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Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.4. Last change: 2014 Apr 30
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
12to look for "the next thing to do":
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14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
25
26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020030Issues can also be entered online: http://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/list
31Updates will be forwarded to the vim_dev maillist. Issues entered there will
32not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
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Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034 *known-bugs*
35-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
36
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +010037Regexp problems:
38- NFA regexp doesn't count tab matches correctly. (Urtica Dioica / gaultheria
39 Shallon, 2013 Nov 18)
40- After patch 7.4.100 there is still a difference between NFA and old engine.
41 25 a's with pattern \v^(aa+)\1+$ (Urtica Dioica, 2013 Nov 21) Also: 9 a's
42 with pattern \v^(a{-2,})\1+$ (Nov 23)
43- NFA engine combining character mismatch. (glts, 2013 Aug 27)
44 Remark from Dominique, Aug 27
45- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
46- NFA problem with non-greedy match and branches. (Ingo Karkat, 2013 Nov 29)
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +010047- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
48 2013 Dec 11)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +010049- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin Szamotulski
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +010050 Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +010051- Bug with back references. (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
Bram Moolenaar251835e2014-02-24 02:51:51 +010052- Bug when using \>. (Ramel, 2014 Feb 2) (Aaron Bohannon, 2014 Feb 13)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010053
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +020054Update for documentation of 'ttymouse' option. (Hayaki Saito, 2014 Apr 30)
55Typo: s/support/supports/
56
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020057Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
58work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +020059
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +010060":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
61directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
62
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +020063Patch to fix positioning in tabs. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, 2014 Apr 25)
64New way to reproduce it: 2014 Apr 29
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +010065
66Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +010067
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020068Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +020069
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +020070MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
71(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
72
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +020073Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
74
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +020075Inconsistant error messages when comparing dict and when comparing list.
76(ZyX, 2014 Apr 19)
77
78Add #ifdef around struct members not used by GTK. (Cade Forester, 2014 Apr 10)
79
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +010080Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +010081
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +010082Syntax file for gnuplot. Existing one is very old. (Andrew Rasmussen, 2014
83Feb 24)
84
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +010085Add digraph for Rouble: =P. What's the Unicode?
86
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +020087Include .hgignore in the distribution, so that patches for it work.
88
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +010089Issue 174: Detect Mason files.
90
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +010091No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
92
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +010093Phpcomplete.vim update. (Complex, 2014 Jan 15)
94
95PHP syntax is extremely slow. (Anhad Jai Singh, 2014 Jan 19)
96
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +020097After setting 'spellfile' the screen is not redrawn. (issue 221)
98Patch from Christian Brabandt on the issu.
99
100Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
1010x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
102New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
103compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
104
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200105Win32: use different args for SearchPath()? (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2009 Jan 30)
106Also fixes wrong result from executable().
107Update from Ken Takata, 2014 Jan 10. Newer 2014 Apr 3.
108
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100109Can we make ":unlet $VAR" use unsetenv() to delete the env var?
110What for systems that don't have unsetenv()?
111
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200112Patch for problem that v:register is set to '_' after deleting into the black
113hole register.
114
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100115This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
116 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
117This neither: (ZyX)
118 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
119
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200120'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
121Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
122from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100123
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200124Patch to add arglistid(), get the ID of the currently used argument list.
125(Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Apr 27)
126
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100127Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
128Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
129Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
130User view:
131- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Be able to look into
132 the files before deciding to install.
133- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
134- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
135 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
136 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
137 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
138 on vim.org.
139- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
140 there. Can manually update when really needed.
141- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
142- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
143- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
144- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
145Implementation:
146- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
147 plugin separate.
148- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
149 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
150 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
151- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
152 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
153- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
154 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
155 installing.
156Out of scope:
157- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
158- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
159 useful).
160
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200161Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
162normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100163
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +0200164When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
165menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
166
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +0200167Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
168(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
169
170":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
171various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100172
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200173VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
174instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
175
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100176Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
177
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100178Patch to add flag to shortmess to avoid giving completion messages.
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100179(Shougo Matsu, 2014 Jan 6, update Jan 11)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100180
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100181Patch to add v:completed_item. (Shougo Matsu, 2013 Nov 29).
182
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100183Patch to make test 100 work on MS-Windows. (Taro Muraoka, 2013 Dec 12)
184
185Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
186
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100187Patch to add sortuniq(). (Cade Forester, 2014 Mar 19)
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100188Or add uniq() instead? Patch by lcd47, but it has problems.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100189
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100190Perl: support for Activestate perl 5.18: Issue 170.
191
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100192Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
193highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100194
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100195Patch to fix temp directories for Windows, so that it works without tweaking.
196Issue 28.
197
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200198Go through more coverity reports.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100199
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100200Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
201possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12)
202
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100203Include Haiku port? (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
204
205Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200206
Bram Moolenaar251835e2014-02-24 02:51:51 +0100207Some quickfix messages appear twice. (Gary Johnson, 2014 Feb 16)
208Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014 Feb 17.
209
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200210Patch to right-align signs. (James Kolb (email james), 2013 Sep 23)
211
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100212Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
213
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200214With "$" in 'cpoptions' the popup menu isn't fully drawn. (Matti Niemenmaa,
2152013 Sep 5)
216
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +0100217Patch to add "ntab" item in 'listchars' to repeat first character. (Nathaniel
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +0100218Braun, pragm, 2013 Oct 13) A better solution 2014 Mar 5.
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +0100219
220Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
2213. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
222
Bram Moolenaar1a42b4b2013-07-28 18:29:08 +0200223/[b-a] gives error E16, should probably be E769.
224
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01002257 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
226 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
227 "lucida_console:h8").
228Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
229
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200230:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
231
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200232Python: Extended funcrefs: use func_T* structure in place of char_u* function
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +0100233names.
234(ZyX, 2013 Jul 15, update Sep 22, 24, 28; Update 2013 Dec 15, 2014 Jan 6)
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100235Also fixes Bug: E685 error for func_unref(). (ZyX, 2010 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200236
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200237Patch to add funcref to Lua. (Luis Carvalho, 2013 Sep 4)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +0200238With tests: Sep 5.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200239
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100240Patch to fix that on suckless Terminal mousewheel up does not work.
241(Ralph Eastwood, 2013 Nov 25)
242
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200243Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
244
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200245Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
246
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +0100247When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
248(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
249
250Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
251Dec 13.
252
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200253Fold can't be opened after ":move". (Ein Brown)
254Patch from Christian Brabandt doesn't fix it completely.
255
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100256Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
257buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
258
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100259Patch for drag&drop reordering of GUI tab pages reordering.
260(Ken Takata, 2013 Nov 22, second one, also by Masamichi Abe)
261
262":sign-jump" uses first window in buffer instead of current window.
263Patch by James McCoy, 2013 Nov 22.
264
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200265GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
266(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
267
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100268Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
269registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
270
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +0200271Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
272
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +0200273The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
274(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
275Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
276
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200277The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
278- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
279- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
280
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +0100281Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
282Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
283reliably?
284
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200285Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file.
286That is, calling a dictionary function on an autoloaded dict.
287Works OK for echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar
28817)
289Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Mar 23.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200290Not 100% sure this is the right solution.
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200291
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200292Patch to support expression argument to sort() instead of a function name.
293Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 May 31.
294Or should we add a more general mechanism, like lambda functions?
295
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100296Problem caused by patch 7.3.638: window->open does not update window
297correctly. Issue 91.
298
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100299Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
300(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
301
302The garbage collector may use too much stack. Make set_ref_in_item()
303iterative instead of recursive. Test program by Marc Weber (2013 Dec 10)
304
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100305Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
306(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
307
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02003088 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
309 defined.
310Issue 28.
311
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200312Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
3132013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +0100314
315Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
316
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200317Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
3185)
319
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200320Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
321carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
322
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200323Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
324highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
325
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +0100326Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200327
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +0200328Patch to add the bufferlist() function. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2013 May 5)
Bram Moolenaare6ae6222013-05-21 21:01:10 +0200329May 17: with winlist() and tabpagelist().
330May 19: with local variables.
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200331May 28: with options
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200332
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200333Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +020033428) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200335
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200336Patch from Christian Brabandt to make the "buffer" argument for ":sign place"
337optional. (2013 Jul 12)
338
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200339Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
340
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200341Patch to allow setting w:quickfix_title via setqflist() and setloclist()
342functions. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 8, update May 21)
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200343Patch to add getlocstack() / setlocstack(). (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200344Second one. Update May 22.
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200345
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100346Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
347
Bram Moolenaardc8b25c2013-07-06 13:58:22 +0200348MS-Windows: Patch to make tests copy files to avoid changing the fileformat of
349the files under version control. (Taro Muraoka, 2013 Jul 5)
350
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100351Issue 54: document behavior of -complete, also expands arg.
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100352
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200353- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
354 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
355Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +0200356
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200357Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200358
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +0100359v:register is not directly reset to " after a delete command that specifies a
360register. It is reset after the next command. (Steve Vermeulen, 2013 Mar 16)
361
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100362'ff' is wrong for one-line file without EOL. (Issue 77)
363
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200364Patch to set antialiasing style on Windows. (Ondrej Balaz, 2013 Mar 14)
365Needs a different check for CLEARTYPE_QUALITY.
366
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200367In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
368process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
369a reboot.
370
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100371Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +0100372Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
373Ben Fritz: problem with 'selection' set to "exclusive".
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +0100374Updated to current Vim, not quite right yet. (Ben Fritz, 2014 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100375
376Patch to select the next or previous text object if there isn't one under the
377cursor. (Daniel Thau, 2013 Nov 20)
378
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100379patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
380
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100381Bug caused by patch 7.3.1288? Issue 183.
382I can't reproduce it.
383
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100384Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
385not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100386
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200387Patch to add assignments in cscope. (Uli Meis, Estabrooks, 2012 Sep 1)
388Alternate patch by Gary Johnson, Sep 4.
389
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200390Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
391Or use expand('<sid>')?
392
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100393Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
394
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100395Patch to add functions for signs. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100396
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200397Do we need some way (option) to show the sign column even when there are no
398signs? Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22.
399
400Patch to remove flicker from popup menu. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Aug 15)
401
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200402Patch to use directX to draw text on Windows. Adds the 'renderoptions'
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200403option. (Taro Muraoka, 2013 Jan 25, update 2013 Apr 3, May 14)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200404Fixes this problem:
4058 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
406 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
407 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100408
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200409Patch to add 'completeselect' option. Specifies how to select a candidate in
410insert completion. (Shougo, 2013 May 29)
411Update to add to existing 'completeopt'. 2013 May 30
412
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +0100413Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
414
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100415b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
4167)
417
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +0200418Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
419compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
420
421Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
422Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
423vim.bindeval().
424
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200425Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
4262012 Aug 4)
427
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100428Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
429(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
430
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100431Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
432But use Gnome instead of GTK?
433
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200434Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
435Saito, 2013 Apr 24)
436
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100437Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
438Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
439Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200440
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200441Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
442
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200443Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
444loading all files.
445
446Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
447line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
448after starting up?
449
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200450Patch to add ":ldo" and ":cdo", execute commands over quickfix list and
451location list. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2013 Jun 2)
452
Bram Moolenaardc8b25c2013-07-06 13:58:22 +02004538 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
454 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
455
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200456MS-Windows resizing problems:
457- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
458 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
459- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
460 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
461 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100462
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200463'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200464
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +0200465Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +0200466of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
467
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +0200468Patch to add tagfunc(). Cleaned up by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 22.
469
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100470Help for 'b:undo_indent'. (Thilo Six, 2012 May 28)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200471Also question if examples are correct.
472
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100473It should be possible to make globpath() return a list instead of a string,
474like with glob(). (Greg Novack, 2012 Nov 2)
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200475Patch by Adnan Zafar, 2013 Jul 15.
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100476
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200477The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
478Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
479But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200480
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +0200481Patch to support user name completion on MS-Windows. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012
482Aug 16)
483
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +0100484When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
485is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
486
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100487URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100488- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100489- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
490 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
491
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200492Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +0200493New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200494
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100495When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
496for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
497Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100498
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200499Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
500
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200501Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
50224)
503
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +0200504Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
505
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +0100506Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
507
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +0200508Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
509Apr 18)
510
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200511Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
512And one for gui_x11.txt.
513
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200514- Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
515 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31, update 2007 May 30)
516 Version for latest MacVim: Tobia Conforto, 2009 Nov 23
517 More recent version: https://retracile.net/wiki/VimBreakIndent
518 Posted to vim-dev by Taylor Hedberg, 2011 Nov 25
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +0200519 Update by Taylor Hedberg, 2013 May 30.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +0200520 Updated for Vim 7.4 by Ken Takata, 2013 Oct 5.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200521
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100522":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
523finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
524Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
525
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200526Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
527
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +0100528Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
529
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200530Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
531they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
532
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100533Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
534
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100535Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
536Nov 20)
537
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200538Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200539Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200540
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100541`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100542(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
543
544Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
545
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +0100546BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
547Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
548
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100549Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
550Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
551
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +0100552Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
553
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100554Patch to support UTF-8 for Hangul. (Shawn Y.H. Kim, 2011 May 1)
555Needs more work. Pinged 2012 Jan 4.
556
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +0200557Issue 64: when 'incsearch' is on can't paste LF on command line.
558
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +0200559On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
5602012 Jun 19)
561
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200562'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
563'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
564Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200565Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +0200566
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200567With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
568(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
569need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
570
571Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
572only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
57321, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
574
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +0200575'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for
576highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31)
577
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100578Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
579New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
580
581Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
582Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
583
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +0100584Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
585Jan 19)
586
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +0200587Need to escape $HOME on Windows? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21, discussion 2013 Jul 4)
588Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different meaning already.
589Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200590
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +0200591"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100592Oct 26)
593
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200594Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
595
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200596With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
597register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200598
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200599Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
600
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200601When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
602(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
603
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +0100604Setting $HOME on MS-Windows is not very well documented. Suggestion by Ben
605Fritz (2011 Oct 27).
606
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200607Bug: Windows 7 64 bit system freezes when 'clipboard' set to "unnamed" and
608doing ":g/test/d". Putting every delete on the clipboard? (Robert Chan, 2011
609Jun 17)
610
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +0100611When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
612then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
613from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
614
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200615Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
616":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
61715)
618
619Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
620
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200621BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
622cleared. See test64.
623
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200624Changes to manpage plugin. (Elias Toivanen, 2011 Jul 25)
625
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200626Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200627effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200628Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
629
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +0200630Patch for variable tabstops.
631
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200632On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
63364 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
634right type.
635
636string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
637(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
638
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200639Make 'formatprg' global-local. (Sung Pae)
640
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200641When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
642(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200643When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
644following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
645(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200646
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200647When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
648doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
649
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +0100650Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
651
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02006527 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
653Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 19.
654
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200655maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
656mapping, how to restore the script ID?
657
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200658Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
659(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
660
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200661When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
662indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
663the help file.
664
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200665After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
666Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
667
668Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
669
670"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
671
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200672Patch to support sorting on floating point number. (Alex Jakushev, 2010 Oct
67330)
674
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200675Patch to addd TextDeletePost and TextYankPost events. (Philippe Vaucher, 2011
676May 24) Update May 26.
677
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +0100678Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
679
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +0200680Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200681
682Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
6832010 Dec 18)
684
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200685With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
686number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
687Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
688
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200689Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
690Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
691
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02006928 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
693Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
694
6958 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
696 after typing something.
697Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
698function that resets did_cursorhold.
699Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 May 6.
700
7017 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
702Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
703Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
704
7059 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
706 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
707Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
708
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200709Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
710Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
711
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200712In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
713or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
714sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
715
716GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
717doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
718
719GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
720
721Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
722Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
723
724Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
725
7267.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
727there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
728do?
729
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200730Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
73122)
732
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100733New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
734- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200735- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100736 the maximum repeat for * and +?
737
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100738"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
7392011 Feb 27)
740
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200741Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
742^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
743
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +0100744'colorcolumn' has higher priority than hlsearch. Should probably be the other
745way around. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 19)
746
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100747When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
748exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
7499) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
750
751g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
752the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
753
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100754Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
755crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
756
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +0200757Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
758number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
759
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +0200760Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
761- \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
762
763Regexp engine performance:
764- Profiling:
765 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
766 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
767 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
768 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
769 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
770 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
771- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
772- Performance tests:
773 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
774 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
775 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
776 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
777 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
778 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
779 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
780 'hlsearch'.
781 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
782 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
783 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
784 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
785
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200786Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
787names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
788Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
789the system encoding (usually utf-8).
790
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100791Patch to add GUI colors to the terminal, when it supports it. (ZyX, 2013 Jan
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +010079226, update 2013 Dec 14)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100793
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200794Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
795Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
796
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200797'beval' option should be global-local.
798
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100799Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200800
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200801setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +0200802
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02008037 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
804 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
805 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
806
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200807getpos()/setpos() don't include curswant. getpos() could return a fifth
808element. setpos() could accept an optional fifth element.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200809Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6. Again 2013 Aug 22.
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200810
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200811With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
8122010 Oct 24)
813
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100814Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
815Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
816
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200817Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
818
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200819When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
820Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
821
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200822":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
823
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200824'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
825
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +0100826C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
827checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
828Issue 46.
829
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200830Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
831
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100832Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
833gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
834
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200835":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
836accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
837
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200838Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
839setwinvar().
840
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100841Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
842
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100843When writing a file > 2Gbyte, the reported number of bytes is negative.
844(Antonio Colombo, 2010 Dec 18)
845
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200846Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200847(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200848
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200849When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
850instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
851
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200852Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
853Winckler, 2011 May 11)
854Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100855
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100856Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
857back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
858
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100859Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200860Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
861
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100862CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
863the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
864FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
865
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200866Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
867Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
868
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +0200869Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
870Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
871
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +0100872I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
873Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
874an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +0100875
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200876Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
877
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100878Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
879non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100880
881iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
882Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
883or replace with a character and continue?
884
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100885Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
886Requires configure check for localtime().
887Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
888
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +0100889Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
890Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
891
892Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
893
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100894Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
895Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
896path.
897
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100898Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +0200899Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100900
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +0200901'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
902
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200903":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
904like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
905
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100906Coverity: ask someone to create new user: Dominique.
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200907Check if there are new reported defects: http://scan.coverity.com/rung2.html
908
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100909Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
9102010 Nov 5)
911
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100912Patch to use 'foldnextmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
913Jan 7)
914
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100915Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
916Only with "vim -u NONE".
917
918Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
919
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +0100920With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
921entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
922Feb 12)
923
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +0200924Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
925characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
926
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100927Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
928
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200929Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
930 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
931
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200932Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
933
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +0200934When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
935Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
936
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100937When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
938not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
939string value.
940
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100941Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
942
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100943For running gvim on an USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
944line argument -noregister.
945
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100946When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
947missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
948
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200949When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
950doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100951
952Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
953(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
954Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
955There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
956Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
957
958":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
959highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
960to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
961
962Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
963Probably needs a bit of work.
964
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100965List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100966Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
967
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200968Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
969
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100970Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
971
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200972Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
973Sep 1)
974
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +0100975Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
976
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +0200977Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
978on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
979
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100980Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
9812009 Jul 18)
982
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100983Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
984Added test, updates, June 23.
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +0200985Updated for 7.4: http://litcave.rudi.ir/farsi_vim.diff
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100986
987Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
988window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
989Needs more work.
990
991Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
992
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100993When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
994few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
995
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +0100996'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100997(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
998
999Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
1000J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
1001
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001002When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
1003for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
1004
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02001005Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
1006
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001007Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
1008
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001009When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
1010
1011":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
1012because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
1013ex_docmd.c.
1014
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001015Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001016Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
1017
1018string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
1019for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
1020
1021Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
1022
1023'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
102420)
1025
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001026Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
10272009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
1028
1029Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
1030
1031Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
1032SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
1033
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001034When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
1035indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
1036(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
1037
1038Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
1039are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
1040Ignore window options when not in the right window?
1041Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
1042that doesn't have a window.
1043
1044When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
1045doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
1046
1047getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
1048displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
1049
1050":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
1051
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001052There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
1053was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
1054perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
1055
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02001056Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
1057
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02001058Support a 'systemencoding' option (for Unix). It specifies the encoding of
1059file names. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 5). Useful on a latin1 or double-byte Asian
1060system when 'encoding' is "utf-8".
1061
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001062Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
1063command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
1064
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001065Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
1066does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
1067
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001068opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
1069height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02001070very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02001071
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001072Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
1073(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
1074
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001075Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001076(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
1077
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001078Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
1079char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
1080
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001081A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001082
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001083Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
1084messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
1085es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
10862009 Jan 26)
1087
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01001088When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001089in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
1090Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
1091
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001092Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
1093a modeline.
1094
1095Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
1096Sergey Khorev)
1097
1098Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
1099part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001100
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001101netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
1102number to be below last visible line.
1103
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001104After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
1105correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
1106
1107Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
1108(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
1109
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001110shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01001111'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
1112Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
1113unix-like shell?
1114
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02001115Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
1116register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
1117(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
1118
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001119Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
1120Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
1121
1122Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
1123make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
1124
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001125When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
1126still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
1127
1128"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
1129(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
1130
1131Update src/testdir/main.aap.
1132
1133"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7)
1134
1135Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
1136that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
1137ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
1138Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
1139
1140Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001141Maybe call it v:motiontype.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001142
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001143MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
1144doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
1145probably causes this.
1146
1147'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020011482009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001149
Bram Moolenaar9d98fe92013-08-03 18:35:36 +02001150Patch to support strikethrough next to bold and italic. (Christian Brabandt,
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +010011512013 Jul 30) Update from Ken Takata, 2013 Oct 12.
Bram Moolenaar9d98fe92013-08-03 18:35:36 +02001152
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001153Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
1154 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
1155 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
1156(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
1157
1158Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
1159":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
1160option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
1161is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001162
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001163":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
1164first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001165Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001166
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001167Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
1168laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
1169Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001170
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001171Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
1172anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
1173
1174On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
1175doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
1176Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
1177Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
1178
1179":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
1180
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001181When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
1182'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
1183fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
1184the buffer to be unmodified.
1185Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
1186another look at it.
1187
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001188c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
1189(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
1190
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001191You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
1192error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
1193Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
1194at the other match for 0xBF.
1195
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001196When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
1197argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
1198
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001199Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
1200backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
1201
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001202When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
1203line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
1204
1205Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
1206position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
1207
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001208After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
1209(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001210command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001211
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001212":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
1213Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
1214
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001215Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
1216Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
1217
1218When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
1219either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
1220put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
1221
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001222Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
1223Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
1224Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
1225Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
1226(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
1227
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001228Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
1229
1230ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001231
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001232Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
1233(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
1234escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
1235an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001236This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
1237July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001238Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
1239work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
1240
1241When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
124231)
1243
1244Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
1245work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
1246Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001247
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001248Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
12492008 May 14)
1250
1251Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
1252Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
1253'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
1254
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001255Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
1256Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
1257
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001258Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
1259Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
1260
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020012618 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
1262 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
1263 several).
1264 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
1265 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
1266 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
1267Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
1268
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001269Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
1270
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001271The utf class table is missing some entries:
1272 0x2212, minus sign
1273 0x2217, star
1274 0x2500, bar
1275 0x26ab, circle
1276
1277Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
1278line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
1279
1280GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
1281Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
1282
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001283Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
1284try the Cocoa version.
1285
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001286Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
1287changed or the window is resized.
1288
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001289GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
1290the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
1291
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001292Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
1293Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001294
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001295Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
12961) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
1297
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001298C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
1299with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
1300Try to reproduce at work.
1301
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001302Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
1303Is there a way to list all the files first?
1304
1305When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
1306result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
130716)
1308
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001309Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
1310Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
1311
1312Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
1313(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
1314
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001315Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
1316Await response to question to make the register writable.
1317
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001318src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
1319remark why.
1320
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001321Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
13221)
1323
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001324In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
1325each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
1326
1327try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
1328
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001329try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
1330
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001331":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
1332Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
1333
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001334Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
1335
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001336Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
1337Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
1338
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001339Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
1340Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
1341Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001342
1343C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
1344(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
1345
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001346Can't easily close the help window, like ":pc" closes the preview window and
1347":ccl" closes the quickfix window. Add ":hclose". (Chris Gaal)
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001348Patch for :helpclose, Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001349
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001350When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
1351and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
1352
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001353Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
1354 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
1355
1356New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
1357
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001358":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
1359a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
1360
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001361'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
1362Likonen, March 19)
1363
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001364Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
1365other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
1366
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001367The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
1368appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
1369matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
1370
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001371When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
1372character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
1373'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
1374(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
1375
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001376Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
1377Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001378
1379More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
1380
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001381Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
1382http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
1383
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001384Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
1385back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
1386Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001387
1388Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
1389No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
1390
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001391Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
1392terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001393
1394Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
1395
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001396Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
1397but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
1398that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001399
1400When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
1401
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001402Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
1403Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
1404
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001405Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
1406popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
1407size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
1408This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
1409
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001410Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
1411a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
1412isn't right?
1413
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001414When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
1415it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
1416
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001417Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
1418then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
1419files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001420Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
1421indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
1422":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
1423in ":1find /**/file". This is for a files that unix "find" can find very
1424quick. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
1425Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001426
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001427When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
1428parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
1429neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
1430particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1431Jun 3)
1432However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
1433the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001434
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001435A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
1436Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
1437
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001438Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
1439Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
1440
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001441Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
1442switch list is noticed:
1443 switch (i)
1444 {
1445 case 1:
1446 foobar:
1447 }
1448
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001449Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
1450
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001451Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
1452with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
1453go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
1454moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
1455
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001456Patch to use Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen, 2010 Jul 30)
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001457Latest version: 2011 May 18
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +010014588 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
1459 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
1460 Version from Guopeng Wen that does this (2010 Dec 27)
Bram Moolenaar8e52a592012-05-18 21:49:28 +02001461Alternative: MSI installer: https://github.com/petrkle/vim-msi/
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001462
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001463Windows installer should install 32-bit version of right-click handler also on
146464-bit systems. (Brian Cunningham, 2011 Dec 28)
1465
1466Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
1467Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
1468Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
1469argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
1470(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
1471
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001472Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
1473(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
1474
1475Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
1476makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
1477.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
1478 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
1479
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001480Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
14812007 Feb 8)
1482
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001483Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
1484set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001485
1486Win32: Patch for convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2)
1487
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001488Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
1489
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001490Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
1491Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
1492New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
1493patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
1494
1495Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
1496Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
1497
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001498Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
1499
1500Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
15012007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001502Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001503
1504Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00001505label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
1506
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001507Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
1508with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
1509Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001510
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001511Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
1512pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001513Patches from Ken Takata might help (2014 Apr 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001514
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001515Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
1516
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001517Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
1518Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
1519only takes 'shellslash' into account.
1520
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001521Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
1522Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001523Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001524properly?
1525
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001526Add a few features to xxd. (Vadim Vygonets, 2013 Nov 11)
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001527Patches: 2013 Nov 19
15281: Add -e: little endian hexdump
15292: Add -o: add offset to displayed position
15303: Change displayed file position width to 8 chars
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001531
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001532Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
15332007 Jun 21)
1534
1535When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1536Jun 18)
1537
1538If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
1539
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001540Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
1541windows. (Adam George)
1542
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001543F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
1544modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
1545K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001546
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001547UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
1548to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
1549
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001550In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
1551the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
1552
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001553C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
1554
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001555":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
1556
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001557When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001558error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001559
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001560Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
1561use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
1562
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001563Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
1564if_ruby.c.
1565
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001566":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
1567
1568The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
1569it in keep_msg?
1570
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001571Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001572error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001573name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
1574
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00001575Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
1576longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001577
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001578Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
1579Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
1580Also for ":w" without a file name.
1581The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001582
1583"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
1584Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
1585
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001586VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
1587directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
1588(Zoltan Arpadffy)
1589
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001590VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1591
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001592input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
1593name?
1594
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001595Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
1596
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001597When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
1598(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
1599Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
1600will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
1601
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001602gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
1603This also fails with --remote.
1604
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001605When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
16062008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
1607all places where buf_freeall() is called?
1608
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001609aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
1610
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001611When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
1612(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
1613
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001614Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
1615the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
1616
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001617GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
1618
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001619Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
1620superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
1621
1622Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
1623character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
1624
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001625Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
1626Jun 5)
1627
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001628Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
16292008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
1630Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
1631
1632In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
1633but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
1634Jul 22)
1635
1636There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
1637
1638Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
1639":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
1640somehow? Or use a new function.
1641
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001642Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
1643
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001644Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
1645moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
1646that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
1647
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001648The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
1649
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001650When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001651cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
1652the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
1653
1654Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
1655has been created.
1656
1657Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
1658shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
1659fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
1660background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
1661A.Politz may work on this.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001662
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001663These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
1664 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
1665 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
1666 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
1667
1668Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
1669partly. (2006 Dec 7)
1670
1671In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
1672buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
1673reload it then?
1674
1675New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
1676previous version.
1677
1678For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
1679
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001680Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
1681only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
1682
1683Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
1684tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
1685doesn't contain other directories.
1686
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001687Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
1688Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
1689
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001690Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
1691 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
1692 set background=dark
1693This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
1694color is, not reset it.
1695
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001696Linux distributions:
1697- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
1698 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
1699 xfree-xterm".
1700- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
1701
1702Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
1703start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
1704show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
1705middle?
1706
1707When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001708(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001709connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
1710dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
1711
1712Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
1713
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001714When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
1715current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
1716the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
1717
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001718When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
1719Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
1720
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001721Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
1722 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
1723 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
1724 - getting colors in xterm
1725 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
1726
1727Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
1728Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
1729
1730Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
1731
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001732A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
1733Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
1734
1735Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
1736Dara, 2006 June 21)
1737
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001738Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
1739number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
1740
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001741After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
1742the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
1743
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001744Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001745
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001746Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
1747copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
1748error and stop using the connection to the server.
1749
1750Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
1751Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
1752
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001753Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010017542008 Sep 29)
1755
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001756In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
1757check the result of has("patch13").
1758
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001759Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
1760restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
1761
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001762Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
1763and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
1764
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001765Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
1766put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
1767
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001768Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
1769resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
1770
1771In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
1772can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
1773
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001774GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
1775maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
1776doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001777Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
1778visible.
1779
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001780When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
1781differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001782
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001783The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
1784be only one.
1785
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001786"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
1787script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
1788
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001789It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
1790the function name before resolving it to a number?
1791 let d = {}
1792 fun! d.foo()
1793 echo "here"
1794 endfun
1795 call d.foo(9)
1796
1797Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
1798only set after Visual moded is ended.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001799Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
1800used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
1801
1802Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
1803output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
1804Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
1805
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001806Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001807"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
1808name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
1809Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001810
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001811printf() uses the field width in bytes. Can it be made character width,
1812perhaps with a modifier? What does Posix say?
1813
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001814Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
1815(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
1816
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001817Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
1818as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
1819
1820Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
1821Jan 1)
1822
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001823Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
182423)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001825
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001826":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
1827tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
1828Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001829
1830xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1831buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1832Xterm 224 supports it!
1833
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001834When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
1835text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
1836latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
1837
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001838Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
1839
1840Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
1841no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
1842
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001843In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
1844VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
18452007 Oct 16)
1846
1847TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
1848Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
1849
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001850Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001851
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001852When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
1853typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
1854Sep 3, 11)
1855
1856When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
1857respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
1858the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
1859what happens for the GUI.
1860
1861X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1862pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1863clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1864Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1865Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1866clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
1867
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001868":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
1869this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
1870
1871When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
1872Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
1873restored. (Luc St-Louis)
1874
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001875Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
18762010 Jun 30)
1877
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001878
Bram Moolenaare6ae6222013-05-21 21:01:10 +02001879At next release:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001880- Build a huge version by default.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001881- Improve plugin handling: Automatic updates, handle dependencies?
1882 E.g. Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001883
1884
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001885More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001886- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
1887 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001888- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
1889- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
1890 21)
1891- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
1892 patch May 10)
1893- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
1894 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
1895- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
1896 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
1897- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
1898- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
1899- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
1900 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
1901 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001902- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001903- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
1904 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
1905- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
1906 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
1907- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
1908 21)
1909- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
1910 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
1911- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
1912 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001913- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
1914 Sep 13)
1915- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001916 Docs patch Oct 30, update David Burgin (glts) 2013 Aug 24)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001917- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
1918 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
1919 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
1920 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
1921 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02001922- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001923
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001924Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000019259 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
1926 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
1927 New patch 2004 Jun 16
1928 - selecting proportional font breaks display
1929 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
1930 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
1931 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
1932 (Alan Schmitt)
1933 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001934 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
1935 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000019369 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001937 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000019388 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019398 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00001940 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019417 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
1942 Update 2004 Sep 6.
1943 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019448 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001945 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020019467 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001947 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
1948- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
1949 for multi-byte characters.
1950- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
1951- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
1952 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
1953 been given values.
1954 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
19558 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00001956 with an ESC sequence.
1957 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
1958 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
1959 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019607 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
1961 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
1962- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
1963 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
1964 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
19658 Add functions:
1966 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
1967 Update 2004 Sep 10
1968 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
1969 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001970 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001971 How to get the messages into the .po files?
Bram Moolenaar72597a52010-07-18 15:31:08 +02001972 strchars() Like strlen() and strwidth() but counting characters
1973 instead of bytes.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001974 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
1975 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
1976 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
1977 (2003 May 13)
1978 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
1979 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001980 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
1981 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001982 col('^') column of first non-white character.
1983 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
1984 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019857 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
1986 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
1987- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
1988 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
19897 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
1990 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000019918 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
1992 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000019937 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
19948 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
1995 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
19967 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
1997 Kotchan has a patch for it)
19988 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
1999 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
2000 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
20017 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
2002- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
2003 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
2004 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002005- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
2006 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
2007- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
2008
2009
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002010Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002011- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
2012 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020138 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
2014 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
2015 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
2016 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
2017 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
2018 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020198 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
2020 make Vim exit.
20217 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
2022 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
2023 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
20248 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
2025 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
2026 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
20276 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
2028 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
2029 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
20308 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
2031 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
2032 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
2033 names in one buffer???
2034 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
2035 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
2036 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
20377 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
2038 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
2039 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00002040 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
2041 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020427 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
2043 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
20447 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
20457 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
20467 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
2047 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
20487 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
2049 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
2050 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
2051 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
20527 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
20537 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
20547 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
2055 to the match with the tag? Option?
20567 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
20577 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
2058 (Sayre).
20597 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
2060 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020617 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
2062 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
2063 match. Nvi can do it too.
20647 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
2065 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
2066 line 1\ line 2\\
2067 line 2\ line 3\\
2068 . line4/
20696 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
2070 the way the shell is started?
20716 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
2072 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
2073
2074
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002075GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000020769 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020778 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
2078 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
2079 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000020808 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
2081 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
2082 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020839 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
2084 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
2085 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
2086 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00002087- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
2088 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
2089 blocked for now.
2090
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002091
2092Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002093- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
2094 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020958 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
2096 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
20978 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
2098 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
2099 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
21008 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
2101 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021026 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
2103 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000021048 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
2105 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
2106 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021077 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
2108 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
2109 to use an opaque background in most places?
21108 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
2111 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
2112 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021137 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
2114 2004 May 9)
21158 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
2116 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
2117 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
2118 MS-Windows 98?
2119 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
2120 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
2121 file: Window moves with the cursor!
2122 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021238 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
2124 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
2125 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
2126 doesn't work properly.
21278 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
2128 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
2129 appears in the right position. (Webb)
21309 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
2131 button doesn't give popup menu.
2132 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
2133 selection.
2134 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
2135 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
2136 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
21378 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
2138 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
2139 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
2140 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
21418 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
2142 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
2143 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021447 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
2145 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
2146 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
21477 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
2148 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00002149 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021507 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
2151 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021526 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
21538 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
2154 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
2155 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
21568 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
2157 know which keyboard is being used?
21587 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
2159 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
2160 area (Koloseike).
21618 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
2162 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
2163 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
2164 the font name).
2165
2166
2167Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000021686 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
2169 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
2170 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
2171 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
2172 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021739 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
2174 required and it's missing?
21758 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
2176 wrong.
21779 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
2178 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000021799 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002180 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
2181 flag.
21828 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
2183 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
2184 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
21858 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
21866 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
2187 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
2188 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
2189 the tooltips work though...
21907 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
2191 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
21928 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
2193 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
2194 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
2195
2196
2197Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010021989 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
2199 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022009 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
2201 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
2202 through files.
22037 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
2204 read long file names. (Schroeder)
22054 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
2206 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
2207 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
2208 problem during a refresh.
22095 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
2210 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
2211 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
2212 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
2213 colors as it should.
2214 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
2215 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
2216
2217
2218Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02002219- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022207 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
2221 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022228 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
2223 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
2224 (Phillipps)
2225
2226
2227GUI:
22289 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
2229 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
22309 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00002231 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002232 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
22339 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
2234 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
22358 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
2236 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
22378 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
2238 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
2239 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
22408 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
2241 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
2242 of where it is processing the output.
2243 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
22448 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
2245 doesn't work.
22468 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000022478 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
2248 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
2249 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020022508 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022518 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
2252 browse().
22538 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
2254 use that code? Or use console dialog.
22558 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
2256 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000022577 More features in the find/replace dialog:
2258 - regexp on/off
2259 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
2260 when all buffers/directory is used:
2261 - filter for file name
2262 when directory is used:
2263 - subdirectory on/off
2264 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022658 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
2266 to avoid problems.
22678 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
2268 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
2269 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
22708 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
2271 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
2272 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
22738 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
2274 up. Set erase character somehow?
22758 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
2276 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
2277 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
2278 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
22798 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
22807 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
2281 visible.
22827 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
2283 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
22847 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
2285 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
22868 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
2287 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
22888 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
2289 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
2290 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
2291 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
2292- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
22934 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
2294 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
2295 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
2296
2297
2298MSDOS/DJGPP:
22999 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
2300 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
2301 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
23028 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
2303 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
23049 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00002305 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
2306 write a file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023079 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
2308 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
2309 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
2310 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
23119 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
2312 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
2313 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
2314 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
2315 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
2316 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
2317 Make this work like in Win32 console.
2318 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
2319 key code. Use a translation table?
23209 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
2321 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
23228 Use DJGPP 2.03.
23238 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
2324 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
23258 setlocale() is bogus.
23268 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
2327 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
2328 Windows 95 system!
23298 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000023307 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002331 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
23327 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
2333 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
2334 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
23358 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
2336 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
23377 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
2338 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
2339 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
2340 "[New file]".
23417 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
2342 that is supported?
23438 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
23448 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
2345 Briscoe)
2346
2347
2348MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
23498 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
2350 gen_expand_wildcards().
23518 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
2352 Wagner.
23538 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
23548 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
2355 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000023568 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
2357 a good fallback, thus use:
2358 $HOME
2359 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
2360 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
2361 $USERPROFILE
2362 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
2363 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
2364 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
2365 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023668 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
2367 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
23688 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
2369 Should work like in the GUI version.
23708 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
2371 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
23728 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
2373 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
23748 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
2375 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
2376 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023778 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
2378 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
2379 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
2380
2381
2382Windows 95:
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +020023838 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002384 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
2385 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
23868 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
2387 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
2388
2389
2390Win32 console:
23919 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
2392 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
2393 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
2394 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
2395 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
2396 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
2397 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
2398 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
2399 and the file is not saved.
2400 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
2401 long name.
24028 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
2403 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
24047 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
2405 besides the console.
24068 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
24079 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
2408 <C-S-i>?
24099 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
2410 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
24118 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
2412 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024137 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
2414 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
2415 exiting.
2416
2417
2418Amiga:
24198 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
2420 sequences.
24219 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
2422 backslashes in result.
24238 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
2424 all options, using white space separation.
2425
2426
2427Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002428- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024297 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
2430 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
2431 (Jack)
2432 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000024338 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
2434 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024358 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
24368 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
24379 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
2438 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024399 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002440
2441
2442"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002443- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
2444 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002445- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
2446 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002447- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
2448 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
2449 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
2450 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
2451 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
2452 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
2453 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000024549 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
2455 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000024569 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002457 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
2458 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024598 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
2460 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
2461 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00002462 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024637 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
2464 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
24658 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
2466 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
2467 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024687 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
2469 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002470- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
2471 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024728 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
2473 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
2474 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
2475 using the horizontal scrollbar.
24767 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
2477 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
2478 invocations belong together.
24798 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
2480 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
24818 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
2482 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
2483 UnxUtils.zip archive.
2484 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
2485 Briscoe says it's not as good.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000024868 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
2487 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
2488 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024898 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
2490 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024917 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
2492 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
2493 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
2494 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024957 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
2496 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
2497 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
24987 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
2499 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
2500 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
25017 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
2502 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025037 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
2504 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025059 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
2506 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
2507 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
2508 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
2509 script can be called.
25108 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
2511 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
2512 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025138 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
2514 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000025158 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002516 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
2517 configurable?
25188 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
25199 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
2520 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
2521 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025228 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
2523 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000025248 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
2525 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025268 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
2527 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025289 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
2529 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
2530 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025317 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025328 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
2533 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
2534 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000025358 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
2536 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002537 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
2538 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025398 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
2540 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
25419 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
2542 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
2543 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002544 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025457 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
2546 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025477 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
2548 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
2549 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
2550 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025518 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002552 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
2553 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
2554 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
2555 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002556 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
2557 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00002558 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002559 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002560 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
2561 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
2562 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
2563 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
2564 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
25658 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
2566 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
25679 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
2568 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
2569 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025708 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
2571 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
25728 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
2573 in lines that don't extend into the block?
25748 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
2575 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
2576 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
25778 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
2578 'linebreak'.
25798 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
2580 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
2581 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025829 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
2583 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
2584 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
2585 'magic' in history. (Margo)
25869 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
2587 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
25889 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
2589 isn't updated).
25909 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
25919 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
2592 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
2593 cause another redraw, etc.
25948 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
2595 must escape special characters in the pattern.
25968 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
2597 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
2598 ":w!!" for that.
2599 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
2600 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00002601 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026027 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
2603 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
2604 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
2605 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
2606 clipboard)
26077 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
2608 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
2609 Waggoner)
26108 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
2611 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
2612 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000026136 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
2614 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
2615 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026168 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
2617 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
26188 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
2619 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
2620 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000026218 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026228 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
2623 (e.g., ":w").
26248 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
2625 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
26268 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
2627 for ">>".
26288 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
2629 script in do_cmdline().
26308 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
2631 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
2632 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
2633 changes.
26348 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
2635 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
26368 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
2637 check for file marks. This can be slow.
26387 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
2639 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
2640 needed.
2641 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
26428 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
2643 to skip catch_signals()?
26449 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
2645 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
2646 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
2647 text?
26488 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
2649 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
26508 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
2651 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
26529 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
2653 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
2654 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
2655 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
2656 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
26577 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
2658 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
2659 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
2660 in the list?
26618 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
2662 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
2663 instead of on button down.
26648 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
26659 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
2666 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002667 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
2668 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026698 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
2670 character is typed.
26718 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
2672 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
26738 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
2674 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
26758 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
2676 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
2677 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
2678 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
2679 cygwin bash.
26807 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
2681 Remember flags for backreferences.
26827 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
2683 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
26847 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
2685 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
26868 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
2687 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
26887 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
2689 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026907 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
2691 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
2692 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
26937 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
2694 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
26958 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
2696 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
2697 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
26987 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
2699 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002700
2701
2702I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
27039 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
2704 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
2705 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002706
2707
2708Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00002709- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
2710 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
2711 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002712- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
2713 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
2714 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
2715 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
2716 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
2717 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002718 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002719- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
2720 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00002721 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002722 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
2723 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
2724 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002725- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
2726 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
2727 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
2728 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
2729 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
2730- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
2731 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
2732 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
2733- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
2734 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002735- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002736- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
2737 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
2738 character gets the highlighting.
2739- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
2740 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
2741- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
2742 (Jennings)
2743- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
2744- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2745 errors. How do we get the rest?
2746- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002747- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002748 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
2749- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
2750 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
2751 first?
2752- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
2753 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
2754- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
2755 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
2756 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
2757- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
2758 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
2759 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
2760 (Benzinger).
2761- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
2762 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
2763 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
2764- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
2765 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
2766- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
2767 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
2768- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
2769 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
2770 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
2771 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
2772 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
2773 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
2774- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
2775 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
2776 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002777- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
2778 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
2779 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002780- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
2781 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
2782 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
2783- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
2784 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
2785- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
2786 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002787- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
2788 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
2789- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
2790 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
2791 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
2792 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
2793 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
2794- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
2795 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
2796 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
2797- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
2798 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
2799 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00002800- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
2801 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 +00002802- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
2803 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
2804 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
2805 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
2806 in the vimrc file to be lost.
2807- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
2808 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
2809
2810--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
2811 *extensions-improvements*
2812
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002813Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
2814- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
2815 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
2816 calling a function.
2817 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
2818 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002819- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
2820 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
2821- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
2822 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
2823 http://clewn.sf.net.
2824 And the idevim plugin/script.
2825 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
2826 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
2827 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
2828 other window.
2829 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
2830 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2831 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
2832 in terminal mode.
2833- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
2834 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
2835 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
2836 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
2837 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
2838 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002839 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002840- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
2841 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
2842 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002843- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
2844 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002845- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
2846 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
2847 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000028488 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
2849 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
2850 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
2851 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00002852- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
2853 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002854
2855
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002856Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000028578 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
2858 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000028598 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
2860 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000028618 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
2862 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028638 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028647 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
28659 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
2866 - change to cursor position and curswant
2867 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
2868 - how it works for folded lines
2869 - how it works with multi-byte characters
28709 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
2871 work too.
28728 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
2873 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
2874 text.
28758 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
28767 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
2877 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
28787 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
2879 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002880 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002881- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
2882
2883
2884Help:
2885- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
2886 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
2887- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
2888 to the other matches.
2889- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
2890- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
2891- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
2892 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
2893 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
2894 default contents.
2895- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
2896 height for the help window (and other windows).
2897- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
2898- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
2899- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
2900
2901
2902User Friendlier:
29038 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
2904 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
2905 Briscoe)
29068 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
29078 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
2908 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
2909 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
29108 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
2911 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
2912- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
2913 ":mkplugin <file>"?
29148 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
2915 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
2916 'runtimepath'.
2917 " Vim plugin
2918 <main plugin code>
2919 " >>> plugin help start <<<
2920 <plugin docs>
2921- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
29229 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
2923 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
2924 item?).
2925 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029268 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
29277 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000029287 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
2929 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
2930 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000029318 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
2932 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
2933 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
2934 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002935
2936
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002937Tab pages:
29389 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029397 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
2940 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000029418 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000029428 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000029437 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000029447 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002945 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000029467 Add local variables for each tab page?
29478 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
2948 tab pages.
29497 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029507 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
2951 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002952
2953
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002954Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002955- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
2956 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
2957- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
2958 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
2959 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
2960- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
2961 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002962- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
2963 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
2964 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002965- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
2966 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
2967 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002968- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
2969 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002970- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002971 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
2972 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000029738 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
2974 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
29758 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
2976 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
29778 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
2978 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002979 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002980 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
2981 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
2982 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
2983 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00002984- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
2985 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00002986- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00002987- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
2988 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00002989- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002990 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002991- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002992 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002993- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
2994 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002995- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
2996 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
2997- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00002998 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002999 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
3000 in the affix file separately.
3001 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003002 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003003 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
3004 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
3005 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
3006- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
3007 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
3008 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
3009 specific prefixes with suffixes.
3010 Alternative:
3011 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
3012 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
3013 affix which is required.
3014- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00003015 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003016- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
3017 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
3018 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003019- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
3020 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00003021- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
3022 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
3023- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000030248 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
3025 syntax items (to add @Spell).
3026 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
3027 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003028- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
3029 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
3030 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
3031 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000030328 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
3033 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000030348 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
30358 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
3036 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000030377 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
30388 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
3039 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
3040 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
3041 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00003042
3043
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003044Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000030459 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
3046 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaarc400cb92010-07-19 19:52:13 +02003047 It's quite big and badly documented though.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030488 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
3049 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
3050 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00003051 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
3052 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030537 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
3054 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
3055 location.
3056
3057
3058Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00003059 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
3060 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000030618 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
3062 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000030638 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000030649 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
3065 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030668 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
3067 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
3068 user aware of this?
30698 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
3070 commands skip over a closed fold.
30718 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
30728 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030737 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003074- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
3075 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
3076 missing line goes unnoticed.
3077 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003078- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
3079 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
3080 smoother?
3081- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
3082 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00003083- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
3084 file can contain:
3085 args version.c main.c
3086 edit version.c
3087 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003088- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00003089- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
3090 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003091- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
3092 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00003093- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
3094 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003095- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000030968 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003097 searches.
3098
3099
3100Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003101- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
3102 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
3103 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
3104 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031059 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
3106 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
3107 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
3108 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020031099 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
3110 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
3111 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031128 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
3113 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
3114 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
3115 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
3116 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
3117 item.
31188 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003119 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
3120 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031218 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3122 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00003123 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00003124 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031258 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
3126 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000031278 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
3128 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
3129 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031307 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
3131 so that the user can fix the problem.
31328 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
3133 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031349 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
31358 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031368 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
31378 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000031387 Searching and composing characters:
3139 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
3140 Add special item to match with a composing character, zero-width, so that
3141 one can replace a base character and keep the composing characters.
3142 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
3143 characters can be manipulated.
3144 Add a modifier to ignore composing characters, only compare base
3145 characters. Useful for Hebrew (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031468 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
31478 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
31488 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
3149 characters.
31508 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
31518 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
3152 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
31537 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
3154 'display' option to specify this.
31557 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
3156 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
3157- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
3158 fontselector somehow.
3159- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
3160 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
3161- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
3162 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
3163- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
3164 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
3165 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
3166 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
3167 if a font exists?
3168- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003169 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003170- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
3171 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
31727 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
3173 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00003174- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
3175 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
3176 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
3177 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003178- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
3179 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
3180 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
3181- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
3182 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
3183 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
3184 But it's very complicated...
3185
3186
3187Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000031887 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003189- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
3190- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
3191 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00003192- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
3193 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003194- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
3195- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
3196 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003197- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
3198 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003199- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
3200 units as for the margins.
3201- Support right-to-left text?
32028 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
3203 color.
3204
3205
3206Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032078 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
3208 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
32098 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
3210 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
32118 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
3212 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000032137 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
3214 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032158 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
3216 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
3217 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032187 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
3219 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
3220 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032218 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
32229 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
3223 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032247 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
3225 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000032267 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
3227 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032288 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
3229 change this for each release.
32308 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
3231 pattern, but not in the body.
32328 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
3233 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
3234 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032358 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
32368 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
3237 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
3238 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
3239 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02003240 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
3241 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032428 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
3243 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
32448 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
3245 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00003246 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032478 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
3248 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
3249 used.
32508 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
3251 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
32528 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
3253 re-insert the [] if possible.
32548 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
3255 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000032568 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
3257 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
3258 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
3259 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
3260 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032618 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
3262 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
32638 Support for deleting syntax items:
3264 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
3265 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
3266 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
32678 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
3268 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
3269 a '<'. (Fleiner)
32707 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
3271 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
3272 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
32737 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
3274 detected.
32758 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003276 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032778 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
3278 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032798 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
32808 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
32817 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
3282 ":mkvimrc".
32838 Improve c.vim:
3284 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
3285 "c_strict_ansi".
3286 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
32878 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
3288 current line while in Insert mode.
32898 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
3290 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
32918 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
3292 display position.
32938 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
3294 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
3295 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
32968 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
3297 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
3298 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032998 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
3300 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
3301 sequence.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000033027 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
3303 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
3304 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
3305 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
3306 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033077 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
3308 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
3309 E.g. for this html:
3310 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033117 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
33127 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
3313 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033148 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
33158 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033167 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
3317 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
3318 completion?
33198 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
3320 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
33217 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
3322 select one of the sets.
33238 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
3324 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
3325 2, etc.
33268 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
3327 highlighting (for "." command).
33288 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
3329 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
33308 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
33317 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
3332 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
33336 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
3334 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
3335- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
3336 when extending an already existing syntax file.
3337- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003338- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
3339 (for comment blocks).
3340- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
3341 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
3342 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
3343 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
3344 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
3345 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
3346 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
3347 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
3348 (Campbell)
3349 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
3350 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
33517 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
3352 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
33537 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
3354 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
3355 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
33567 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
3357 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
3358 messages. And external commands?
33598 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
3360 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
33617 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
3362 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
3363
3364
3365Built-in script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000033668 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
3367 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02003368 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000033697 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
3370 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
3371 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033728 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
3373 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003374- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
3375 2006 Dec 11.
3376- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020033778 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
3378 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
3379 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
3380 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
3381 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
3382 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000033837 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
3384 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033858 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
33868 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
3387 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
3388 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
3389 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
3390 nested packages?
3391 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
3392 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
3393 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033947 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
3395 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
3396 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
3397 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
3398 autocommand.
3399 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
3400 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
3401 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
3402 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034037 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
3404 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034056 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
3406 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034078 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003408 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
3409 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
3410 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
3411 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
3412 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
3413 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
3414 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00003415 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
3416 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
3417 3 2002
3418 Only add this when also implemented for
3419 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
3420 be used.
3421 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00003422 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
3423 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
3424 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
3425 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
3426 File.Open..." argument.
3427 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
3428 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
3429 with properties instead.
3430 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
3431 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
3432 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003433 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003434 crypt() encrypt string
3435 decrypt() decrypt string
3436 base64enc() base 64 encoding
3437 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003438 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003439 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003440 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003441 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003442 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003443 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
3444 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003445 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
3446 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003447 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003448 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
3449 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003450 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
3451 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
3452 to allow the library to execute a command or
3453 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034547 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
3455 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
34568 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
3457 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034588 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
3459 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034608 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034617 Add optional arguments to user functions:
3462 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
34636 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000034648 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
3465 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034668 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
3467 option or environment variable.
34688 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000034698 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003470 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000034717 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
3472 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034738 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
3474 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
34758 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
34768 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
3477 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
3478 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
3479 charwise({expr}).
34807 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
3481 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
3482 buffer for this?
3483 result = scratch(string, command)
3484 result = apply(string, command)
3485 result = execute(string, command)
3486 "command" would use <> notation.
3487 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
34887 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003489
3490
3491Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000034926 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
3493 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
3494 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
3495 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
3496 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
3497 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
3498 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003499
3500
3501Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000035027 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
3503 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020035047 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
3505 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
3506 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
3507 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000035088 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
3509 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
3510 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
3511 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02003512 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035138 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
3514 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
3515 repeating it in various system files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035168 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
35179 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
35188 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
35197 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
3520 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
35218 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
3522 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
3523 when starting up in a color terminal.
35248 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
3525 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035268 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
3527 function be improved?
35288 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
3529 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
3530 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
3531 this be improved?
35328 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
3533 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000035347 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
3535 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035367 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
3537 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
35387 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
3539 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020035407 MS-DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035417 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
3542 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
3543 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
3544 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
3545 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
3546 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
3547 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035488 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
3549 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
3550 using strcmp() too often?
35517 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
3552 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
3553 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
3554 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
3555 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
3556 the two blocks to the memfile block.
35577 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
3558 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
3559 with an argument that can be messed with.
3560 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
3561 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
35627 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
3563- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
35648 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
3565 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
3566- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
3567 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
3568- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
3569- Do profiling on:
3570 - :g/pat/normal cmd
3571 - 1000ii<Esc>
3572 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
3573 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
3574 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
3575 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
3576 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
3577 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003578 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035797 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
3580 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
3581 changed).
3582 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
3583 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
3584- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
3585- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
3586 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
3587- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
3588 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
3589 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
3590- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
3591 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
3592- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
3593- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
3594 cursor is right of the screen.
35958 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
3596 CTRL-C (it's slow).
3597
3598
3599Code size:
36008 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
3601- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
3602 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
36038 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
36048 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
3605 it.
36067 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
3607 left out.
36088 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
3609 can be removed.
36108 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
3611
3612
3613Messages:
36148 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
3615 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
36168 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
3617 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
36188 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
3619 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003620- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
3621 Perhaps after ten seconds?
3622- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036238 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
3624 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036259 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
3626 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
3627 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
3628 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
3629 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036308 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
3631 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
36328 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
3633 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
3634 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
3635 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
3636 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
3637 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003638- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003639 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036408 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
3641 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
3642 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
3643 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
3644 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
3645 error messages, printing text, etc.
36468 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
3647 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
3648 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
3649
3650
3651Screen updating:
36527 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
3653 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
3654 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
3655- screen_line():
3656 - insert/delete character stuff.
3657 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
3658- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
3659 dragging the status line with the mouse).
3660- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
3661 waiting for a character.
36628 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
3663 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
3664 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
36657 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003666
3667
3668Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020036698 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036706 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
3671- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
3672 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
3673 windows.
36747 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
3675 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
3676 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
3677- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
3678 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
3679 (Goldfarb)
3680- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
3681 bound windows.
3682- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
3683 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00003684- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003685- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
3686 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
3687 of lines but not with a single line).
3688
3689
3690Autoconf:
36918 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
36928 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
3693 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
3694- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
3695 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
3696- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
3697- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
3698- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
3699
3700
3701Perl interface:
37028 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037037 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
37047 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
37056 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
3706
3707
3708Shared libraries:
37096 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
3710 :libload internal-name libname
3711 :libunload internal-name
3712 :liblist
3713 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3714 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3715 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
37166 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
3717
3718
3719Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000037209 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
3721 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
3722 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
3723 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
3724 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000037258 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
3726 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
3727 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02003728 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003729 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000037307 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
3731 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
3732 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037338 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
37348 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
3735 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037367 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
3737 window for each tag.
37387 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
37397 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
3740 bottom" search message.
37417 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
3742 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
3743 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00003744- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
3745- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003746- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
3747 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
3748 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037497 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
3750 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
3751 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
3752 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
37537 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
3754 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
3755 :tagargs clear
3756 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
3757 matching).
37587 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
3759 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
3760 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
3761 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
37627 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
3763 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
37647 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
3765 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
3766 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003767
3768
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003769Win32 GUI:
37708 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
3771 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037727 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
3773 (Mike McCollister)
37748 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
3775 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
3776 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
3777 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
3778 common part of the path.
37798 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
37808 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
3781 gettext and menus work.
37828 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
3783 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02003784 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003785 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
37868 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
3787 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
37888 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
3789 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
37907 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
3791 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
37927 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
37937 <Esc> should close a dialog.
37947 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
3795 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
3796 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
3797 prompts.
37987 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
3799 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
3800 the file added into an already running Vim.
38017 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
3802 functions to find the window title.
3803
3804
3805GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020038068 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003807- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
3808 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
38097 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
38108 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
38116 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
38128 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
3813 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
38149 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
38157 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
38168 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
3817 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
38188 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
3819 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
3820 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
38218 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
3822 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
38238 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
3824 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
3825 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
3826 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038277 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
38288 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
3829 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000038307 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
3831 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
3832 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038338 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
38348 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00003835 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038368 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
38378 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
38388 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
3839 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
3840 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
38417 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
3842 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
3843 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
38447 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
3845 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
38467 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
3847 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
3848 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
3849 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
38507 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
3851 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
38527 Should support multi-column menus.
3853- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
3854 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
3855- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
38568 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
38576 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
3858 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
38597 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
38607 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
3861 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
3862 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
38637 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
38648 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
3865 name can be chosen free.
38667 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
3867 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
38686 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
3869 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
3870 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
3871 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
3872 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
3873 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
3874 things.
38757 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
3876 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038777 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003878 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003879- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
3880 where it was started from?
38817 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
3882
3883
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003884Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020038859 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
3886 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003887- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010038888 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
3889 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
3890 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
3891 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
38928 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
3893 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000038947 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
3895 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
3896 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
3897 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000038987 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000038998 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
3900 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039018 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
3902 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
3903 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000039047 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
3905 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
3906 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039078 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
3908 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
3909 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039107 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option
3911 name?
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000039128 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
3913 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039148 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039156 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
3916 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000039177 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039187 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003919 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
3920 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
3921 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039225 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
3923 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
3924 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
39257 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
3926 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
3927 file.
39288 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
3929 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
3930 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003931- Add events to autocommands:
3932 Error - When an error happens
3933 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003934 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00003935 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
3936 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003937 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00003938 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00003939 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
3940 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003941 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00003942 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003943 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003944 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
3945 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
3946 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
3947 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003948 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003949 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
3950 the char.
3951 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
3952 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
3953 file from CVS).
3954 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
3955 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
3956 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
3957 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
3958 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
3959 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003960 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
3961 changes.
3962 WinResized - After a window has been resized
3963 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00003964- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003965 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003966 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003967 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
3968 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
3969 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
3970 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
3971 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
3972
3973
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003974Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003975- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
3976 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003977- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
3978 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
3979 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
3980 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
3981 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003982- Ideas from others:
3983 http://www.wholetomato.com/
3984 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
3985 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
3986 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
3987 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
3988 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
3989 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
3990 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
3991 Uses Perl for C++.
3992 Uses ctags to find the info:
3993 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
3994 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
3995 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
3996 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
3997 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
3998 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003999 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004000 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
4001- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
4002
4003
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004004Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004005- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000040067 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
4007 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000040087 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
4009 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
4010 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040118 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
4012 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
40139 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
4014 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
4015 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040168 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
4017 - ignore/match case
4018 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040198 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
4020 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
4021 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
4022 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
4023 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
4024 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040258 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000040267 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
4027 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040288 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
4029 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
4030 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
4031 Should work for C++ and Java.
4032 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
40337 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
40347 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
4035 instead of words.
40368 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
40378 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
4038 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
40398 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
4040 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004041- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
4042 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004043- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
4044 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
4045 wildcards in the file name)?
4046- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
4047- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
4048- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
4049 be in another file).
4050- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
4051- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
4052- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
4053 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
4054- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
4055- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
4056- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004057- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
4058
4059
4060Command line editing:
40617 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
4062 line.
40638 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
4064 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
4065 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
4066- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
4067 lines wraps to start of line).
4068- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
4069 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
4070 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
4071 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
4072 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
4073 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
4074 cmdwin does now already.
4075 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
4076 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
4077 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
4078 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
4079 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
4080 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
4081 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
4082 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
4083 Problems:
4084 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
4085 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
4086 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
4087 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
4088 - Normal: no ":" commands?
4089 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
4090 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
4091 character in first column?
4092 - Implementation ideas:
4093 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
4094 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
4095 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
4096 - sync undo after entering a command line?
4097 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
4098 Mode.
4099
4100
4101Command line completion:
41028 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
41038 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
4104 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
41058 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
4106 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041078 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
4108 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041097 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
4110 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004111- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
4112- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
4113 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041148 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
4115 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
41167 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
4117 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
4118- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
4119 identifiers (Webb).
41208 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
4121 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
41227 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
4123 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
4124- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
4125 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
4126- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
4127 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
4128 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004129
4130
4131Command line history:
4132- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
4133 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
4134 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
4135 completely resulted from one mapping.
4136- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
4137 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
4138
4139
4140Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000041419 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
4142 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
4143 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041448 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
4145 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
4146 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
4147 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
4148 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041498 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
4150 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
4151 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041527 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
4153 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004154- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020041559 Can't use multi-byte characters for 'matchpairs'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041567 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
4157 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
4158- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
4159 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
4160 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
4161 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
4162 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
4163 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
4164- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
4165 Normal mode.
4166- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
4167 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
4168 are used.
4169- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
4170- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
4171- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
4172
4173
4174'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010041759 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
4176 char * veryLongName =
4177 "very long string"
4178 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041798 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041808 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
4181 long_type foo =
4182 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041838 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
4184 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00004185 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041868 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
4187 func(
4188 new String[] {
4189 "asdf",
4190 "asdf"
4191 }
4192 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010041938 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
4194 (Chow Loong Jin)
4195 namespace {
4196 int
4197 func(int arg) {
4198 }
4199 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042006 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
4201 func( arg1
4202 , arg2
4203 , arg3
4204 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000042057 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004206 func(
4207 int x) // indent like "(4"
4208 {
4209 if (a
4210 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042119 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
4212 if (a)
4213 {
4214 if (b)
4215 {
4216 // {
4217 }
4218 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00004219 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
4220 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
4221 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004222- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004223 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
42247 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
4225- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
4226 line).
4227- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
4228- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
4229 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004230- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
4231 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
4232- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
4233 code), unless the line starts with "*".
4234- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
4235- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
4236 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
42378 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
4238 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
4239 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
4240- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
4241- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
4242 lines start with "\item".
4243- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
4244 /* here is a comment that
4245 is just autoindented, and
4246 nothing else */
4247- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
42487 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
4249 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
4250 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01004251 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004252
4253
4254Java:
42558 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
4256 Odendahl?
42578 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
4258 "[i" commands and friends.
4259- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
4260 (Jason)
4261- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
4262 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
4263
4264
4265'comments':
42668 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
4267 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
4268 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
4269 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004270 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
4271 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042727 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
4273 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
42747 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
42756 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
4276 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
4277 regexp is used.
42788 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
4279 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
4280
4281
4282Virtual edit:
42838 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042847 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
4285
4286
4287Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042888 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042898 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000042908 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00004291 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000042928 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
4293 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004294 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
4295 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000042968 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042977 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
4298 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042998 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
4300 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043018 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
4302 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
4303 the end of the line or before a ".".
43047 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
4305 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
43067 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
4307 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043086 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
43095 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
4310 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
4311 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
4312 cursor is on.
4313
4314
4315Select mode:
43168 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
4317 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
43187 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02004319 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043207 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
4321 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
4322 contains 'C' or 'A'.
4323 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
4324 normal_cmd().
4325 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
4326 - Typing text replaces the selection.
4327
4328
4329Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020043308 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
4331 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004332- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
4333 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
4334 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004335- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
4336 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
4337 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043388 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004339 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004340 where needed.
43417 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
4342 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
43437 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
4344 of each selected line.
43458 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
43468 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4347 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4348 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
43498 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
4350 Ben Godfrey)
43517 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
4352 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
43537 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
4354 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
43557 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
4356 Young is working on this)
43577 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004358 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004359 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
43608 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
4361 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
43627 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
4363 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
4364 option!
43657 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
4366 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
4367 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
4368 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
4369 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
4370 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
4371 without changing the column.
43726 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043737 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
4374 current buffer.
43757 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
43766 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
4377 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
43786 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043796 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004380 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004381 or other special character.
43826 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
4383
4384
4385More advanced repeating commands:
4386- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000043877 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004388 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02004389- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004390- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004391 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
4392 "y." will repeat last yank.
4393 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
4394 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
4395 and/or pick an older command.
4396- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
4397
4398
4399Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044008 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
4401 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
4402 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
44038 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
44047 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
4405 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044068 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
4407 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
44088 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000044097 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044108 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
4411 entering search strings.
44128 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
4413 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
4414 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044158 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
4416 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044178 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
4418 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
4419 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
44207 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044217 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
4422 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044236 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
4424 abbreviations are to be used.
4425- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
4426 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
4427 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004428- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
4429 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
4430 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
4431 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
4432 Or implicit:
4433 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004434- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
4435 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
4436 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004437- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
4438 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
4439- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
4440 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
44416 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
4442 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
4443 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
4444 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004445- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
4446 non-replace Insert mode?
4447- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004448- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
4449- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
4450 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
4451- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004452 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004453- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
4454 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
4455- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
4456- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
4457 ":freekeys".
4458- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
4459
4460
4461Incsearch:
4462- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
4463- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
4464 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
4465 up every time.
4466- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
4467 folds when going to another line.
4468- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
4469 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
4470 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
4471 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
4472- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
4473 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
4474
4475
4476Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010044779 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000044788 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00004479 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004480 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004481 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004482 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010044839 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
4484 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010044858 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
4486 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000044878 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
4488 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
4489 Perl does it this way:
4490 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
4491 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
4492 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
4493 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044948 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
4495 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
4496 number?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010044978 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
4498 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
4499 before each line.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000045007 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
4501 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000045028 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
4503 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000045047 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004505 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
4506 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
4507 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
45087 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
4509 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000045107 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004511 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045127 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
4513 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045148 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
4515 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
45168 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
4517 line.
45187 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
4519 example.
45208 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
4521 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
4522- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
4523 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
4524 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
4525 Alternative: use matchit.vim
45268 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
45278 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
4528 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
4529 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
45307 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
4531 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000045327 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
4533 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045348 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
4535 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045368 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
4537 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045388 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
4539 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
4540 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
4541 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004542- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
4543 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004544- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
4545 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
4546- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
4547 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
4548 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
4549 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045508 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
4551 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004552- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
4553 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000045548 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
4555 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
4556 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004557- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
4558 i ignore case
4559 I use case
4560 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
4561 v use Vi regexp syntax
4562 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
4563 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
4564 Perl uses these too:
4565 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
4566 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
4567 o compile only once (Perl only)
4568 s single line expression (we don't need it)
4569 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
4570 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
4571 following command.
4572 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
4573- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
4574 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
4575 for search string)?
45767 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
4577 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
4578- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
4579 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
4580- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
4581 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
4582- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
4583- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004584 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004585 a for the next file in the argument list
4586 f for file in the buffer list
4587 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004588 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
4589 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004590 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
4591 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
4592- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045937 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004594 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045957 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
4596 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
4597 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
4598 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
45996 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
4600 effects.
46017 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
4602 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
4603 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000046047 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004605 Also ":dselect".
4606
4607
4608Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010046099 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
4610 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
4611 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000046129 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
4613 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020046148 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
4615 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
4616 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
46178 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
4618 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046198 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
4620 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
4621 timestamp?
4622 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
4623 indent?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000046248 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
4625 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
4626 was changed outside of Vim.
4627 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
4628 storing the differences.
Bram Moolenaar23c347c2010-07-14 20:57:00 +02004629 Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list
4630 of about 10 last reloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004631- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
4632 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004633- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
4634 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
4635 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
46368 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
4637 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
4638 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
4639 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
46408 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
4641 only remember the lines that really changed.
46427 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
4643 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
4644 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
4645 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004646- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
4647 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
4648- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
4649 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
4650- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
4651 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
4652 [-99].
4653- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
4654- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004655- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
4656 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
4657
4658
4659Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046607 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
4661 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
4662 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
4663 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
46648 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
4665 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
46668 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
4667 inode too.
46687 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004669 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
4670 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046717 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
4672 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
4673- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
4674 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
4675- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
4676 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
46777 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
4678 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
46797 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
4680 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
46818 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000046828 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004683 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
46847 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
4685 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010046868 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
4687 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
4688 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004689
4690
4691Swap (.swp) files:
46928 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
4693 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
4694 there are short file name problems.
46958 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
4696 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
46978 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
46988 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004699 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004700 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
4701 file the same as the actual file?
4702 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047037 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
4704 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
47057 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004706 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004707 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
4708 enough room.
47097 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
4710 or /var/preserve.
4711- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
4712 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
4713- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
4714 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
4715- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
4716 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
4717 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
4718 cached list of which line is where.
4719
4720
4721Viminfo:
47227 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
4723 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
4724 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000047258 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
4726 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
4727 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047288 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
4729 name. (Schild)
47308 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
47318 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000047328 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047338 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
4734 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
4735 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
4736 this?
47377 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
47387 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
4739 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
47406 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
4741 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
4742 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
4743- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
4744 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
4745
4746
4747Modelines:
47488 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
4749 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
4750 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004751- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
4752 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
4753 'shiftwidth'.
4754- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
4755 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004756- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
4757 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
4758 modeline setting.
4759- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
4760 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
4761- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
4762 .cpp files.
4763- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
4764 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
4765- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
4766 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
4767
4768
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004769Sessions:
47708 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
4771 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
47727 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
4773 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047748 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
4775 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047768 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
4777 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
4778 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000047797 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
4780 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000047817 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00004782
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004783
4784Options:
47857 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
4786 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047878 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
4788 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
4789 also be supported.
47908 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
4791 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
4792 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
47937 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
47947 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
4795 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01004796 Also do 'sidescrolloff'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004797
4798
4799External commands:
48008 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
4801 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
48024 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
4803 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
4804 -f).
48054 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
48064 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
4807 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
48084 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
4809
4810
4811Multiple Windows:
48127 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
48138 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
4814 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
48157 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
4816 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
4817 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000048187 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
4819 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000048207 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
4821 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048226 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
4823 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004824 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004825 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
48267 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
4827 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
4828 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
4829 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
4830- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
4831 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
4832 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
4833 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
4834
4835
4836Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000048378 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048388 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
4839 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000048408 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 +000048418 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
4842 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
48438 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
4844 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
4845 the mark was set.
48467 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
4847 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
4848 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
4849 ":browse marks"?
48506 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048517 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
4852 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
48537 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
4854 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
48557 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
4856 command).
48577 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
4858 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
4859 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
4860 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
48615 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
4862 mappings.
48636 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
4864 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
4865 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
4866
4867
4868Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020048697 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004870 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004871- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
4872 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000048738 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048747 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
4875 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
4876
4877
4878Writing files:
4879- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
4880 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
4881 shortname conversion.
48828 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
48838 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
4884 file.
48858 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
4886 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
4887 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048886 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
4889 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
48906 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
4891 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
48926 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
4893 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000048948 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004895 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
48967 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
4897 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
48987 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
4899 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
4900 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
4901 waiting for a character to be typed).
49028 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
4903 line of the window, like "[time]".
4904 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
4905 Automatic and/or with a command.
4906
4907
4908Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000049098 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
4910 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000049118 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004912 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
4913- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
4914- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
49158 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
4916 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004917- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004918 :s///N substitutes N times.
4919- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
4920 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
4921 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
49227 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
4923 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
4924 last line column 5.
49255 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
4926 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
4927 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
4928 (Stanislav Sitar)
4929
4930
4931Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049328 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
49337 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
49348 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
4935 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
4936 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004937- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
4938- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
4939 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
4940- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
4941- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
4942
4943
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004944Argument list:
49456 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
4946 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
4947 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
49486 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
4949
4950
4951Registers:
49528 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
49538 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
4954 around in windows.
49558 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
4956 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
4957 for every line.
49586 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
4959 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
4960 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
4961- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
4962 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
4963- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
4964 leader when line wraps?
4965- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
4966 line in the range.
4967- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
4968 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
49698 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
4970 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004971
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004972
4973Debug mode:
49747 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
49758 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000049768 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049777 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00004978 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
4979 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
4980 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049817 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
49827 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
4983
4984
4985Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000049867 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
4987 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
4988 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
4989 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
4990 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
4991 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
4992 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004993 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000049947 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
4995 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000049967 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
4997 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049988 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
4999 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050007 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5001 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5002 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005003- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005004 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050057 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
5006 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010050077 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5008 window as a buffer-tab selection.
50098 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050107 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
5011 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
5012 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005013 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
5014 Assign them to a v: variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050157 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5016 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
50178 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5018 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050196 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050208 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5021 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5022 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5023 in this Vim.
50248 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005025 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050268 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5027 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5028 have it apply to the following command.
50298 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
5030 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
5031 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
5032 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050337 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
5034 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050357 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
5036 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
5037 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
5038 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050396 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
50408 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
50419 Support ACLs on more systems.
50427 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
5043 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050447 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
5045 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
5046 (truncated to fit in the space).
50477 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
50488 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
50498 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
5050 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000050517 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005052 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
50537 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
5054 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050557 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050567 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
50577 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050588 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
50598 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
5060 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
5061 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
5062 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
50638 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
50646 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
5065 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00005066 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01005067 Patch to add async functionality. (Geoff Greer, 2013 Sep 1 and later)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050688 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050698 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
5070 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
5071 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
5072 does something like this. (Shah)
50737 Use growarray for replace stack.
50747 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
5075 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
50763 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050777 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
5078 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010050797 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
5080 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005081- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
5082- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
5083- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
5084- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
50857 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
5086 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
5087- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
5088 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02005089- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005090- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
5091 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
5092- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
5093 call "play newbeep.au").
5094- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
5095 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
5096 (Bhatt).
5097- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
5098 blockwise registers).
5099- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
5100 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
5101- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
5102 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
5103 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
5104 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005105- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051067 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
5107 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
5108- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
5109 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
5110 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
5111 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
5112 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051138 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
5114 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051158 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
5116 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
5117 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
5118 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
5119 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
5120- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00005121- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051227 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
5123 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
5124- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
5125 not in column 1.
51266 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
5127 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
51287 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
5129- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005130- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005131 :redir #> bufname
5132 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00005133- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
5134 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005135- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
5136 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
5137 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
51386 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
5139 console? (Klaus Hast)
5140- Add :delcr command:
5141 *:delcr*
5142 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
5143 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
5144 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
5145 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
5146 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
5147 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
5148- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
5149- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
5150 characters from 'isprint'.
5151- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
5152- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
5153 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
5154- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
5155 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
5156 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
5157- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
5158- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
5159 Nvi).
5160- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
5161 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
51627 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
5163- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
5164 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
51656 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
5166- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
5167 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
5168 macro).
5169- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005170- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
5171 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
5172- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
51738 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005174- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
5175- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
5176- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
5177 if it is not the first or last window.
5178- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
5179 there is one) instead of the file itself.
51807 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
5181 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
5182 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
5183- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
5184- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005185 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005186 many percent down the windows).
5187- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
5188 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
5189 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02005190 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005191- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
5192 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
5193- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
5194 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
5195- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
5196- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
5197- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
5198 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051998 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
5200 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
5201 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
5202 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
5203 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005204- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
5205 t_bs is set? (Webb)
5206- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005207 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
5208- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005209 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
5210 (Webb).
5211- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005212 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005213- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
5214 hex codes like 0xff).
5215- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
5216 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
5217 the last TYPED command.
5218- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
5219- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
5220- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
5221 should also work?
5222- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
52238 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
5224 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
5225 name.
5226- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
5227 trailing '.'.
5228- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
5229 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
5230 find_file_in_path().
5231- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
5232 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
5233- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
5234- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
5235 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
5236- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005237 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005238- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
5239 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
5240 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005241- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
5242- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
5243- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
5244 to the minimal size.
5245- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
5246- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
5247- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
5248- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
5249- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005250- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
5251 entered)?
5252- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
5253 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005254- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005255- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
5256- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
5257- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
5258- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
5259- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
5260 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005261- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052628 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
5263 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
5264 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
5265 or in octal.
52667 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
5267 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005268- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005269 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
5270- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
5271- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
5272 insert line command).
5273- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
5274- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
5275- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
5276- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
5277- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
5278 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005279- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005280 yet.
5281- Implement 'redraw' option.
5282- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
5283 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052847 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
5285 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00005286 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
5287 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052888 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
5289 do it.
5290- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
5291- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
5292 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
5293- Add text justification option.
5294- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
5295- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
5296 off".
5297- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
5298- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
5299- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005300 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005301- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02005302- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005303- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
5304- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
5305 commands.
5306- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
5307- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
5308- :table command (Webb)
5309- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005310- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
5311- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
5312- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
5313- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
5314- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
5315 (Demirel).
5316- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
5317- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
5318 for use in macro's and the like.
5319- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005320 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005321- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005322 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005323- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005324 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005325 a window to become smaller (Webb).
5326- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
5327 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005328- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005329 mkopttab to make option table?
5330- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
5331 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
5332- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
5333 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005334- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005335 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
5336- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
5337 cursor?
5338- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
5339- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
53405 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
5341 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000053428 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
5343 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
5344 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
5345 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
5346 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053478 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
5348 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
5349 (Netherton)
53506 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
5351 space after "(", for example.
53525 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
5353 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
5354 (Servatius Brandt)
5355
5356
5357From Elvis:
5358- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
5359- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005360- Search patterns:
5361 \@ match word under cursor.
5362 but do:
5363 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5364 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
53658 ":window" command:
5366 :win + next window (up)
5367 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5368 :win - previous window (down)
5369 :win -- idem, wrapping
5370 :win nr to window number "nr"
5371 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
53727 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5373 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5374
5375
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005376From xvi:
5377- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5378- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5379
5380
5381From vile:
5382- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5383- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5384 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5385
5386
5387Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005388- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5389 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
5390 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
5391 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5392 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005393- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5394 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5395- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5396 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5397 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
5398 current layout mirrored.
5399- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
5400- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
5401 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
5402- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
5403- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
5404 font in each top-level window.
5405- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
5406- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
5407- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
5408- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
5409 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
5410- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
5411 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
5412 mentioned in the tags file.
5413 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
5414 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
5415- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
5416 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
5417- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
5418 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
54194 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
5420 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
5421 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
5422 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005423 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005424 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
5425 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
5426- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
5427 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
5428 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
5429
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00005430When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
5431empty line would appear.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005432
5433vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
5434vim: set fo+=n :