ADD, if there is one argument find it in the list.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100370
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100371Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
372(#4087)
373
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100374behavior of i_CTRl-R_CTRL-R differs from documentation. (Paul Desmond Parker,
375#5771)
376
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200377":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
378goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
379unlisted. (#4478)
380
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200381Patch for Template string: #4634
382Copies the text twice, not very efficient. Requires a separate implementation
383for Vim9 script, compiling the string parts and expressions.
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100384
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100385Statusline highlighting error, off by one. (#5599)
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100386
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200387":find" with 'path' set to "data*" does not find files, while completion does
388find them. (Max Kukartsev, #6218)
389
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200390Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
391
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200392Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
393Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
394
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100395Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
396
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100397Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509)
398
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200399The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
400support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
401
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100402"--cleanFOO" does not result in an error. (#5537)
403
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200404Output from assert_equalfile() doesn't give a hint about what's different.
405Assuming the files are text, print the line with the difference.
406
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100407Add "t" action to settagstack(): truncate and add new entries. (#5405)
408
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +0200409When 'relativenumber' is set the line just below a diff change doesn't get
410updated. (#6138)
411
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100412Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
413
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100414Status line is nut updated when splitting windows. (Marcin Szamotulski, #5496)
415
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200416Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
417(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
418
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200419When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
420default one. #4698
421
422When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
423with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
424
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100425Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200426Better: use the "z" prefix. or ]t) and [t(.
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100427
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200428Modeless selection doesn't work in gvim. (#4783)
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200429Caused by patch 8.1.1534.
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200430
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200431Visual highlight not removed when 'dipslay' is "lastline" and line doesn't
432fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
433
Bram Moolenaaracc22402020-06-07 21:07:18 +0200434Current position in the changelist should be local to the buffer. (#2173)
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200435
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200436Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
437- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
438- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaarb17893a2020-03-14 08:19:51 +0100439- INT_MAX not defined: need to include <limits.h> in vim.h
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200440
441Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
44213, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200443
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100444Display messed up with matchparen, wrapping and scrolling. (#5638)
445
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100446When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
447when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
448gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
449input buffer. (#5302)
450
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200451xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
452buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
453Xterm 224 supports it!
454Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
455Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
456Also see issue #609.
457We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
458
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100459:buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp error.
460(#5467)
461
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200462Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200463
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100464Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
4652007 Feb 18)
466Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
467
468Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
469Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
470
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200471Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
472
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200473Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200474Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>.
475Better use ":bufgrep" ?
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200476
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100477Errors found with random data:
478 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100479
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200480Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
481files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
482Include part of #3242?
483
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200484When a terminal exit_cb closes the window, a following typed key is lost, if
485it's in a mapping. (2018 Oct 6, #2302, #3522)
486
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200487Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
488Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
489Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
490
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100491":2resize +10" uses size of the current window, adds 10 and applies it to
492window 2. User expects 10 to be added to size of window 2. (Daniel Steinberg,
493#5443)
494
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200495Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
496t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
497
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100498v:register isn't reset early enough, may be used by next command.
499(Andy Massimino, #5294, possible fix in #5305)
500
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100501Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
502Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
503
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200504'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
505
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200506"exepath('bin/cmd')" does not work while ":!bin/cmd" does work.
507(Daniel Hahler, #4710) and executable('bin/cmd') returns 1
508
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200509Error drawing the number column when 'cursorline' is set. (#3893)
510
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100511Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
512
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200513Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
514
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100515When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
516in a long line. #5189
517
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200518The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
519Give a few examples. (#4288)
520
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200521Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
522work, results in (E479: No match". (#4610)
523
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +02005247 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
525 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
526 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200527Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only added the option, no implem.)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200528
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100529Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
530read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
531be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
532
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100533Add a string to the 'display' option ("smoothscroll" ?) to make CTRL-E and
534CTRL-Y scroll one screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start
535with the first character (like what happens with a last line that doesn't
536fit). Display "<<<" at the start of the first visible line (like "@@@" is
537displayed in the last line). (Arseny Nasokin, #5154)
538
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200539Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
540
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200541Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
542
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200543Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
544https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
545
546Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
547http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
548http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
549Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100550- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200551- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
552- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
553 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
554- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
555- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
556Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
557- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
558- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
559Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
560- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
561
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100562Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
563Mar 5)
564
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200565Many users don't like 'thesaurus' to match so many words. (#4667, #1611)
566- when the match with the first word is partial, don't add other words on that
567 line.
568- support other file formats, such as comma separated. Indicate by a prefix
569 to the file in the 'thesaurus' option.
570- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
571 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
572
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200573Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
574on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
575
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200576Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
577in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
578buffer didn't change at all.
579
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200580Line numbers in profile are off when function was defined with ":execute".
581(Daniel Hahler, #4511)
582
Bram Moolenaara6c27c42019-05-09 19:16:22 +0200583Add a way to create an empty, hidden buffer. Like doing ":new|hide".
584":let buf = bufcreate('name')
585
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200586Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
587'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
588(#4450)
589
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100590When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
591But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
592similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
593
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200594C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
595(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
596
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100597Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
598added?
599
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200600Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
601negative. (see #4326)
602
603'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
604`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
605tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
606:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
607
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200608This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
609 vim: syn=nosyntax
610
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200611":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
612a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
613
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100614Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
615#2948. (related to #1512?)
616On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
617balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
61820, #2481)
619Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
620Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
621balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
6222018 Sep 14)
623Another request: #3811.
624
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200625More warnings from static analysis:
626https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200627
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100628Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
629
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200630Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
631
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200632Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
633internals of the dict structure.
634
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100635nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
636
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200637Missing tests for:
638- add_termcap_entry()
639
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200640Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
641change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
642them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
643
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100644Incsearch test fails when locale is "C". (Dominique Pelle, #3986)
645Also run all tests with C locale?
646
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100647"vat" doesn't work well on XML when the closing > is on another line.
648#3927
649
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200650Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200651Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200652
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100653When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
654case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
655For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
656
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200657Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
658(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
659expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200660
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200661Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
662 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
663 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
664
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100665Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100666punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100667
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200668ml_get error: (Israel Chauca Fuentes, 2018 Oct 17, #3550).
669
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200670Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
671drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
672
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200673Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
674is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
675
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100676When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
677scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
678using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
679
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200680Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
681#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
682(Sep 8)
683
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200684Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
685unified diff (list of lines).
686
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100687When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
688kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
689when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
690
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100691Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
692(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100693
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100694Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
695
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100696Using uninitialized value in test_crypt (can't explain why).
Bram Moolenaarff781552020-03-19 20:37:11 +0100697Memory leak in test_terminal_fail
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200698TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100699Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200700Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
701Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200702
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200703gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200704
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200705matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
70619.
707
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100708Should make 'listchars' global-local. Local to window or to buffer?
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100709Probably window. #5206
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100710Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
711highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200712And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
713'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100714Related: #3820 - Support setting the character displayed below the last line?
715Neovim uses "eob:X" in 'fillchars'.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100716
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100717Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
718Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
719
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200720Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
721Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
722Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
723
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200724Patch to fix that using "5gj" starting inside a closed fold does not work on
725screen lines but on text lines. (Julius Hulsmann, #4095) Lacks a test.
726
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200727home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
728
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200729When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
730terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
731How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
732
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200733Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
734
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100735Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
736Feedback from someone who uses this?
737
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200738ml_get error. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 14, #3434)
739
740Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
741Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
742values.
743
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100744Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200745- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
746- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
747- omit diff.exe from distribution
748- Can we make this show differences within a line?
749- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200750
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200751Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
752
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100753Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +0200754What is the practical use for this? Need an example.
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100755
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200756When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
757includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
758
759Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200760Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200761
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200762MS-Windows: .lnk file not resolved properly when 'encoding' is set.
763(lkintact, 2018 Sep 22, #3473)
764
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100765Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
766
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200767Display error when a conceal match uses '\%>1l'. (#4854)
768
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200769Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
770window for the buffer.
771
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200772Request to add sign_setlist() to make it faster to add a lot of signs, e.g.
773when adding a sign for every quickfix entry. (#4557)
774
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100775Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
776mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
777
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200778Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
779modified buffers
780 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
781 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
782 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
783 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
784
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100785Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
786- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
787- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
788- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100789- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
790
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200791Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
792characters. (#3246)
793
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200794'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
795
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100796Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
797Oct 28)
798
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200799ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
800Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
801Also reproduced by Benjamin Doherty, 2018 Oct 4.
802Simpler way: Ken Takata, Oct 6.
803
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100804Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
805- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
806
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200807Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
808- Test_setbufvar_options()
809- Test_exit_callback_interval()
810
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200811Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
812Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100813Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
814Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200815
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200816Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
817
818Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
81924)
820
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100821Try out background make plugin:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100822 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100823or asyncmake:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100824 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
825
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100826Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100827mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100828
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200829Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
830is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
831used for git temp files.
832
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100833Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
834
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200835Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
836behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
837(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
838
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200839Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
840pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
841
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200842Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
843script or function.
844
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200845When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
846E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
847does nothing otherwise?
848
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200849MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
850If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
851(wait a little while).
852CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100853
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200854Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
855MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
8562017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
857receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
858
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200859Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
860missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
861
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200862":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
863deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
864
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200865Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200866
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200867With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
868included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
869(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
870
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200871Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200872Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200873
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100874Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100875Jan 15, #2555)
876
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200877":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
878
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100879Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
880
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100881No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
882No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
883
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200884Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
885http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
886Should be supported with a flag.
887
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100888Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
889confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
890
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100891Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
892
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100893Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
894Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
895applying the diff, etc.
896
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200897Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
898Apr 26, #2849)
899
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100900User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
901word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100902
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100903Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200904
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200905With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
906(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
907
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200908Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
909:drop (remote commands).
910
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200911Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
9122018 Jun 18, #3027)
913
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200914Implement option_save() and option_restore():
915option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
916 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
917 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
918 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
919 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
920 be called when the same window is the current window.
921 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
922 the local options won't be restored.
923
924option_save({list}) *option_save()*
925 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
926 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
927 let s:saved_options = option_save([
928 \ 'ignorecase',
929 \ 'iskeyword',
930 \ ])
931 au <buffer> BufLeave *
932 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
933< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
934 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
935 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
936 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100937 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
938 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
939 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100940 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200941
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100942"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
943directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
944Also see #1689.
945
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100946When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100947highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100948
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200949":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
950
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100951No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
9522017 Dec 26, #2501)
953
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200954A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
955
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200956Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
957
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200958A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
959Mention where they were defined somewhere.
960
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100961Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
962(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
963
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200964ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
965
966Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
967
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100968Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
969Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
970
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100971Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
972in #846)
973Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
974
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200975Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
976Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
977
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100978When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
979redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200980
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100981In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
982(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
983
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100984Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
985neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100986
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100987Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
988Nov 21)
989
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200990When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
991triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
992set_color_count().
993
994Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
995responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
996
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100997When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
998CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
999Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
1000always nested.
1001
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001002matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
1003
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001004Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
1005
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001006MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001007for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
1008
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +02001009Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01001010(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +02001011
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001012Test runtime files.
1013Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001014
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001015Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001016
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001017Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
1018defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
1019Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
1020
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001021After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
102213, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001023
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +02001024When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
1025line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
1026
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001027The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
1028
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +02001029Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
1030set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
Bram Moolenaar65e0d772020-06-14 17:29:55 +02001031Was this fixed?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +02001032
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001033Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
1034
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001035Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
1036behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
1037
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001038'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
1039
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001040The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
1041
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001042When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
1043a command can delete it.
1044
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001045Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
1046#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
1047
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001048The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
1049for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
1050
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001051X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1052pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1053clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1054Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1055Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1056clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001057Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001058
1059Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
1060
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001061Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
1062attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
1063that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
1064
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001065Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
1066(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
1067
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001068Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
1069buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
1070Also fixes #2166?
1071
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001072Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
1073stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
1074
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001075Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
1076possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
1077
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001078When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
1079case of :bwipe followed by :new.
1080
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +02001081Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
1082existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
1083Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
1084
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001085Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001086
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001087MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
1088Jul 4)
1089
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001090Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
1091Drucker, 2017 May 8).
1092This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
1093Christian cannot reproduce it.
1094
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001095Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
1096wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
1097Or is this not an actual problem?
1098
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001099Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
1100
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001101Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
1102
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001103'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
1104#1736)
1105
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001106Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
11078, #1690)
1108
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001109Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
1110(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
1111
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001112Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
1113it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
1114
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001115Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
1116Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
1117How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
1118
1119Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
1120(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
1121
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001122Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
1123
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001124assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
1125it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
1126
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001127Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
1128for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001129
1130Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
1131(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
1132Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
1133later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
1134Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
1135mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001136Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
1137mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001138maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001139
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001140Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001141plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
1142be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1143
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001144Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1145 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1146 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001147
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001148json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001149What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001150
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001151Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1152
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001153import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1154(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1155
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001156When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
1157buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
1158Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001159
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001160Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1161Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001162Another example in #1309
1163
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001164When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
1165when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
1166
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001167Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1168#1330)
1169
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001170Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1171
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001172Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
1173
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001174GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
1175g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
1176timer expires.
1177
1178Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
1179
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001180Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1181highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1182
11838 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
1184 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
1185
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001186Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1187Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1188
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001189Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1190key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1191 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1192 echo keytrans(xx)
1193 <C-Home>
1194
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001195Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1196(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1197Make a function to check for function-like type?
1198
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001199Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
1200(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
1201
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +01001202Implement named arguments for functions:
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001203 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001204 call Foo(12, all = 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001205
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001206Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1207somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1208
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001209The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1210"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1211Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1212
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001213Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1214
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001215Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1216about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001217Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1218
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +02001219Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
1220#1053) With patch, does it work?
1221
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001222":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001223vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1224
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001225Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001226E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001227Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001228
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001229Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1230Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1231
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001232Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001233Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001234
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001235"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1236(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1237
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001238Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1239(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001240Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001241
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001242'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
1243
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001244Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1245
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001246When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
1247Apr 23, #1653)
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +01001248Can 'completeopt' be made buffer-local? (#5487)
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001249
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001250Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1251anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1252
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001253Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001254E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001255
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001256Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1257(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1258
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001259Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1260
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001261On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1262separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1263
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001264min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
1265contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
1266
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001267Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1268
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001269Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1270
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001271Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1272
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001273Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1274no longer support.
1275
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001276sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
12774#1038)
1278
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001279+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001280- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001281- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1282 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1283 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar388a5d42020-05-26 21:20:45 +02001284- If buffer contents is changed in a callback, set w_redr_status so that it
1285 gets redrawn in redraw_after_callback(). #6120
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001286- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1287 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001288- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
1289- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1290 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1291- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1292 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1293- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001294- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1295 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001296- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1297- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1298 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1299 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1300- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1301- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1302- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1303 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1304 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1305- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1306 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1307- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1308 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1309 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1310
1311Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001312- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1313 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1314 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1315 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001316- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1317 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001318- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1319 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1320- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1321 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1322- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1323 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1324 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1325 LC_CTYPE
1326- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1327 matches everywhere.
1328- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1329 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1330- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1331- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1332 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1333- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
1334- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
1335 2013 Dec 11)
1336- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1337 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1338- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1339- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1340 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1341- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1342- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1343- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1344- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1345 2015 Feb 7)
1346- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1347 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1348 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1349 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1350 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1351- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1352- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1353- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1354- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1355 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1356 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1357 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1358- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1359 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1360- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1361 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1362 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1363 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1364
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001365Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
1366#1350)
1367
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001368Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
13693. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1370Also see #1635.
1371
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001372When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
1373command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
1374
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001375Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1376doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1377Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001378Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001379E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1380
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001381cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1382
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001383:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1384
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001385Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1386
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001387When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1388synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1389
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001390Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1391Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001392
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001393ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1394Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001395
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001396Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
1397
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001398Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1399Jul 25, #948)
1400
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001401Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1402names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1403Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1404the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1405
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001406'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
1407
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001408MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1409Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001410
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001411Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
1412
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001413Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
1414#1125
1415
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001416Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1417times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1418
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001419Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
1420
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001421Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
1422
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001423Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1424
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001425We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1426the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1427
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001428Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1429
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001430When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1431emoji_width table has only one entry.
1432
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001433It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1434Reject the value? #710.
1435
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001436When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1437Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1438
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001439Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001440
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001441Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1442No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001443
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001444Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1445(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001446
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001447Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1448
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001449Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1450https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
1451Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
1452
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001453Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1454but the reference remains valid.
1455
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001456Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001457interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1458Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1459interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1460result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001461
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001462Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001463work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001464
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001465Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1466
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001467Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1468
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001469Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1470Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1471
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001472When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1473Apr 17) #762
1474
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001475exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1476Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1477
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001478Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1479'iskeyword' for syntax.
1480
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001481When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1482maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001483Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001484
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001485Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1486It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1487Add configure check?
1488Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1489Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1490Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1491
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001492Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1493Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1494
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001495Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1496Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1497
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001498":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1499directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1500
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001501In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1502(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1503
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001504If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
15052016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001506
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001507Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1508(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1509
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001510Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
1511
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001512When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1513restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1514Do not trigger the event?
1515
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001516Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
1517changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
1518and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001519Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
1520Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
15216, 2nd message)
1522Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001523
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001524Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1525Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1526https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1527
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001528Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1529With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1530
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001531Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001532
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001533Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1534
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001535Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001536Only remembers one error.
1537
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001538GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001539
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001540Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1541(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001542
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001543Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1544github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001545 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001546Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001547
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001548Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001549
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001550Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001551comparing individual items.
1552Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
1553Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
1554Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
1555equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
1556
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001557Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1558
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001559MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1560wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1561
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001562Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1563specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1564
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001565Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1566(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1567
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001568Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001569inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001570
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001571Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1572(Luchr, #277)
1573
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001574Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001575'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1576before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001577
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001578C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1579and also line continuation after #include.
1580I can't recommend it though.
1581
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001582Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1583(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1584
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001585To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1586library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1587
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001588When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1589is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1590
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001591Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
159230)
1593
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001594MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1595(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1596
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001597The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
159824): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001599
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001600":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1601effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1602
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001603":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
16049)
1605
1606The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1607wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1608
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001609Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001610Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001611
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001612When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1613the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1614
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001615Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001616slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1617inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1618
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001619ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
16202014 Sep 11)
1621
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001622Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1623(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1624
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001625When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1626'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1627
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001628Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1629Work in progress.
1630
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001631Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1632when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1633
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001634Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1635Is this right?
1636
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001637Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1638(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1639Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1640
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001641Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1642Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001643
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001644Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1645Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1646
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001647Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1648
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001649When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1650filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1651initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1652
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001653Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1654
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001655Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1656OK to not block marks?
1657
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001658Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1659
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001660Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1661
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001662When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1663(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1664
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001665Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001666
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001667Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1668(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1669
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001670When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1671any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1672
1673Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001674
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001675Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001676
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001677Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1678(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1679
1680Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1681
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001682Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1683Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1684was already defined.
1685(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1686
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001687Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1688
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001689Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001690Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001691Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001692Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001693
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001694Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1695(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1696
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001697Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1698(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1699
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001700Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1701
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001702When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1703these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1704window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1705
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001706Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1707should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1708history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1709Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1710
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001711"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1712Jun 8)
1713
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001714Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1715insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1716
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001717No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1718
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001719Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1720(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1721Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1722arguments.
1723
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001724Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1725
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001726Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001727
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001728Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
17290x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1730New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1731compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1732
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001733Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1734a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1735
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001736Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1737right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001738its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001739
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001740Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1741
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001742This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1743 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1744This neither: (ZyX)
1745 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1746
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001747'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1748Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1749from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001750
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001751Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
17522014 Jun 8)
1753
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001754Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001755Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001756Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1757Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1758User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001759- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1760 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1761 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001762- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1763- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1764 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1765 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1766 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1767 on vim.org.
1768- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1769 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1770- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1771- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1772- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1773- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1774Implementation:
1775- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1776 plugin separate.
1777- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1778 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1779 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1780- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1781 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1782- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1783 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1784 installing.
1785Out of scope:
1786- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1787- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1788 useful).
1789
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001790Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1791normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001792
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001793When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1794menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1795
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001796Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1797(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1798
1799":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1800various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001801
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001802Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001803(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1804
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001805VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1806instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1807
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001808Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001809Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001810
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001811Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001812command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001813
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001814Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1815
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001816Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1817highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001818
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001819The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1820For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1821
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001822Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001823possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001824
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001825Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001826
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001827Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1828
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010018297 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1830 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1831 "lucida_console:h8").
1832Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1833
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001834:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1835
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001836Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1837
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001838Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1839
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001840When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1841(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1842
1843Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001844Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001845
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001846GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1847(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1848
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001849Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1850registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1851
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001852Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1853
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001854The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1855(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1856Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1857
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001858The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1859- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1860- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1861
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001862Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1863Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1864reliably?
1865
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001866Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1867(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1868
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001869Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1870(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1871
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001872Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
18732013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001874
1875Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1876
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001877Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
18785)
1879
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001880Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1881carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1882
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001883Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1884highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1885
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001886Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001887
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001888Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200188928) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001890
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001891Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1892
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001893Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1894
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001895- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1896 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1897Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001898
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001899Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001900
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001901In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1902process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1903a reboot.
1904
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001905patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1906
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001907Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1908not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001909
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001910Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1911Or use expand('<sid>')?
1912
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001913Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1914
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001915Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1916
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001917b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
19187)
1919
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001920Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1921compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1922
1923Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1924Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1925vim.bindeval().
1926
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001927Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
19282012 Aug 4)
1929
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001930Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1931(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1932
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001933Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1934But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1935
1936Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1937Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1938Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001939
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001940Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1941loading all files.
1942
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001943MS-Windows resizing problems:
1944- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1945 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1946- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1947 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1948 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001949
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001950'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001951
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001952Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001953of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1954
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001955The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1956Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1957But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001958
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001959When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1960is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1961
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001962URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001963- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001964- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1965 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1966
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001967Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1968(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1969Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1970
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001971Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001972New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001973
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001974When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1975for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1976Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001977
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001978Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1979
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001980Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1981
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001982Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1983Apr 18)
1984
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001985Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1986And one for gui_x11.txt.
1987
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001988":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1989finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1990Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1991
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001992Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1993
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001994Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1995
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001996Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1997they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1998
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001999Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
2000
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002001Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
2002Nov 20)
2003
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002004Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002005Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02002006
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002007`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002008(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
2009
2010Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
2011
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01002012BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
2013Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
2014
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002015Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
2016Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
2017
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002018Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
2019
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02002020On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
20212012 Jun 19)
2022
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002023'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
2024'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
2025Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002026Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02002027
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002028With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
2029(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
2030need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
2031
2032Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
2033only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
203421, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
2035
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002036Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
2037New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
2038
2039Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
2040Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
2041
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01002042Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
2043Jan 19)
2044
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01002045Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
2046discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
2047meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002048
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02002049"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002050Oct 26)
2051
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002052Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
2053
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002054With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
2055register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002056
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002057Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
2058
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002059When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
2060(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
2061
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01002062When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
2063then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
2064from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
2065
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002066Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
2067":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
206815)
2069
2070Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
2071
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002072BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
2073cleared. See test64.
2074
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002075On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
207664 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
2077right type.
2078
2079string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
2080(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
2081
2082When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
2083(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002084When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
2085following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
2086(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002087
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002088When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
2089doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
2090
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01002091Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
2092
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002093Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
2094(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
2095
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002096When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
2097indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
2098the help file.
2099
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002100After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
2101Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
2102
2103Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
2104
2105"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
2106
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002107Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
2108
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02002109Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002110
2111Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
21122010 Dec 18)
2113
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002114With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
2115number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
2116Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
2117
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002118Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
2119Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
2120
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020021218 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2122Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
2123
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01002124Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
2125one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2126the match scrolls into view.
2127
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020021287 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2129Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2130Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2131
21329 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2133 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2134Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2135
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002136Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2137Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2138
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002139In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2140or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2141sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2142
2143GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2144doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2145
2146GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2147
2148Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2149Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2150
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002151Wish for NetBeans commands:
2152 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2153
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002154Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2155
21567.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2157there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2158do?
2159
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002160Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
216122)
2162
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002163New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2164- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002165- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002166 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2167
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002168"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
21692011 Feb 27)
2170
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002171Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2172^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2173
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002174When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2175exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
21769) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2177
2178g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2179the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2180
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002181Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2182crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2183
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002184Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2185number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2186
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002187Regexp engine performance:
2188- Profiling:
2189 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2190 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2191 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2192 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2193 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2194 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2195- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2196- Performance tests:
2197 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2198 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2199 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2200 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2201 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2202 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2203 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2204 'hlsearch'.
2205 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2206 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2207 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2208 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2209
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002210Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2211Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2212
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002213'beval' option should be global-local.
2214
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002215Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002216
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002217setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002218
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002219With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
22202010 Oct 24)
2221
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002222Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2223
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002224When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2225Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2226
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002227":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2228
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002229'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2230
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002231C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2232checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2233Issue 46.
2234
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002235Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2236
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002237Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2238gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2239
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002240":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2241accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2242
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002243Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2244setwinvar().
2245
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002246Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002247
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002248When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2249instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2250
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002251Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2252Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2253Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002254
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002255Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2256back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2257
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002258Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002259Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2260
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002261CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2262the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
2263FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
2264
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002265Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2266Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2267
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002268Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2269Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2270
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002271Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2272
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002273Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2274non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002275
2276iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2277Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2278or replace with a character and continue?
2279
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002280Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2281Requires configure check for localtime().
2282Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2283
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002284Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
2285Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
2286
2287Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2288
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002289Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2290Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2291path.
2292
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002293Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002294Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002295
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002296'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2297
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002298":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2299like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2300
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002301Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2302https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002303
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002304Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
23052010 Nov 5)
2306
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002307Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002308Jan 7)
2309
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002310Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2311
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002312With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2313entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2314Feb 12)
2315
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002316Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2317characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2318
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002319Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2320
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002321Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2322 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2323
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002324Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2325
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002326When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2327Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2328
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002329When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2330not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2331string value.
2332
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002333For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002334line argument -noregister.
2335
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002336When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2337missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2338
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002339When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2340doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002341
2342Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2343(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2344Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2345There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2346Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2347
2348":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2349highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2350to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2351
2352Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2353Probably needs a bit of work.
2354
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002355List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002356Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2357
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002358Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2359
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002360Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2361
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002362Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2363Sep 1)
2364
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002365Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2366
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002367Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2368on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2369
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002370Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
23712009 Jul 18)
2372
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002373Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2374window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2375Needs more work.
2376
2377Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2378
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002379When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2380few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2381
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002382'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002383(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2384
2385Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2386J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2387
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002388When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2389for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2390
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002391Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2392
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002393":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2394because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2395ex_docmd.c.
2396
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002397Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002398Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2399
2400string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2401for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2402
2403Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2404
2405'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
240620)
2407
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002408Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
24092009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2410
2411Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2412
2413Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
2414SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
2415
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002416When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2417indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2418(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2419
2420Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2421are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2422Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2423Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2424that doesn't have a window.
2425
2426When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2427doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2428
2429getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2430displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2431
2432":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2433
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002434There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2435was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2436perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2437
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002438Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2439
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002440Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2441command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2442
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002443Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2444does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2445
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002446opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2447height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002448very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002449
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002450Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2451(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2452
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002453Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002454(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2455
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002456Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2457char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2458
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002459Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2460Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2461
2462This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2463
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002464Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2465messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2466es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
24672009 Jan 26)
2468
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002469When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002470in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2471Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2472
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002473Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2474a modeline.
2475
2476Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2477Sergey Khorev)
2478
2479Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2480part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002481
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002482After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2483correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2484
2485Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2486(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2487
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002488shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002489'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2490Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2491unix-like shell?
2492
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002493Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2494register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2495(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2496
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002497Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2498Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2499
2500Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2501make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2502
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002503When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2504still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2505
2506"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2507(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2508
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002509Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2510that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2511ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2512Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2513
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002514MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2515doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2516probably causes this.
2517
2518'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020025192009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002520
2521Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2522 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2523 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2524(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2525
2526Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2527":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2528option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2529is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002530
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002531":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2532first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002533Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002534
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002535Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2536laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2537Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002538
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002539Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2540anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2541
2542On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2543doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2544Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2545Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2546
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002547When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2548'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2549fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2550the buffer to be unmodified.
2551Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2552another look at it.
2553
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002554c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2555(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2556
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002557You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2558error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2559Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2560at the other match for 0xBF.
2561
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002562When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2563argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2564
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002565Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2566backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2567
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002568When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2569line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2570
2571Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2572position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2573
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002574After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2575(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002576command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002577
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002578":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2579Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2580
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002581When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2582either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2583put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2584
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002585Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2586Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2587Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2588Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2589(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2590
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002591Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2592
2593ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002594
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002595Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2596(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2597escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2598an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002599This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2600July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002601Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2602work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2603
2604When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
260531)
2606
2607Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2608work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2609Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002610
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002611Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2612multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2613(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2614
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002615Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
26162008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002617Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002618
2619Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2620Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2621'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2622
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002623Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2624Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2625
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002626Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2627Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2628
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020026298 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2630 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2631 several).
2632 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2633 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2634 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2635Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2636
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002637The utf class table is missing some entries:
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002638 0x2212, minus sign
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002639 0x2217, star
2640 0x2500, bar
2641 0x26ab, circle
2642
2643Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2644line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2645
2646GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2647Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2648
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002649Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2650try the Cocoa version.
2651
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002652Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2653changed or the window is resized.
2654
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002655GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2656the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2657
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002658Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2659Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002660
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002661Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
26621) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2663
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002664C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2665with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2666Try to reproduce at work.
2667
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002668Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2669Is there a way to list all the files first?
2670
2671When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2672result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
267316)
2674
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002675Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2676(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2677
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002678Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2679Await response to question to make the register writable.
2680
2681Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
26821)
2683
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002684In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2685each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2686
2687try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2688
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002689try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2690
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002691":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2692Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2693
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002694Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2695
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002696Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2697Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2698
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002699Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2700Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2701Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002702
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002703When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2704and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2705
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002706Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2707 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2708
2709New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2710
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002711":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2712a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2713
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002714'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2715Likonen, March 19)
2716
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002717Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2718other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2719
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002720The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2721appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2722matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2723
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002724When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2725character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2726'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2727(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2728
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002729Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2730Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002731
2732More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2733
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002734Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2735http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2736
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002737Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2738back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2739Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002740
2741Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2742No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2743
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002744Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2745terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002746
2747Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2748
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002749Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2750but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2751that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002752
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002753Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2754Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2755
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002756Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2757popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2758size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2759This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2760
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002761When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2762it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2763
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002764Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2765then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2766files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002767Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2768indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2769":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002770in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2771quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002772Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002773
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002774When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2775parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2776neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2777particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2778Jun 3)
2779However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2780the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002781
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002782A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2783Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2784
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002785Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2786Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2787
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002788Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2789switch list is noticed:
2790 switch (i)
2791 {
2792 case 1:
2793 foobar:
2794 }
2795
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002796Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2797
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002798Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2799with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2800go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2801moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2802
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002803Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002804GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002805Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2806argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2807(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2808
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002809Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2810(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2811
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002812Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
28132007 Feb 8)
2814
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002815Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2816set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002817
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002818Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2819
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002820Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2821Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2822New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2823patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2824
2825Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2826Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2827
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002828Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002829label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2830
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002831Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2832with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2833Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002834
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002835Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2836
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002837Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2838Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2839only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2840
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002841Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2842Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002843Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002844properly?
2845
2846Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
28472007 Jun 21)
2848
2849When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2850Jun 18)
2851
2852If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2853
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002854Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2855windows. (Adam George)
2856
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002857In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2858the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2859
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002860C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2861
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002862":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2863
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002864When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002865error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002866
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002867GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002868use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2869
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002870Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2871if_ruby.c.
2872
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002873":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2874
2875The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2876it in keep_msg?
2877
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002878Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002879error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002880name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2881
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002882Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2883longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002884
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002885Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2886Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2887Also for ":w" without a file name.
2888The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002889
2890"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2891Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2892
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002893VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2894directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2895(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2896
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002897VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2898
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002899input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2900name?
2901
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002902Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2903
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002904When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2905(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002906Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002907will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2908
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002909gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2910This also fails with --remote.
2911
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002912When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
29132008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2914all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2915
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002916aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2917
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002918When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2919(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2920
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002921Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2922the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2923
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002924GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2925
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002926Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2927superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2928
2929Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2930character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2931
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002932Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2933Jun 5)
2934
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002935Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
29362008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2937Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2938
2939In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2940but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2941Jul 22)
2942
2943There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2944
2945Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2946":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2947somehow? Or use a new function.
2948
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002949Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2950
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002951Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2952moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2953that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2954
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002955The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2956
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002957When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002958cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2959the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2960
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002961These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2962 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2963 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2964 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2965
2966Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2967partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2968
2969In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2970buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2971reload it then?
2972
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002973For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2974
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002975Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2976only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2977
2978Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2979tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2980doesn't contain other directories.
2981
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002982Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2983Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2984
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002985Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2986 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2987 set background=dark
2988This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2989color is, not reset it.
2990
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002991Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2992start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2993show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2994middle?
2995
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002996Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2997
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002998When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2999current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
3000the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
3001
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003002When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
3003Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
3004
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003005Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
3006Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
3007
3008Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
3009
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003010A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
3011Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
3012
3013Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
3014Dara, 2006 June 21)
3015
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003016Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
3017number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
3018
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003019After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
3020the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
3021
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003022Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003023
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003024Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
3025Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
3026
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003027Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010030282008 Sep 29)
3029
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003030In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
3031check the result of has("patch13").
3032
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003033Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
3034restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
3035
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003036Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
3037and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
3038
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003039Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
3040put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
3041
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003042Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
3043resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
3044
3045In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
3046can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
3047
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003048GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
3049maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
3050doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003051Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
3052visible.
3053
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01003054When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
3055differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003056
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003057The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
3058be only one.
3059
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003060Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003061"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
3062name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
3063Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003064
3065Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
3066(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
3067
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003068Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
3069as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
3070
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003071Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
307223)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003073
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003074":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
3075tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
3076Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003077
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003078When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
3079text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
3080latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
3081
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003082Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
3083no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
3084
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003085In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
3086VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
30872007 Oct 16)
3088
3089TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
3090Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
3091
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003092Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003093
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003094When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
3095typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
3096Sep 3, 11)
3097
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003098":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
3099this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
3100
3101When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
3102Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
3103restored. (Luc St-Louis)
3104
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02003105Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
31062010 Jun 30)
3107
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02003108Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
3109'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
3110(Kartik Agaram)
3111
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003112
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003113Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003114- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
3115 - manipulating the Visual selection?
3116- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
3117 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
3118 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
3119- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
3120 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
3121 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01003122- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
3123- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003124
3125
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003126More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003127- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
3128 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003129- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003130- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
3131 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003132- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
3133- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
3134- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
3135 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
3136 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003137- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003138- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
3139 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
3140- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
3141 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
3142- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
3143 21)
3144- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
3145 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
3146- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
3147 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003148- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
3149 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003150- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3151 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3152 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3153 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3154 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003155- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003156
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003157Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000031589 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3159 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3160 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3161 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3162 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3163 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3164 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3165 (Alan Schmitt)
3166 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003167 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3168 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000031699 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003170 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000031718 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031727 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3173 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3174 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031758 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003176 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020031777 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003178 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3179- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
3180 for multi-byte characters.
3181- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3182- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3183 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3184 been given values.
3185 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031867 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3187 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3188- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3189 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3190 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
31918 Add functions:
3192 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3193 Update 2004 Sep 10
3194 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3195 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003196 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003197 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3198 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3199 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3200 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3201 (2003 May 13)
3202 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3203 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003204 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3205 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003206 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3207 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3208 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032097 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3210 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032117 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3212 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000032138 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3214 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032157 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
32168 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3217 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
32187 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3219 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032207 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3221- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3222 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3223 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003224- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3225 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3226- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3227
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003228Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3229- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3230 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3231
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003232Quickfix/Location List:
3233- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3234 #2999)
3235- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3236 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3237 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3238 the quickfix buffer?
3239- Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar,
3240 2018 Jun 10, #2998)
3241- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3242 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3243- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3244 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3245 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
3246- This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
3247 (Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
3248- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3249- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3250 2007 Jan 1)
3251- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3252 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3253- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3254 errors. How do we get the rest?
32558 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3256 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3257 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3258 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
32597 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
3260 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003261
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003262Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003263- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3264 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032658 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3266 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3267 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3268 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3269 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3270 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032718 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3272 make Vim exit.
32737 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3274 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3275 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
32768 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3277 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3278 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
32796 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3280 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3281 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
32828 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3283 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3284 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3285 names in one buffer???
3286 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3287 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3288 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
32897 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3290 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3291 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003292 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3293 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032947 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3295 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
32967 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
32977 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032987 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3299 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3300 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3301 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
33027 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
33037 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
33047 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3305 to the match with the tag? Option?
33067 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
33077 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3308 (Sayre).
33097 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3310 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033117 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3312 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3313 match. Nvi can do it too.
33147 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3315 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3316 line 1\ line 2\\
3317 line 2\ line 3\\
3318 . line4/
33196 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3320 the way the shell is started?
33216 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3322 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3323
3324
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003325GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000033269 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033278 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3328 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3329 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000033308 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3331 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3332 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033339 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3334 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3335 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3336 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003337- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3338 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3339 blocked for now.
3340
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003341
3342Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003343- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3344 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033458 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3346 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3347 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033486 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3349 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000033508 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3351 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3352 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033537 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3354 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3355 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033567 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3357 2004 May 9)
33588 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3359 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3360 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3361 MS-Windows 98?
3362 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3363 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3364 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3365 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033668 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3367 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3368 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3369 doesn't work properly.
33708 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3371 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3372 appears in the right position. (Webb)
33739 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3374 button doesn't give popup menu.
3375 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3376 selection.
3377 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3378 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3379 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
33808 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3381 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3382 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3383 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
33848 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3385 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3386 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033877 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3388 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003389 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033907 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3391 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033926 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
33938 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3394 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3395 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
33968 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3397 know which keyboard is being used?
33987 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3399 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3400 area (Koloseike).
34018 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3402 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3403 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3404 the font name).
3405
3406
3407Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000034086 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3409 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3410 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3411 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3412 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034139 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3414 required and it's missing?
34158 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3416 wrong.
34179 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3418 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000034199 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003420 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3421 flag.
34228 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3423 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3424 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
34258 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
34266 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3427 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3428 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3429 the tooltips work though...
34307 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3431 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
34328 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3433 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3434 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3435
3436
3437Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010034389 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3439 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034409 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3441 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3442 through files.
34437 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3444 read long file names. (Schroeder)
34454 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3446 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3447 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3448 problem during a refresh.
34495 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3450 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3451 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3452 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3453 colors as it should.
3454 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3455 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3456
3457
3458Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003459- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034607 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3461 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034628 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3463 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3464 (Phillipps)
3465
3466
3467GUI:
34689 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3469 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
34709 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003471 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003472 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
34739 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3474 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
34758 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
3476 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
34778 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3478 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3479 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
34808 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3481 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3482 of where it is processing the output.
3483 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
34848 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3485 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010034868 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000034878 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3488 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3489 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020034908 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034918 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3492 browse().
34938 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3494 use that code? Or use console dialog.
34958 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3496 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000034977 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3498 - regexp on/off
3499 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3500 when all buffers/directory is used:
3501 - filter for file name
3502 when directory is used:
3503 - subdirectory on/off
3504 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035058 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3506 to avoid problems.
35078 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3508 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3509 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
35108 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3511 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3512 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
35138 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3514 up. Set erase character somehow?
35158 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3516 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3517 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3518 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
35198 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
35207 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3521 visible.
35227 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3523 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
35247 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3525 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
35268 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3527 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
35288 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3529 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3530 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3531 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3532- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
35334 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3534 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3535 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3536
3537
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003538Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000035398 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3540 a good fallback, thus use:
3541 $HOME
3542 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3543 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3544 $USERPROFILE
3545 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3546 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3547 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3548 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035498 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3550 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
35518 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3552 Should work like in the GUI version.
35538 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3554 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
35558 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3556 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
35578 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3558 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3559 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035608 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3561 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3562 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3563
3564
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003565Win32 console:
35669 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3567 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3568 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3569 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3570 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3571 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3572 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3573 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3574 and the file is not saved.
3575 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3576 long name.
35778 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3578 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
35797 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3580 besides the console.
35818 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
35829 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3583 <C-S-i>?
35849 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3585 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
35868 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3587 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003588
3589
3590Amiga:
35918 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3592 sequences.
35939 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3594 backslashes in result.
35958 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3596 all options, using white space separation.
3597
3598
3599Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003600- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036017 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3602 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3603 (Jack)
3604 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036058 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3606 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036078 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
36088 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
36099 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3610 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036119 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003612
3613
3614"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003615- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3616 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003617- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3618 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003619- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3620 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3621 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3622 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3623 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3624 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3625 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000036269 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3627 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000036289 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003629 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3630 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036318 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3632 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3633 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003634 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036357 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3636 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
36378 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3638 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3639 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036407 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3641 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003642- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3643 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036448 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3645 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3646 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3647 using the horizontal scrollbar.
36487 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3649 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3650 invocations belong together.
36518 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3652 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
36538 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3654 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3655 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003656 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000036578 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3658 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3659 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036608 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3661 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036627 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3663 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3664 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3665 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036667 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3667 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3668 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
36697 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3670 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3671 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
36727 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3673 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036747 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3675 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036769 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3677 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3678 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3679 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3680 script can be called.
36818 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3682 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3683 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036848 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3685 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000036868 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003687 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3688 configurable?
36898 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036908 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3691 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036928 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3693 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036948 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3695 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036969 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3697 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3698 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036997 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037008 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3701 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3702 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000037038 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3704 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003705 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3706 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037078 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3708 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
37099 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3710 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3711 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003712 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037137 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3714 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037157 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3716 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3717 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3718 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037198 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003720 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3721 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3722 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3723 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003724 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3725 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003726 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003727 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003728 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3729 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3730 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3731 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3732 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037338 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3734 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
37358 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3736 in lines that don't extend into the block?
37378 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3738 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3739 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
37408 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3741 'linebreak'.
37428 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3743 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3744 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037459 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3746 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3747 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3748 'magic' in history. (Margo)
37499 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3750 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037519 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
37529 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3753 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3754 cause another redraw, etc.
37558 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3756 must escape special characters in the pattern.
37578 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3758 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3759 ":w!!" for that.
3760 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3761 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003762 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037637 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3764 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3765 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3766 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3767 clipboard)
37687 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3769 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3770 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000037716 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3772 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3773 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037748 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3775 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
37768 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3777 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3778 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
37798 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3780 (e.g., ":w").
37818 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3782 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037838 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3784 script in do_cmdline().
37858 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3786 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3787 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3788 changes.
37898 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3790 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
37918 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3792 check for file marks. This can be slow.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037938 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3794 to skip catch_signals()?
37959 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3796 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3797 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3798 text?
37998 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3800 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
38018 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3802 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
38039 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3804 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3805 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3806 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3807 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
38087 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3809 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3810 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3811 in the list?
38128 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3813 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3814 instead of on button down.
38158 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
38169 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3817 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003818 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3819 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038208 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3821 character is typed.
38228 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3823 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
38248 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3825 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
38268 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3827 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3828 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3829 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3830 cygwin bash.
38317 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3832 Remember flags for backreferences.
38337 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3834 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
38357 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3836 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
38378 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3838 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
38397 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3840 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038417 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3842 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3843 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
38447 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3845 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
38468 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3847 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3848 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
38497 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3850 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003851
3852
3853I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
38549 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3855 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3856 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003857
3858
3859Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003860- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3861 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3862 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003863- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3864 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3865 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3866 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3867 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3868 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003869 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003870- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3871 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003872 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003873 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3874 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3875 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003876- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3877 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3878 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3879 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3880 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3881- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3882 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3883 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3884- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3885 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003886- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003887- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3888 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3889 character gets the highlighting.
3890- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3891 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3892- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3893 (Jennings)
3894- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003895- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003896- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003897 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003898- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3899 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3900 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3901- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3902 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3903 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3904 (Benzinger).
3905- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3906 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3907 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3908- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3909 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3910- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3911 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3912- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3913 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3914 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3915 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3916 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3917 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3918- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3919 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3920 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003921- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3922 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3923 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003924- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3925 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3926 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3927- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3928 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3929- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3930 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003931- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3932 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3933- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3934 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3935 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3936 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3937 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3938- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3939 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3940 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3941- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3942 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3943 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003944- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3945 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 +00003946- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3947 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3948 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3949 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3950 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3951- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3952 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3953
3954--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3955 *extensions-improvements*
3956
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003957Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3958- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3959 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3960 calling a function.
3961 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3962 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003963- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3964 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003965 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003966- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3967 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3968 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3969 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3970 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3971 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003972 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003973- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3974 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3975 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003976- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3977 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000039788 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3979 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3980 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3981 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003982- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3983 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003984
3985
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003986Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039878 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3988 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000039898 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3990 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000039918 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3992 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039938 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039949 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3995 - change to cursor position and curswant
3996 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3997 - how it works for folded lines
3998 - how it works with multi-byte characters
39999 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
4000 work too.
40018 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
4002 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
4003 text.
40048 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
40057 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
4006 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
40077 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
4008 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004009 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004010- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
4011
4012
4013Help:
4014- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
4015 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
4016- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
4017 to the other matches.
4018- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004019- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
4020 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
4021 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
4022 default contents.
4023- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
4024 height for the help window (and other windows).
4025- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
4026- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
4027- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
4028
4029
4030User Friendlier:
40318 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
4032 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
4033 Briscoe)
40348 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
40358 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
4036 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
4037 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
40388 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
4039 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
4040- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
4041 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004042- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
40439 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
4044 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
4045 item?).
4046 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040478 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000040487 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
4049 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
4050 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000040518 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
4052 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
4053 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
4054 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004055
4056
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00004057Tab pages:
40589 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040597 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
4060 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040618 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000040628 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040637 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040647 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00004065 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040668 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
4067 tab pages.
40687 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
4069
4070
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004071Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004072- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01004073 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004074- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
4075 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
4076 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
4077- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
4078 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004079- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
4080 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
4081 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004082- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
4083 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
4084 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004085- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
4086 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01004087- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004088 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
4089 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000040908 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
4091 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
40928 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
4093 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
40948 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
4095 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004096 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004097 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
4098 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
4099 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
4100 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00004101- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
4102 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00004103- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00004104- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
4105 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00004106- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004107 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004108- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004109 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004110- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
4111 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004112- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
4113 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
4114- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00004115 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004116 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
4117 in the affix file separately.
4118 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004119 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004120 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
4121 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
4122 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
4123- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
4124 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
4125 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
4126 specific prefixes with suffixes.
4127 Alternative:
4128 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
4129 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
4130 affix which is required.
4131- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004132 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004133- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
4134 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
4135 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004136- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
4137 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004138- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
4139 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
4140- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041418 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
4142 syntax items (to add @Spell).
4143 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
4144 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004145- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
4146 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4147 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4148 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041498 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4150 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041518 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
41528 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4153 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041547 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
41558 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4156 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4157 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4158 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004159
4160
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004161Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020041629 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4163 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020041648 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004165 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004166
4167Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004168 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4169 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041708 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4171 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020041728 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4173 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041748 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4175 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4176 user aware of this?
41778 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4178 commands skip over a closed fold.
41798 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
41808 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041817 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004182- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4183 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4184 missing line goes unnoticed.
4185 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004186- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4187 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4188 smoother?
4189- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4190 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004191- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4192 file can contain:
4193 args version.c main.c
4194 edit version.c
4195 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004196- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004197- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4198 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004199- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4200 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004201- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4202 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004203- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004204
4205Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004206- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4207 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4208 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4209 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042109 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4211 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4212 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4213 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020042149 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4215 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4216 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042178 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4218 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4219 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4220 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4221 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4222 item.
42238 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004224 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4225 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042268 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4227 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042288 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4229 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4230 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042317 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4232 so that the user can fix the problem.
42338 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4234 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042359 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
42368 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042378 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
42388 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042397 Searching and composing characters:
4240 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004241 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4242 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042438 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
42448 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
42458 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
4246 characters.
42478 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
42488 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4249 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
42507 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4251 'display' option to specify this.
42527 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4253 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4254- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4255 fontselector somehow.
4256- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4257 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4258- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4259 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4260- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4261 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4262 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4263 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4264 if a font exists?
4265- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004266 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004267- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4268 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004269- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
4270 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4271 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
4272 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004273- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4274 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004275 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004276- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
4277 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4278 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4279 But it's very complicated...
4280
4281
4282Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000042837 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004284- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4285- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4286 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004287- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4288 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004289- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4290- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4291 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004292- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4293 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004294- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4295 units as for the margins.
4296- Support right-to-left text?
42978 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4298 color.
4299
4300
4301Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043028 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4303 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
43048 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4305 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
43068 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4307 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000043087 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4309 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043108 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4311 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4312 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000043137 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4314 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4315 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043168 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
43179 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4318 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043197 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4320 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000043217 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4322 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043238 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4324 change this for each release.
43258 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4326 pattern, but not in the body.
43278 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4328 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4329 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043308 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010043318 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004332 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4333 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043348 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4335 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
43368 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4337 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004338 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043398 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4340 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4341 used.
43428 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4343 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
43448 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4345 re-insert the [] if possible.
43468 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4347 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000043488 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4349 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4350 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4351 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4352 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043538 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4354 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
43558 Support for deleting syntax items:
4356 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4357 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4358 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
43598 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4360 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4361 a '<'. (Fleiner)
43627 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4363 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4364 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
43657 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4366 detected.
43678 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004368 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043698 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4370 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043718 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
43728 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
43737 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4374 ":mkvimrc".
43758 Improve c.vim:
4376 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4377 "c_strict_ansi".
4378 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
43798 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4380 current line while in Insert mode.
43818 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4382 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
43838 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4384 display position.
43858 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4386 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4387 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
43888 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4389 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4390 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000043917 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4392 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4393 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4394 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4395 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043967 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4397 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4398 E.g. for this html:
4399 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044007 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
44017 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4402 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044038 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
44048 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044057 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4406 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4407 completion?
44088 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4409 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
44107 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4411 select one of the sets.
44128 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4413 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4414 2, etc.
44158 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4416 highlighting (for "." command).
44178 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4418 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
44198 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
44207 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4421 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
44226 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4423 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4424- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4425 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4426- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004427- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4428 (for comment blocks).
4429- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4430 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4431 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4432 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4433 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4434 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4435 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4436 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4437 (Campbell)
4438 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4439 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
44407 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4441 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
44427 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4443 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4444 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
44457 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4446 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4447 messages. And external commands?
44488 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4449 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
44507 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4451 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4452
4453
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004454Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044558 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4456 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004457 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000044587 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4459 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4460 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044618 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
4462 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004463- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020044648 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4465 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4466 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4467 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4468 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4469 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000044707 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4471 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044728 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010044738 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4474 can be the plugin name.
4475 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4476 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044777 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4478 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4479 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4480 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4481 autocommand.
4482 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4483 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4484 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4485 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044867 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4487 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044886 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4489 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044908 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004491 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4492 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004493 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4494 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4495 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004496 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4497 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4498 3 2002
4499 Only add this when also implemented for
4500 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4501 be used.
4502 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004503 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4504 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4505 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4506 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4507 File.Open..." argument.
4508 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4509 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4510 with properties instead.
4511 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4512 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4513 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004514 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004515 crypt() encrypt string
4516 decrypt() decrypt string
4517 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4518 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004519 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004520 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004521 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004522 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004523 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004524 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4525 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004526 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4527 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004528 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004529 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4530 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4531 to allow the library to execute a command or
4532 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045337 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4534 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
45358 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4536 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045378 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4538 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045398 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045406 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000045418 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4542 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045438 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4544 option or environment variable.
45458 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045468 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004547 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000045487 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4549 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045508 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4551 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
45528 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
45538 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4554 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4555 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4556 charwise({expr}).
45577 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4558 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4559 buffer for this?
4560 result = scratch(string, command)
4561 result = apply(string, command)
4562 result = execute(string, command)
4563 "command" would use <> notation.
4564 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
45657 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004566
4567
4568Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000045696 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4570 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4571 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4572 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4573 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4574 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4575 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004576
4577
4578Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045797 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4580 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020045817 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4582 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4583 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4584 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045858 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4586 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4587 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4588 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004589 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045908 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
45919 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
45928 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
45937 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4594 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
45958 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4596 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4597 when starting up in a color terminal.
45988 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4599 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046008 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4601 function be improved?
46028 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4603 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4604 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4605 this be improved?
46068 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4607 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000046087 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4609 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046107 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4611 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
46127 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4613 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046147 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4615 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4616 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4617 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4618 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4619 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4620 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046218 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4622 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4623 using strcmp() too often?
46247 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4625 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4626 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4627 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4628 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4629 the two blocks to the memfile block.
46307 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4631 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4632 with an argument that can be messed with.
4633 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4634 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
46357 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4636- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
46378 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4638 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4639- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4640 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4641- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4642- Do profiling on:
4643 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004644 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4645 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4646 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4647 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4648 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4649 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004650 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046517 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4652 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4653 changed).
4654 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4655 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4656- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4657- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4658 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4659- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4660 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4661 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004662- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4663- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4664 cursor is right of the screen.
46658 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4666 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4667
4668
4669Code size:
46708 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4671- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4672 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
46738 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
46748 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4675 it.
46767 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4677 left out.
46788 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4679 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010046808 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004681
4682
4683Messages:
46848 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4685 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
46868 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4687 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
46888 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4689 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004690- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4691 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4692- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046938 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4694 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046959 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4696 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4697 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4698 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4699 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047008 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4701 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
47028 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4703 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4704 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4705 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4706 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4707 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004708- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004709 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047108 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4711 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4712 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4713 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4714 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4715 error messages, printing text, etc.
47168 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4717 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4718 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4719
4720
4721Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004722- screen_line():
4723 - insert/delete character stuff.
4724 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4725- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4726 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4727- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4728 waiting for a character.
47298 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4730 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4731 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004732
4733Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020047348 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047356 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4736- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4737 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4738 windows.
47397 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4740 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4741 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4742- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4743 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4744 (Goldfarb)
4745- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4746 bound windows.
4747- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4748 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004749- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004750- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4751 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4752 of lines but not with a single line).
4753
4754
4755Autoconf:
47568 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
47578 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4758 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4759- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4760 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4761- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4762- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4763- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4764
4765
4766Perl interface:
47678 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047687 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
47697 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
47706 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4771
4772
4773Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020047748 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4775 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047766 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4777 :libload internal-name libname
4778 :libunload internal-name
4779 :liblist
4780 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4781 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4782 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
47836 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4784
4785
4786Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000047879 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4788 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4789 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4790 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4791 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000047928 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4793 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4794 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004795 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004796 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000047977 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4798 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4799 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048008 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
48018 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4802 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048037 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4804 window for each tag.
48057 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
48067 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4807 bottom" search message.
48087 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4809 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4810 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004811- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4812- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004813- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4814 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4815 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048167 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4817 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4818 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4819 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
48207 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4821 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4822 :tagargs clear
4823 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4824 matching).
48257 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4826 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4827 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4828 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
48297 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4830 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
48317 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4832 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4833 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004834
4835
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004836Win32 GUI:
48378 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4838 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048397 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4840 (Mike McCollister)
48418 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4842 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4843 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4844 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4845 common part of the path.
48468 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
48478 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4848 gettext and menus work.
48498 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4850 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004851 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004852 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
48538 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4854 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
48558 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4856 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
48577 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4858 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
48597 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
48607 <Esc> should close a dialog.
48617 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4862 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4863 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4864 prompts.
48657 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4866 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4867 the file added into an already running Vim.
48687 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4869 functions to find the window title.
4870
4871
4872GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048737 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
48748 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
48756 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
48768 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4877 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
48789 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
48797 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
48808 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4881 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
48828 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4883 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4884 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
48858 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4886 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
48878 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4888 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4889 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4890 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048917 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
48928 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4893 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000048947 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4895 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4896 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048978 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
48988 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004899 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049008 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
49018 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
49028 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4903 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4904 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
49057 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4906 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4907 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
49087 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4909 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
49107 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4911 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4912 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4913 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049147 Should support multi-column menus.
4915- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4916 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4917- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
49188 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
49196 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4920 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
49217 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
49227 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4923 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4924 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
49257 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
49268 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4927 name can be chosen free.
49287 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4929 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
49306 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4931 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4932 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4933 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4934 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4935 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4936 things.
49377 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4938 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049397 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004940 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004941- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4942 where it was started from?
49437 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4944
4945
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004946Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020049479 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4948 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004949- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010049508 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4951 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4952 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4953 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
49548 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4955 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000049567 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4957 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4958 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4959 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000049607 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049618 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4962 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049638 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4964 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4965 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049667 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4967 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4968 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049698 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4970 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4971 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049728 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4973 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049748 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049756 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4976 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049777 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049787 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004979 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4980 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4981 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049825 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4983 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4984 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
49857 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4986 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4987 file.
49888 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4989 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4990 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004991- Add events to autocommands:
4992 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02004993 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004994 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4995 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004996 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004997 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004998 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4999 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
5000 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
5001 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005002 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005003 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
5004 the char.
5005 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
5006 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
5007 file from CVS).
5008 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
5009 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
5010 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
5011 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
5012 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
5013 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005014 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
5015 changes.
5016 WinResized - After a window has been resized
5017 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00005018- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005019 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005020 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005021 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
5022 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
5023 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
5024 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
5025 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
5026
5027
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005028Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005029- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
5030 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005031- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
5032 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
5033 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
5034 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
5035 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005036- Ideas from others:
5037 http://www.wholetomato.com/
5038 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
5039 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
5040 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
5041 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
5042 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
5043 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
5044 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
5045 Uses Perl for C++.
5046 Uses ctags to find the info:
5047 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
5048 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
5049 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
5050 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
5051 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
5052 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02005053 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005054 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
5055- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
5056
5057
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005058Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005059- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000050607 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
5061 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000050627 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
5063 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
5064 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050658 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
5066 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
50679 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
5068 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
5069 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050708 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
5071 - ignore/match case
5072 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050738 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
5074 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
5075 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
5076 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
5077 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
5078 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050798 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000050807 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
5081 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050828 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
5083 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
5084 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
5085 Should work for C++ and Java.
5086 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
50877 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
50887 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
5089 instead of words.
50908 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
50918 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
5092 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
50938 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
5094 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005095- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
5096 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005097- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
5098 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
5099 wildcards in the file name)?
5100- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
5101- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
5102- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
5103 be in another file).
5104- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
5105- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
5106- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
5107 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
5108- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
5109- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
5110- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005111- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
5112
5113
5114Command line editing:
51157 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
5116 line.
51178 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
5118 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
5119 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
5120- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
5121 lines wraps to start of line).
5122- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
5123 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
5124 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
5125 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
5126 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
5127 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
5128 cmdwin does now already.
5129 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
5130 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
5131 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
5132 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
5133 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5134 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5135 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5136 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5137 Problems:
5138 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5139 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5140 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5141 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5142 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5143 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5144 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5145 character in first column?
5146 - Implementation ideas:
5147 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5148 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5149 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5150 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5151 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5152 Mode.
5153
5154
5155Command line completion:
51568 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
51578 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5158 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
51598 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5160 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051618 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5162 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051637 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5164 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005165- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5166- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5167 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051688 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5169 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
51707 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5171 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5172- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5173 identifiers (Webb).
51748 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5175 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
51767 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5177 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5178- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5179 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5180- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5181 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5182 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005183
5184
5185Command line history:
5186- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5187 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5188 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005189 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005190- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5191 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5192
5193
5194Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000051959 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5196 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5197 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051988 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5199 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5200 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5201 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5202 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052038 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5204 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5205 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052067 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5207 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005208- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052097 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5210 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5211- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5212 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5213 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5214 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5215 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5216 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5217- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5218 Normal mode.
5219- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5220 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5221 are used.
5222- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5223- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5224- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5225
5226
5227'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010052289 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5229 char * veryLongName =
5230 "very long string"
5231 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052328 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052338 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5234 long_type foo =
5235 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052368 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5237 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005238 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052398 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5240 func(
5241 new String[] {
5242 "asdf",
5243 "asdf"
5244 }
5245 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010052468 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5247 (Chow Loong Jin)
5248 namespace {
5249 int
5250 func(int arg) {
5251 }
5252 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052536 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5254 func( arg1
5255 , arg2
5256 , arg3
5257 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000052587 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005259 func(
5260 int x) // indent like "(4"
5261 {
5262 if (a
5263 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052649 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5265 if (a)
5266 {
5267 if (b)
5268 {
5269 // {
5270 }
5271 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005272 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5273 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5274 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005275- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005276 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
52777 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5278- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5279 line).
5280- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5281- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5282 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005283- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5284 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5285- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5286 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5287- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5288- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5289 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
52908 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5291 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5292 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5293- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5294- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5295 lines start with "\item".
5296- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5297 /* here is a comment that
5298 is just autoindented, and
5299 nothing else */
5300- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
53017 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5302 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5303 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005304 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005305
5306
5307Java:
53088 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5309 Odendahl?
53108 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5311 "[i" commands and friends.
5312- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5313 (Jason)
5314- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5315 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5316
5317
5318'comments':
53198 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5320 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5321 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5322 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005323 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5324 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053257 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5326 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
53277 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
53286 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5329 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5330 regexp is used.
53318 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5332 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5333
5334
5335Virtual edit:
53368 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053377 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5338
5339
5340Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053418 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053428 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000053438 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005344 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000053458 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
5346 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005347 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5348 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000053498 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053508 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5351 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053528 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5353 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5354 the end of the line or before a ".".
53557 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5356 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
53577 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5358 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053596 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
53605 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5361 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5362 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5363 cursor is on.
5364
5365
5366Select mode:
53678 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5368 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
53697 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005370 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053717 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5372 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5373 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5374 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5375 normal_cmd().
5376 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5377 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5378
5379
5380Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020053818 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5382 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005383- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5384 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5385 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005386- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5387 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5388 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053898 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005390 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005391 where needed.
53927 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5393 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
53947 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5395 of each selected line.
53968 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
53978 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5398 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5399 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
54008 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5401 Ben Godfrey)
54027 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5403 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
54047 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5405 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054067 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005407 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005408 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
54098 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5410 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
54117 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5412 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5413 option!
54147 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5415 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5416 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5417 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5418 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5419 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5420 without changing the column.
54216 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054227 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5423 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054246 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5425 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
54266 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054276 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005428 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005429 or other special character.
54306 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5431
5432
5433More advanced repeating commands:
5434- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005435- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005436- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005437 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5438 "y." will repeat last yank.
5439 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5440 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5441 and/or pick an older command.
5442- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5443
5444
5445Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054468 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5447 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5448 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
54498 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
54507 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5451 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054528 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5453 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
54548 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000054557 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054568 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5457 entering search strings.
54588 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5459 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5460 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054618 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5462 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054637 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054647 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5465 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054666 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5467 abbreviations are to be used.
5468- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5469 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5470 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005471- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5472 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5473 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5474 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5475 Or implicit:
5476 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005477- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5478 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5479 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005480- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5481 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5482- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5483 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
54846 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5485 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5486 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5487 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005488- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5489 non-replace Insert mode?
5490- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005491- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5492- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5493 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5494- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005495 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005496- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5497 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5498- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5499- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5500 ":freekeys".
5501- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5502
5503
5504Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005505- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5506 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5507- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5508 folds when going to another line.
5509 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5510- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5511 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005512- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5513 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5514 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005515- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5516 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5517 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5518 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020055199 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5520 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005521
5522
5523Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010055249 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000055258 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005526 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005527 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005528 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005529 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010055309 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5531 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010055328 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5533 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000055348 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5535 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5536 Perl does it this way:
5537 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5538 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5539 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5540 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055418 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5542 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5543 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000055447 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5545 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000055468 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5547 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055487 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005549 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5550 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5551 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055527 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005553 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055547 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5555 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055568 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5557 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
55588 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5559 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020055607 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005561 example.
55628 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5563 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5564- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5565 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5566 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5567 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055688 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5569 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5570 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
55717 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5572 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000055737 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5574 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055758 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5576 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055778 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5578 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055798 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5580 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5581 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5582 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005583- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5584 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005585- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5586 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5587- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5588 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5589 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5590 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055918 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5592 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005593- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5594 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055958 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5596 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5597 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005598- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5599 i ignore case
5600 I use case
5601 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5602 v use Vi regexp syntax
5603 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5604 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5605 Perl uses these too:
5606 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5607 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5608 o compile only once (Perl only)
5609 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5610 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5611 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5612 following command.
5613 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5614- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5615 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5616 for search string)?
56177 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5618 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5619- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5620 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5621- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5622 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5623- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5624- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005625 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005626 a for the next file in the argument list
5627 f for file in the buffer list
5628 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005629 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5630 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005631 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5632 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5633- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056347 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005635 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056367 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5637 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5638 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5639 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
56406 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5641 effects.
56427 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5643 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5644 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000056457 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005646 Also ":dselect".
5647
5648
5649Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010056509 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5651 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5652 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056539 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5654 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020056558 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5656 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000056578 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5658 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5659 timestamp?
5660 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5661 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005662- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5663 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005664- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5665 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5666 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
56678 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5668 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5669 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5670 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
56718 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5672 only remember the lines that really changed.
56737 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5674 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5675 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5676 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005677- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5678 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5679- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5680 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5681- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5682 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5683 [-99].
5684- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5685- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005686- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5687 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5688
5689
5690Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056917 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5692 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5693 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5694 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
56958 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5696 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
56978 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5698 inode too.
56997 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005700 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5701 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057027 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5703 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5704- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5705 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5706- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5707 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
57087 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5709 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
57107 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5711 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
57128 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057137 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5714 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010057158 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5716 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5717 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005718
5719
5720Swap (.swp) files:
57218 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5722 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5723 there are short file name problems.
57248 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5725 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
57268 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
57278 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005728 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005729 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5730 file the same as the actual file?
5731 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057327 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5733 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
57347 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005735 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005736 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5737 enough room.
57387 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5739 or /var/preserve.
5740- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5741 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5742- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005743 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005744- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5745 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5746 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5747 cached list of which line is where.
5748
5749
5750Viminfo:
57517 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5752 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5753 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000057548 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5755 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5756 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057578 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5758 name. (Schild)
57598 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
57608 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057618 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057628 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5763 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5764 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5765 this?
57667 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
57677 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5768 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
57696 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5770 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5771 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5772- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5773 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5774
5775
5776Modelines:
57778 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5778 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5779 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005780- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5781 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5782 'shiftwidth'.
5783- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5784 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005785- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5786 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5787 modeline setting.
5788- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5789 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5790- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5791 .cpp files.
5792- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5793 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5794- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5795 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5796
5797
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005798Sessions:
57998 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5800 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
58017 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5802 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058038 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5804 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058058 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5806 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5807 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000058087 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5809 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000058107 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005811
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005812
5813Options:
58147 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5815 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058168 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5817 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5818 also be supported.
58198 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5820 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5821 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
58227 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005823
5824
5825External commands:
58268 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5827 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
58284 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5829 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5830 -f).
58314 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
58324 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5833 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
58344 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5835
5836
5837Multiple Windows:
58387 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
58398 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5840 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
58417 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5842 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5843 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000058447 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5845 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000058467 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5847 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058486 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5849 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005850 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005851 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
58527 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5853 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5854 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5855 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5856- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5857 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5858 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5859 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5860
5861
5862Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000058638 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058648 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5865 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058668 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 +000058678 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5868 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
58698 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5870 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5871 the mark was set.
58727 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5873 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5874 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5875 ":browse marks"?
58766 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058777 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5878 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
58797 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5880 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
58817 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5882 command).
58837 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5884 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5885 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5886 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
58875 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5888 mappings.
58896 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5890 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5891 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5892
5893
5894Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020058957 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005896 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005897- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5898 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000058998 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059007 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5901 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5902
5903
5904Writing files:
5905- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5906 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5907 shortname conversion.
59088 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
59098 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5910 file.
59118 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5912 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5913 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059146 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5915 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
59166 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5917 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
59186 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5919 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000059208 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005921 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
59227 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5923 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
59247 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5925 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5926 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5927 waiting for a character to be typed).
59288 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5929 line of the window, like "[time]".
5930 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5931 Automatic and/or with a command.
5932
5933
5934Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000059358 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5936 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000059378 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005938 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5939- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5940- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
59418 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5942 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005943- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005944 :s///N substitutes N times.
5945- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5946 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5947 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
59487 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5949 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5950 last line column 5.
59515 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5952 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5953 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5954 (Stanislav Sitar)
5955
5956
5957Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059588 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
59597 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
59608 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5961 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5962 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005963- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5964- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5965 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5966- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5967- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5968
5969
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005970Argument list:
59716 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5972 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5973 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
59746 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5975
5976
5977Registers:
59788 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059798 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5980 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5981 for every line.
59826 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5983 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5984 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5985- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5986 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5987- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5988 leader when line wraps?
5989- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5990 line in the range.
5991- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5992 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
59938 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5994 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005995
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005996
5997Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059988 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000059998 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060007 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
60017 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
6002
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006003Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000060047 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
6005 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
6006 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
6007 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
6008 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
6009 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
6010 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00006011 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000060127 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
6013 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000060147 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
6015 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060168 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
6017 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000060187 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
6019 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
6020 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00006021- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00006022 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010060237 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
6024 window as a buffer-tab selection.
60258 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060267 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
6027 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
60288 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
6029 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060306 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060318 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
6032 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
6033 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
6034 in this Vim.
60358 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006036 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060378 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
6038 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
6039 have it apply to the following command.
60408 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
6041 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
6042 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
6043 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060447 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
6045 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060467 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
6047 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
6048 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
6049 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060506 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
60518 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
60529 Support ACLs on more systems.
60537 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
6054 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060557 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
6056 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
6057 (truncated to fit in the space).
60587 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
60598 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
60608 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
6061 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000060627 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006063 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
60647 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
6065 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060667 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060677 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
60687 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060698 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
60708 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
6071 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
6072 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
6073 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
60748 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060758 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060768 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
6077 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
6078 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
6079 does something like this. (Shah)
60807 Use growarray for replace stack.
60817 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
6082 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
60833 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060847 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
6085 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010060867 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
6087 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006088- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
6089- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
6090- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
6091- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
60927 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
6093 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
6094- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
6095 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02006096- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006097- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
6098 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
6099- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
6100 call "play newbeep.au").
6101- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
6102 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
6103 (Bhatt).
6104- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
6105 blockwise registers).
6106- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
6107 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
6108- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
6109 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
6110 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
6111 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006112- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061137 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
6114 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
6115- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
6116 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
6117 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
6118 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
6119 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000061208 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
6121 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061228 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6123 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6124 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6125 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6126 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6127- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00006128- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061297 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6130 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6131- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6132 not in column 1.
61336 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6134 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
61357 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6136- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006137- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006138 :redir #> bufname
6139 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006140- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6141 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006142- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6143 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6144 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
61456 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6146 console? (Klaus Hast)
6147- Add :delcr command:
6148 *:delcr*
6149 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6150 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6151 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6152 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6153 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006154 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006155- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6156- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6157 characters from 'isprint'.
6158- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6159- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6160 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6161- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6162 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6163 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6164- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6165- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6166 Nvi).
6167- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6168 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
61697 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6170- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6171 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
61726 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6173- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6174 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6175 macro).
6176- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006177- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6178 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6179- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
61808 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006181- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6182- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6183- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6184 if it is not the first or last window.
6185- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6186 there is one) instead of the file itself.
61877 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6188 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6189 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6190- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6191- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006192 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006193 many percent down the windows).
6194- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6195 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6196 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006197 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006198- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6199 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6200- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6201 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6202- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6203- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6204- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6205 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062068 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6207 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6208 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6209 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6210 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006211- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6212 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6213- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006214 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6215- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006216 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6217 (Webb).
6218- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006219 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006220- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6221 hex codes like 0xff).
6222- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6223 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6224 the last TYPED command.
6225- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6226- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6227- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6228 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006229- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062308 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6231 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6232 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006233- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006234 trailing '.'.
6235- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6236 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6237 find_file_in_path().
6238- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6239 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6240- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6241- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6242 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6243- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006244 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006245- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6246 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6247 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006248- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6249- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6250- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6251 to the minimal size.
6252- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6253- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6254- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6255- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6256- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006257- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6258 entered)?
6259- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6260 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006261- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006262- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6263- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6264- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6265- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6266- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6267 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006268- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062698 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6270 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6271 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6272 or in octal.
62737 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6274 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006275- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006276 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6277- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6278- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6279 insert line command).
6280- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6281- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6282- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6283- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6284- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6285 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006286- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006287 yet.
6288- Implement 'redraw' option.
6289- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6290 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062917 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6292 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006293 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6294 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062958 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6296 do it.
6297- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6298- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6299 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6300- Add text justification option.
6301- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6302- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6303 off".
6304- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6305- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6306- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006307 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006308- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006309- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006310- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6311 commands.
6312- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6313- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6314- :table command (Webb)
6315- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006316- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6317- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6318- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6319- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6320- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6321 (Demirel).
6322- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6323- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6324 for use in macro's and the like.
6325- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006326 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006327- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006328 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006329- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006330 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006331 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6332- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6333 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006334- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006335 mkopttab to make option table?
6336- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6337 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6338- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6339 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006340- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006341 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6342- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6343 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006344- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000063458 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6346 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6347 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6348 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6349 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063508 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6351 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6352 (Netherton)
63536 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6354 space after "(", for example.
63555 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6356 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6357 (Servatius Brandt)
6358
6359
6360From Elvis:
6361- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6362- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006363- Search patterns:
6364 \@ match word under cursor.
6365 but do:
6366 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6367 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
63688 ":window" command:
6369 :win + next window (up)
6370 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6371 :win - previous window (down)
6372 :win -- idem, wrapping
6373 :win nr to window number "nr"
6374 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
63757 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6376 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6377
6378
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006379From xvi:
6380- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6381- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6382
6383
6384From vile:
6385- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6386- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6387 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6388
6389
6390Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006391- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6392 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006393 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006394 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6395 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006396- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6397 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6398- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6399 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6400 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6401 current layout mirrored.
6402- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6403- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6404 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6405- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6406- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6407 font in each top-level window.
6408- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6409- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6410- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6411- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6412 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006413- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6414 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6415- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6416 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
64174 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6418 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6419 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6420 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006421 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006422 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6423 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6424- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6425 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6426 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6427
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006428vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006429vim: set fo+=n :