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Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +01001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.2. Last change: 2020 Feb 25
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +010010improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped
11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be
12able to look for "the next thing to do":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013
14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
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26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +020030Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010031Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +010032maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues
33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020034
Bram Moolenaarb1c91982018-05-17 17:04:55 +020035The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a
36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020037(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038 *known-bugs*
39-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
40
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010041Patch for this (#5696):
42- Empty text prop which includes start/end does not grow when inserting text.
43 (Axel Forsman, #5679)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010044
45Vim9 script:
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010046- "func" inside "vim9script" doesn't work? (Ben Jackson, #5670)
47- Completion for :disassemble
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +010048- "echo Func()" is an error if Func() does not return anything.
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010049- Make "g:imported = Export.exported" work in Vim9 script.
50- Make Foo.Bar() work to call the dict function. (#5676)
51- make "let var: string" work in a vim9script.
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010052- Disallow unlet for local/script/imported vars
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010053- Support type for ":let"/":const" at script level for Vim9 script.
54 (Ben Jackson, #5671)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010055- :func inside vim9script must still use a:arg
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +010056- Make "++nr" work.
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010057- Check that import in legacy script works and puts item in s:
58- Error in any command in "vim9script" aborts sourcing.
59- Find a way to test expressions in legacy and Vim9 script without duplication
60- Test each level of expressions properly, with type checking
61- Test the
62- Test try/catch and throw better, also nested.
63 Test return inside try/finally jumps to finally and then returns.
64- call autoload function.
65- Type checking arguments when calling :def function
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +010066- Implement more expressions, e.g. [a:b]
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010067- can use func as reference:
68 def SomeFunc() ...
69 map(list, SomeFunc)
70- define function and create funcref in one step:
71 let ref = def(arg: type): rettype
72 Also extends lambda
73- Test: Function declared inside a :def function is local, disappears at the
74 end of the function. Unless g: is used, just like with variables.
75- Can we omit \ for line continuation inside (), {}, ?
76 Requires parsing while reading a function. Like fgetline in do_one_cmd()?
77- implement :type
78- implement class
79- implement interface
80- predefined class: Promise<T>
81- import statement for type declaration?
82- Make accessing varargs faster: arg[expr]
83 EVAL expr
84 LOADVARARG (varags idx)
85
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020086Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010087- With terminal in popup, allow for popup_hide() to temporarily hide it.?
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +020088- Use popup (or popup menu) for command line completion
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +010089- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not
90 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544)
91- Implement flip option.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020092- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +020093 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +010094- Match does not have right BG color if line length equals popup width.
95 (#5658)
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +020096- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +010097 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for these.
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +010098- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +020099
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200100Text properties:
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100101- prop_find() may not find text property at start of the line. (#5663)
102- Get E685 with a sequence of commands. (#5674)
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100103- Combining text property with 'cursorline' does not always work (Billie
104 Cleek, #5533)
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100105- Text properties spanning more than one line. #5683
Bram Moolenaar09c6f262019-11-17 15:55:14 +0100106- See remarks at top of src/textprop.c
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200107
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100108'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200109- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
110 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100111- :s@pat/tern@ doesn't include "/" in the pattern. (Takahiro Yoshihara, #3637)
112 pass delim to do_search() ?
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200113- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200114- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200115- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
116 isn't one?
117 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
118
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200119Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100120- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200121- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100122- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200123
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200124Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200125- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100126- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
127 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200128- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100129- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200130- Termdebug does not work when Vim was build with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
131 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
132 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100133- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100134- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
135 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100136 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100137 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200138
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200139Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100140- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
141 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
142 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100143- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100144- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
145 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200146- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
147 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200148- GUI: hang until key typed. (#3530)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200149- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200150- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
151 #2977)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200152- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
153 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
154- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
155 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200156- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
157 is disabled.
158- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
159- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
160 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200161- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
162 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
163 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
164- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
165- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
166 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
167- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
168 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200169
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200170Error numbers available:
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100171E451, E452, E453, E454, E460, E489, E491, E565, E578, E610, E611, E653,
172E654, E856, E857, E860, E861, E900
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200173
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100174Patch to fix drawing error with DirectX. (James Grant, #5688)
175Causes flicker on resizing.
Bram Moolenaar2ed639a2019-12-09 23:11:18 +0100176
Bram Moolenaar469bdbd2019-12-11 23:05:48 +0100177Patch to use more FOR_ALL_ macros and use them. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, #5339)
178
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100179Patch to explain use of "%" in :!. (David Briscoe, #5591)
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100180
181Patch to add "-d" to xxd. (#5616)
182
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100183Patch to add Turkish manual. (Emir Sarı, #5641)
184
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200185Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
186manager. Problem with Motif? Now test_gui crashes in submenu_change().
187Athena is OK.
188Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
189
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200190Patch to properly break CJK lines: Anton Kochkov, #3875
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200191Flag in 'formatoptions' is not used in the tests.
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200192
Bram Moolenaar469bdbd2019-12-11 23:05:48 +0100193Patch to add 'vtp' option. (#5344)
194Needs better docs. Is there a better name?
195
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100196Patch for Haiku support. (Emir Sarı, #5605)
197
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200198undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
199
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100200When 'lazyredraw' is set sometimes the title is not updated.
201(Jason Franklin, 2020 Feb 3) Looks like a race condition.
202
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100203Strange sequence of BufWipeout and BufNew events while doing omni-complete.
204(Paul Jolly, #5656)
205Get BufDelete without preceding BufNew. (Paul Jolly, #5694)
206BufWinenter event not fired when saving unnamed buffer. (Paul Jolly, #5655)
207
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100208Patch to add function to return the text used in the quickfix window.
209(Yegappan, #5465)
210
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100211Patch for Template string: #4491. New pull: #4634
212Implementation is too inefficient, avoid using lambda.
213
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100214Patch to add readdirex() (Ken Takata, #5619)
215
216Request to support <Cmd> in mappings, similar to how Neovim does this.
217(Daniel Hahler, #4784)
218
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200219Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
220
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100221:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019
222Dec 19)
223
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100224Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
225May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200226Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
227remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200228Also #4994: window-local options not always restored, related to using :badd.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100229Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200230
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100231Patch to support cindent option to handle pragmas differently.
232(Max Rumpf, #5468)
233
234Patch to make ":verbose pwd" show the scope of the directory. (Takuya
235Fujiwara, #5469)
236
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200237Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100238Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_"
239in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200240Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
241(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200242
Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +0100243Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426)
244ex_next() should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd().
245
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100246Patch to add "note" type to quickfix. (#5527) Missing tests.
247
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100248Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
249(#4087)
250
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100251FR: add search_status(), the current values displayed for search (current
252match, total matches). (#5631)
253Patch to provide search stats in a variable, so that it can be used in the
254statusline. (Fujiwara Takuya, #4446)
255
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200256":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
257goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
258unlisted. (#4478)
259
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100260Patch to include reduce() function. (#5481)
261
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +0100262Statusline highlighting error, off by one. (#5599)
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100263
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200264Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
265
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200266Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
267Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
268
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100269Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
270
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100271Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509)
272
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200273The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
274support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
275
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200276Include Haiku port. (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
277It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
278Now on github: #1856. Updated Oct 2017
279Got permission to include this under the Vim license.
280
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100281"--cleanFOO" does not result in an error. (#5537)
282
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100283Add "t" action to settagstack(): truncate and add new entries. (#5405)
284
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100285Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
286
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100287Status line is nut updated when splitting windows. (Marcin Szamotulski, #5496)
288
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200289Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
290(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
291
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200292When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
293default one. #4698
294
295When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
296with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
297
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100298Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320)
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100299Or make "v" prefix work?
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100300
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200301Modeless selection doesn't work in gvim. (#4783)
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200302Caused by patch 8.1.1534.
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200303
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200304Visual highlight not removed when 'dipslay' is "lastline" and line doesn't
305fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
306
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200307Patch to add per-tabpage and per-window previous directory: "lcd -" and "tcd
308-". (Yegappan Lakshmanan, #4362)
309
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200310Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
311- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
312- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200313
314Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
31513, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200316
Bram Moolenaarbc93ceb2020-02-26 13:36:21 +0100317Display messed up with matchparen, wrapping and scrolling. (#5638)
318
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200319Patch to configure BUILD_DATE for reproducible builds. (James McCoy, #513)
320
321Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
322
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100323Patch to support "0o" for octal numbers. (Ken Takata, #5304)
324
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100325When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
326when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
327gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
328input buffer. (#5302)
329
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200330xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
331buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
332Xterm 224 supports it!
333Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
334Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
335Also see issue #609.
336We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
337
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100338:buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp error.
339(#5467)
340
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200341Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200342
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100343Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
3442007 Feb 18)
345Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
346
347Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
348Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
349
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200350Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
351
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200352Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
353Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200354
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100355Errors found with random data:
356 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100357
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200358Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
359change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
360patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
361(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
362
363Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
364Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
365
366Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
367
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200368Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
369files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
370Include part of #3242?
371
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200372When a terminal exit_cb closes the window, a following typed key is lost, if
373it's in a mapping. (2018 Oct 6, #2302, #3522)
374
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200375Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
376Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
377Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
378
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100379":2resize +10" uses size of the current window, adds 10 and applies it to
380window 2. User expects 10 to be added to size of window 2. (Daniel Steinberg,
381#5443)
382
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200383Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
384(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
385Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
386- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
387 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
388 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
389- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
390 covered by the above change.
391So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
392same thing. Remarks on PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
393Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200394
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200395Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
396t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
397
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100398v:register isn't reset early enough, may be used by next command.
399(Andy Massimino, #5294, possible fix in #5305)
400
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100401Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
402Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
403
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200404'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
405
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200406"exepath('bin/cmd')" does not work while ":!bin/cmd" does work.
407(Daniel Hahler, #4710) and executable('bin/cmd') returns 1
408
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200409Error drawing the number column when 'cursorline' is set. (#3893)
410
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100411Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
412
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200413Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
414
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100415When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
416in a long line. #5189
417
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200418The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
419Give a few examples. (#4288)
420
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200421Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
422work, results in (E479: No match". (#4610)
423
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200424Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only adds the option, no implem.):
4257 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
426 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
427 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
428
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100429Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
430read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
431be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
432
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100433Add a string to the 'display' option ("smoothscroll" ?) to make CTRL-E and
434CTRL-Y scroll one screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start
435with the first character (like what happens with a last line that doesn't
436fit). Display "<<<" at the start of the first visible line (like "@@@" is
437displayed in the last line). (Arseny Nasokin, #5154)
438
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200439Patch for ambiguous width characters in libvterm on MS-Windows 10.
440(Nobuhiro Takasaki, #4411)
441
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200442Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
443
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200444Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
445
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200446Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
447https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
448
449Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
450http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
451http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
452Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100453- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200454- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
455- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
456 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
457- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
458- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
459Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
460- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
461- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
462Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
463- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
464
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100465Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
466Mar 5)
467
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200468Many users don't like 'thesaurus' to match so many words. (#4667, #1611)
469- when the match with the first word is partial, don't add other words on that
470 line.
471- support other file formats, such as comma separated. Indicate by a prefix
472 to the file in the 'thesaurus' option.
473- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
474 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
475
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200476Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
477on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
478
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200479Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
480in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
481buffer didn't change at all.
482
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200483Patch to add getreginfo() and setreg() with an option to set the unnamed
484register "", So that registers can be saved and fully restored.
485(Andy Massimino, 2018 Aug 24, #3370)
486
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200487Line numbers in profile are off when function was defined with ":execute".
488(Daniel Hahler, #4511)
489
Bram Moolenaara6c27c42019-05-09 19:16:22 +0200490Add a way to create an empty, hidden buffer. Like doing ":new|hide".
491":let buf = bufcreate('name')
492
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200493Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
494'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
495(#4450)
496
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100497When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
498But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
499similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
500
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200501C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
502(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
503
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100504Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
505added?
506
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200507Patch to add a flatten() function. #3676. Check that the doc explains the
508maxdepth argument (applies to the input "recursiveness").
509
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200510Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
511negative. (see #4326)
512
513'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
514`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
515tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
516:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
517
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200518This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
519 vim: syn=nosyntax
520
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200521":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
522a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
523
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100524Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
525#2948. (related to #1512?)
526On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
527balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
52820, #2481)
529Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
530Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
531balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
5322018 Sep 14)
533Another request: #3811.
534
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200535More warnings from static analysis:
536https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200537
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100538Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
539
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200540Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
541
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200542Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
543internals of the dict structure.
544
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100545nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
546
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200547Missing tests for:
548- add_termcap_entry()
549
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200550Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
551change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
552them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
553
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100554Incsearch test fails when locale is "C". (Dominique Pelle, #3986)
555Also run all tests with C locale?
556
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100557"vat" doesn't work well on XML when the closing > is on another line.
558#3927
559
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200560Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200561Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200562
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100563When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
564case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
565For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
566
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200567Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
568(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
569expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200570
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200571Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
572 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
573 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
574
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100575Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100576punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100577
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200578ml_get error: (Israel Chauca Fuentes, 2018 Oct 17, #3550).
579
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200580Patch to add more info to OptionSet. Should mention what triggered the change
581":set", ":setlocal", ":setglobal", "modeline"; and the old global value.
582#4118. Proposed implementation: 2019 Mar 27.
583Updated 2019 May 25.
584
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200585Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
586drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
587
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200588Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
589is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
590
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100591When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
592scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
593using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
594
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200595Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
596#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
597(Sep 8)
598
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200599Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
600unified diff (list of lines).
601
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100602When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
603kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
604when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
605
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100606Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
607(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100608
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100609Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
610
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200611Using uninitialized value in test_gn
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200612Using uninitialized value in test_crypt.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200613memory leak in test_paste
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200614Memory leak in test_terminal:
615==23530== by 0x2640D7: alloc (misc2.c:874)
616==23530== by 0x2646D6: vim_strsave (misc2.c:1315)
617==23530== by 0x25841D: FullName_save (misc1.c:5443)
618==23530== by 0x17CB4F: fix_fname (buffer.c:4794)
619==23530== by 0x17CB9A: fname_expand (buffer.c:4838)
620==23530== by 0x1759AB: buflist_new (buffer.c:1889)
621==23530== by 0x35C923: term_start (terminal.c:421)
622==23530== by 0x2AFF30: mch_call_shell_terminal (os_unix.c:4377)
623==23530== by 0x2B16BE: mch_call_shell (os_unix.c:5383)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200624TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100625Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200626Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
627Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200628
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200629gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200630
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200631matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
63219.
633
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100634Should make 'listchars' global-local. Local to window or to buffer?
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100635Probably window. #5206
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100636Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
637highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200638And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
639'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100640Related: #3820 - Support setting the character displayed below the last line?
641Neovim uses "eob:X" in 'fillchars'.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100642
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100643Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
644Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
645
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200646Patch to support ":tag <tagkind> <tagname>". (emmrk, 2018 May 7, #2871)
647Use something like ":tag {kind}/{tagname}".
648Not ready to include.
649
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200650Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
651Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
652Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
653
654Patch for larger icons in installer. (#978) Still not good.
655
656Patch to fix that using "5gj" starting inside a closed fold does not work on
657screen lines but on text lines. (Julius Hulsmann, #4095) Lacks a test.
658
659Patch to implement 'diffref' option. (#3535)
660 Easier to use a 'diffmaster' option, is the extra complexity needed?
661 Not ready to include.
662
663Patch to specify color for cterm=underline and cterm=undercurl, like "guisp".
664Patch #2405 does something like this, but in the wrong way.
665
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200666home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
667
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200668When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
669terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
670How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
671
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200672Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
673
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100674Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
675Feedback from someone who uses this?
676
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200677ml_get error. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 14, #3434)
678
679Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
680Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
681values.
682
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100683Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200684- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
685- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
686- omit diff.exe from distribution
687- Can we make this show differences within a line?
688- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200689
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200690Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
691
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100692Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
693What is the practical use for this?
694
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200695When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
696includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
697
698Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200699Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200700
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200701MS-Windows: .lnk file not resolved properly when 'encoding' is set.
702(lkintact, 2018 Sep 22, #3473)
703
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100704Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
705
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200706Display error when a conceal match uses '\%>1l'. (#4854)
707
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200708Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
709window for the buffer.
710
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200711Request to add sign_setlist() to make it faster to add a lot of signs, e.g.
712when adding a sign for every quickfix entry. (#4557)
713
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100714Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
715mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
716
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200717Patch to "fix" 'visualbell'. Add option to set delay? (#1789)
718
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200719Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
720modified buffers
721 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
722 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
723 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
724 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
725
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100726Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
727- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
728- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
729- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100730- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
731
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200732Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
733characters. (#3246)
734
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200735'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
736
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100737Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
738Oct 28)
739
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200740ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
741Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
742Also reproduced by Benjamin Doherty, 2018 Oct 4.
743Simpler way: Ken Takata, Oct 6.
744
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100745Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
746- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
747
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200748Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
749- Test_setbufvar_options()
750- Test_exit_callback_interval()
751
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200752Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
753Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100754Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
755Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200756
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200757Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
758
759Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
76024)
761
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100762Try out background make plugin:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100763 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100764or asyncmake:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100765 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
766
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100767Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100768mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100769
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200770Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
771is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
772used for git temp files.
773
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100774Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
775
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200776Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
777behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
778(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
779
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200780Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
781pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
782
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200783Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
784script or function.
785
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200786When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
787E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
788does nothing otherwise?
789
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200790MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
791If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
792(wait a little while).
793CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100794
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200795Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
796MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
7972017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
798receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
799
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200800Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
801missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
802
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200803":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
804deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
805
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200806Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200807
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100808Delete all the specific stuff for the Borland compiler? (#3374)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200809Patch in #3377 (Thomas Dziedzic)
810
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200811With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
812included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
813(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
814
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200815Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200816Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200817
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100818Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100819Jan 15, #2555)
820
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200821":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
822
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100823Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
824
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100825No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
826No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
827
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200828Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
829http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
830Should be supported with a flag.
831
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100832Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
833confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
834
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100835Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
836
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100837Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
838Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
839applying the diff, etc.
840
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200841Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
842Apr 26, #2849)
843
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100844User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
845word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100846
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100847Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200848
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200849With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
850(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
851
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200852Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
853:drop (remote commands).
854
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200855Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
8562018 Jun 18, #3027)
857
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200858Implement option_save() and option_restore():
859option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
860 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
861 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
862 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
863 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
864 be called when the same window is the current window.
865 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
866 the local options won't be restored.
867
868option_save({list}) *option_save()*
869 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
870 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
871 let s:saved_options = option_save([
872 \ 'ignorecase',
873 \ 'iskeyword',
874 \ ])
875 au <buffer> BufLeave *
876 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
877< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
878 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
879 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
880 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100881 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
882 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
883 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100884 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200885
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100886"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
887directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
888Also see #1689.
889
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100890When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100891highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100892
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200893":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
894
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100895No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
8962017 Dec 26, #2501)
897
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200898A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
899
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200900Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
901
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200902A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
903Mention where they were defined somewhere.
904
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100905Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
906(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
907
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200908ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
909
910Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
911
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100912Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
913Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
914
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100915Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
916in #846)
917Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
918
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200919Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
920Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
921
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100922When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
923redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200924
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100925In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
926(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
927
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100928Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
929neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100930
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100931Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
932Nov 21)
933
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200934When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
935triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
936set_color_count().
937
938Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
939responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
940
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100941When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
942CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
943Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
944always nested.
945
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200946matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
947
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100948Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
949
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100950MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100951for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
952
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200953Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100954(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200955
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200956Test runtime files.
957Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200958
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200959Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200960
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200961Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
962defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
963Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
964
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200965After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
96613, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200967
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200968When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
969line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
970
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100971The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
972
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200973Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
974set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
975
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100976Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
977
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200978Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
979behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
980
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100981'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
982
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200983The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
984
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100985When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
986a command can delete it.
987
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200988Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
989#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
990
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100991The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
992for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
993
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200994X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
995pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
996clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
997Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
998Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
999clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001000Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001001
1002Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
1003
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001004Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
1005attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
1006that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
1007
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02001008Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
1009(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
1010
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +01001011Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
1012buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
1013Also fixes #2166?
1014
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001015Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
1016stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
1017
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01001018Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
1019possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
1020
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001021When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
1022case of :bwipe followed by :new.
1023
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +02001024Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
1025existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
1026Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
1027
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02001028Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001029
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001030MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
1031Jul 4)
1032
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001033Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
1034Drucker, 2017 May 8).
1035This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
1036Christian cannot reproduce it.
1037
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001038Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
1039wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
1040Or is this not an actual problem?
1041
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001042Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
1043
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001044Patch to use a separate code for BS on Windows. (Linwei, #1823)
1045
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001046Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
1047
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001048'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
1049#1736)
1050
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001051Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
10528, #1690)
1053
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001054Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
1055(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
1056
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001057Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
1058it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
1059
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001060Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
1061Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
1062How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
1063
1064Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
1065(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
1066
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001067Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
1068
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001069assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
1070it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
1071
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001072Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
1073for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001074
1075Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
1076(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
1077Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
1078later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
1079Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
1080mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001081Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
1082mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001083maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001084
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001085Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001086plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
1087be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1088
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001089Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1090 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1091 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001092
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001093json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001094What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001095
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001096Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1097
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001098import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1099(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1100
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001101When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
1102buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
1103Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001104
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001105Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1106Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001107Another example in #1309
1108
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001109When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
1110when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
1111
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001112Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1113#1330)
1114
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001115Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1116
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001117Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
1118
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001119GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
1120g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
1121timer expires.
1122
1123Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
1124
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001125Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1126highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1127
11288 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
1129 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
1130
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001131Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1132Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1133
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001134Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1135key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1136 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1137 echo keytrans(xx)
1138 <C-Home>
1139
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001140Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1141(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1142Make a function to check for function-like type?
1143
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001144Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
1145(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
1146
Bram Moolenaarebdf3c92020-02-15 21:41:42 +01001147Implement named arguments for functions:
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001148 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001149 call Foo(12, all = 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001150
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001151Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1152somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1153
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001154Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
1155(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
1156
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001157Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001158Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001159Update Aug 2017: #1954
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001160
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001161The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1162"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1163Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1164
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001165Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1166
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001167Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1168about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001169Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1170
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +02001171Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
1172#1053) With patch, does it work?
1173
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001174":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001175vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1176
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001177Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001178E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001179Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001180
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001181Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1182Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1183
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001184Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001185Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001186
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001187"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1188(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1189
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001190Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1191(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001192Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001193
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001194'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
1195
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001196Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1197
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001198When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
1199Apr 23, #1653)
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +01001200Can 'completeopt' be made buffer-local? (#5487)
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001201
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001202Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1203anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1204
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001205Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001206E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001207
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001208Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1209(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1210
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001211Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1212
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001213On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1214separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1215
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001216min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
1217contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
1218
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001219Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1220
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001221Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1222
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001223Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1224
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001225Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1226no longer support.
1227
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001228sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
12294#1038)
1230
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001231+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001232- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001233- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1234 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1235 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001236- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1237 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001238- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
1239- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1240 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1241- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1242 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1243- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001244- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1245 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001246- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1247- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1248 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1249 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1250- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1251- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1252- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1253 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1254 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1255- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1256 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1257- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1258 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1259 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1260
1261Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001262- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1263 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1264 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1265 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001266- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1267 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001268- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1269 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1270- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1271 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1272- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1273 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1274 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1275 LC_CTYPE
1276- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1277 matches everywhere.
1278- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1279 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1280- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1281- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1282 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1283- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
1284- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
1285 2013 Dec 11)
1286- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1287 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1288- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1289- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1290 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1291- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1292- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1293- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1294- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1295 2015 Feb 7)
1296- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1297 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1298 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1299 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1300 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1301- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1302- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1303- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1304- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1305 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1306 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1307 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1308- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1309 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1310- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1311 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1312 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1313 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1314
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001315Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
1316#1350)
1317
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001318Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
13193. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1320Also see #1635.
1321
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001322Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001323Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
1324use the current behavior.
1325Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001326
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001327When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
1328command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
1329
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001330Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1331doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1332Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001333Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001334E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1335
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001336execute() cannot be used with command completion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001337#1141)
1338
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001339cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1340
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001341:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1342
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001343Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1344
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001345When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1346synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1347
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001348Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1349Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001350
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001351Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
1352(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
1353
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001354ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1355Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001356
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001357Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
1358
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001359Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001360(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001361
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001362Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1363Jul 25, #948)
1364
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001365Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1366names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1367Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1368the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1369
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001370'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
1371
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001372MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1373Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001374
1375Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
1376Also for ":@.".
1377
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001378Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
1379
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001380Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
1381#1125
1382
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001383Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1384times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1385
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001386Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
1387
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001388Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
1389
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001390Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1391
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001392Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
1393
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001394We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1395the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1396
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001397Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1398
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001399When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1400emoji_width table has only one entry.
1401
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001402It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1403Reject the value? #710.
1404
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001405When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1406Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1407
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001408Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001409
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001410Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1411No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001412
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001413Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1414(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001415
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001416Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1417
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001418Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1419https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
1420Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
1421
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001422Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1423but the reference remains valid.
1424
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001425Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001426interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1427Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1428interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1429result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001430
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001431Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001432work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001433
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001434Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1435
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001436Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1437
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001438Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1439Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1440
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001441When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1442Apr 17) #762
1443
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001444exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1445Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1446
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001447Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1448'iskeyword' for syntax.
1449
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001450Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
1451(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
1452
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001453Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
1454
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001455When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1456maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001457Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001458
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001459Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1460It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1461Add configure check?
1462Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1463Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1464Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1465
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001466Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1467Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1468
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001469Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1470Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1471
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001472":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1473directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1474
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001475In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1476(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1477
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001478If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
14792016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001480
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001481Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1482(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1483
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001484Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
1485
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001486When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1487restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1488Do not trigger the event?
1489
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001490Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
1491changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
1492and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001493Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
1494Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
14956, 2nd message)
1496Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001497
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001498Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1499Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1500https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1501
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001502Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1503With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1504
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001505Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001506
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001507Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1508
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001509Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001510Only remembers one error.
1511
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001512GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001513
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001514Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1515(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001516
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001517Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1518github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001519 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001520Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001521
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001522Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001523
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001524Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001525comparing individual items.
1526Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
1527Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
1528Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
1529equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
1530
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001531Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1532
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001533MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1534wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1535
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001536Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1537specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1538
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001539Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1540(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1541
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001542Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001543inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001544
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001545Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1546(Luchr, #277)
1547
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001548Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001549'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1550before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001551
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001552C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1553and also line continuation after #include.
1554I can't recommend it though.
1555
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001556Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1557(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1558
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001559To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1560library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1561
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001562When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1563is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1564
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001565Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
156630)
1567
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001568MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1569(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1570
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001571The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
157224): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001573
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001574":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1575effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1576
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001577":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
15789)
1579
1580The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1581wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1582
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001583Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001584Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001585
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001586When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1587the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1588
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001589Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001590slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1591inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1592
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001593ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
15942014 Sep 11)
1595
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001596Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1597(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1598
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001599When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1600'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1601
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001602Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1603Work in progress.
1604
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001605Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1606when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1607
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001608Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1609Is this right?
1610
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001611Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1612(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1613Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1614
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001615Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1616Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001617
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001618Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1619Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1620
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001621Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1622
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001623When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1624filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1625initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1626
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001627Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1628
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001629Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1630OK to not block marks?
1631
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001632Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1633
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001634Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1635
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001636When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1637(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1638
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001639Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001640
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001641Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1642(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1643
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001644When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1645any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1646
1647Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001648
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001649Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001650
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001651Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1652(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1653
1654Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1655
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001656Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1657Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1658was already defined.
1659(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1660
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001661Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1662
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001663Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001664Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001665Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001666Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001667
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001668Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1669(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1670
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001671Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1672(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1673
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001674Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1675
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001676When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1677these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1678window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1679
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001680Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1681should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1682history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1683Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1684
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001685"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1686Jun 8)
1687
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001688Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1689insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1690
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001691No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1692
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001693Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1694(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1695Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1696arguments.
1697
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001698Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1699
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001700Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001701
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001702Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
17030x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1704New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1705compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1706
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001707Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1708a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1709
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001710Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1711right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001712its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001713
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001714Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1715
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001716This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1717 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1718This neither: (ZyX)
1719 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1720
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001721'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1722Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1723from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001724
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001725Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
17262014 Jun 8)
1727
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001728Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001729Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001730Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1731Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1732User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001733- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1734 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1735 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001736- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1737- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1738 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1739 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1740 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1741 on vim.org.
1742- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1743 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1744- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1745- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1746- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1747- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1748Implementation:
1749- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1750 plugin separate.
1751- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1752 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1753 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1754- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1755 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1756- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1757 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1758 installing.
1759Out of scope:
1760- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1761- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1762 useful).
1763
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001764Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1765normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001766
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001767When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1768menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1769
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001770Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1771(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1772
1773":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1774various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001775
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001776Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001777(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1778
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001779VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1780instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1781
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001782Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001783Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001784
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001785Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001786command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001787
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001788Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1789
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001790Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1791highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001792
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001793The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1794For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1795
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001796Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001797possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001798
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001799Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001800
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001801Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1802
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010018037 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1804 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1805 "lucida_console:h8").
1806Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1807
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001808:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1809
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001810Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1811
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001812Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1813
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001814When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1815(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1816
1817Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001818Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001819
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001820GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1821(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1822
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001823Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1824registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1825
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001826Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1827
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001828The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1829(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1830Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1831
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001832The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1833- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1834- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1835
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001836Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1837Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1838reliably?
1839
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001840Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1841(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1842
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001843Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1844(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1845
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001846Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
18472013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001848
1849Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1850
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001851Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
18525)
1853
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001854Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1855carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1856
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001857Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1858highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1859
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001860Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001861
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001862Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200186328) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001864
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001865Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1866
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001867Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1868
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001869- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1870 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1871Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001872
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001873Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001874
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001875In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1876process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1877a reboot.
1878
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001879patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1880
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001881Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1882not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001883
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001884Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1885Or use expand('<sid>')?
1886
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001887Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1888
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001889Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1890
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001891b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
18927)
1893
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001894Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1895compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1896
1897Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1898Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1899vim.bindeval().
1900
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001901Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
19022012 Aug 4)
1903
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001904Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1905(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1906
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001907Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1908But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1909
1910Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1911Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1912Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001913
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001914Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1915loading all files.
1916
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001917MS-Windows resizing problems:
1918- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1919 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1920- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1921 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1922 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001923
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001924'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001925
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001926Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001927of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1928
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001929The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1930Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1931But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001932
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001933When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1934is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1935
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001936URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001937- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001938- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1939 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1940
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001941Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1942(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1943Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1944
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001945Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001946New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001947
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001948When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1949for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1950Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001951
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001952Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1953
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001954Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1955
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001956Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1957Apr 18)
1958
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001959Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1960And one for gui_x11.txt.
1961
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001962":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1963finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1964Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1965
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001966Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1967
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001968Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1969
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001970Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1971they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1972
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001973Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1974
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001975Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1976Nov 20)
1977
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001978Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001979Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001980
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001981`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001982(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1983
1984Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1985
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001986BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1987Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1988
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001989Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1990Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1991
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001992Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1993
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001994On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
19952012 Jun 19)
1996
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001997'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1998'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1999Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002000Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02002001
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002002With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
2003(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
2004need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
2005
2006Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
2007only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
200821, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
2009
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002010Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
2011New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
2012
2013Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
2014Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
2015
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01002016Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
2017Jan 19)
2018
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01002019Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
2020discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
2021meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002022
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02002023"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01002024Oct 26)
2025
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002026Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
2027
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002028With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
2029register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002030
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002031Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
2032
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002033When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
2034(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
2035
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01002036When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
2037then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
2038from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
2039
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002040Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
2041":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
204215)
2043
2044Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
2045
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002046BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
2047cleared. See test64.
2048
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002049Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002050effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002051Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01002052https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-mq-patches/blob/master/enable_spellchecking
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002053
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002054On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
205564 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
2056right type.
2057
2058string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
2059(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
2060
2061When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
2062(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002063When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
2064following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
2065(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002066
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002067When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
2068doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
2069
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01002070Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
2071
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002072maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
2073mapping, how to restore the script ID?
2074
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002075Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
2076(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
2077
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002078When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
2079indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
2080the help file.
2081
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002082After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
2083Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
2084
2085Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
2086
2087"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
2088
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002089Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
2090
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02002091Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002092
2093Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
20942010 Dec 18)
2095
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002096With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
2097number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
2098Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
2099
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002100Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
2101Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
2102
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020021038 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2104Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
2105
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01002106Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
2107one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2108the match scrolls into view.
2109
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020021107 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2111Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2112Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2113
21149 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2115 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2116Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2117
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002118Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2119Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2120
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002121In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2122or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2123sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2124
2125GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2126doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2127
2128GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2129
2130Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2131Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2132
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002133Wish for NetBeans commands:
2134 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2135
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002136Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2137
21387.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2139there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2140do?
2141
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002142Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
214322)
2144
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002145New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2146- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002147- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002148 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2149
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002150"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
21512011 Feb 27)
2152
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002153Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2154^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2155
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002156When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2157exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
21589) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2159
2160g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2161the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2162
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002163Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2164crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2165
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002166Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2167number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2168
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002169Regexp engine performance:
2170- Profiling:
2171 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2172 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2173 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2174 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2175 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2176 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2177- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2178- Performance tests:
2179 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2180 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2181 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2182 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2183 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2184 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2185 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2186 'hlsearch'.
2187 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2188 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2189 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2190 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2191
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002192Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2193Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2194
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002195'beval' option should be global-local.
2196
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002197Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002198
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002199setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002200
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002201With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
22022010 Oct 24)
2203
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002204Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2205
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002206When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2207Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2208
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002209":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2210
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002211'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2212
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002213C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2214checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2215Issue 46.
2216
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002217Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2218
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002219Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2220gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2221
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002222":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2223accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2224
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002225Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2226setwinvar().
2227
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002228Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002229
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002230When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2231instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2232
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002233Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2234Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2235Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002236
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002237Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2238back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2239
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002240Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002241Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2242
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002243CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2244the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
2245FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
2246
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002247Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2248Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2249
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002250Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2251Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2252
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002253Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2254
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002255Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2256non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002257
2258iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2259Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2260or replace with a character and continue?
2261
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002262Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2263Requires configure check for localtime().
2264Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2265
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002266Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
2267Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
2268
2269Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2270
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002271Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2272Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2273path.
2274
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002275Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002276Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002277
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002278'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2279
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002280":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2281like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2282
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002283Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2284https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002285
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002286Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
22872010 Nov 5)
2288
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002289Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002290Jan 7)
2291
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002292Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2293
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002294With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2295entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2296Feb 12)
2297
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002298Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2299characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2300
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002301Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2302
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002303Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2304 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2305
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002306Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2307
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002308When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2309Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2310
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002311When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2312not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2313string value.
2314
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002315For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002316line argument -noregister.
2317
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002318When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2319missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2320
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002321When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2322doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002323
2324Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2325(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2326Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2327There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2328Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2329
2330":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2331highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2332to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2333
2334Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2335Probably needs a bit of work.
2336
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002337List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002338Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2339
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002340Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2341
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002342Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2343
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002344Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2345Sep 1)
2346
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002347Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2348
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002349Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2350on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2351
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002352Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
23532009 Jul 18)
2354
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002355Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2356window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2357Needs more work.
2358
2359Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2360
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002361When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2362few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2363
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002364'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002365(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2366
2367Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2368J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2369
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002370When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2371for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2372
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002373Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2374
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002375":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2376because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2377ex_docmd.c.
2378
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002379Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002380Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2381
2382string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2383for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2384
2385Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2386
2387'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
238820)
2389
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002390Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
23912009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2392
2393Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2394
2395Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
2396SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
2397
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002398When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2399indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2400(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2401
2402Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2403are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2404Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2405Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2406that doesn't have a window.
2407
2408When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2409doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2410
2411getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2412displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2413
2414":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2415
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002416There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2417was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2418perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2419
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002420Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2421
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002422Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2423command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2424
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002425Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2426does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2427
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002428opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2429height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002430very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002431
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002432Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2433(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2434
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002435Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002436(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2437
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002438Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2439char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2440
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002441Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2442Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2443
2444This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2445
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002446Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2447messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2448es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
24492009 Jan 26)
2450
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002451When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002452in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2453Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2454
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002455Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2456a modeline.
2457
2458Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2459Sergey Khorev)
2460
2461Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2462part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002463
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002464After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2465correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2466
2467Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2468(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2469
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002470shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002471'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2472Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2473unix-like shell?
2474
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002475Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2476register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2477(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2478
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002479Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2480Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2481
2482Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2483make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2484
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002485When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2486still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2487
2488"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2489(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2490
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002491Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2492that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2493ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2494Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2495
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002496MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2497doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2498probably causes this.
2499
2500'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020025012009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002502
2503Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2504 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2505 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2506(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2507
2508Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2509":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2510option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2511is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002512
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002513":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2514first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002515Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002516
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002517Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2518laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2519Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002520
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002521Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2522anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2523
2524On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2525doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2526Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2527Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2528
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002529When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2530'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2531fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2532the buffer to be unmodified.
2533Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2534another look at it.
2535
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002536c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2537(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2538
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002539You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2540error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2541Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2542at the other match for 0xBF.
2543
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002544When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2545argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2546
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002547Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2548backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2549
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002550When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2551line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2552
2553Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2554position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2555
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002556After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2557(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002558command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002559
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002560":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2561Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2562
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002563When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2564either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2565put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2566
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002567Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2568Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2569Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2570Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2571(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2572
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002573Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2574
2575ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002576
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002577Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2578(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2579escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2580an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002581This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2582July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002583Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2584work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2585
2586When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
258731)
2588
2589Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2590work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2591Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002592
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002593Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2594multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2595(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2596
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002597Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
25982008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002599Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002600
2601Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2602Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2603'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2604
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002605Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2606Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2607
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002608Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2609Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2610
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020026118 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2612 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2613 several).
2614 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2615 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2616 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2617Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2618
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002619The utf class table is missing some entries:
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002620 0x2212, minus sign
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002621 0x2217, star
2622 0x2500, bar
2623 0x26ab, circle
2624
2625Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2626line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2627
2628GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2629Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2630
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002631Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2632try the Cocoa version.
2633
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002634Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2635changed or the window is resized.
2636
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002637GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2638the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2639
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002640Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2641Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002642
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002643Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
26441) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2645
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002646C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2647with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2648Try to reproduce at work.
2649
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002650Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2651Is there a way to list all the files first?
2652
2653When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2654result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
265516)
2656
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002657Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2658(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2659
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002660Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2661Await response to question to make the register writable.
2662
2663Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
26641)
2665
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002666In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2667each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2668
2669try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2670
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002671try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2672
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002673":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2674Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2675
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002676Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2677
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002678Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2679Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2680
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002681Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2682Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2683Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002684
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002685When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2686and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2687
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002688Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2689 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2690
2691New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2692
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002693":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2694a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2695
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002696'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2697Likonen, March 19)
2698
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002699Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2700other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2701
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002702The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2703appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2704matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2705
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002706When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2707character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2708'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2709(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2710
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002711Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2712Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002713
2714More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2715
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002716Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2717http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2718
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002719Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2720back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2721Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002722
2723Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2724No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2725
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002726Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2727terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002728
2729Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2730
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002731Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2732but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2733that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002734
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002735Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2736Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2737
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002738Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2739popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2740size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2741This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2742
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002743When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2744it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2745
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002746Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2747then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2748files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002749Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2750indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2751":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002752in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2753quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002754Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002755
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002756When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2757parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2758neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2759particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2760Jun 3)
2761However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2762the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002763
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002764A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2765Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2766
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002767Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2768Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2769
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002770Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2771switch list is noticed:
2772 switch (i)
2773 {
2774 case 1:
2775 foobar:
2776 }
2777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002778Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2779
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002780Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2781with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2782go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2783moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2784
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002785Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002786GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002787Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2788argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2789(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2790
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002791Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2792(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2793
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002794Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
27952007 Feb 8)
2796
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002797Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2798set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002799
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002800Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2801
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002802Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2803Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2804New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2805patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2806
2807Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2808Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2809
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002810Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002811label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2812
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002813Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2814with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2815Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002816
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002817Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2818
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002819Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2820Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2821only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2822
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002823Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2824Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002825Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002826properly?
2827
2828Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
28292007 Jun 21)
2830
2831When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2832Jun 18)
2833
2834If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2835
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002836Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2837windows. (Adam George)
2838
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002839In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2840the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2841
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002842C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2843
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002844":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2845
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002846When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002847error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002848
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002849GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002850use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2851
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002852Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2853if_ruby.c.
2854
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002855":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2856
2857The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2858it in keep_msg?
2859
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002860Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002861error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002862name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2863
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002864Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2865longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002866
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002867Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2868Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2869Also for ":w" without a file name.
2870The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002871
2872"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2873Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2874
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002875VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2876directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2877(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2878
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002879VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2880
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002881input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2882name?
2883
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002884Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2885
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002886When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2887(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002888Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002889will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2890
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002891gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2892This also fails with --remote.
2893
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002894When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
28952008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2896all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2897
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002898aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2899
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002900When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2901(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2902
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002903Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2904the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2905
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002906GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2907
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002908Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2909superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2910
2911Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2912character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2913
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002914Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2915Jun 5)
2916
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002917Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
29182008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2919Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2920
2921In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2922but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2923Jul 22)
2924
2925There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2926
2927Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2928":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2929somehow? Or use a new function.
2930
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002931Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2932
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002933Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2934moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2935that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2936
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002937The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2938
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002939When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002940cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2941the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2942
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002943These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2944 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2945 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2946 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2947
2948Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2949partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2950
2951In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2952buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2953reload it then?
2954
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002955For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2956
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002957Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2958only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2959
2960Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2961tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2962doesn't contain other directories.
2963
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002964Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2965Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2966
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002967Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2968 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2969 set background=dark
2970This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2971color is, not reset it.
2972
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002973Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2974start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2975show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2976middle?
2977
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002978Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2979
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002980When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2981current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2982the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2983
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002984When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2985Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2986
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002987Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2988Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2989
2990Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2991
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002992A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2993Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2994
2995Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2996Dara, 2006 June 21)
2997
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002998Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2999number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
3000
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003001After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
3002the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
3003
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003004Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003005
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003006Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
3007Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
3008
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003009Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010030102008 Sep 29)
3011
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003012In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
3013check the result of has("patch13").
3014
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003015Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
3016restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
3017
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003018Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
3019and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
3020
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003021Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
3022put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
3023
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003024Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
3025resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
3026
3027In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
3028can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
3029
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003030GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
3031maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
3032doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003033Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
3034visible.
3035
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01003036When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
3037differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003038
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003039The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
3040be only one.
3041
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003042Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003043"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
3044name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
3045Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003046
3047Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
3048(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
3049
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003050Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
3051as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
3052
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003053Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
305423)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003055
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003056":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
3057tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
3058Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003059
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003060When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
3061text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
3062latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
3063
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003064Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
3065no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
3066
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003067In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
3068VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
30692007 Oct 16)
3070
3071TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
3072Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
3073
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003074Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003075
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003076When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
3077typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
3078Sep 3, 11)
3079
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003080":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
3081this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
3082
3083When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
3084Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
3085restored. (Luc St-Louis)
3086
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02003087Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
30882010 Jun 30)
3089
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02003090Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
3091'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
3092(Kartik Agaram)
3093
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003094
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003095Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003096- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
3097 - manipulating the Visual selection?
3098- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
3099 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
3100 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
3101- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
3102 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
3103 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01003104- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
3105- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003106
3107
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003108More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003109- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
3110 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003111- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003112- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
3113 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003114- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
3115- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
3116- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
3117 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
3118 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003119- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003120- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
3121 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
3122- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
3123 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
3124- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
3125 21)
3126- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
3127 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
3128- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
3129 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003130- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
3131 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003132- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3133 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3134 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3135 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3136 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003137- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003138
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003139Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000031409 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3141 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3142 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3143 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3144 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3145 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3146 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3147 (Alan Schmitt)
3148 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003149 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3150 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000031519 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003152 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000031538 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031547 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3155 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3156 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031578 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003158 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020031597 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003160 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3161- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
3162 for multi-byte characters.
3163- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3164- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3165 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3166 been given values.
3167 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031687 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3169 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3170- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3171 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3172 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
31738 Add functions:
3174 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3175 Update 2004 Sep 10
3176 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3177 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003178 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003179 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3180 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3181 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3182 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3183 (2003 May 13)
3184 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3185 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003186 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3187 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003188 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3189 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3190 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031917 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3192 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031937 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3194 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000031958 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3196 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031977 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
31988 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3199 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
32007 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3201 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032027 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3203- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3204 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3205 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003206- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3207 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3208- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3209
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003210Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3211- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3212 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3213
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003214Quickfix/Location List:
3215- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3216 #2999)
3217- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3218 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3219 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3220 the quickfix buffer?
3221- Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar,
3222 2018 Jun 10, #2998)
3223- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3224 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3225- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3226 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3227 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
3228- This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
3229 (Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
3230- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3231- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3232 2007 Jan 1)
3233- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3234 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3235- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3236 errors. How do we get the rest?
32378 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3238 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3239 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3240 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
32417 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
3242 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003243
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003244Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003245- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3246 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032478 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3248 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3249 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3250 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3251 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3252 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032538 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3254 make Vim exit.
32557 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3256 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3257 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
32588 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3259 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3260 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
32616 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3262 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3263 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
32648 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3265 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3266 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3267 names in one buffer???
3268 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3269 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3270 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
32717 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3272 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3273 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003274 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3275 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032767 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3277 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
32787 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
32797 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032807 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3281 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3282 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3283 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
32847 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
32857 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
32867 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3287 to the match with the tag? Option?
32887 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
32897 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3290 (Sayre).
32917 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3292 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032937 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3294 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3295 match. Nvi can do it too.
32967 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3297 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3298 line 1\ line 2\\
3299 line 2\ line 3\\
3300 . line4/
33016 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3302 the way the shell is started?
33036 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3304 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3305
3306
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003307GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000033089 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033098 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3310 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3311 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000033128 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3313 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3314 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033159 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3316 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3317 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3318 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003319- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3320 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3321 blocked for now.
3322
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003323
3324Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003325- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3326 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033278 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3328 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3329 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033306 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3331 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000033328 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3333 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3334 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033357 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3336 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3337 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033387 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3339 2004 May 9)
33408 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3341 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3342 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3343 MS-Windows 98?
3344 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3345 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3346 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3347 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033488 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3349 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3350 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3351 doesn't work properly.
33528 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3353 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3354 appears in the right position. (Webb)
33559 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3356 button doesn't give popup menu.
3357 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3358 selection.
3359 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3360 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3361 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
33628 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3363 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3364 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3365 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
33668 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3367 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3368 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033697 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3370 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003371 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033727 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3373 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033746 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
33758 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3376 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3377 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
33788 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3379 know which keyboard is being used?
33807 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3381 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3382 area (Koloseike).
33838 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3384 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3385 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3386 the font name).
3387
3388
3389Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000033906 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3391 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3392 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3393 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3394 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033959 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3396 required and it's missing?
33978 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3398 wrong.
33999 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3400 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000034019 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003402 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3403 flag.
34048 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3405 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3406 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
34078 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
34086 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3409 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3410 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3411 the tooltips work though...
34127 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3413 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
34148 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3415 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3416 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3417
3418
3419Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010034209 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3421 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034229 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3423 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3424 through files.
34257 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3426 read long file names. (Schroeder)
34274 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3428 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3429 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3430 problem during a refresh.
34315 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3432 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3433 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3434 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3435 colors as it should.
3436 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3437 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3438
3439
3440Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003441- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034427 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3443 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034448 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3445 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3446 (Phillipps)
3447
3448
3449GUI:
34509 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3451 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
34529 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003453 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003454 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
34559 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3456 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
34578 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
3458 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
34598 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3460 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3461 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
34628 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3463 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3464 of where it is processing the output.
3465 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
34668 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3467 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010034688 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000034698 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3470 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3471 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020034728 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034738 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3474 browse().
34758 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3476 use that code? Or use console dialog.
34778 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3478 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000034797 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3480 - regexp on/off
3481 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3482 when all buffers/directory is used:
3483 - filter for file name
3484 when directory is used:
3485 - subdirectory on/off
3486 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034878 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3488 to avoid problems.
34898 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3490 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3491 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
34928 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3493 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3494 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
34958 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3496 up. Set erase character somehow?
34978 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3498 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3499 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3500 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
35018 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
35027 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3503 visible.
35047 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3505 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
35067 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3507 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
35088 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3509 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
35108 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3511 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3512 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3513 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3514- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
35154 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3516 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3517 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3518
3519
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003520Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000035218 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3522 a good fallback, thus use:
3523 $HOME
3524 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3525 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3526 $USERPROFILE
3527 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3528 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3529 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3530 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035318 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3532 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
35338 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3534 Should work like in the GUI version.
35358 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3536 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
35378 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3538 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
35398 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3540 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3541 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035428 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3543 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3544 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3545
3546
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003547Win32 console:
35489 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3549 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3550 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3551 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3552 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3553 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3554 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3555 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3556 and the file is not saved.
3557 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3558 long name.
35598 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3560 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
35617 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3562 besides the console.
35638 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
35649 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3565 <C-S-i>?
35669 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3567 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
35688 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3569 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003570
3571
3572Amiga:
35738 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3574 sequences.
35759 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3576 backslashes in result.
35778 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3578 all options, using white space separation.
3579
3580
3581Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003582- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035837 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3584 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3585 (Jack)
3586 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035878 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3588 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035898 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
35908 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
35919 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3592 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035939 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003594
3595
3596"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003597- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3598 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003599- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3600 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003601- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3602 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3603 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3604 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3605 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3606 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3607 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000036089 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3609 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000036109 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003611 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3612 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036138 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3614 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3615 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003616 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036177 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3618 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
36198 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3620 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3621 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036227 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3623 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003624- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3625 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036268 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3627 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3628 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3629 using the horizontal scrollbar.
36307 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3631 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3632 invocations belong together.
36338 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3634 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
36358 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3636 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3637 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003638 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000036398 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3640 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3641 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036428 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3643 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036447 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3645 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3646 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3647 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036487 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3649 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3650 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
36517 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3652 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3653 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
36547 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3655 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036567 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3657 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036589 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3659 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3660 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3661 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3662 script can be called.
36638 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3664 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3665 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036668 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3667 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000036688 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003669 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3670 configurable?
36718 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036728 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3673 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036748 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3675 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036768 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3677 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036789 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3679 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3680 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036817 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036828 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3683 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3684 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000036858 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3686 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003687 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3688 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036898 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3690 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
36919 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3692 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3693 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003694 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036957 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3696 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036977 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3698 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3699 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3700 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037018 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003702 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3703 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3704 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3705 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003706 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3707 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003708 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003709 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003710 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3711 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3712 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3713 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3714 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037158 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3716 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
37178 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3718 in lines that don't extend into the block?
37198 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3720 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3721 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
37228 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3723 'linebreak'.
37248 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3725 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3726 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037279 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3728 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3729 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3730 'magic' in history. (Margo)
37319 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3732 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037339 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
37349 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3735 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3736 cause another redraw, etc.
37378 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3738 must escape special characters in the pattern.
37398 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3740 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3741 ":w!!" for that.
3742 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3743 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003744 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037457 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3746 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3747 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3748 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3749 clipboard)
37507 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3751 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3752 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000037536 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3754 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3755 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037568 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3757 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
37588 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3759 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3760 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
37618 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3762 (e.g., ":w").
37638 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3764 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037658 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3766 script in do_cmdline().
37678 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3768 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3769 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3770 changes.
37718 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3772 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
37738 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3774 check for file marks. This can be slow.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037758 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3776 to skip catch_signals()?
37779 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3778 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3779 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3780 text?
37818 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3782 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
37838 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3784 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
37859 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3786 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3787 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3788 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3789 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
37907 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3791 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3792 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3793 in the list?
37948 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3795 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3796 instead of on button down.
37978 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
37989 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3799 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003800 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3801 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038028 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3803 character is typed.
38048 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3805 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
38068 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3807 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
38088 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3809 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3810 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3811 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3812 cygwin bash.
38137 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3814 Remember flags for backreferences.
38157 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3816 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
38177 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3818 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
38198 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3820 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
38217 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3822 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038237 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3824 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3825 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
38267 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3827 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
38288 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3829 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3830 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
38317 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3832 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003833
3834
3835I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
38369 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3837 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3838 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003839
3840
3841Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003842- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3843 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3844 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003845- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3846 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3847 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3848 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3849 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3850 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003851 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003852- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3853 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003854 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003855 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3856 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3857 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003858- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3859 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3860 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3861 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3862 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3863- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3864 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3865 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3866- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3867 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003868- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003869- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3870 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3871 character gets the highlighting.
3872- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3873 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3874- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3875 (Jennings)
3876- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003877- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003878- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003879 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003880- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3881 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3882 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3883- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3884 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3885 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3886 (Benzinger).
3887- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3888 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3889 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3890- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3891 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3892- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3893 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3894- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3895 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3896 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3897 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3898 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3899 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3900- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3901 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3902 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003903- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3904 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3905 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003906- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3907 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3908 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3909- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3910 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3911- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3912 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003913- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3914 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3915- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3916 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3917 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3918 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3919 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3920- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3921 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3922 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3923- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3924 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3925 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003926- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3927 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 +00003928- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3929 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3930 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3931 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3932 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3933- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3934 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3935
3936--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3937 *extensions-improvements*
3938
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003939Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3940- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3941 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3942 calling a function.
3943 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3944 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003945- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3946 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003947 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003948- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3949 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3950 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3951 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3952 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3953 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003954 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003955- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3956 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3957 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003958- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3959 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000039608 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3961 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3962 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3963 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003964- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3965 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003966
3967
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003968Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039698 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3970 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000039718 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3972 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000039738 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3974 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039758 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039769 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3977 - change to cursor position and curswant
3978 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3979 - how it works for folded lines
3980 - how it works with multi-byte characters
39819 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3982 work too.
39838 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3984 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3985 text.
39868 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
39877 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3988 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
39897 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3990 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003991 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003992- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3993
3994
3995Help:
3996- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3997 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3998- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3999 to the other matches.
4000- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004001- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
4002 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
4003 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
4004 default contents.
4005- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
4006 height for the help window (and other windows).
4007- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
4008- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
4009- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
4010
4011
4012User Friendlier:
40138 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
4014 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
4015 Briscoe)
40168 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
40178 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
4018 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
4019 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
40208 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
4021 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
4022- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
4023 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004024- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
40259 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
4026 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
4027 item?).
4028 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040298 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000040307 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
4031 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
4032 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000040338 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
4034 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
4035 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
4036 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004037
4038
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00004039Tab pages:
40409 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040417 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
4042 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040438 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000040448 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040457 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040467 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00004047 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040488 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
4049 tab pages.
40507 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
4051
4052
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004053Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004054- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01004055 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004056- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
4057 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
4058 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
4059- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
4060 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004061- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
4062 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
4063 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004064- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
4065 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
4066 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004067- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
4068 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01004069- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004070 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
4071 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000040728 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
4073 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
40748 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
4075 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
40768 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
4077 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004078 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004079 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
4080 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
4081 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
4082 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00004083- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
4084 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00004085- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00004086- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
4087 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00004088- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004089 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004090- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004091 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004092- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
4093 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004094- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
4095 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
4096- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00004097 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004098 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
4099 in the affix file separately.
4100 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004101 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004102 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
4103 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
4104 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
4105- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
4106 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
4107 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
4108 specific prefixes with suffixes.
4109 Alternative:
4110 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
4111 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
4112 affix which is required.
4113- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004114 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004115- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
4116 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
4117 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004118- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
4119 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004120- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
4121 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
4122- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041238 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
4124 syntax items (to add @Spell).
4125 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
4126 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004127- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
4128 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4129 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4130 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041318 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4132 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041338 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
41348 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4135 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041367 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
41378 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4138 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4139 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4140 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004141
4142
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004143Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020041449 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4145 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020041468 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004147 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004148
4149Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004150 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4151 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041528 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4153 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020041548 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4155 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041568 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4157 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4158 user aware of this?
41598 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4160 commands skip over a closed fold.
41618 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
41628 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041637 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004164- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4165 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4166 missing line goes unnoticed.
4167 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004168- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4169 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4170 smoother?
4171- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4172 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004173- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4174 file can contain:
4175 args version.c main.c
4176 edit version.c
4177 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004178- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004179- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4180 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004181- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4182 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004183- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4184 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004185- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004186
4187Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004188- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4189 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4190 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4191 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041929 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4193 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4194 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4195 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020041969 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4197 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4198 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041998 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4200 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4201 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4202 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4203 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4204 item.
42058 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004206 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4207 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042088 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4209 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042108 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4211 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4212 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042137 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4214 so that the user can fix the problem.
42158 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4216 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042179 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
42188 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042198 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
42208 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042217 Searching and composing characters:
4222 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004223 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4224 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042258 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
42268 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
42278 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
4228 characters.
42298 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
42308 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4231 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
42327 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4233 'display' option to specify this.
42347 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4235 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4236- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4237 fontselector somehow.
4238- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4239 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4240- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4241 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4242- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4243 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4244 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4245 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4246 if a font exists?
4247- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004248 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004249- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4250 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004251- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
4252 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4253 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
4254 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004255- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4256 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004257 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004258- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
4259 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4260 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4261 But it's very complicated...
4262
4263
4264Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000042657 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004266- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4267- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4268 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004269- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4270 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004271- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4272- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4273 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004274- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4275 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004276- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4277 units as for the margins.
4278- Support right-to-left text?
42798 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4280 color.
4281
4282
4283Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042848 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4285 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
42868 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4287 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
42888 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4289 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000042907 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4291 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042928 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4293 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4294 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042957 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4296 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4297 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042988 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
42999 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4300 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043017 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4302 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000043037 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4304 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043058 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4306 change this for each release.
43078 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4308 pattern, but not in the body.
43098 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4310 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4311 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043128 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010043138 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004314 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4315 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043168 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4317 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
43188 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4319 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004320 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043218 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4322 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4323 used.
43248 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4325 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
43268 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4327 re-insert the [] if possible.
43288 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4329 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000043308 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4331 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4332 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4333 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4334 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043358 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4336 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
43378 Support for deleting syntax items:
4338 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4339 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4340 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
43418 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4342 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4343 a '<'. (Fleiner)
43447 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4345 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4346 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
43477 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4348 detected.
43498 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004350 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043518 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4352 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043538 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
43548 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
43557 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4356 ":mkvimrc".
43578 Improve c.vim:
4358 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4359 "c_strict_ansi".
4360 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
43618 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4362 current line while in Insert mode.
43638 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4364 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
43658 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4366 display position.
43678 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4368 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4369 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
43708 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4371 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4372 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000043737 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4374 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4375 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4376 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4377 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043787 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4379 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4380 E.g. for this html:
4381 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043827 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
43837 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4384 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043858 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
43868 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043877 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4388 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4389 completion?
43908 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4391 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
43927 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4393 select one of the sets.
43948 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4395 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4396 2, etc.
43978 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4398 highlighting (for "." command).
43998 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4400 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
44018 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
44027 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4403 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
44046 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4405 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4406- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4407 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4408- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004409- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4410 (for comment blocks).
4411- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4412 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4413 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4414 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4415 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4416 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4417 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4418 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4419 (Campbell)
4420 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4421 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
44227 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4423 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
44247 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4425 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4426 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
44277 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4428 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4429 messages. And external commands?
44308 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4431 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
44327 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4433 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4434
4435
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004436Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044378 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4438 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004439 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000044407 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4441 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4442 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044438 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
4444 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004445- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020044468 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4447 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4448 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4449 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4450 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4451 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000044527 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4453 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044548 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010044558 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4456 can be the plugin name.
4457 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4458 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044597 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4460 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4461 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4462 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4463 autocommand.
4464 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4465 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4466 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4467 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044687 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4469 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044706 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4471 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044728 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004473 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4474 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004475 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4476 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4477 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004478 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4479 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4480 3 2002
4481 Only add this when also implemented for
4482 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4483 be used.
4484 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004485 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4486 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4487 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4488 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4489 File.Open..." argument.
4490 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4491 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4492 with properties instead.
4493 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4494 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4495 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004496 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004497 crypt() encrypt string
4498 decrypt() decrypt string
4499 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4500 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004501 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004502 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004503 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004504 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004505 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004506 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4507 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004508 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4509 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004510 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004511 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4512 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4513 to allow the library to execute a command or
4514 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045157 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4516 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
45178 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4518 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045198 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4520 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045218 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045226 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000045238 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4524 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045258 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4526 option or environment variable.
45278 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045288 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004529 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000045307 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4531 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045328 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4533 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
45348 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
45358 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4536 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4537 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4538 charwise({expr}).
45397 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4540 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4541 buffer for this?
4542 result = scratch(string, command)
4543 result = apply(string, command)
4544 result = execute(string, command)
4545 "command" would use <> notation.
4546 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
45477 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004548
4549
4550Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000045516 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4552 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4553 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4554 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4555 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4556 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4557 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004558
4559
4560Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045617 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4562 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020045637 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4564 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4565 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4566 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045678 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4568 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4569 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4570 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004571 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045728 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
45739 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
45748 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
45757 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4576 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
45778 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4578 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4579 when starting up in a color terminal.
45808 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4581 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045828 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4583 function be improved?
45848 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4585 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4586 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4587 this be improved?
45888 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4589 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000045907 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4591 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045927 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4593 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
45947 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4595 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045967 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4597 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4598 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4599 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4600 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4601 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4602 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046038 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4604 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4605 using strcmp() too often?
46067 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4607 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4608 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4609 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4610 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4611 the two blocks to the memfile block.
46127 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4613 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4614 with an argument that can be messed with.
4615 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4616 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
46177 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4618- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
46198 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4620 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4621- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4622 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4623- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4624- Do profiling on:
4625 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004626 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4627 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4628 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4629 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4630 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4631 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004632 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046337 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4634 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4635 changed).
4636 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4637 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4638- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4639- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4640 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4641- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4642 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4643 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004644- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4645- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4646 cursor is right of the screen.
46478 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4648 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4649
4650
4651Code size:
46528 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4653- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4654 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
46558 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
46568 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4657 it.
46587 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4659 left out.
46608 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4661 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010046628 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004663
4664
4665Messages:
46668 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4667 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
46688 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4669 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
46708 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4671 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004672- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4673 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4674- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046758 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4676 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046779 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4678 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4679 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4680 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4681 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046828 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4683 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
46848 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4685 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4686 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4687 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4688 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4689 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004690- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004691 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046928 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4693 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4694 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4695 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4696 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4697 error messages, printing text, etc.
46988 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4699 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4700 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4701
4702
4703Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004704- screen_line():
4705 - insert/delete character stuff.
4706 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4707- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4708 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4709- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4710 waiting for a character.
47118 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4712 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4713 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004714
4715Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020047168 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047176 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4718- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4719 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4720 windows.
47217 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4722 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4723 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4724- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4725 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4726 (Goldfarb)
4727- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4728 bound windows.
4729- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4730 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004731- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004732- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4733 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4734 of lines but not with a single line).
4735
4736
4737Autoconf:
47388 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
47398 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4740 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4741- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4742 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4743- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4744- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4745- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4746
4747
4748Perl interface:
47498 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047507 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
47517 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
47526 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4753
4754
4755Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020047568 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4757 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047586 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4759 :libload internal-name libname
4760 :libunload internal-name
4761 :liblist
4762 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4763 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4764 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
47656 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4766
4767
4768Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000047699 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4770 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4771 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4772 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4773 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000047748 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4775 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4776 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004777 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004778 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000047797 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4780 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4781 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047828 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
47838 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4784 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047857 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4786 window for each tag.
47877 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
47887 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4789 bottom" search message.
47907 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4791 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4792 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004793- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4794- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004795- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4796 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4797 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047987 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4799 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4800 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4801 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
48027 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4803 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4804 :tagargs clear
4805 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4806 matching).
48077 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4808 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4809 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4810 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
48117 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4812 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
48137 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4814 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4815 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004816
4817
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004818Win32 GUI:
48198 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4820 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048217 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4822 (Mike McCollister)
48238 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4824 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4825 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4826 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4827 common part of the path.
48288 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
48298 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4830 gettext and menus work.
48318 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4832 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004833 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004834 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
48358 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4836 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
48378 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4838 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
48397 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4840 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
48417 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
48427 <Esc> should close a dialog.
48437 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4844 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4845 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4846 prompts.
48477 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4848 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4849 the file added into an already running Vim.
48507 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4851 functions to find the window title.
4852
4853
4854GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020048558 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004856- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4857 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
48587 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
48598 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
48606 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
48618 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4862 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
48639 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
48647 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
48658 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4866 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
48678 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4868 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4869 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
48708 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4871 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
48728 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4873 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4874 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4875 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048767 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
48778 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4878 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000048797 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4880 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4881 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048828 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
48838 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004884 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048858 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
48868 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
48878 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4888 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4889 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
48907 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4891 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4892 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
48937 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4894 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
48957 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4896 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4897 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4898 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048997 Should support multi-column menus.
4900- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4901 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4902- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
49038 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
49046 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4905 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
49067 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
49077 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4908 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4909 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
49107 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
49118 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4912 name can be chosen free.
49137 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4914 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
49156 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4916 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4917 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4918 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4919 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4920 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4921 things.
49227 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4923 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049247 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004925 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004926- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4927 where it was started from?
49287 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4929
4930
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004931Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020049329 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4933 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004934- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010049358 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4936 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4937 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4938 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
49398 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4940 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000049417 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4942 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4943 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4944 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000049457 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049468 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4947 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049488 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4949 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4950 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049517 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4952 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4953 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049548 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4955 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4956 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049578 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4958 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049598 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049606 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4961 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049627 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049637 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004964 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4965 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4966 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049675 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4968 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4969 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
49707 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4971 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4972 file.
49738 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4974 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4975 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004976- Add events to autocommands:
4977 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02004978 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004979 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4980 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004981 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004982 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004983 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4984 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4985 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4986 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004987 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004988 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4989 the char.
4990 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4991 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4992 file from CVS).
4993 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4994 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4995 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4996 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4997 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4998 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004999 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
5000 changes.
5001 WinResized - After a window has been resized
5002 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00005003- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005004 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005005 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005006 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
5007 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
5008 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
5009 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
5010 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
5011
5012
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005013Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005014- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
5015 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005016- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
5017 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
5018 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
5019 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
5020 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005021- Ideas from others:
5022 http://www.wholetomato.com/
5023 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
5024 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
5025 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
5026 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
5027 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
5028 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
5029 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
5030 Uses Perl for C++.
5031 Uses ctags to find the info:
5032 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
5033 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
5034 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
5035 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
5036 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
5037 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02005038 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005039 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
5040- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
5041
5042
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005043Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005044- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000050457 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
5046 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000050477 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
5048 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
5049 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050508 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
5051 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
50529 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
5053 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
5054 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050558 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
5056 - ignore/match case
5057 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050588 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
5059 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
5060 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
5061 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
5062 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
5063 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050648 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000050657 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
5066 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050678 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
5068 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
5069 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
5070 Should work for C++ and Java.
5071 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
50727 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
50737 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
5074 instead of words.
50758 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
50768 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
5077 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
50788 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
5079 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005080- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
5081 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005082- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
5083 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
5084 wildcards in the file name)?
5085- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
5086- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
5087- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
5088 be in another file).
5089- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
5090- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
5091- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
5092 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
5093- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
5094- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
5095- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005096- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
5097
5098
5099Command line editing:
51007 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
5101 line.
51028 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
5103 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
5104 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
5105- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
5106 lines wraps to start of line).
5107- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
5108 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
5109 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
5110 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
5111 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
5112 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
5113 cmdwin does now already.
5114 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
5115 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
5116 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
5117 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
5118 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5119 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5120 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5121 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5122 Problems:
5123 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5124 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5125 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5126 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5127 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5128 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5129 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5130 character in first column?
5131 - Implementation ideas:
5132 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5133 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5134 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5135 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5136 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5137 Mode.
5138
5139
5140Command line completion:
51418 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
51428 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5143 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
51448 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5145 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051468 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5147 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051487 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5149 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005150- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5151- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5152 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051538 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5154 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
51557 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5156 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5157- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5158 identifiers (Webb).
51598 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5160 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
51617 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5162 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5163- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5164 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5165- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5166 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5167 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005168
5169
5170Command line history:
5171- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5172 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5173 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005174 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005175- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5176 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5177
5178
5179Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000051809 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5181 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5182 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051838 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5184 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5185 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5186 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5187 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051888 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5189 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5190 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051917 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5192 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005193- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051947 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5195 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5196- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5197 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5198 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5199 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5200 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5201 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5202- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5203 Normal mode.
5204- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5205 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5206 are used.
5207- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5208- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5209- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5210
5211
5212'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010052139 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5214 char * veryLongName =
5215 "very long string"
5216 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052178 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000052188 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5219 long_type foo =
5220 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052218 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5222 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005223 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052248 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5225 func(
5226 new String[] {
5227 "asdf",
5228 "asdf"
5229 }
5230 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010052318 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5232 (Chow Loong Jin)
5233 namespace {
5234 int
5235 func(int arg) {
5236 }
5237 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052386 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5239 func( arg1
5240 , arg2
5241 , arg3
5242 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000052437 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005244 func(
5245 int x) // indent like "(4"
5246 {
5247 if (a
5248 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052499 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5250 if (a)
5251 {
5252 if (b)
5253 {
5254 // {
5255 }
5256 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005257 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5258 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5259 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005260- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005261 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
52627 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5263- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5264 line).
5265- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5266- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5267 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005268- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5269 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5270- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5271 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5272- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5273- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5274 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
52758 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5276 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5277 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5278- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5279- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5280 lines start with "\item".
5281- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5282 /* here is a comment that
5283 is just autoindented, and
5284 nothing else */
5285- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
52867 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5287 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5288 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005289 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005290
5291
5292Java:
52938 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5294 Odendahl?
52958 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5296 "[i" commands and friends.
5297- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5298 (Jason)
5299- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5300 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5301
5302
5303'comments':
53048 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5305 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5306 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5307 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005308 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5309 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053107 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5311 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
53127 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
53136 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5314 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5315 regexp is used.
53168 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5317 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5318
5319
5320Virtual edit:
53218 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053227 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5323
5324
5325Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053268 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053278 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000053288 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005329 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000053308 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
5331 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005332 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5333 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000053348 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053358 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5336 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053378 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5338 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5339 the end of the line or before a ".".
53407 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5341 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
53427 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5343 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053446 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
53455 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5346 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5347 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5348 cursor is on.
5349
5350
5351Select mode:
53528 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5353 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
53547 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005355 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053567 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5357 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5358 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5359 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5360 normal_cmd().
5361 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5362 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5363
5364
5365Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020053668 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5367 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005368- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5369 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5370 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005371- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5372 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5373 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053748 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005375 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005376 where needed.
53777 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5378 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
53797 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5380 of each selected line.
53818 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
53828 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5383 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5384 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
53858 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5386 Ben Godfrey)
53877 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5388 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
53897 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5390 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053917 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005392 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005393 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
53948 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5395 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
53967 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5397 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5398 option!
53997 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5400 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5401 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5402 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5403 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5404 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5405 without changing the column.
54066 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054077 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5408 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054096 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5410 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
54116 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054126 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005413 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005414 or other special character.
54156 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5416
5417
5418More advanced repeating commands:
5419- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005420- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005421- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005422 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5423 "y." will repeat last yank.
5424 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5425 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5426 and/or pick an older command.
5427- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5428
5429
5430Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054318 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5432 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5433 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
54348 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
54357 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5436 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054378 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5438 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
54398 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000054407 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054418 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5442 entering search strings.
54438 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5444 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5445 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054468 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5447 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054487 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054497 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5450 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054516 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5452 abbreviations are to be used.
5453- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5454 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5455 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005456- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5457 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5458 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5459 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5460 Or implicit:
5461 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005462- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5463 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5464 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005465- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5466 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5467- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5468 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
54696 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5470 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5471 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5472 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005473- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5474 non-replace Insert mode?
5475- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005476- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5477- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5478 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5479- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005480 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005481- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5482 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5483- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5484- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5485 ":freekeys".
5486- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5487
5488
5489Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005490- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5491 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5492- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5493 folds when going to another line.
5494 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5495- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5496 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005497- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5498 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5499 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005500- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5501 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5502 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5503 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020055049 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5505 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005506
5507
5508Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010055099 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000055108 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005511 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005512 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005513 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005514 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010055159 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5516 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010055178 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5518 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000055198 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5520 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5521 Perl does it this way:
5522 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5523 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5524 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5525 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055268 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5527 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5528 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000055297 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5530 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000055318 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5532 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055337 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005534 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5535 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5536 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055377 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005538 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055397 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5540 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055418 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5542 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
55438 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5544 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020055457 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005546 example.
55478 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5548 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5549- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5550 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5551 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5552 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055538 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5554 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5555 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
55567 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5557 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000055587 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5559 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055608 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5561 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055628 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5563 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055648 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5565 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5566 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5567 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005568- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5569 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005570- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5571 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5572- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5573 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5574 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5575 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055768 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5577 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005578- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5579 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055808 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5581 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5582 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005583- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5584 i ignore case
5585 I use case
5586 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5587 v use Vi regexp syntax
5588 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5589 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5590 Perl uses these too:
5591 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5592 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5593 o compile only once (Perl only)
5594 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5595 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5596 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5597 following command.
5598 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5599- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5600 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5601 for search string)?
56027 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5603 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5604- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5605 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5606- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5607 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5608- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5609- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005610 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005611 a for the next file in the argument list
5612 f for file in the buffer list
5613 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005614 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5615 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005616 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5617 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5618- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056197 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005620 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056217 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5622 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5623 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5624 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
56256 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5626 effects.
56277 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5628 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5629 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000056307 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005631 Also ":dselect".
5632
5633
5634Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010056359 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5636 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5637 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056389 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5639 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020056408 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5641 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000056428 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5643 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5644 timestamp?
5645 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5646 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005647- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5648 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005649- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5650 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5651 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
56528 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5653 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5654 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5655 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
56568 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5657 only remember the lines that really changed.
56587 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5659 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5660 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5661 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005662- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5663 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5664- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5665 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5666- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5667 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5668 [-99].
5669- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5670- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005671- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5672 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5673
5674
5675Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056767 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5677 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5678 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5679 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
56808 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5681 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
56828 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5683 inode too.
56847 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005685 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5686 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056877 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5688 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5689- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5690 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5691- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5692 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
56937 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5694 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
56957 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5696 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
56978 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056987 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5699 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010057008 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5701 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5702 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005703
5704
5705Swap (.swp) files:
57068 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5707 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5708 there are short file name problems.
57098 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5710 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
57118 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
57128 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005713 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005714 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5715 file the same as the actual file?
5716 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057177 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5718 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
57197 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005720 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005721 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5722 enough room.
57237 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5724 or /var/preserve.
5725- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5726 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5727- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005728 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005729- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5730 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5731 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5732 cached list of which line is where.
5733
5734
5735Viminfo:
57367 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5737 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5738 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000057398 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5740 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5741 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057428 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5743 name. (Schild)
57448 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
57458 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057468 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057478 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5748 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5749 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5750 this?
57517 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
57527 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5753 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
57546 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5755 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5756 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5757- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5758 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5759
5760
5761Modelines:
57628 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5763 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5764 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005765- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5766 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5767 'shiftwidth'.
5768- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5769 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005770- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5771 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5772 modeline setting.
5773- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5774 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5775- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5776 .cpp files.
5777- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5778 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5779- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5780 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5781
5782
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005783Sessions:
57848 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5785 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
57867 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5787 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057888 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5789 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057908 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5791 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5792 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000057937 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5794 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000057957 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005796
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005797
5798Options:
57997 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5800 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058018 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5802 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5803 also be supported.
58048 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5805 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5806 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
58077 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005808
5809
5810External commands:
58118 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5812 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
58134 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5814 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5815 -f).
58164 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
58174 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5818 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
58194 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5820
5821
5822Multiple Windows:
58237 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
58248 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5825 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
58267 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5827 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5828 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000058297 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5830 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000058317 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5832 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058336 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5834 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005835 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005836 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
58377 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5838 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5839 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5840 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5841- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5842 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5843 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5844 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5845
5846
5847Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000058488 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058498 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5850 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058518 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 +000058528 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5853 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
58548 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5855 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5856 the mark was set.
58577 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5858 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5859 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5860 ":browse marks"?
58616 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058627 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5863 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
58647 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5865 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
58667 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5867 command).
58687 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5869 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5870 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5871 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
58725 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5873 mappings.
58746 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5875 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5876 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5877
5878
5879Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020058807 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005881 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005882- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5883 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000058848 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058857 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5886 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5887
5888
5889Writing files:
5890- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5891 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5892 shortname conversion.
58938 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
58948 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5895 file.
58968 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5897 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5898 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058996 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5900 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
59016 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5902 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
59036 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5904 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000059058 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005906 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
59077 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5908 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
59097 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5910 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5911 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5912 waiting for a character to be typed).
59138 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5914 line of the window, like "[time]".
5915 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5916 Automatic and/or with a command.
5917
5918
5919Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000059208 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5921 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000059228 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005923 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5924- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5925- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
59268 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5927 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005928- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005929 :s///N substitutes N times.
5930- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5931 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5932 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
59337 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5934 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5935 last line column 5.
59365 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5937 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5938 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5939 (Stanislav Sitar)
5940
5941
5942Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059438 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
59447 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
59458 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5946 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5947 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005948- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5949- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5950 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5951- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5952- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5953
5954
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005955Argument list:
59566 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5957 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5958 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
59596 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5960
5961
5962Registers:
59638 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059648 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5965 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5966 for every line.
59676 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5968 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5969 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5970- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5971 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5972- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5973 leader when line wraps?
5974- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5975 line in the range.
5976- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5977 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
59788 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5979 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005980
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005981
5982Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059838 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000059848 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059857 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
59867 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5987
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005988Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000059897 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5990 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5991 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5992 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5993 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5994 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5995 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005996 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000059977 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5998 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000059997 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
6000 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060018 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
6002 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000060037 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
6004 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
6005 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00006006- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00006007 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010060087 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
6009 window as a buffer-tab selection.
60108 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060117 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
6012 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
60138 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
6014 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060156 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060168 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
6017 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
6018 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
6019 in this Vim.
60208 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006021 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060228 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
6023 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
6024 have it apply to the following command.
60258 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
6026 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
6027 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
6028 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060297 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
6030 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060317 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
6032 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
6033 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
6034 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060356 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
60368 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
60379 Support ACLs on more systems.
60387 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
6039 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060407 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
6041 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
6042 (truncated to fit in the space).
60437 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
60448 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
60458 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
6046 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000060477 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006048 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
60497 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
6050 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060517 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060527 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
60537 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060548 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
60558 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
6056 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
6057 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
6058 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
60598 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060608 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060618 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
6062 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
6063 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
6064 does something like this. (Shah)
60657 Use growarray for replace stack.
60667 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
6067 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
60683 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060697 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
6070 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010060717 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
6072 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006073- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
6074- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
6075- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
6076- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
60777 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
6078 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
6079- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
6080 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02006081- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006082- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
6083 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
6084- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
6085 call "play newbeep.au").
6086- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
6087 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
6088 (Bhatt).
6089- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
6090 blockwise registers).
6091- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
6092 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
6093- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
6094 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
6095 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
6096 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006097- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060987 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
6099 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
6100- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
6101 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
6102 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
6103 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
6104 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000061058 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
6106 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061078 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6108 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6109 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6110 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6111 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6112- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00006113- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061147 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6115 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6116- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6117 not in column 1.
61186 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6119 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
61207 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6121- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006122- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006123 :redir #> bufname
6124 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006125- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6126 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006127- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6128 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6129 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
61306 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6131 console? (Klaus Hast)
6132- Add :delcr command:
6133 *:delcr*
6134 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6135 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6136 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6137 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6138 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006139 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006140- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6141- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6142 characters from 'isprint'.
6143- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6144- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6145 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6146- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6147 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6148 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6149- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6150- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6151 Nvi).
6152- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6153 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
61547 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6155- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6156 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
61576 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6158- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6159 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6160 macro).
6161- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006162- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6163 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6164- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
61658 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006166- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6167- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6168- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6169 if it is not the first or last window.
6170- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6171 there is one) instead of the file itself.
61727 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6173 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6174 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6175- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6176- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006177 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006178 many percent down the windows).
6179- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6180 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6181 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006182 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006183- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6184 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6185- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6186 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6187- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6188- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6189- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6190 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061918 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6192 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6193 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6194 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6195 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006196- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6197 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6198- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006199 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6200- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006201 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6202 (Webb).
6203- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006204 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006205- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6206 hex codes like 0xff).
6207- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6208 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6209 the last TYPED command.
6210- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6211- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6212- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6213 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006214- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062158 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6216 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6217 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006218- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006219 trailing '.'.
6220- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6221 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6222 find_file_in_path().
6223- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6224 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6225- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6226- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6227 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6228- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006229 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006230- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6231 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6232 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006233- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6234- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6235- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6236 to the minimal size.
6237- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6238- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6239- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6240- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6241- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006242- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6243 entered)?
6244- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6245 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006246- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006247- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6248- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6249- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6250- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6251- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6252 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006253- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062548 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6255 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6256 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6257 or in octal.
62587 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6259 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006260- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006261 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6262- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6263- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6264 insert line command).
6265- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6266- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6267- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6268- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6269- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6270 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006271- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006272 yet.
6273- Implement 'redraw' option.
6274- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6275 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062767 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6277 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006278 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6279 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062808 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6281 do it.
6282- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6283- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6284 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6285- Add text justification option.
6286- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6287- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6288 off".
6289- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6290- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6291- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006292 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006293- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006294- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006295- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6296 commands.
6297- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6298- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6299- :table command (Webb)
6300- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006301- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6302- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6303- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6304- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6305- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6306 (Demirel).
6307- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6308- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6309 for use in macro's and the like.
6310- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006311 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006312- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006313 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006314- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006315 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006316 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6317- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6318 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006319- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006320 mkopttab to make option table?
6321- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6322 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6323- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6324 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006325- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006326 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6327- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6328 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006329- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000063308 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6331 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6332 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6333 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6334 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063358 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6336 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6337 (Netherton)
63386 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6339 space after "(", for example.
63405 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6341 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6342 (Servatius Brandt)
6343
6344
6345From Elvis:
6346- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6347- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006348- Search patterns:
6349 \@ match word under cursor.
6350 but do:
6351 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6352 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
63538 ":window" command:
6354 :win + next window (up)
6355 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6356 :win - previous window (down)
6357 :win -- idem, wrapping
6358 :win nr to window number "nr"
6359 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
63607 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6361 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6362
6363
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006364From xvi:
6365- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6366- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6367
6368
6369From vile:
6370- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6371- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6372 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6373
6374
6375Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006376- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6377 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006378 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006379 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6380 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006381- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6382 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6383- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6384 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6385 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6386 current layout mirrored.
6387- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6388- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6389 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6390- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6391- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6392 font in each top-level window.
6393- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6394- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6395- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6396- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6397 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006398- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6399 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6400- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6401 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
64024 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6403 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6404 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6405 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006406 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006407 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6408 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6409- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6410 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6411 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6412
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006413vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006414vim: set fo+=n :