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Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +01001*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.2. Last change: 2020 Feb 04
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 Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +010041Include ipv6 syntax changes? (DJ Lucas, #5360)
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Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010043Add win_type(), which "popup" and "cmdline" as values?
44
45Vim9 script:
46- test s:var += 'some'
47 test exported += 'some'
48- implement default values for optional arguments
49 Generate instructions at start of function, skip over if argument provided?
50- Disallow unlet for local/script/imported vars
51- :func inside vim9script must still use a:arg
52- Check that import in legacy script works and puts item in s:
53- Error in any command in "vim9script" aborts sourcing.
54- Find a way to test expressions in legacy and Vim9 script without duplication
55- Test each level of expressions properly, with type checking
56- Test the
57- Test try/catch and throw better, also nested.
58 Test return inside try/finally jumps to finally and then returns.
59- call autoload function.
60- Type checking arguments when calling :def function
61- can use func as reference:
62 def SomeFunc() ...
63 map(list, SomeFunc)
64- define function and create funcref in one step:
65 let ref = def(arg: type): rettype
66 Also extends lambda
67- Test: Function declared inside a :def function is local, disappears at the
68 end of the function. Unless g: is used, just like with variables.
69- Can we omit \ for line continuation inside (), {}, ?
70 Requires parsing while reading a function. Like fgetline in do_one_cmd()?
71- implement :type
72- implement class
73- implement interface
74- predefined class: Promise<T>
75- import statement for type declaration?
76- Make accessing varargs faster: arg[expr]
77 EVAL expr
78 LOADVARARG (varags idx)
79
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020080Popup windows:
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +020081- Use popup (or popup menu) for command line completion
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +010082- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not
83 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544)
84- Implement flip option.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +020085- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +020086 - put popup menu also in popup_mask?
87- Any other commands to disable in a popup window?
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +010088 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for these.
Bram Moolenaar91359012019-11-30 17:57:03 +010089- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +020090
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +020091Text properties:
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +010092- Combining text property with 'cursorline' does not always work (Billie
93 Cleek, #5533)
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +020094- Text properties spanning more than one line
Bram Moolenaar09c6f262019-11-17 15:55:14 +010095- See remarks at top of src/textprop.c
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +020096
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +010097'incsearch' with :s:
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +020098- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the
99 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100100- :s@pat/tern@ doesn't include "/" in the pattern. (Takahiro Yoshihara, #3637)
101 pass delim to do_search() ?
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200102- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200103- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200104- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there
105 isn't one?
106 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line.
107
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200108Prompt buffer:
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100109- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200110- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK?
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100111- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200112
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200113Terminal debugger:
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200114- Make prompt-buffer variant work better.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100115- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to
116 an already running program. (M. Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200117- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100118- Use a sign group
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200119- Termdebug does not work when Vim was build with mzscheme: gdb hangs just
120 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not
121 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef.
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100122- Add support for lldb? issue #3565
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100123- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the
124 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window.
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100125 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100126 with another Vim instance.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200127
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200128Terminal emulator window:
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100129- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel
130 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490
131 And use modeless selection. #2962
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100132- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100133- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to
134 be redrawn.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200135- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt.
136 (#3327)
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200137- GUI: hang until key typed. (#3530)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200138- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}.
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200139- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2,
140 #2977)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200141- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using
142 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg().
143- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support
144 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999)
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200145- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file()
146 is disabled.
147- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences.
148- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for
149 redirection.
Bram Moolenaar03998f62018-05-17 13:20:45 +0200150- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal
151 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines,
152 then when the window is resized redraw those lines.
153- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed)
154- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm:
155 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134
156- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup
157 conversions.
Bram Moolenaar7c63fbc2018-05-17 13:15:23 +0200158
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200159Error numbers available:
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100160E451, E452, E453, E454, E460, E489, E491, E565, E578, E610, E611, E653,
161E654, E856, E857, E860, E861, E900
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200162
Bram Moolenaar2ed639a2019-12-09 23:11:18 +0100163Patch to move duplicated code to a function. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, #5330)
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Bram Moolenaar469bdbd2019-12-11 23:05:48 +0100165Patch to use more FOR_ALL_ macros and use them. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, #5339)
166
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200167Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window
168manager. Problem with Motif? Now test_gui crashes in submenu_change().
169Athena is OK.
170Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
171
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200172Patch to properly break CJK lines: Anton Kochkov, #3875
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200173Flag in 'formatoptions' is not used in the tests.
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200174
Bram Moolenaar469bdbd2019-12-11 23:05:48 +0100175Patch to add 'vtp' option. (#5344)
176Needs better docs. Is there a better name?
177
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200178undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798
179
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100180When 'lazyredraw' is set sometimes the title is not updated.
181(Jason Franklin, 2020 Feb 3) Looks like a race condition.
182
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100183Patch to add function to return the text used in the quickfix window.
184(Yegappan, #5465)
185
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100186Patch for Template string: #4491. New pull: #4634
187Implementation is too inefficient, avoid using lambda.
188
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200189Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo.
190
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100191:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019
192Dec 19)
193
Bram Moolenaar0c0734d2019-11-26 21:44:46 +0100194Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019
195May 20)
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200196Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order
197remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set.
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200198Also #4994: window-local options not always restored, related to using :badd.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100199Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored.
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200200
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100201Patch to support cindent option to handle pragmas differently.
202(Max Rumpf, #5468)
203
204Patch to make ":verbose pwd" show the scope of the directory. (Takuya
205Fujiwara, #5469)
206
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200207Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100208Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_"
209in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200210Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found.
211(Also #1890)
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200212
Bram Moolenaar1d9215b2020-01-25 13:27:42 +0100213Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426)
214ex_next() should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd().
215
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100216Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow.
217(#4087)
218
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200219":helptags ALL" should skip directories where "tags" cannot be written.
220(Matěj Cepl, #5026)
221
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200222":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it
223goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are
224unlisted. (#4478)
225
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100226Patch to include reduce() function. (#5481)
227
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100228Patch to provide search stats in a variable, so that it can be used in the
229statusline. (Fujiwara Takuya, #4446)
230
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200231Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ?
232
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200233Universal solution to detect if t_RS is working, using cursor position.
234Koichi Iwamoto, #2126
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Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100236Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there?
237
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100238Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509)
239
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200240The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to
241support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687
242
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200243Include Haiku port. (Adrien Destugues, Siarzhuk Zharski, 2013 Oct 24)
244It can replace the BeOS code, which is likely not used anymore.
245Now on github: #1856. Updated Oct 2017
246Got permission to include this under the Vim license.
247
Bram Moolenaar560979e2020-02-04 22:53:05 +0100248"--cleanFOO" does not result in an error. (#5537)
249
Bram Moolenaard7df2792020-01-02 21:34:42 +0100250Add "t" action to settagstack(): truncate and add new entries. (#5405)
251
Bram Moolenaar403f3eb2019-11-20 22:31:13 +0100252Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252)
253
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +0100254Status line is nut updated when splitting windows. (Marcin Szamotulski, #5496)
255
Bram Moolenaar61da1bf2019-06-06 12:14:49 +0200256Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o".
257(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245)
258
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200259When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the
260default one. #4698
261
262When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent
263with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994)
264
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100265Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320)
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100266Or make "v" prefix work?
Bram Moolenaarc08ee742019-12-05 22:47:25 +0100267
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200268Modeless selection doesn't work in gvim. (#4783)
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200269Caused by patch 8.1.1534.
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200270
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200271Visual highlight not removed when 'dipslay' is "lastline" and line doesn't
272fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457)
273
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200274Patch to add per-tabpage and per-window previous directory: "lcd -" and "tcd
275-". (Yegappan Lakshmanan, #4362)
276
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200277Does not build with MinGW out of the box:
278- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h
279- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default?
Bram Moolenaareb3dc872018-05-13 22:34:24 +0200280
281Crash when mixing matchadd and substitute()? (Max Christian Pohle, 2018 May
28213, #2910) Can't reproduce?
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200283
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200284Patch to configure BUILD_DATE for reproducible builds. (James McCoy, #513)
285
286Patch to add MODIFIED_BY to MSVC build file. (Chen Lei, 2016 Nov 24, #1275)
287
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100288Patch to support "0o" for octal numbers. (Ken Takata, #5304)
289
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100290When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g.
291when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the
292gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the
293input buffer. (#5302)
294
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200295xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
296buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
297Xterm 224 supports it!
298Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki
299Saito, 2013 Apr 24) Update 2016 Aug 12.
300Also see issue #609.
301We could add the enable/disable sequences to t_ti/t_te or t_ks/t_ke.
302
Bram Moolenaar8024f932020-01-14 19:29:13 +0100303:buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp error.
304(#5467)
305
Bram Moolenaar56c860c2019-08-17 20:09:31 +0200306Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800)
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200307
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100308Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
3092007 Feb 18)
310Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
311
312Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved.
313Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181
314
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200315Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909)
316
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200317Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12)
318Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200319
Bram Moolenaardf980db2017-12-24 13:22:00 +0100320Errors found with random data:
321 heap-buffer-overflow in alist_add (#2472)
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100322
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200323Patch to support CamelCase for spell checking: See a lower-to-upper case
324change as a word boundary. (btucker-MPCData, 2016 Nov 6, #1235)
325patch for 'spellcamelcase' option: spellcheck each CamelCased word.
326(Ben Tucker, 2016 Dec 2)
327
328Patch to add {skip} argument to search(). (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 24)
329Update 2016 Jun 10, #861
330
331Patch to add "cmdline" completion to getcompletion(). (Shougo, Oct 1, #1140)
332
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200333Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of
334files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da
335Include part of #3242?
336
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200337When a terminal exit_cb closes the window, a following typed key is lost, if
338it's in a mapping. (2018 Oct 6, #2302, #3522)
339
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200340Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel
341Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31)
342Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work.
343
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100344":2resize +10" uses size of the current window, adds 10 and applies it to
345window 2. User expects 10 to be added to size of window 2. (Daniel Steinberg,
346#5443)
347
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200348Patch for multi-byte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them.
349(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25)
350Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior:
351- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in
352 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then
353 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer.
354- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is
355 covered by the above change.
356So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the
357same thing. Remarks on PR #543 (Roland Puntaier).
358Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording.
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200359
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200360Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use
361t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782)
362
Bram Moolenaar4ceaa3a2019-12-03 22:49:09 +0100363v:register isn't reset early enough, may be used by next command.
364(Andy Massimino, #5294, possible fix in #5305)
365
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100366Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike
367Williams, 2018 Oct 30)
368
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200369'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776)
370
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200371"exepath('bin/cmd')" does not work while ":!bin/cmd" does work.
372(Daniel Hahler, #4710) and executable('bin/cmd') returns 1
373
Bram Moolenaar2e693a82019-10-16 22:35:02 +0200374Error drawing the number column when 'cursorline' is set. (#3893)
375
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100376Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563.
377
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200378Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does.
379
Bram Moolenaar5ef1c6a2019-11-10 22:09:11 +0100380When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens
381in a long line. #5189
382
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200383The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented.
384Give a few examples. (#4288)
385
Bram Moolenaar790c18b2019-07-04 17:22:06 +0200386Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not
387work, results in (E479: No match". (#4610)
388
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200389Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only adds the option, no implem.):
3907 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
391 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
392 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
393
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100394Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script
395read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to
396be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041)
397
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +0100398Add a string to the 'display' option ("smoothscroll" ?) to make CTRL-E and
399CTRL-Y scroll one screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start
400with the first character (like what happens with a last line that doesn't
401fit). Display "<<<" at the start of the first visible line (like "@@@" is
402displayed in the last line). (Arseny Nasokin, #5154)
403
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200404Patch for ambiguous width characters in libvterm on MS-Windows 10.
405(Nobuhiro Takasaki, #4411)
406
Bram Moolenaar088e8e32019-08-08 22:15:18 +0200407Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741)
408
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200409Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12)
410
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200411Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes:
412https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes.
413
414Include a few color schemes, based on popularity:
415http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search
416http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme
417Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100418- monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4)
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200419- seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3)
420- gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from
421 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573)
422- janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4)
423- apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964
424Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun:
425- [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one)
426- [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid)
427Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors.
428- Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21)
429
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +0100430Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019
431Mar 5)
432
Bram Moolenaar85850f32019-07-19 22:05:51 +0200433Many users don't like 'thesaurus' to match so many words. (#4667, #1611)
434- when the match with the first word is partial, don't add other words on that
435 line.
436- support other file formats, such as comma separated. Indicate by a prefix
437 to the file in the 'thesaurus' option.
438- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
439 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
440
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200441Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are
442on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526)
443
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200444Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick
445in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the
446buffer didn't change at all.
447
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200448Patch to add getreginfo() and setreg() with an option to set the unnamed
449register "", So that registers can be saved and fully restored.
450(Andy Massimino, 2018 Aug 24, #3370)
451
Bram Moolenaar12ee7ff2019-06-10 22:47:40 +0200452Line numbers in profile are off when function was defined with ":execute".
453(Daniel Hahler, #4511)
454
Bram Moolenaara6c27c42019-05-09 19:16:22 +0200455Add a way to create an empty, hidden buffer. Like doing ":new|hide".
456":let buf = bufcreate('name')
457
Bram Moolenaar7dd64a32019-05-31 21:41:05 +0200458Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form
459'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path.
460(#4450)
461
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100462When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input().
463But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something
464similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809.
465
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200466C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
467(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
468
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100469Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this
470added?
471
Bram Moolenaar8fe10002019-09-11 22:56:44 +0200472Patch to add a flatten() function. #3676. Check that the doc explains the
473maxdepth argument (applies to the input "recursiveness").
474
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200475Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be
476negative. (see #4326)
477
478'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with
479`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_
480tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324)
481:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well.
482
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200483This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165)
484 vim: syn=nosyntax
485
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200486":doau SomeEvent" gives "No matching autocommands". This message doesn't give
487a hint about how to fix it. (#4300)
488
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100489Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work:
490#2948. (related to #1512?)
491On Win32 it stops showing, because showState is already ShS_SHOWING.
492balloon_show() does not work properly in the terminal. (Ben Jackson, 2017 Dec
49320, #2481)
494Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position.
495Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line?
496balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail,
4972018 Sep 14)
498Another request: #3811.
499
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200500More warnings from static analysis:
501https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200502
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100503Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959)
504
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200505Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525)
506
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200507Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the
508internals of the dict structure.
509
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100510nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678)
511
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200512Missing tests for:
513- add_termcap_entry()
514
Bram Moolenaar396e8292019-07-13 23:04:31 +0200515Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older
516change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list
517them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history.
518
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100519Incsearch test fails when locale is "C". (Dominique Pelle, #3986)
520Also run all tests with C locale?
521
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100522"vat" doesn't work well on XML when the closing > is on another line.
523#3927
524
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200525Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17)
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200526Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaarf2732452018-06-03 14:47:35 +0200527
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100528When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this
529case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892)
530For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail.
531
Bram Moolenaar911ead12019-04-21 00:03:35 +0200532Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name.
533(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more
534expensive).
Bram Moolenaar62e1bb42019-04-08 16:25:07 +0200535
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +0200536Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1)
537 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored.
538 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored?
539
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100540Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v,
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100541punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621)
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100542
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200543ml_get error: (Israel Chauca Fuentes, 2018 Oct 17, #3550).
544
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200545Patch to add more info to OptionSet. Should mention what triggered the change
546":set", ":setlocal", ":setglobal", "modeline"; and the old global value.
547#4118. Proposed implementation: 2019 Mar 27.
548Updated 2019 May 25.
549
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200550Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives
551drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328)
552
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200553Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and
554is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219)
555
Bram Moolenaarc8c88492018-12-27 23:59:26 +0100556When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly
557scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when
558using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721)
559
Bram Moolenaar93a1df22018-09-10 11:51:50 +0200560Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3,
561#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error.
562(Sep 8)
563
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200564Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning
565unified diff (list of lines).
566
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100567When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is
568kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text
569when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973)
570
Bram Moolenaar9d87a372018-12-18 21:41:50 +0100571Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand.
572(#3692)
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100573
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +0100574Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001)
575
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200576Using uninitialized value in test_gn
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200577Using uninitialized value in test_crypt.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200578memory leak in test_paste
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200579Memory leak in test_terminal:
580==23530== by 0x2640D7: alloc (misc2.c:874)
581==23530== by 0x2646D6: vim_strsave (misc2.c:1315)
582==23530== by 0x25841D: FullName_save (misc1.c:5443)
583==23530== by 0x17CB4F: fix_fname (buffer.c:4794)
584==23530== by 0x17CB9A: fname_expand (buffer.c:4838)
585==23530== by 0x1759AB: buflist_new (buffer.c:1889)
586==23530== by 0x35C923: term_start (terminal.c:421)
587==23530== by 0x2AFF30: mch_call_shell_terminal (os_unix.c:4377)
588==23530== by 0x2B16BE: mch_call_shell (os_unix.c:5383)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200589TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100590Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial)
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200591Memory leak in test_alot with expand()
592Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork())
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200593
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200594gethostbyname() is old, use getaddrinfo() if available. (#3227)
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200595
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200596matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul
59719.
598
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100599Should make 'listchars' global-local. Local to window or to buffer?
Bram Moolenaar95a9dd12019-12-19 22:12:03 +0100600Probably window. #5206
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100601Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a
602highlight name. Esp. for the statusline.
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200603And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in
604'fillchars' or another option?
Bram Moolenaar29634562020-01-09 21:46:04 +0100605Related: #3820 - Support setting the character displayed below the last line?
606Neovim uses "eob:X" in 'fillchars'.
Bram Moolenaar314dd792019-02-03 15:27:20 +0100607
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100608Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page.
609Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26)
610
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200611Patch to support ":tag <tagkind> <tagname>". (emmrk, 2018 May 7, #2871)
612Use something like ":tag {kind}/{tagname}".
613Not ready to include.
614
Bram Moolenaar68e65602019-05-26 21:33:31 +0200615Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set.
616Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018
617Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look.
618
619Patch for larger icons in installer. (#978) Still not good.
620
621Patch to fix that using "5gj" starting inside a closed fold does not work on
622screen lines but on text lines. (Julius Hulsmann, #4095) Lacks a test.
623
624Patch to implement 'diffref' option. (#3535)
625 Easier to use a 'diffmaster' option, is the extra complexity needed?
626 Not ready to include.
627
628Patch to specify color for cterm=underline and cterm=undercurl, like "guisp".
629Patch #2405 does something like this, but in the wrong way.
630
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200631home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9)
632
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200633When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the
634terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418)
635How would we know that the status line needs to be updated?
636
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200637Adjust windows installer explanation of behavior. (scootergrisen, #3310)
638
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100639Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10).
640Feedback from someone who uses this?
641
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200642ml_get error. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 14, #3434)
643
644Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25)
645Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo
646values.
647
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100648Further xdiff changes:
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200649- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff.
650- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks.
651- omit diff.exe from distribution
652- Can we make this show differences within a line?
653- add option to use external diff above a certain size.
Bram Moolenaar20aac6c2018-09-02 21:07:30 +0200654
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200655Difference between two regexp engines: #3373
656
Bram Moolenaard47d5222018-12-09 20:43:55 +0100657Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639)
658What is the practical use for this?
659
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200660When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only
661includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368)
662
663Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821)
Bram Moolenaar5be4cee2019-09-27 19:34:08 +0200664Asked to write a test.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200665
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200666MS-Windows: .lnk file not resolved properly when 'encoding' is set.
667(lkintact, 2018 Sep 22, #3473)
668
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100669Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492.
670
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +0200671Display error when a conceal match uses '\%>1l'. (#4854)
672
Bram Moolenaar96f45c02019-10-26 19:53:45 +0200673Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one
674window for the buffer.
675
Bram Moolenaar6c1e1572019-06-22 02:13:00 +0200676Request to add sign_setlist() to make it faster to add a lot of signs, e.g.
677when adding a sign for every quickfix entry. (#4557)
678
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100679Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old
680mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution?
681
Bram Moolenaar54775062019-07-31 21:07:14 +0200682Patch to "fix" 'visualbell'. Add option to set delay? (#1789)
683
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200684Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with
685modified buffers
686 change "silent only" into "silent only!"
687 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname"
688 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list
689 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation
690
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100691Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26):
692- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249)
693- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248)
694- signed integer overflow in getdecchrs() (#2254)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100695- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250)
696
Bram Moolenaar91f84f62018-07-29 15:07:52 +0200697Win32 console: <F11> and <F12> typed in Insert mode don't result in normal
698characters. (#3246)
699
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200700'foldtext' is evaluated too often. (Daniel Hahler, #2773)
701
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100702Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018
703Oct 28)
704
Bram Moolenaar2c64ca12018-10-19 16:22:31 +0200705ml_get error when using a Python script. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jun 1, #1737)
706Lemonboy can reproduce (2017 Jun 5)
707Also reproduced by Benjamin Doherty, 2018 Oct 4.
708Simpler way: Ken Takata, Oct 6.
709
Bram Moolenaar4c92e752019-02-17 21:18:32 +0100710Add more testing of the GTK GUI.
711- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget.
712
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200713Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK:
714- Test_setbufvar_options()
715- Test_exit_callback_interval()
716
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200717Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6)
718Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1.
Bram Moolenaarb730f0c2018-11-25 03:56:26 +0100719Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018
720Nov 22).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200721
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +0200722Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14)
723
724Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug
72524)
726
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100727Try out background make plugin:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100728 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +0100729or asyncmake:
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100730 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake
731
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100732Add a ModeChanged autocommand that has an argument indicating the old and new
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100733mode, as what's returned from mode(). Also used for switching Terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100734
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200735Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there
736is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be
737used for git temp files.
738
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100739Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540)
740
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200741Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to
742behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator.
743(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477)
744
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200745Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we
746pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip".
747
Bram Moolenaar25a6e8a2018-03-30 12:27:32 +0200748Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a
749script or function.
750
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +0200751When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well.
752E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and
753does nothing otherwise?
754
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200755MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file.
756If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again
757(wait a little while).
758CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100759
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200760Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on
761MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender,
7622017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the
763receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely.
764
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200765Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is
766missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc.
767
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200768":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or
769deleting autocmds, not when adding them.
770
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200771Alternative manpager.vim. (Enno, 2018 Jan 5, #2529)
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200772
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100773Delete all the specific stuff for the Borland compiler? (#3374)
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200774Patch in #3377 (Thomas Dziedzic)
775
Bram Moolenaara9604e62018-07-21 05:56:22 +0200776With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't
777included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it.
778(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214)
779
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200780Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1)
Bram Moolenaar0b0f0992018-05-22 21:41:30 +0200781Lacks a test.
Bram Moolenaar85eee132018-05-06 17:57:30 +0200782
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100783Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100784Jan 15, #2555)
785
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200786":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ)
787
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100788Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov)
789
Bram Moolenaar98ef2332018-03-18 14:44:37 +0100790No maintainer for Vietnamese translations.
791No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations.
792
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200793Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments:
794http://orchistro.tistory.com/236
795Should be supported with a flag.
796
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100797Starting job with cwd option, when the directory does not exist, gives a
798confusing error message. (Wang Shidong, 2018 Jan 2, #2519)
799
Bram Moolenaarb5b75622018-03-09 22:22:21 +0100800Add the debug command line history to viminfo.
801
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100802Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap.
803Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files,
804applying the diff, etc.
805
Bram Moolenaar15142e22018-04-30 22:19:58 +0200806Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018
807Apr 26, #2849)
808
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100809User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a
810word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100811
Bram Moolenaarb0d45e72017-11-05 18:19:24 +0100812Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200813
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +0200814With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed.
815(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26)
816
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200817Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with
818:drop (remote commands).
819
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +0200820Inserting a line in a CompleteDone autocommand may confuse undo. (micbou,
8212018 Jun 18, #3027)
822
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200823Implement option_save() and option_restore():
824option_restore({list}) *option_restore()*
825 Restore options previously saved by option_save().
826 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must
827 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer.
828 When window-local options have been saved, this function must
829 be called when the same window is the current window.
830 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and
831 the local options won't be restored.
832
833option_save({list}) *option_save()*
834 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be
835 passed to option_restore(). Example: >
836 let s:saved_options = option_save([
837 \ 'ignorecase',
838 \ 'iskeyword',
839 \ ])
840 au <buffer> BufLeave *
841 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options)
842< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local
843 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that
844 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set,
845 not where it was restored.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100846 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use
847 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when
848 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save()
Bram Moolenaard09091d2019-01-17 16:07:22 +0100849 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced.
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200850
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100851"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current
852directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266)
853Also see #1689.
854
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100855When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be
Bram Moolenaar72540672018-02-09 22:00:53 +0100856highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576)
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100857
Bram Moolenaar675e8d62018-06-24 20:42:01 +0200858":file" does not show anything when 'shortmess' contains 'F'. (#3070)
859
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100860No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler,
8612017 Dec 26, #2501)
862
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200863A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25)
864
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +0200865Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests).
866
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +0200867A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized.
868Mention where they were defined somewhere.
869
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100870Invalid range error when using BufWinLeave for closing terminal.
871(Gabriel Barta, 2017 Nov 15, #2339)
872
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200873ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
874
875Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30)
876
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +0100877Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494)
878Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24)
879
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100880Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch
881in #846)
882Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths.
883
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +0200884Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks.
885Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142)
886
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100887When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not
888redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241)
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200889
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +0100890In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned?
891(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22)
892
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100893Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre
894neovim #7431)
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100895
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100896Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017
897Nov 21)
898
Bram Moolenaar7db25fe2018-05-13 00:02:36 +0200899When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocmmand event isn't
900triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in
901set_color_count().
902
903Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal
904responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name.
905
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100906When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without
907CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263)
908Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously
909always nested.
910
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200911matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955.
912
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100913Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313)
914
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100915MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash)
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100916for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201)
917
Bram Moolenaar589edb32019-09-20 14:38:13 +0200918Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +0100919(and may change when picking another completion).
Bram Moolenaar95bafa22018-10-02 13:26:25 +0200920
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200921Test runtime files.
922Start with filetype detection: testdir/test_filetype.vim
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200923
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200924Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029)
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200925
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200926Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim
927defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10.
928Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block.
929
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200930After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep
93113, #2084). Set old position after the command.
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200932
Bram Moolenaarc572da52017-08-27 16:52:01 +0200933When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the
934line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22)
935
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100936The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351)
937
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +0200938Patch to fix increment/decrement not working properly when 'virtualedit' is
939set. (Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Aug 1, #923)
940
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100941Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300)
942
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200943Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv
944behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872)
945
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100946'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221)
947
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200948The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line.
949
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +0100950When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then
951a command can delete it.
952
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200953Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14,
954#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse.
955
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100956The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it
957for another buffer. (lacygoll) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back.
958
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200959X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
960pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
961clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
962Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
963Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
964clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200965Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200966
967Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696)
968
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +0200969Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self"
970attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make
971that optiona? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5)
972
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +0200973Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item.
974(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090)
975
Bram Moolenaar01164a62017-11-02 22:58:42 +0100976Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a
977buffer. (2013 Dec 9)
978Also fixes #2166?
979
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200980Python: After "import vim" error messages only show the first line of the
981stack trace. (Yggdroot, 2017 Jul 28, #1887)
982
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +0100983Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be
984possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350)
985
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200986When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the
987case of :bwipe followed by :new.
988
Bram Moolenaarb6e0ec62017-07-23 22:12:20 +0200989Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the
990existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22)
991Could also skip writing lines that are the same.
992
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +0200993Patch with Files for Latvian language. (Vitolins, 2017 May 3, #1675)
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200994
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +0200995MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017
996Jul 4)
997
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +0200998Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel
999Drucker, 2017 May 8).
1000This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow?
1001Christian cannot reproduce it.
1002
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001003Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the
1004wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827)
1005Or is this not an actual problem?
1006
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001007Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3)
1008
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001009Patch to use a separate code for BS on Windows. (Linwei, #1823)
1010
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001011Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249)
1012
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001013'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31,
1014#1736)
1015
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001016Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May
10178, #1690)
1018
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001019Bogus characters inserted when triggering indent while changing text.
1020(Vitor Antunes, 2016 Nov 22, #1269)
1021
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001022Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about,
1023it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781)
1024
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001025Segmentation fault with complete(). (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 29, #1668)
1026Check for "pat" to be NULL in search_for_exact_line()?
1027How did it get NULL? Comment by Christian, Apr 30.
1028
1029Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()?
1030(Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713)
1031
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001032Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird.
1033
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001034assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have
1035it catch multiple errors and check all of them.
1036
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001037Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific
1038for one window.
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001039
1040Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'.
1041(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23)
1042Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it
1043later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer).
1044Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a
1045mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS.
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001046Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching
1047mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete,
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001048maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()).
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001049
Bram Moolenaar40962ec2018-01-28 22:47:25 +01001050Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001051plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will
1052be defined when the plugin is loaded.
1053
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001054Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}])
1055 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar')
1056 tb_get(winid)
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001057
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001058json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23)
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001059What if there is an invalid character?
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001060
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001061Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd)
1062
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001063import can't be used in define option when include matches too.
1064(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519)
1065
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001066When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the
1067buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393)
1068Should add the buffer in hidden state.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001069
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001070Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186)
1071Also get E749 on exit.
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001072Another example in #1309
1073
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001074When deleting a mark or register, leave a tombstone, so that it's also deleted
1075when writing viminfo (and the delete was the most recent action). #1339
1076
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001077Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15,
1078#1330)
1079
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001080Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17)
1081
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001082Completion for :!cmd shows each match twice. #1435
1083
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001084GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because
1085g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the
1086timer expires.
1087
1088Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532)
1089
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001090Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with
1091highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11)
1092
10938 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
1094 Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5.
1095
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001096Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca
1097Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470)
1098
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001099Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a
1100key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g.
1101 let xx = "\<C-Home>"
1102 echo keytrans(xx)
1103 <C-Home>
1104
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001105Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL.
1106(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557)
1107Make a function to check for function-like type?
1108
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001109Screen updated delayed when using CTRL-O u in Insert mode.
1110(Barlik, #1191) Perhaps because status message?
1111
Bram Moolenaar036986f2017-03-16 17:41:02 +01001112Implement optional arguments for functions.
1113 func Foo(start, count = 1 all = 1)
1114 call Foo(12)
1115 call Foo(12, all = 0)
1116 call Foo(12, 15, 0)
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001117
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001118Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output
1119somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd
1120
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001121Patch to fix that empty first tab is not in session.
1122(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Nov 25, #1282)
1123
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001124Patch to fix escaping of job arguments. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Oct 5)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001125Update Oct 14: https://gist.github.com/mattn/d47e7d3bfe5ade4be86062b565a4bfca
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001126Update Aug 2017: #1954
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001127
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001128The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to
1129"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24)
1130Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset.
1131
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001132Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14.
1133
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001134Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page
1135about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001136Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases
1137
Bram Moolenaar220adb12016-09-12 12:17:26 +02001138Problem passing non-UTF-8 strings to Python 3. (Björn Linse, 2016 Sep 11,
1139#1053) With patch, does it work?
1140
Bram Moolenaar1ccd8ff2017-08-11 19:50:37 +02001141":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001142vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1)
1143
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001144Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands.
Bram Moolenaarfc65cab2018-08-28 22:58:02 +02001145E.g. all the location list commands use a count.
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001146Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer.
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001147
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001148Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked().
1149Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict.
1150
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001151Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27)
Bram Moolenaarbc2eada2017-01-02 21:27:47 +01001152Useful to restore it. Is there another solution?
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001153
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001154"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ".
1155(J.F. 2017 Jan 7)
1156
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001157Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent.
1158(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25)
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001159Does this also fix #1408 ?
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001160
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001161'cursorline' and match interfere. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2017 Jun 23, #1792)
1162
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001163Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30)
1164
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001165When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. (Lifepillar, 2017
1166Apr 23, #1653)
Bram Moolenaarade0d392020-01-21 22:33:58 +01001167Can 'completeopt' be made buffer-local? (#5487)
Bram Moolenaar0635ee62017-04-28 20:32:33 +02001168
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001169Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes
1170anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502)
1171
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001172Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768)
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001173E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list())
Bram Moolenaar91c49372016-05-08 09:50:29 +02001174
Bram Moolenaar3e496b02016-09-25 22:11:48 +02001175Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself.
1176(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23)
1177
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001178Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24)
1179
Bram Moolenaar51628222016-12-01 23:03:28 +01001180On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path
1181separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274)
1182
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001183min() and max() spawn lots of error messages if sorted list/dictionary
1184contains invalid data (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 4, #1039)
1185
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001186Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck)
1187
Bram Moolenaar26852122016-05-24 20:02:38 +02001188Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807)
1189
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001190Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18)
1191
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001192Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we
1193no longer support.
1194
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001195sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep
11964#1038)
1197
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001198+channel:
Bram Moolenaar06fe74a2019-08-31 16:20:32 +02001199- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi)
Bram Moolenaar1ff14ba2019-11-02 14:09:23 +01001200- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are
1201 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with
1202 ch_status() to check for more.
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001203- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50
1204 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001205- Problem with stderr on Windows? (Vincent Rischmann, 2016 Aug 31, #1026)
1206- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line
1207 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16)
1208- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler,
1209 2016 Dec 11, #1320)
1210- Implement |job-term| ?
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01001211- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys()
1212 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001213- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server.
1214- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while?
1215 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a
1216 minute. Option to set the droptime.
1217- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte.
1218- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it?
1219- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know
1220 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz,
1221 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows?
1222- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry
1223 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout.
1224- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window).
1225 With xterm could use -S{pty}.
1226 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'".
1227
1228Regexp problems:
Bram Moolenaarf6b40102019-02-22 15:24:03 +01001229- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most
1230 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying,
1231 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated).
1232 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02001233- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a
1234 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5)
Bram Moolenaar22f1d0e2018-02-27 14:53:30 +01001235- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining
1236 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312)
1237- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like
1238 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero.
1239- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6.
1240 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24)
1241 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on
1242 LC_CTYPE
1243- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine
1244 matches everywhere.
1245- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and
1246 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line.
1247- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4)
1248- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$'
1249 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3)
1250- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search.
1251- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender,
1252 2013 Dec 11)
1253- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin
1254 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7.
1255- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12)
1256- Does not work with NFA regexp engine:
1257 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character
1258- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4)
1259- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4)
1260- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24)
1261- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle,
1262 2015 Feb 7)
1263- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old
1264 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with
1265 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags.
1266 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$".
1267 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22)
1268- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12)
1269- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334)
1270- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309)
1271- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would
1272 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol,
1273 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset
1274 col and vcol when moving to another line.
1275- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving
1276 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails.
1277- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///"
1278 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough?
1279 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*')
1280 (2017 May 15, #1252)
1281
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001282Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4,
1283#1350)
1284
Bram Moolenaar94237492017-04-23 18:40:21 +02001285Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct
12863. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira.
1287Also see #1635.
1288
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001289Patch for systemlist(), add empty item. (thinca, Sep 30, #1135)
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001290Add an argument to choose binary or non-binary (like readfile()), when omitted
1291use the current behavior.
1292Include the test.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001293
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001294When 'keywordprg' starts with ":" the argument is still escaped as a shell
1295command argument. (Romain Lafourcade, 2016 Oct 16, #1175)
1296
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001297Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are
1298doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened.
1299Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001300Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001301E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used.
1302
Bram Moolenaarf0b03c42017-12-17 17:17:07 +01001303execute() cannot be used with command completion. (Daniel Hahler, 2016 Oct 1,
Bram Moolenaardc083282016-10-11 08:57:33 +02001304#1141)
1305
Bram Moolenaar7571d552016-08-18 22:54:46 +02001306cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983)
1307
Bram Moolenaar74675a62017-07-15 13:53:23 +02001308:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816)
1309
Bram Moolenaar6d5ad4c2016-10-27 17:00:16 +02001310Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25)
1311
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001312When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't
1313synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14)
1314
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001315Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946)
1316Did maintainer reply?
Bram Moolenaar42ebd062016-07-17 13:35:14 +02001317
Bram Moolenaar50ba5262016-09-22 22:33:02 +02001318Patch to avoid problem with special characters in file name.
1319(Shougo, 2016 Sept 19, #1099) Not finished?
1320
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001321ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19)
1322Also with latest version.
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001323
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001324Cannot delete a file with square brackets with delete(). (#696)
1325
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001326Patch to add ":syn foldlevel" to use fold level further down the line.
Bram Moolenaar3df01732017-02-17 22:47:16 +01001327(Brad King, 2016 Oct 19, update 2017 Jan 30)
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001328
Bram Moolenaarbc8801c2016-08-02 21:04:33 +02001329Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016
1330Jul 25, #948)
1331
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001332Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
1333names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
1334Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
1335the system encoding (usually utf-8).
1336
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001337'hlsearch' interferes with a Conceal match. (Rom Grk, 2016 Aug 9)
1338
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001339MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c?
1340Otherwise task flickers in taskbar.
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001341
1342Should make ":@r" handle line continuation. (Cesar Romani, 2016 Jun 26)
1343Also for ":@.".
1344
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +02001345Repeating 'opfunc' in a function only works once. (Tarmean, 2016 Jul 15, #925)
1346
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +02001347Have a way to get the call stack, in a function and from an exception.
1348#1125
1349
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02001350Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple
1351times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5)
1352
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001353Possibly wrong value for seq_cur. (Florent Fayolle, 2016 May 15, #806)
1354
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001355Filetype plugin for awk. (Doug Kearns, 2016 Sep 5)
1356
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001357Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799.
1358
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001359Patch for syntax folding optimization. (Shougo, 2016 Sep 6, #1045)
1360
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01001361We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about
1362the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)?
1363
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001364Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26)
1365
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001366When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the
1367emoji_width table has only one entry.
1368
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001369It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems.
1370Reject the value? #710.
1371
Bram Moolenaar06d2d382016-05-20 17:24:11 +02001372When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered.
1373Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12)
1374
Bram Moolenaarc95a3022016-06-12 23:01:46 +02001375Add redrawtabline command. (Naruhiko Nishino, 2016 Jun 11)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001376
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001377Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574
1378No test, needs some work to include.
Bram Moolenaar64d8e252016-09-06 22:12:34 +02001379
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001380Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list.
1381(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31)
Bram Moolenaarf3913272016-02-25 00:00:01 +01001382
Bram Moolenaarb4d6c3e2017-05-27 16:45:17 +02001383Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15)
1384
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01001385Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl).
1386https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/
1387Possibly include the needed code so that it can be build everywhere.
1388
Bram Moolenaar214641f2017-03-05 17:04:09 +01001389Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(),
1390but the reference remains valid.
1391
Bram Moolenaard2f3a8b2018-06-19 14:35:59 +02001392Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001393interfaces and how to build Vim with them.
1394Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most
1395interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build
1396result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001397
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001398Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001399work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24)
Bram Moolenaarbaca7f72013-09-22 14:42:24 +02001400
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001401Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15)
1402
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001403Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10)
1404
Bram Moolenaare4a3bcf2016-08-26 19:52:37 +02001405Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command?
1406Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')".
1407
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001408When repeating the 'confirm' dialog one needs to press Enter. (ds26gte, 2016
1409Apr 17) #762
1410
Bram Moolenaard0796902016-09-16 20:02:31 +02001411exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony
1412Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check?
1413
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001414Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in
1415'iskeyword' for syntax.
1416
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001417Patch to make "%:h:h" return "." instead of the full path.
1418(Coot, 2016 Jan 24, #592)
1419
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001420Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? What could possibly go wrong?
1421
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001422When command names are very long :command output is difficult to read. Use a
1423maximum for the column width? (#871)
Bram Moolenaar802a0d92016-06-26 16:17:58 +02001424Patcy by varmanishant, 2016 Jun 18, #876
Bram Moolenaara02a5512016-06-17 12:48:11 +02001425
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001426Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere.
1427It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right.
1428Add configure check?
1429Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications.
1430Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS.
1431Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4)
1432
Bram Moolenaar369b6f52017-01-17 12:22:32 +01001433Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379
1434Do not include the linebreak at the start?
1435
Bram Moolenaar46fceaa2016-10-23 21:21:08 +02001436Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line.
1437Especially useful when using 'linebreak'
1438
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001439":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the
1440directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29)
1441
Bram Moolenaar68563932017-01-10 13:31:15 +01001442In debug mode one can inspect variables, but not the function parameters
1443(starting with a:). (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1352)
1444
Bram Moolenaar06481422016-04-30 15:13:38 +02001445If ":bd" also closes a Tab page then the " mark is not set. (Harm te Hennepe,
14462016 Apr 25, #780)
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001447
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001448Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible.
1449(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28)
1450
Bram Moolenaar6f1d9a02016-07-24 14:12:38 +02001451Patch to show search statistics. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jul 22)
1452
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001453When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot
1454restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20)
1455Do not trigger the event?
1456
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001457Using ":windo" to set options in all windows has the side effect that it
1458changes the window layout and the current window. Make a variant that saves
1459and restores. Use in the matchparen plugin.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01001460Perhaps we can use ":windo <restore> {cmd}"?
1461Patch to add <restore> to :windo, :bufdo, etc. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan
14626, 2nd message)
1463Alternative: ":keeppos" command modifier: ":keeppos windo {cmd}".
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001464
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001465Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013)
1466Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25:
1467https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477
1468
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001469Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible.
1470With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8)
1471
Bram Moolenaaraa3b15d2016-04-21 08:53:19 +02001472Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13)
Bram Moolenaar4f3f6682016-03-26 23:01:59 +01001473
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +01001474Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3)
1475
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001476Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17)
Bram Moolenaar38a55632016-02-15 22:07:32 +01001477Only remembers one error.
1478
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02001479GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab.
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001480
Bram Moolenaar12969c02015-09-08 23:36:10 +02001481Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen.
1482(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001483
Bram Moolenaar345efa02016-01-15 20:57:49 +01001484Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from
1485github with a URL like this:
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001486 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001487Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch.
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001488
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001489Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001490
Bram Moolenaar77cdfd12016-03-12 12:57:59 +01001491Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001492comparing individual items.
1493Also, "'' == 0" evaluates to true, which isn't nice.
1494Add "===" to have a strict comparison (type and value match).
1495Add "==*" (?) to have a value match, but no automatic conversion, and v:true
1496equals 1 and 1.0, v:false equals 0 and 0.0.?
1497
Bram Moolenaarb4ff5182015-11-10 21:15:48 +01001498Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4)
1499
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001500MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the
1501wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4.
1502
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001503Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it
1504specifically? First try with the parens, then without.
1505
Bram Moolenaare0fa3742016-02-20 15:47:01 +01001506Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup.
1507(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19)
1508
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001509Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001510inconsistent with the documentation.
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001511
Bram Moolenaar690afe12017-01-28 18:34:47 +01001512Value of virtcol() for '[ and '] depend on multi-byte character.
1513(Luchr, #277)
1514
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001515Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and
Bram Moolenaar6aa8cea2017-06-05 14:44:35 +02001516'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes
1517before combining them.
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001518
Bram Moolenaar818078d2016-08-27 21:58:42 +02001519C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef
1520and also line continuation after #include.
1521I can't recommend it though.
1522
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001523Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library.
1524(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28)
1525
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001526To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU
1527library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis
1528
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001529When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 'backspace'
1530is Vi compatible, the completion fails. (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19)
1531
Bram Moolenaar5e9b2fa2016-02-01 22:37:05 +01001532Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan
153330)
1534
Bram Moolenaar75b81562014-04-06 14:09:13 +02001535MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\".
1536(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29)
1537
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001538The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep
153924): :diffthis, :diffoff.
Bram Moolenaar2b8388b2015-02-28 13:11:45 +01001540
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001541":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side
1542effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default.
1543
Bram Moolenaar60cce2f2015-10-13 23:21:27 +02001544":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct
15459)
1546
1547The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands
1548wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4)
1549
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001550Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5)
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001551Update Aug 14.
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001552
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01001553When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet,
1554the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21)
1555
Bram Moolenaar03413f42016-04-12 21:07:15 +02001556Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a
Bram Moolenaar88774fd2015-08-25 19:52:04 +02001557slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that
1558inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12)
1559
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001560ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little,
15612014 Sep 11)
1562
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001563Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it.
1564(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23)
1565
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001566When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the
1567'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20)
1568
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001569Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26)
1570Work in progress.
1571
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01001572Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but
1573when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it.
1574
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001575Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22)
1576Is this right?
1577
Bram Moolenaarf9132812015-07-21 19:19:13 +02001578Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems.
1579(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8)
1580Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed?
1581
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001582Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito)
1583Does this work for everybody?
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001584
Bram Moolenaare2db6c92015-06-19 18:48:41 +02001585Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20)
1586Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban)
1587
Bram Moolenaarfc39ecf2015-08-11 20:34:49 +02001588Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4)
1589
Bram Moolenaar5837f1f2015-03-21 18:06:14 +01001590When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not
1591filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the
1592initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8)
1593
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001594Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306.
1595
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001596Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25)
1597OK to not block marks?
1598
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001599Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1)
1600
Bram Moolenaare2719092015-01-10 15:09:25 +01001601Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep.
1602
Bram Moolenaarca635012015-09-25 20:34:21 +02001603When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost.
1604(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17)
1605
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001606Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001607
Bram Moolenaared32d942014-12-06 23:33:00 +01001608Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break.
1609(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27)
1610
Bram Moolenaar3a991dd2014-10-02 01:41:41 +02001611When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats
1612any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19)
1613
1614Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02001615
Bram Moolenaar92dff182014-02-11 19:15:50 +01001616Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001617
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001618Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
1619(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
1620
1621Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26)
1622
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001623Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined.
1624Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name
1625was already defined.
1626(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3)
1627
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001628Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7)
1629
Bram Moolenaar91e15e12014-09-19 22:38:48 +02001630Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaare3faf442014-12-14 01:27:49 +01001631Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12)
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001632Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16
Bram Moolenaare18dbe82016-07-02 21:42:23 +02001633Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001634
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001635Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler.
1636(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15)
1637
Bram Moolenaar8a94d872015-01-25 13:02:57 +01001638Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes.
1639(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16)
1640
Bram Moolenaar8feef4f2015-01-07 16:57:10 +01001641Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22)
1642
Bram Moolenaara0f849e2015-10-30 14:37:44 +01001643When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but
1644these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview
1645window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27)
1646
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001647Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably
1648should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in
1649history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2)
1650Patch from Jacob, Nov 2.
1651
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001652"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014
1653Jun 8)
1654
Bram Moolenaarc2299672014-11-13 14:25:38 +01001655Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not
1656insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7)
1657
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001658No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20)
1659
Bram Moolenaarf2571c62015-06-09 19:44:55 +02001660Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point.
1661(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it?
1662Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or
1663arguments.
1664
Bram Moolenaare392eb42015-11-19 20:38:09 +01001665Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475
1666
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +02001667Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001668
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001669Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote:
16700x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4)
1671New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not
1672compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded.
1673
Bram Moolenaar7dda86f2018-04-20 22:36:41 +02001674Spell checking: Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start
1675a new sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space.
1676
Bram Moolenaar13600302014-05-22 18:26:40 +02001677Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use
1678right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001679its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time.
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02001680
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01001681Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21)
1682
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001683This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21)
1684 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1'
1685This neither: (ZyX)
1686 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1'
1687
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001688'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory.
1689Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read
1690from?
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001691
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001692Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman,
16932014 Jun 8)
1694
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001695Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently.
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001696Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001697Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies.
1698Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html
1699User view:
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01001700- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that
1701 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?).
1702 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install.
Bram Moolenaar76f3b1a2014-03-27 22:30:07 +01001703- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces.
1704- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies
1705 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc.
1706 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update.
1707 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts
1708 on vim.org.
1709- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks
1710 there. Can manually update when really needed.
1711- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide?
1712- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin.
1713- Run the update manually, find latest version and install.
1714- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users.
1715Implementation:
1716- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each
1717 plugin separate.
1718- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This
1719 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show
1720 the user what's going to change and ask for OK.
1721- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format
1722 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest?
1723- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on
1724 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before
1725 installing.
1726Out of scope:
1727- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world.
1728- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be
1729 useful).
1730
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001731Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the
1732normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001733
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02001734When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the
1735menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu?
1736
Bram Moolenaar7e38ea22014-04-05 22:55:53 +02001737Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors.
1738(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
1739
1740":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for
1741various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30)
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001742
Bram Moolenaar0a63ded2015-04-15 13:31:24 +02001743Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression.
Bram Moolenaar8bb1c3e2014-07-04 16:43:17 +02001744(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25)
1745
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001746VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow
1747instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28)
1748
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001749Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4)
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001750Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what?
Bram Moolenaar08589172014-03-08 18:38:28 +01001751
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02001752Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching
Bram Moolenaar822ff862014-06-12 21:46:14 +02001753command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen)
Bram Moolenaar438f67a2014-01-07 06:09:28 +01001754
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001755Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14)
1756
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001757Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the
1758highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it?
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001759
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02001760The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346)
1761For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name.
1762
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001763Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as
Bram Moolenaar7b61a542014-08-23 15:31:19 +02001764possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22)
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01001765
Bram Moolenaard5d015d2013-11-03 21:14:31 +01001766Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02001767
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001768Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12)
1769
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +010017707 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1771 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1772 "lucida_console:h8").
1773Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24
1774
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001775:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work.
1776
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +02001777Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
1778
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001779Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6.
1780
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001781When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work.
1782(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14)
1783
1784Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013
Bram Moolenaar259f26a2018-05-15 22:25:40 +02001785Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow.
Bram Moolenaar4b550b42013-12-15 10:02:33 +01001786
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001787GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width.
1788(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6)
1789
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001790Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered
1791registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18)
1792
Bram Moolenaar1aeaf8c2012-05-18 13:46:39 +02001793Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3.
1794
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02001795The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer.
1796(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22)
1797Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22.
1798
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001799The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it:
1800- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete)
1801- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func.
1802
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01001803Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5)
1804Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables
1805reliably?
1806
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001807Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}.
1808(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9)
1809
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01001810Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch.
1811(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19)
1812
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001813Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt,
18142013 Mar 19, later message)
Bram Moolenaar26402cb2013-02-20 21:26:00 +01001815
1816Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15)
1817
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02001818Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May
18195)
1820
Bram Moolenaar56b45b92013-06-24 22:22:18 +02001821Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are
1822carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19)
1823
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02001824Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets
1825highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4)
1826
Bram Moolenaar4b60a6c2013-11-14 05:48:46 +01001827Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001828
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001829Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +0200183028) With tests: Oct 9.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001831
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02001832Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2)
1833
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001834Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec)
1835
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001836- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
1837 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
1838Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished.
Bram Moolenaar97cc2382012-10-03 21:46:54 +02001839
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001840Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work.
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001841
Bram Moolenaar3a0d8092012-10-21 03:02:54 +02001842In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the
1843process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after
1844a reboot.
1845
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001846patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6)
1847
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01001848Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is
1849not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001850
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001851Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
1852Or use expand('<sid>')?
1853
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001854Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9)
1855
Bram Moolenaarac7bd632013-03-19 11:35:58 +01001856Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17)
1857
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001858b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan
18597)
1860
Bram Moolenaar14b69452013-06-29 23:05:20 +02001861Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1862compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically?
1863
1864Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from
1865Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with
1866vim.bindeval().
1867
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02001868Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers,
18692012 Aug 4)
1870
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001871Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns.
1872(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17)
1873
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001874Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24)
1875But use Gnome instead of GTK?
1876
1877Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer.
1878Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin
1879Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02001880
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02001881Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1882loading all files.
1883
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001884MS-Windows resizing problems:
1885- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun
1886 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement()
1887- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar
1888 causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan
1889 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2)
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001890
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001891'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23)
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001892
Bram Moolenaarad3b3662013-05-17 18:14:19 +02001893Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out
Bram Moolenaarbf884932013-04-05 22:26:15 +02001894of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28)
1895
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001896The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O.
1897Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18)
1898But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001899
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01001900When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which
1901is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty".
1902
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001903URXVT:
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01001904- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon.
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001905- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations:
1906 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662
1907
Bram Moolenaar7d76c802014-10-15 22:51:52 +02001908Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer.
1909(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25)
1910Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column.
1911
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001912Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns)
Bram Moolenaar6c35bea2012-07-25 17:49:10 +02001913New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001914
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01001915When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait
1916for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3)
1917Do give the prompt? Quit with an error?
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001918
Bram Moolenaard38b0552012-04-25 19:07:41 +02001919Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18)
1920
Bram Moolenaardfb18412013-12-11 18:53:29 +01001921Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6)
1922
Bram Moolenaarff034192013-04-24 18:51:19 +02001923Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013
1924Apr 18)
1925
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001926Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
1927And one for gui_x11.txt.
1928
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001929":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**".
1930finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10)
1931Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code.
1932
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001933Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593.
1934
Bram Moolenaar34700a62013-03-07 13:20:54 +01001935Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22)
1936
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001937Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
1938they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
1939
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01001940Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8)
1941
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001942Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011
1943Nov 20)
1944
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001945Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26)
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001946Update Jun 2.
Bram Moolenaarc8734422012-06-01 22:38:45 +02001947
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01001948`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character.
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001949(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9)
1950
1951Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29)
1952
Bram Moolenaardb7207e2012-02-22 17:30:19 +01001953BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech
1954Lorens, 2012 Feb 21)
1955
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001956Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1957Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this?
1958
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01001959Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27)
1960
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02001961On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz,
19622012 Jun 19)
1963
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001964'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
1965'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
1966Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001967Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaar5b435d62012-04-05 17:33:26 +02001968
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001969With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
1970(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
1971need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
1972
1973Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
1974only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
197521, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
1976
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001977Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17)
1978New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks.
1979
1980Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011
1981Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others.
1982
Bram Moolenaar6be7f872012-01-20 21:08:56 +01001983Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012
1984Jan 19)
1985
Bram Moolenaarfa735342016-01-03 22:14:44 +01001986Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21,
1987discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different
1988meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used.
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001989
Bram Moolenaarbc488a72013-07-05 21:01:22 +02001990"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011
Bram Moolenaarf1568ec2011-12-14 21:17:39 +01001991Oct 26)
1992
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001993Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
1994
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02001995With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
1996register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001997
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02001998Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
1999
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002000When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
2001(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
2002
Bram Moolenaar84f72352012-03-11 15:57:40 +01002003When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line,
2004then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader
2005from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27)
2006
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002007Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
2008":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
200915)
2010
2011Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
2012
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002013BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not
2014cleared. See test64.
2015
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002016Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002017effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002018Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest().
Bram Moolenaar2a953fc2019-01-26 17:41:47 +01002019https://github.com/chrisbra/vim-mq-patches/blob/master/enable_spellchecking
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002020
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002021On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
202264 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
2023right type.
2024
2025string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
2026(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
2027
2028When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
2029(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002030When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
2031following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
2032(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002033
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002034When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
2035doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
2036
Bram Moolenaar36782082013-11-28 13:53:34 +01002037Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19)
2038
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002039maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
2040mapping, how to restore the script ID?
2041
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002042Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
2043(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
2044
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002045When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
2046indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
2047the help file.
2048
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002049After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
2050Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
2051
2052Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
2053
2054"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
2055
Bram Moolenaarb8ff1fb2012-02-04 21:59:01 +01002056Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30)
2057
Bram Moolenaare2db6952013-07-24 19:53:36 +02002058Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002059
2060Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
20612010 Dec 18)
2062
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002063With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
2064number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
2065Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
2066
Bram Moolenaar7cba6c02013-09-05 22:13:31 +02002067Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29)
2068Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use.
2069
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020020708 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2071Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
2072
Bram Moolenaar32efaf62014-11-05 17:02:17 +01002073Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar
2074one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if
2075the match scrolls into view.
2076
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020020777 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2078Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2079Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
2080
20819 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
2082 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
2083Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
2084
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002085Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
2086Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
2087
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002088In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
2089or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
2090sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
2091
2092GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
2093doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
2094
2095GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
2096
2097Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
2098Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
2099
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02002100Wish for NetBeans commands:
2101 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2102
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002103Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
2104
21057.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
2106there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
2107do?
2108
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +02002109Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
211022)
2111
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002112New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
2113- move compflags to separate growarray?
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002114- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002115 the maximum repeat for * and +?
2116
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002117"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
21182011 Feb 27)
2119
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002120Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
2121^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
2122
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002123When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
2124exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
21259) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
2126
2127g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
2128the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
2129
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002130Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
2131crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
2132
Bram Moolenaar9ba7e172013-07-17 22:37:26 +02002133Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line
2134number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15)
2135
Bram Moolenaarec7944a2013-06-12 21:29:15 +02002136Regexp engine performance:
2137- Profiling:
2138 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim
2139 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim
2140 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim
2141 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim
2142 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim
2143 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7)
2144- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo.
2145- Performance tests:
2146 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6)
2147 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
2148 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML)
2149 - glts has five tests. (May 25)
2150 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
2151 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
2152 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
2153 'hlsearch'.
2154 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to
2155 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch
2156 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with
2157 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why.
2158
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002159Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
2160Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
2161
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02002162'beval' option should be global-local.
2163
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002164Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002165
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002166setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +02002167
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002168With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
21692010 Oct 24)
2170
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002171Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
2172
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02002173When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
2174Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
2175
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +02002176":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
2177
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002178'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
2179
Bram Moolenaar6ee8d892012-01-10 14:55:01 +01002180C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not
2181checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit().
2182Issue 46.
2183
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002184Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
2185
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002186Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
2187gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
2188
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002189":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
2190accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
2191
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002192Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
2193setwinvar().
2194
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002195Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002196
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002197When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
2198instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
2199
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002200Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
2201Winckler, 2011 May 11)
2202Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002203
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002204Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
2205back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
2206
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002207Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002208Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
2209
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002210CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
2211the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
2212FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
2213
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002214Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
2215Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
2216
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02002217Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
2218Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
2219
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002220Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
2221
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +01002222Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
2223non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002224
2225iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
2226Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
2227or replace with a character and continue?
2228
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002229Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
2230Requires configure check for localtime().
2231Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
2232
Bram Moolenaar34feacb2012-12-05 19:01:43 +01002233Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate
2234Soares, 2012 Dec 3)
2235
2236Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4)
2237
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002238Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
2239Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
2240path.
2241
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002242Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
Bram Moolenaar9b451252012-08-15 17:43:31 +02002243Dominique can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002244
Bram Moolenaar61d35bd2012-03-28 20:51:51 +02002245'ambiwidth' should be global-local.
2246
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002247":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
2248like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
2249
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002250Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects:
2251https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +02002252
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002253Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
22542010 Nov 5)
2255
Bram Moolenaar09521312016-08-12 22:54:35 +02002256Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002257Jan 7)
2258
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002259Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
2260
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002261With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
2262entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
2263Feb 12)
2264
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +02002265Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
2266characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
2267
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002268Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
2269
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02002270Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
2271 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
2272
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +02002273Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
2274
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +02002275When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
2276Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
2277
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002278When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
2279not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
2280string value.
2281
Bram Moolenaar86ae7202015-07-10 19:31:35 +02002282For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002283line argument -noregister.
2284
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002285When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
2286missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
2287
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002288When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
2289doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002290
2291Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
2292(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
2293Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
2294There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
2295Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
2296
2297":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
2298highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
2299to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
2300
2301Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
2302Probably needs a bit of work.
2303
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002304List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002305Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
2306
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002307Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
2308
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002309Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
2310
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002311Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
2312Sep 1)
2313
Bram Moolenaar5dc62522012-02-13 00:05:22 +01002314Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5)
2315
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002316Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
2317on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
2318
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002319Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
23202009 Jul 18)
2321
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002322Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
2323window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
2324Needs more work.
2325
2326Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
2327
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002328When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
2329few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
2330
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +01002331'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002332(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
2333
2334Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
2335J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
2336
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002337When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
2338for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
2339
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +02002340Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
2341
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002342":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
2343because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
2344ex_docmd.c.
2345
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002346Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002347Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
2348
2349string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
2350for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
2351
2352Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
2353
2354'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
235520)
2356
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002357Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
23582009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
2359
2360Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
2361
2362Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
2363SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
2364
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002365When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
2366indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
2367(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
2368
2369Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
2370are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
2371Ignore window options when not in the right window?
2372Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
2373that doesn't have a window.
2374
2375When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
2376doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
2377
2378getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
2379displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
2380
2381":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
2382
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002383There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
2384was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
2385perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
2386
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +02002387Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
2388
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002389Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
2390command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
2391
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002392Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
2393does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
2394
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002395opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
2396height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +02002397very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +02002398
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002399Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
2400(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
2401
Bram Moolenaar97d62492012-11-15 21:28:22 +01002402Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab.
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002403(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
2404
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002405Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
2406char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
2407
Bram Moolenaare968e362014-05-13 20:23:24 +02002408Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
2409Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
2410
2411This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch).
2412
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002413Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
2414messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
2415es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
24162009 Jan 26)
2417
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +01002418When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002419in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
2420Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
2421
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002422Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
2423a modeline.
2424
2425Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
2426Sergey Khorev)
2427
2428Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
2429part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002430
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002431After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
2432correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
2433
2434Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
2435(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
2436
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002437shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +01002438'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
2439Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
2440unix-like shell?
2441
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +02002442Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
2443register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
2444(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
2445
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002446Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
2447Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
2448
2449Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
2450make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
2451
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002452When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
2453still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
2454
2455"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
2456(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
2457
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002458Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
2459that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
2460ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
2461Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
2462
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002463MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
2464doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
2465probably causes this.
2466
2467'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +020024682009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002469
2470Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
2471 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
2472 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
2473(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
2474
2475Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
2476":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
2477option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
2478is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002479
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002480":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
2481first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaarbcb98982014-05-01 14:08:19 +02002482Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002483
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002484Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
2485laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
2486Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002487
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002488Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
2489anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
2490
2491On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
2492doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
2493Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
2494Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
2495
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002496When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
2497'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
2498fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
2499the buffer to be unmodified.
2500Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
2501another look at it.
2502
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002503c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
2504(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
2505
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002506You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
2507error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
2508Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
2509at the other match for 0xBF.
2510
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002511When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
2512argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
2513
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002514Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
2515backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
2516
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002517When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
2518line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
2519
2520Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
2521position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
2522
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002523After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
2524(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002525command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002526
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002527":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
2528Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
2529
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002530When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
2531either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
2532put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
2533
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002534Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
2535Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
2536Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
2537Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
2538(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
2539
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002540Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
2541
2542ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002543
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002544Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
2545(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
2546escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
2547an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002548This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
2549July 7)
Bram Moolenaard09acef2012-09-21 14:54:30 +02002550Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not
2551work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15)
2552
2553When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May
255431)
2555
2556Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
2557work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
2558Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002559
Bram Moolenaar256972a2015-12-29 19:10:25 +01002560Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the
2561multi-byte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt.
2562(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18)
2563
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002564Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
25652008 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar5a5f4592015-04-13 12:43:06 +02002566Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002567
2568Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
2569Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
2570'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
2571
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002572Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
2573Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
2574
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002575Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
2576Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
2577
Bram Moolenaar543b7ef2013-06-01 14:50:56 +020025788 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
2579 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
2580 several).
2581 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
2582 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
2583 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
2584Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31.
2585
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002586The utf class table is missing some entries:
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002587 0x2212, minus sign
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002588 0x2217, star
2589 0x2500, bar
2590 0x26ab, circle
2591
2592Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
2593line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
2594
2595GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
2596Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
2597
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002598Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
2599try the Cocoa version.
2600
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002601Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
2602changed or the window is resized.
2603
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01002604GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
2605the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
2606
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002607Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
2608Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002609
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002610Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
26111) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
2612
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002613C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
2614with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
2615Try to reproduce at work.
2616
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002617Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
2618Is there a way to list all the files first?
2619
2620When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
2621result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
262216)
2623
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002624Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
2625(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
2626
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002627Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
2628Await response to question to make the register writable.
2629
2630Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
26311)
2632
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002633In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
2634each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
2635
2636try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
2637
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002638try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
2639
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002640":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
2641Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
2642
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002643Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
2644
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002645Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
2646Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
2647
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002648Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
2649Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
2650Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002651
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002652When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
2653and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
2654
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002655Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
2656 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
2657
2658New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
2659
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02002660":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
2661a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
2662
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002663'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
2664Likonen, March 19)
2665
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002666Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
2667other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
2668
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002669The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
2670appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
2671matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
2672
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002673When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
2674character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
2675'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
2676(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
2677
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002678Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
2679Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002680
2681More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
2682
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02002683Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
2684http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
2685
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002686Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
2687back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
2688Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002689
2690Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
2691No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
2692
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002693Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
2694terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002695
2696Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
2697
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002698Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
2699but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
2700that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002701
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002702Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
2703Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
2704
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002705Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
2706popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
2707size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
2708This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
2709
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002710When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
2711it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
2712
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002713Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
2714then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
2715files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002716Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
2717indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
2718":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
Bram Moolenaar34401cc2014-08-29 15:12:19 +02002719in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very
2720quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002721Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002722
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002723When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
2724parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
2725neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
2726particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2727Jun 3)
2728However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
2729the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002730
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002731A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
2732Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
2733
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002734Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
2735Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
2736
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002737Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
2738switch list is noticed:
2739 switch (i)
2740 {
2741 case 1:
2742 foobar:
2743 }
2744
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002745Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
2746
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002747Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
2748with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
2749go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
2750moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
2751
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002752Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002753GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaarb6b046b2011-12-30 13:11:27 +01002754Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
2755argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
2756(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
2757
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002758Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
2759(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
2760
2761Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
2762makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
2763.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01002764 # uninstall key: vim8.1*
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02002765
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002766Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
27672007 Feb 8)
2768
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002769Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
2770set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002771
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002772Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
2773
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002774Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
2775Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
2776New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
2777patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
2778
2779Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
2780Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
2781
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002782Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00002783label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
2784
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002785Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
2786with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
2787Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002788
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002789Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
2790
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002791Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
2792Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
2793only takes 'shellslash' into account.
2794
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002795Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
2796Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02002797Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002798properly?
2799
2800Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
28012007 Jun 21)
2802
2803When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
2804Jun 18)
2805
2806If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
2807
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002808Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
2809windows. (Adam George)
2810
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002811In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
2812the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
2813
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002814C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
2815
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002816":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
2817
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002818When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002819error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002820
Bram Moolenaarb477af22018-07-15 20:20:18 +02002821GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002822use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
2823
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002824Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
2825if_ruby.c.
2826
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002827":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
2828
2829The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
2830it in keep_msg?
2831
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002832Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002833error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002834name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
2835
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00002836Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
2837longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00002838
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002839Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
2840Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
2841Also for ":w" without a file name.
2842The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002843
2844"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
2845Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
2846
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002847VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
2848directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
2849(Zoltan Arpadffy)
2850
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002851VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2852
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002853input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
2854name?
2855
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002856Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
2857
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002858When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
2859(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01002860Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002861will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
2862
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002863gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
2864This also fails with --remote.
2865
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002866When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
28672008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
2868all places where buf_freeall() is called?
2869
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002870aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
2871
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002872When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
2873(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
2874
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002875Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
2876the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
2877
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002878GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
2879
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002880Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
2881superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
2882
2883Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
2884character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
2885
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002886Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
2887Jun 5)
2888
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002889Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
28902008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
2891Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
2892
2893In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
2894but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
2895Jul 22)
2896
2897There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
2898
2899Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
2900":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
2901somehow? Or use a new function.
2902
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002903Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
2904
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002905Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
2906moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
2907that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
2908
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002909The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
2910
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002911When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002912cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
2913the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
2914
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002915These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
2916 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
2917 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
2918 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
2919
2920Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
2921partly. (2006 Dec 7)
2922
2923In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
2924buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
2925reload it then?
2926
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002927For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
2928
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002929Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
2930only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
2931
2932Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
2933tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
2934doesn't contain other directories.
2935
Bram Moolenaar8d043172014-01-23 14:24:41 +01002936Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors.
2937Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10.
2938
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01002939Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
2940 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
2941 set background=dark
2942This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
2943color is, not reset it.
2944
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002945Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
2946start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
2947show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
2948middle?
2949
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002950Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
2951
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002952When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
2953current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
2954the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
2955
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002956When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
2957Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
2958
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002959Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
2960Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
2961
2962Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
2963
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002964A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
2965Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
2966
2967Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
2968Dara, 2006 June 21)
2969
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002970Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
2971number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
2972
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002973After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
2974the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
2975
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002976Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002977
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002978Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
2979Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
2980
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02002981Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010029822008 Sep 29)
2983
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002984In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
2985check the result of has("patch13").
2986
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002987Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
2988restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
2989
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01002990Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
2991and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
2992
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002993Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
2994put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
2995
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002996Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
2997resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
2998
2999In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
3000can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
3001
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003002GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
3003maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
3004doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003005Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
3006visible.
3007
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01003008When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
3009differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003010
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003011The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
3012be only one.
3013
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003014Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003015"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
3016name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
3017Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003018
3019Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
3020(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
3021
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003022Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
3023as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
3024
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003025Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
302623)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003027
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003028":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
3029tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
3030Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003031
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003032When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
3033text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
3034latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
3035
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003036Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
3037no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
3038
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003039In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
3040VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
30412007 Oct 16)
3042
3043TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
3044Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
3045
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003046Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003047
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003048When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
3049typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
3050Sep 3, 11)
3051
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003052":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
3053this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
3054
3055When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
3056Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
3057restored. (Luc St-Louis)
3058
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02003059Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
30602010 Jun 30)
3061
Bram Moolenaar6e932462014-09-09 18:48:09 +02003062Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for
3063'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows.
3064(Kartik Agaram)
3065
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003066
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003067Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that):
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +01003068- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed:
3069 - manipulating the Visual selection?
3070- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way
3071 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID.
3072 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column.
3073- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what
3074 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about
3075 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped?
Bram Moolenaar298b4402016-01-28 22:38:53 +01003076- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand?
3077- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01003078
3079
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003080More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003081- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
3082 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003083- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003084- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
3085 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003086- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
3087- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
3088- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
3089 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
3090 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003091- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003092- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
3093 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
3094- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
3095 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
3096- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
3097 21)
3098- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
3099 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
3100- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
3101 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003102- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
3103 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02003104- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
3105 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
3106 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
3107 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
3108 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02003109- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00003110
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003111Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000031129 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
3113 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
3114 New patch 2004 Jun 16
3115 - selecting proportional font breaks display
3116 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
3117 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
3118 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
3119 (Alan Schmitt)
3120 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003121 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
3122 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000031239 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003124 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000031258 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031267 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
3127 Update 2004 Sep 6.
3128 How does this work? Missing comments.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031298 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003130 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +020031317 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003132 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
3133- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
3134 for multi-byte characters.
3135- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
3136- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
3137 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
3138 been given values.
3139 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031407 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
3141 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
3142- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
3143 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
3144 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
31458 Add functions:
3146 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
3147 Update 2004 Sep 10
3148 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
3149 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003150 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003151 How to get the messages into the .po files?
3152 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
3153 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
3154 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
3155 (2003 May 13)
3156 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
3157 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003158 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
3159 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003160 col('^') column of first non-white character.
3161 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
3162 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031637 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
3164 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031657 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
3166 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000031678 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
3168 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031697 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
31708 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
3171 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
31727 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
3173 Kotchan has a patch for it)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000031747 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
3175- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
3176 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
3177 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003178- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
3179 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
3180- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
3181
Bram Moolenaar723dd942019-04-04 13:11:03 +02003182Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support:
3183- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi
3184 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c
3185
Bram Moolenaar26967612019-03-17 17:13:16 +01003186Quickfix/Location List:
3187- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24,
3188 #2999)
3189- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened
3190 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would
3191 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for
3192 the quickfix buffer?
3193- Quickfix window height is not kept with a vertical split. (Lifepillar,
3194 2018 Jun 10, #2998)
3195- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist,
3196 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext.
3197- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that
3198 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used
3199 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3)
3200- This does not work: :set cscopequickfix=a-
3201 (Linewi, 2015 Jul 12, #914)
3202- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
3203- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro,
3204 2007 Jan 1)
3205- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
3206 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
3207- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
3208 errors. How do we get the rest?
32098 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
3210 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
3211 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
3212 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
32137 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
3214 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003215
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003216Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003217- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
3218 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032198 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
3220 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
3221 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
3222 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
3223 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
3224 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032258 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
3226 make Vim exit.
32277 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
3228 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
3229 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
32308 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
3231 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
3232 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
32336 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
3234 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
3235 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
32368 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
3237 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
3238 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
3239 names in one buffer???
3240 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
3241 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
3242 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
32437 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
3244 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
3245 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00003246 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
3247 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032487 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
3249 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
32507 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
32517 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032527 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
3253 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
3254 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
3255 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
32567 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
32577 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
32587 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
3259 to the match with the tag? Option?
32607 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
32617 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
3262 (Sayre).
32637 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
3264 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032657 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
3266 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
3267 match. Nvi can do it too.
32687 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
3269 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
3270 line 1\ line 2\\
3271 line 2\ line 3\\
3272 . line4/
32736 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
3274 the way the shell is started?
32756 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
3276 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
3277
3278
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003279GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000032809 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032818 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
3282 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
3283 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000032848 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
3285 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
3286 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032879 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
3288 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
3289 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
3290 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00003291- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
3292 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
3293 blocked for now.
3294
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003295
3296Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003297- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
3298 the screen.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032998 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
3300 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
3301 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033026 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
3303 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000033048 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
3305 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
3306 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033077 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
3308 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
3309 to use an opaque background in most places?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033107 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
3311 2004 May 9)
33128 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
3313 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
3314 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
3315 MS-Windows 98?
3316 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
3317 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
3318 file: Window moves with the cursor!
3319 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033208 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
3321 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
3322 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
3323 doesn't work properly.
33248 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
3325 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
3326 appears in the right position. (Webb)
33279 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
3328 button doesn't give popup menu.
3329 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
3330 selection.
3331 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
3332 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
3333 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
33348 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
3335 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
3336 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
3337 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
33388 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
3339 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
3340 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033417 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
3342 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00003343 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033447 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
3345 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033466 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
33478 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
3348 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
3349 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
33508 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
3351 know which keyboard is being used?
33527 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
3353 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
3354 area (Koloseike).
33558 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
3356 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
3357 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
3358 the font name).
3359
3360
3361Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000033626 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
3363 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
3364 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
3365 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
3366 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033679 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
3368 required and it's missing?
33698 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
3370 wrong.
33719 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
3372 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000033739 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003374 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
3375 flag.
33768 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
3377 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
3378 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
33798 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
33806 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
3381 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
3382 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
3383 the tooltips work though...
33847 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
3385 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
33868 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
3387 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
3388 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
3389
3390
3391Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010033929 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
3393 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033949 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
3395 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
3396 through files.
33977 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
3398 read long file names. (Schroeder)
33994 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
3400 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
3401 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
3402 problem during a refresh.
34035 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
3404 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
3405 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
3406 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
3407 colors as it should.
3408 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
3409 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
3410
3411
3412Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02003413- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034147 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
3415 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034168 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
3417 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
3418 (Phillipps)
3419
3420
3421GUI:
34229 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
3423 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
34249 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00003425 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003426 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
34279 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
3428 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
34298 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
3430 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
34318 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
3432 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
3433 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
34348 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
3435 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
3436 of where it is processing the output.
3437 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
34388 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
3439 doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaarcbebd482016-02-07 23:02:56 +010034408 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000034418 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
3442 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
3443 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020034448 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034458 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
3446 browse().
34478 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
3448 use that code? Or use console dialog.
34498 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
3450 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000034517 More features in the find/replace dialog:
3452 - regexp on/off
3453 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
3454 when all buffers/directory is used:
3455 - filter for file name
3456 when directory is used:
3457 - subdirectory on/off
3458 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034598 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
3460 to avoid problems.
34618 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
3462 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
3463 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
34648 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
3465 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
3466 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
34678 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
3468 up. Set erase character somehow?
34698 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
3470 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
3471 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
3472 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
34738 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
34747 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
3475 visible.
34767 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
3477 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
34787 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
3479 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
34808 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
3481 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
34828 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
3483 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
3484 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
3485 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
3486- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
34874 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
3488 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
3489 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
3490
3491
Bram Moolenaar5f148ec2016-03-07 22:59:26 +01003492Win32 console:
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000034938 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
3494 a good fallback, thus use:
3495 $HOME
3496 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
3497 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
3498 $USERPROFILE
3499 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
3500 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
3501 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
3502 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035038 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
3504 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
35058 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
3506 Should work like in the GUI version.
35078 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
3508 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
35098 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
3510 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
35118 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
3512 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
3513 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035148 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
3515 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
3516 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
3517
3518
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003519Win32 console:
35209 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
3521 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
3522 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
3523 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
3524 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
3525 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
3526 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
3527 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
3528 and the file is not saved.
3529 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
3530 long name.
35318 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
3532 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
35337 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
3534 besides the console.
35358 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
35369 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
3537 <C-S-i>?
35389 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
3539 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
35408 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
3541 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003542
3543
3544Amiga:
35458 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
3546 sequences.
35479 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
3548 backslashes in result.
35498 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
3550 all options, using white space separation.
3551
3552
3553Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003554- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035557 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
3556 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
3557 (Jack)
3558 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035598 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
3560 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035618 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
35628 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
35639 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
3564 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035659 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003566
3567
3568"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003569- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
3570 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003571- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
3572 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003573- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
3574 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
3575 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
3576 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
3577 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
3578 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
3579 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000035809 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
3581 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000035829 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003583 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
3584 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035858 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
3586 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
3587 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00003588 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035897 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
3590 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
35918 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
3592 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
3593 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035947 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
3595 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003596- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
3597 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035988 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
3599 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
3600 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
3601 using the horizontal scrollbar.
36027 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
3603 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
3604 invocations belong together.
36058 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
3606 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
36078 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
3608 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
3609 UnxUtils.zip archive.
Bram Moolenaaracb4f222016-01-10 15:59:26 +01003610 Is it better than what we have in src/tee?
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000036118 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
3612 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
3613 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036148 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
3615 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036167 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
3617 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
3618 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
3619 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036207 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
3621 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
3622 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
36237 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
3624 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
3625 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
36267 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
3627 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036287 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
3629 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036309 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
3631 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
3632 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
3633 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
3634 script can be called.
36358 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
3636 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
3637 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036388 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
3639 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000036408 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003641 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
3642 configurable?
36438 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036448 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
3645 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036468 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
3647 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036488 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
3649 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036509 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
3651 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
3652 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036537 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036548 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
3655 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
3656 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000036578 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
3658 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003659 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
3660 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036618 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
3662 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
36639 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
3664 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
3665 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003666 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036677 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
3668 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036697 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
3670 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
3671 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
3672 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036738 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003674 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
3675 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
3676 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
3677 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003678 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
3679 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00003680 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02003681 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003682 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
3683 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
3684 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
3685 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
3686 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036878 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
3688 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
36898 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
3690 in lines that don't extend into the block?
36918 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
3692 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
3693 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
36948 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
3695 'linebreak'.
36968 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
3697 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
3698 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036999 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
3700 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
3701 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
3702 'magic' in history. (Margo)
37039 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
3704 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037059 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
37069 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
3707 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
3708 cause another redraw, etc.
37098 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
3710 must escape special characters in the pattern.
37118 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
3712 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
3713 ":w!!" for that.
3714 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
3715 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00003716 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037177 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
3718 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
3719 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
3720 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
3721 clipboard)
37227 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
3723 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
3724 Waggoner)
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000037256 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
3726 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
3727 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037288 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
3729 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
37308 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
3731 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
3732 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
37338 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
3734 (e.g., ":w").
37358 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
3736 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037378 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
3738 script in do_cmdline().
37398 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
3740 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
3741 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
3742 changes.
37438 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
3744 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
37458 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
3746 check for file marks. This can be slow.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037478 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
3748 to skip catch_signals()?
37499 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
3750 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
3751 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
3752 text?
37538 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
3754 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
37558 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
3756 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
37579 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
3758 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
3759 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
3760 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
3761 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
37627 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
3763 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
3764 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
3765 in the list?
37668 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
3767 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
3768 instead of on button down.
37698 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
37709 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
3771 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003772 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
3773 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037748 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
3775 character is typed.
37768 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
3777 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
37788 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
3779 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
37808 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
3781 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
3782 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
3783 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
3784 cygwin bash.
37857 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
3786 Remember flags for backreferences.
37877 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
3788 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
37897 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
3790 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
37918 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
3792 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
37937 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
3794 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037957 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
3796 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
3797 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
37987 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
3799 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
38008 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
3801 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
3802 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
38037 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
3804 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003805
3806
3807I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
38089 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
3809 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
3810 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003811
3812
3813Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00003814- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
3815 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
3816 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00003817- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
3818 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
3819 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
3820 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
3821 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
3822 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02003823 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003824- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
3825 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00003826 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00003827 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
3828 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
3829 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003830- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
3831 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
3832 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
3833 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
3834 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
3835- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
3836 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
3837 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
3838- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
3839 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003840- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003841- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
3842 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
3843 character gets the highlighting.
3844- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
3845 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
3846- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
3847 (Jennings)
3848- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003849- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003850- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003851 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003852- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
3853 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
3854 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
3855- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
3856 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
3857 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
3858 (Benzinger).
3859- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
3860 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
3861 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
3862- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
3863 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
3864- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
3865 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
3866- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
3867 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
3868 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
3869 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
3870 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
3871 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
3872- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
3873 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
3874 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01003875- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
3876 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
3877 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003878- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
3879 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
3880 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
3881- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
3882 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
3883- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
3884 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003885- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
3886 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
3887- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
3888 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
3889 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
3890 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
3891 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
3892- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
3893 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
3894 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
3895- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
3896 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
3897 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00003898- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
3899 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 +00003900- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
3901 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
3902 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
3903 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
3904 in the vimrc file to be lost.
3905- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
3906 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
3907
3908--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
3909 *extensions-improvements*
3910
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003911Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
3912- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
3913 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
3914 calling a function.
3915 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
3916 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003917- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
3918 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
Bram Moolenaarba3ff532018-11-04 14:45:49 +01003919 (issue #3292)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003920- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
3921 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
3922 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
3923 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
3924 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
3925 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003926 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003927- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
3928 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
3929 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003930- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
3931 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000039328 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
3933 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
3934 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
3935 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00003936- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
3937 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003938
3939
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003940Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000039418 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
3942 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000039438 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
3944 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000039458 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
3946 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039478 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039489 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
3949 - change to cursor position and curswant
3950 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
3951 - how it works for folded lines
3952 - how it works with multi-byte characters
39539 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
3954 work too.
39558 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
3956 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
3957 text.
39588 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
39597 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
3960 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
39617 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
3962 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003963 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003964- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
3965
3966
3967Help:
3968- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
3969 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
3970- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
3971 to the other matches.
3972- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003973- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
3974 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
3975 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
3976 default contents.
3977- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
3978 height for the help window (and other windows).
3979- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
3980- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
3981- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
3982
3983
3984User Friendlier:
39858 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
3986 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
3987 Briscoe)
39888 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
39898 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
3990 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
3991 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
39928 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
3993 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
3994- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
3995 ":mkplugin <file>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003996- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
39979 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
3998 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
3999 item?).
4000 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040018 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000040027 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
4003 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
4004 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000040058 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
4006 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
4007 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
4008 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004009
4010
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00004011Tab pages:
40129 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000040137 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
4014 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040158 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000040168 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040177 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040187 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00004019 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000040208 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
4021 tab pages.
40227 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
4023
4024
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004025Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004026- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
Bram Moolenaar664f3cf2019-12-07 16:03:51 +01004027 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004028- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
4029 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
4030 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
4031- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
4032 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004033- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
4034 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
4035 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004036- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
4037 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
4038 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004039- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
4040 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01004041- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004042 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
4043 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000040448 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
4045 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
40468 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
4047 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
40488 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
4049 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004050 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00004051 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
4052 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
4053 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
4054 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00004055- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
4056 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00004057- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00004058- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
4059 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00004060- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004061 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004062- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004063 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004064- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
4065 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004066- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
4067 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
4068- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00004069 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004070 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
4071 in the affix file separately.
4072 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004073 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004074 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
4075 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
4076 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
4077- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
4078 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
4079 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
4080 specific prefixes with suffixes.
4081 Alternative:
4082 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
4083 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
4084 affix which is required.
4085- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00004086 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004087- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
4088 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
4089 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004090- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
4091 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00004092- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
4093 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
4094- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000040958 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
4096 syntax items (to add @Spell).
4097 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
4098 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004099- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
4100 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
4101 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
4102 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041038 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
4104 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041058 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
41068 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
4107 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000041087 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
41098 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
4110 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
4111 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
4112 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00004113
4114
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004115Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaarfb539272014-08-22 19:21:47 +020041169 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff.
4117 Possibly without running diff.
Bram Moolenaar2ec618c2016-10-01 14:47:05 +020041188 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00004119 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004120
4121Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00004122 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
4123 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041248 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
4125 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +020041268 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp
4127 item, so that it can be used in any pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041288 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
4129 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
4130 user aware of this?
41318 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
4132 commands skip over a closed fold.
41338 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
41348 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041357 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00004136- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
4137 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
4138 missing line goes unnoticed.
4139 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004140- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
4141 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
4142 smoother?
4143- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
4144 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00004145- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
4146 file can contain:
4147 args version.c main.c
4148 edit version.c
4149 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004150- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004151- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
4152 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004153- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
4154 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00004155- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
4156 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004157- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004158
4159Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004160- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
4161 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
4162 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
4163 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041649 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
4165 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
4166 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
4167 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020041689 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
4169 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
4170 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041718 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
4172 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
4173 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
4174 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
4175 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
4176 item.
41778 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004178 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
4179 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041808 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
4181 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041828 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
4183 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
4184 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041857 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
4186 so that the user can fix the problem.
41878 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
4188 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041899 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
41908 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041918 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
41928 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041937 Searching and composing characters:
4194 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004195 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
4196 characters can be manipulated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041978 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
41988 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
41998 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
4200 characters.
42018 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
42028 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
4203 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
42047 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
4205 'display' option to specify this.
42067 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
4207 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
4208- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
4209 fontselector somehow.
4210- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
4211 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
4212- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
4213 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
4214- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
4215 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
4216 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
4217 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
4218 if a font exists?
4219- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004220 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004221- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
4222 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00004223- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
4224 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
4225 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
4226 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004227- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
4228 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
Bram Moolenaar37c64c72017-09-19 22:06:03 +02004229 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004230- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
4231 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
4232 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
4233 But it's very complicated...
4234
4235
4236Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000042377 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004238- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
4239- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
4240 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00004241- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
4242 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004243- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
4244- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
4245 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004246- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
4247 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004248- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
4249 units as for the margins.
4250- Support right-to-left text?
42518 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
4252 color.
4253
4254
4255Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042568 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
4257 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
42588 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
4259 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
42608 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
4261 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000042627 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
4263 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042648 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
4265 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
4266 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042677 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
4268 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
4269 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042708 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
42719 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
4272 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042737 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
4274 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000042757 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
4276 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042778 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
4278 change this for each release.
42798 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
4280 pattern, but not in the body.
42818 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
4282 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
4283 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042848 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
Bram Moolenaar13d5aee2016-01-21 23:36:05 +010042858 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword".
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02004286 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help
4287 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042888 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
4289 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
42908 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
4291 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00004292 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042938 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
4294 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
4295 used.
42968 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
4297 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
42988 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
4299 re-insert the [] if possible.
43008 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
4301 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000043028 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
4303 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
4304 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
4305 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
4306 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043078 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
4308 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
43098 Support for deleting syntax items:
4310 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
4311 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
4312 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
43138 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
4314 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
4315 a '<'. (Fleiner)
43167 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
4317 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
4318 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
43197 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
4320 detected.
43218 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004322 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043238 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
4324 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043258 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
43268 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
43277 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
4328 ":mkvimrc".
43298 Improve c.vim:
4330 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
4331 "c_strict_ansi".
4332 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
43338 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
4334 current line while in Insert mode.
43358 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
4336 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
43378 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
4338 display position.
43398 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
4340 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
4341 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
43428 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
4343 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
4344 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000043457 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
4346 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
4347 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
4348 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
4349 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043507 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
4351 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
4352 E.g. for this html:
4353 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043547 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
43557 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
4356 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043578 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
43588 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043597 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
4360 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
4361 completion?
43628 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
4363 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
43647 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
4365 select one of the sets.
43668 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
4367 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
4368 2, etc.
43698 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
4370 highlighting (for "." command).
43718 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
4372 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
43738 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
43747 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
4375 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
43766 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
4377 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
4378- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
4379 when extending an already existing syntax file.
4380- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004381- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
4382 (for comment blocks).
4383- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
4384 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
4385 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
4386 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
4387 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
4388 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
4389 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
4390 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
4391 (Campbell)
4392 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
4393 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
43947 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
4395 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
43967 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
4397 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
4398 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
43997 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
4400 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
4401 messages. And external commands?
44028 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
4403 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
44047 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
4405 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
4406
4407
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +01004408Vim script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044098 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
4410 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02004411 At least use this for error messages.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000044127 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
4413 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
4414 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044158 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
4416 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004417- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020044188 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
4419 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
4420 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
4421 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
4422 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
4423 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000044247 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
4425 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044268 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
Bram Moolenaare18c0b32016-03-20 21:08:34 +010044278 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it
4428 can be the plugin name.
4429 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added?
4430 including autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044317 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
4432 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
4433 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
4434 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
4435 autocommand.
4436 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
4437 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
4438 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
4439 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044407 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
4441 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044426 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
4443 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044448 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004445 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
4446 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004447 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
4448 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
4449 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00004450 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
4451 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
4452 3 2002
4453 Only add this when also implemented for
4454 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
4455 be used.
4456 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00004457 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
4458 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
4459 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
4460 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
4461 File.Open..." argument.
4462 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
4463 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
4464 with properties instead.
4465 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
4466 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
4467 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004468 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004469 crypt() encrypt string
4470 decrypt() decrypt string
4471 base64enc() base 64 encoding
4472 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004473 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004474 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004475 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00004476 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004477 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004478 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
4479 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004480 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
4481 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004482 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004483 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
4484 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
4485 to allow the library to execute a command or
4486 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044877 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
4488 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
44898 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
4490 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000044918 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
4492 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044938 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar269f5952016-07-15 22:54:41 +020044949 Add optional arguments to user functions:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004495 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
44966 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000044978 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
4498 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044998 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
4500 option or environment variable.
45018 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000045028 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004503 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000045047 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
4505 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045068 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
4507 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
45088 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
45098 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
4510 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
4511 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
4512 charwise({expr}).
45137 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
4514 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
4515 buffer for this?
4516 result = scratch(string, command)
4517 result = apply(string, command)
4518 result = execute(string, command)
4519 "command" would use <> notation.
4520 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
45217 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004522
4523
4524Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000045256 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
4526 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
4527 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
4528 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
4529 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
4530 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
4531 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004532
4533
4534Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045357 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
4536 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020045377 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
4538 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
4539 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
4540 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000045418 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
4542 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
4543 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
4544 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02004545 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045468 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
45479 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
45488 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
45497 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
4550 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
45518 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
4552 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
4553 when starting up in a color terminal.
45548 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
4555 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045568 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
4557 function be improved?
45588 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
4559 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
4560 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
4561 this be improved?
45628 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
4563 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000045647 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
4565 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045667 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
4567 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
45687 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
4569 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045707 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
4571 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
4572 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
4573 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
4574 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
4575 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
4576 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045778 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
4578 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
4579 using strcmp() too often?
45807 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
4581 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
4582 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
4583 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
4584 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
4585 the two blocks to the memfile block.
45867 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
4587 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
4588 with an argument that can be messed with.
4589 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
4590 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
45917 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
4592- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
45938 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
4594 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
4595- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
4596 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
4597- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
4598- Do profiling on:
4599 - :g/pat/normal cmd
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004600 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
4601 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
4602 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
4603 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
4604 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
4605 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004606 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046077 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
4608 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
4609 changed).
4610 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
4611 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
4612- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
4613- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
4614 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
4615- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
4616 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
4617 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004618- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
4619- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
4620 cursor is right of the screen.
46218 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
4622 CTRL-C (it's slow).
4623
4624
4625Code size:
46268 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
4627- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
4628 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
46298 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
46308 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
4631 it.
46327 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
4633 left out.
46348 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
4635 can be removed.
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +010046368 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004637
4638
4639Messages:
46408 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
4641 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
46428 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
4643 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
46448 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
4645 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004646- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
4647 Perhaps after ten seconds?
4648- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046498 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
4650 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046519 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
4652 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
4653 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
4654 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
4655 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046568 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
4657 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
46588 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
4659 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
4660 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
4661 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
4662 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
4663 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004664- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00004665 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046668 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
4667 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
4668 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
4669 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
4670 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
4671 error messages, printing text, etc.
46728 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
4673 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
4674 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
4675
4676
4677Screen updating:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004678- screen_line():
4679 - insert/delete character stuff.
4680 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
4681- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
4682 dragging the status line with the mouse).
4683- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
4684 waiting for a character.
46858 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
4686 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
4687 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004688
4689Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020046908 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046916 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
4692- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
4693 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
4694 windows.
46957 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
4696 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
4697 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
4698- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
4699 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
4700 (Goldfarb)
4701- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
4702 bound windows.
4703- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
4704 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00004705- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004706- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
4707 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
4708 of lines but not with a single line).
4709
4710
4711Autoconf:
47128 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
47138 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
4714 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
4715- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
4716 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
4717- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
4718- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
4719- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
4720
4721
4722Perl interface:
47238 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047247 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
47257 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
47266 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
4727
4728
4729Shared libraries:
Bram Moolenaarab943432018-03-29 18:27:07 +020047308 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose().
4731 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047326 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
4733 :libload internal-name libname
4734 :libunload internal-name
4735 :liblist
4736 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4737 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
4738 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
47396 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
4740
4741
4742Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000047439 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
4744 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
4745 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
4746 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
4747 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000047488 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
4749 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
4750 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02004751 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004752 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000047537 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
4754 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
4755 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047568 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
47578 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
4758 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047597 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
4760 window for each tag.
47617 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
47627 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
4763 bottom" search message.
47647 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
4765 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
4766 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00004767- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
4768- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004769- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
4770 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
4771 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047727 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
4773 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
4774 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
4775 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
47767 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
4777 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
4778 :tagargs clear
4779 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
4780 matching).
47817 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
4782 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
4783 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
4784 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
47857 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
4786 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
47877 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
4788 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
4789 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004790
4791
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004792Win32 GUI:
47938 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
4794 the message and input?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047957 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
4796 (Mike McCollister)
47978 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
4798 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
4799 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
4800 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
4801 common part of the path.
48028 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
48038 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
4804 gettext and menus work.
48058 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
4806 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004807 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004808 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
48098 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
4810 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
48118 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
4812 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
48137 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
4814 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
48157 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
48167 <Esc> should close a dialog.
48177 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
4818 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
4819 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
4820 prompts.
48217 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
4822 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
4823 the file added into an already running Vim.
48247 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
4825 functions to find the window title.
4826
4827
4828GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020048298 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004830- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
4831 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
48327 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
48338 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
48346 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
48358 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
4836 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
48379 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
48387 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
48398 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
4840 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
48418 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
4842 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
4843 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
48448 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
4845 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
48468 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
4847 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
4848 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
4849 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048507 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
48518 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
4852 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000048537 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
4854 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
4855 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048568 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
48578 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00004858 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048598 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
48608 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
48618 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
4862 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
4863 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
48647 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
4865 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
4866 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
48677 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
4868 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
48697 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
4870 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
4871 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
4872 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048737 Should support multi-column menus.
4874- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
4875 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
4876- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
48778 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
48786 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
4879 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
48807 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
48817 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
4882 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
4883 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
48847 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
48858 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
4886 name can be chosen free.
48877 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
4888 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
48896 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
4890 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
4891 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
4892 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
4893 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
4894 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
4895 things.
48967 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
4897 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048987 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004899 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004900- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
4901 where it was started from?
49027 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
4903
4904
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004905Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020049069 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
4907 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00004908- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010049098 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
4910 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
4911 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
4912 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
49138 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
4914 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000049157 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
4916 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
4917 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
4918 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000049197 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049208 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
4921 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049228 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
4923 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
4924 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049257 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
4926 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
4927 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049288 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
4929 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
4930 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049318 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
4932 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049338 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049346 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
4935 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000049367 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049377 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02004938 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
4939 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
4940 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049415 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
4942 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
4943 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
49447 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
4945 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
4946 file.
49478 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
4948 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
4949 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004950- Add events to autocommands:
4951 Error - When an error happens
Bram Moolenaar6dc819b2018-07-03 16:42:19 +02004952 ModeChange - after changing mode (before waiting for a char)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00004953 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
4954 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004955 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004956 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004957 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
4958 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
4959 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
4960 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004961 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004962 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
4963 the char.
4964 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
4965 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
4966 file from CVS).
4967 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
4968 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
4969 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
4970 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
4971 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
4972 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004973 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
4974 changes.
4975 WinResized - After a window has been resized
4976 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004977- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004978 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004979 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004980 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
4981 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
4982 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
4983 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
4984 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
4985
4986
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004987Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00004988- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
4989 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004990- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
4991 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
4992 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
4993 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
4994 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004995- Ideas from others:
4996 http://www.wholetomato.com/
4997 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
4998 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
4999 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
5000 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
5001 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
5002 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
5003 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
5004 Uses Perl for C++.
5005 Uses ctags to find the info:
5006 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
5007 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
5008 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
5009 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
5010 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
5011 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02005012 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005013 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
5014- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
5015
5016
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005017Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005018- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000050197 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
5020 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000050217 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
5022 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
5023 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050248 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
5025 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
50269 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
5027 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
5028 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050298 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
5030 - ignore/match case
5031 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000050328 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
5033 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
5034 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
5035 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
5036 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
5037 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050388 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000050397 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
5040 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050418 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
5042 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
5043 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
5044 Should work for C++ and Java.
5045 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
50467 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
50477 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
5048 instead of words.
50498 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
50508 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
5051 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
50528 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
5053 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005054- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
5055 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005056- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
5057 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
5058 wildcards in the file name)?
5059- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
5060- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
5061- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
5062 be in another file).
5063- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
5064- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
5065- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
5066 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
5067- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
5068- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
5069- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005070- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
5071
5072
5073Command line editing:
50747 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
5075 line.
50768 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
5077 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
5078 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
5079- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
5080 lines wraps to start of line).
5081- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
5082 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
5083 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
5084 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
5085 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
5086 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
5087 cmdwin does now already.
5088 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
5089 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
5090 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
5091 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
5092 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
5093 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
5094 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
5095 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
5096 Problems:
5097 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
5098 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
5099 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
5100 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
5101 - Normal: no ":" commands?
5102 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
5103 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
5104 character in first column?
5105 - Implementation ideas:
5106 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
5107 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
5108 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
5109 - sync undo after entering a command line?
5110 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
5111 Mode.
5112
5113
5114Command line completion:
51158 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
51168 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
5117 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
51188 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
5119 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051208 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
5121 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051227 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
5123 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005124- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
5125- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
5126 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051278 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
5128 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
51297 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
5130 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
5131- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
5132 identifiers (Webb).
51338 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
5134 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
51357 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
5136 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
5137- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
5138 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
5139- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
5140 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
5141 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005142
5143
5144Command line history:
5145- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
5146 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
5147 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
Bram Moolenaara2a80162017-11-21 23:09:50 +01005148 completely result from one mapping.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005149- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
5150 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
5151
5152
5153Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000051549 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
5155 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
5156 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051578 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
5158 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
5159 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
5160 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
5161 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051628 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
5163 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
5164 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051657 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
5166 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00005167- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051687 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
5169 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
5170- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
5171 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
5172 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
5173 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
5174 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
5175 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
5176- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
5177 Normal mode.
5178- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
5179 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
5180 are used.
5181- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
5182- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
5183- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
5184
5185
5186'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010051879 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
5188 char * veryLongName =
5189 "very long string"
5190 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000051918 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000051928 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
5193 long_type foo =
5194 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051958 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
5196 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00005197 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000051988 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
5199 func(
5200 new String[] {
5201 "asdf",
5202 "asdf"
5203 }
5204 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010052058 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
5206 (Chow Loong Jin)
5207 namespace {
5208 int
5209 func(int arg) {
5210 }
5211 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000052126 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
5213 func( arg1
5214 , arg2
5215 , arg3
5216 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000052177 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005218 func(
5219 int x) // indent like "(4"
5220 {
5221 if (a
5222 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052239 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
5224 if (a)
5225 {
5226 if (b)
5227 {
5228 // {
5229 }
5230 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00005231 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
5232 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
5233 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005234- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005235 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
52367 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
5237- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
5238 line).
5239- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
5240- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
5241 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005242- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
5243 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
5244- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
5245 code), unless the line starts with "*".
5246- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
5247- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
5248 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
52498 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
5250 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
5251 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
5252- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
5253- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
5254 lines start with "\item".
5255- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
5256 /* here is a comment that
5257 is just autoindented, and
5258 nothing else */
5259- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
52607 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
5261 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
5262 indents.
Bram Moolenaara6878372014-03-22 21:02:50 +01005263 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005264
5265
5266Java:
52678 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
5268 Odendahl?
52698 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
5270 "[i" commands and friends.
5271- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
5272 (Jason)
5273- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
5274 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
5275
5276
5277'comments':
52788 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
5279 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
5280 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
5281 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00005282 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
5283 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052847 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
5285 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
52867 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
52876 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
5288 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
5289 regexp is used.
52908 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
5291 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
5292
5293
5294Virtual edit:
52958 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000052967 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
5297
5298
5299Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053008 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053018 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000053028 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00005303 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000053048 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
5305 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00005306 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
5307 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000053088 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000053098 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
5310 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053118 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
5312 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
5313 the end of the line or before a ".".
53147 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
5315 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
53167 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
5317 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053186 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
53195 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
5320 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
5321 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
5322 cursor is on.
5323
5324
5325Select mode:
53268 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
5327 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
53287 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
Bram Moolenaar531da592013-05-06 05:58:55 +02005329 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053307 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
5331 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
5332 contains 'C' or 'A'.
5333 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
5334 normal_cmd().
5335 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
5336 - Typing text replaces the selection.
5337
5338
5339Visual mode:
Bram Moolenaar3b1db362013-08-10 15:00:24 +020053408 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual
5341 selection, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005342- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
5343 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
5344 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00005345- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
5346 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
5347 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053488 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00005349 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005350 where needed.
53517 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
5352 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
53537 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
5354 of each selected line.
53558 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
53568 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
5357 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
5358 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
53598 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
5360 Ben Godfrey)
53617 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
5362 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
53637 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
5364 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053657 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005366 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005367 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
53688 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
5369 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
53707 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
5371 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
5372 option!
53737 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
5374 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
5375 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
5376 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
5377 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
5378 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
5379 without changing the column.
53806 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053817 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
5382 current buffer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053836 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
5384 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
53856 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000053866 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005387 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005388 or other special character.
53896 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
5390
5391
5392More advanced repeating commands:
5393- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar203d04d2013-06-06 21:36:40 +02005394- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005395- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005396 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
5397 "y." will repeat last yank.
5398 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
5399 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
5400 and/or pick an older command.
5401- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
5402
5403
5404Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054058 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
5406 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
5407 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
54088 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
54097 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
5410 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054118 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
5412 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
54138 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000054147 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054158 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
5416 entering search strings.
54178 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
5418 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
5419 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054208 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
5421 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054227 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054237 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
5424 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000054256 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
5426 abbreviations are to be used.
5427- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
5428 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
5429 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00005430- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
5431 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
5432 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
5433 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
5434 Or implicit:
5435 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005436- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
5437 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
5438 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005439- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
5440 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
5441- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
5442 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
54436 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
5444 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
5445 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
5446 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005447- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
5448 non-replace Insert mode?
5449- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005450- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
5451- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
5452 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
5453- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005454 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005455- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
5456 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
5457- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
5458- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
5459 ":freekeys".
5460- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
5461
5462
5463Incsearch:
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02005464- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014
5465 Dec 4. Is this a good solution?
5466- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
5467 folds when going to another line.
5468 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6)
5469- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
5470 Only with "vim -u NONE".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005471- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
5472 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
5473 up every time.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005474- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
5475 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
5476 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
5477 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +020054789 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
5479 isn't updated).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005480
5481
5482Searching:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010054839 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000054848 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00005485 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005486 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00005487 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00005488 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010054899 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
5490 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010054918 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
5492 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000054938 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
5494 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
5495 Perl does it this way:
5496 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
5497 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
5498 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
5499 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000055008 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
5501 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
5502 number?
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000055037 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
5504 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000055058 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
5506 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055077 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005508 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
5509 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
5510 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000055117 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01005512 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055137 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
5514 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055158 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
5516 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
55178 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
5518 line.
Bram Moolenaar7db8f6f2016-03-29 23:12:46 +020055197 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005520 example.
55218 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
5522 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
5523- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
5524 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
5525 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
5526 Alternative: use matchit.vim
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055278 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
5528 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
5529 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
55307 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
5531 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000055327 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
5533 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055348 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
5535 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055368 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
5537 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055388 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
5539 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
5540 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
5541 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005542- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
5543 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005544- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
5545 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
5546- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
5547 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
5548 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
5549 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055508 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
5551 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005552- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
5553 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000055548 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
5555 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
5556 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005557- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
5558 i ignore case
5559 I use case
5560 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
5561 v use Vi regexp syntax
5562 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
5563 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
5564 Perl uses these too:
5565 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
5566 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
5567 o compile only once (Perl only)
5568 s single line expression (we don't need it)
5569 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
5570 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
5571 following command.
5572 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
5573- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
5574 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
5575 for search string)?
55767 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
5577 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
5578- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
5579 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
5580- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
5581 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
5582- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
5583- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005584 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005585 a for the next file in the argument list
5586 f for file in the buffer list
5587 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005588 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
5589 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005590 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
5591 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
5592- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055937 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005594 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000055957 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
5596 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
5597 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
5598 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
55996 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
5600 effects.
56017 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
5602 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
5603 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000056047 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005605 Also ":dselect".
5606
5607
5608Undo:
Bram Moolenaara3e6bc92013-01-30 14:18:00 +010056099 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files
5610 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful
5611 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000056129 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
5613 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020056148 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
5615 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000056168 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
5617 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
5618 timestamp?
5619 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
5620 indent?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00005621- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
5622 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005623- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
5624 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
5625 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
56268 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
5627 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
5628 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
5629 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
56308 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
5631 only remember the lines that really changed.
56327 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
5633 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
5634 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
5635 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005636- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
5637 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
5638- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
5639 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
5640- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
5641 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
5642 [-99].
5643- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
5644- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005645- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
5646 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
5647
5648
5649Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056507 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
5651 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
5652 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
5653 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
56548 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
5655 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
56568 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
5657 inode too.
56587 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005659 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
5660 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056617 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
5662 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
5663- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
5664 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
5665- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
5666 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
56677 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
5668 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
56697 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
5670 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
56718 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056727 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
5673 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010056748 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
5675 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
5676 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005677
5678
5679Swap (.swp) files:
56808 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
5681 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
5682 there are short file name problems.
56838 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
5684 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
56858 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
56868 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005687 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005688 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
5689 file the same as the actual file?
5690 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000056917 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
5692 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
56937 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005694 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005695 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
5696 enough room.
56977 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
5698 or /var/preserve.
5699- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
5700 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
5701- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
Bram Moolenaar7f2e9d72017-11-11 20:58:53 +01005702 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005703- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
5704 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
5705 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
5706 cached list of which line is where.
5707
5708
5709Viminfo:
57107 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
5711 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
5712 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000057138 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
5714 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
5715 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057168 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
5717 name. (Schild)
57188 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
57198 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000057208 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057218 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
5722 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
5723 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
5724 this?
57257 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
57267 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
5727 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
57286 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
5729 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
5730 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
5731- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
5732 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
5733
5734
5735Modelines:
57368 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
5737 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
5738 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005739- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
5740 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
5741 'shiftwidth'.
5742- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
5743 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005744- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
5745 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
5746 modeline setting.
5747- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
5748 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
5749- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
5750 .cpp files.
5751- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
5752 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
5753- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
5754 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
5755
5756
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005757Sessions:
57588 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
5759 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
57607 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
5761 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057628 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
5763 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057648 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
5765 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
5766 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000057677 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
5768 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000057697 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00005770
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00005771
5772Options:
57737 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
5774 restore it after the command has executed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000057758 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
5776 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
5777 also be supported.
57788 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
5779 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
5780 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
57817 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005782
5783
5784External commands:
57858 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
5786 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
57874 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
5788 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
5789 -f).
57904 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
57914 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
5792 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
57934 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
5794
5795
5796Multiple Windows:
57977 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
57988 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
5799 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
58007 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
5801 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
5802 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000058037 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
5804 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000058057 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
5806 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058076 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
5808 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005809 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005810 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
58117 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
5812 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
5813 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
5814 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
5815- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
5816 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
5817 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
5818 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
5819
5820
5821Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000058228 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058238 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
5824 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058258 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 +000058268 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
5827 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
58288 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
5829 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
5830 the mark was set.
58317 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
5832 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
5833 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
5834 ":browse marks"?
58356 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058367 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
5837 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
58387 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
5839 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
58407 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
5841 command).
58427 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
5843 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
5844 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
5845 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
58465 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
5847 mappings.
58486 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
5849 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
5850 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
5851
5852
5853Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020058547 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaarb1332082013-10-06 14:22:40 +02005855 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005856- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
5857 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000058588 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058597 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
5860 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
5861
5862
5863Writing files:
5864- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
5865 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
5866 shortname conversion.
58678 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
58688 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
5869 file.
58708 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
5871 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
5872 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000058736 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
5874 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
58756 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
5876 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
58776 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
5878 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058798 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005880 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
58817 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
5882 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
58837 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
5884 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
5885 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
5886 waiting for a character to be typed).
58878 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
5888 line of the window, like "[time]".
5889 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
5890 Automatic and/or with a command.
5891
5892
5893Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000058948 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
5895 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000058968 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005897 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
5898- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
5899- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
59008 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
5901 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005902- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005903 :s///N substitutes N times.
5904- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
5905 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
5906 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
59077 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
5908 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
5909 last line column 5.
59105 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
5911 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
5912 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
5913 (Stanislav Sitar)
5914
5915
5916Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059178 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
59187 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
59198 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
5920 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
5921 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005922- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
5923- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
5924 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
5925- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
5926- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
5927
5928
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005929Argument list:
59306 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
5931 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
5932 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
59336 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
5934
5935
5936Registers:
59378 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059388 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
5939 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
5940 for every line.
59416 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
5942 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
5943 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
5944- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
5945 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
5946- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
5947 leader when line wraps?
5948- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
5949 line in the range.
5950- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
5951 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
59528 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
5953 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00005954
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005955
5956Debug mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059578 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000059588 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059597 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
59607 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
5961
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005962Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000059637 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
5964 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
5965 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
5966 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
5967 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
5968 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
5969 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00005970 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000059717 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
5972 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000059737 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
5974 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059758 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
5976 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000059777 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
5978 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
5979 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00005980- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00005981 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010059827 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
5983 window as a buffer-tab selection.
59848 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059857 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
5986 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
59878 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
5988 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059896 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059908 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
5991 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
5992 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
5993 in this Vim.
59948 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005995 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000059968 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
5997 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
5998 have it apply to the following command.
59998 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
6000 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
6001 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
6002 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060037 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
6004 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060057 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
6006 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
6007 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
6008 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060096 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
60108 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
60119 Support ACLs on more systems.
60127 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
6013 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060147 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
6015 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
6016 (truncated to fit in the space).
60177 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
60188 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
60198 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
6020 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000060217 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006022 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
60237 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
6024 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060257 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060267 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
60277 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060288 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
60298 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
6030 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
6031 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
6032 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
60338 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060348 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060358 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
6036 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
6037 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
6038 does something like this. (Shah)
60397 Use growarray for replace stack.
60407 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
6041 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
60423 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060437 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
6044 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010060457 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
6046 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006047- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
6048- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
6049- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
6050- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
60517 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
6052 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
6053- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
6054 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02006055- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006056- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
6057 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
6058- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
6059 call "play newbeep.au").
6060- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
6061 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
6062 (Bhatt).
6063- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
6064 blockwise registers).
6065- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
6066 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
6067- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
6068 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
6069 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
6070 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006071- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060727 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
6073 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
6074- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
6075 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
6076 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
6077 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
6078 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000060798 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
6080 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060818 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
6082 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
6083 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
6084 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
6085 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
6086- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00006087- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000060887 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
6089 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
6090- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
6091 not in column 1.
60926 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
6093 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
60947 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
6095- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006096- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00006097 :redir #> bufname
6098 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00006099- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
6100 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006101- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
6102 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
6103 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
61046 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
6105 console? (Klaus Hast)
6106- Add :delcr command:
6107 *:delcr*
6108 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
6109 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
6110 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
6111 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
6112 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
Bram Moolenaar25c9c682019-05-05 18:13:34 +02006113 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006114- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
6115- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
6116 characters from 'isprint'.
6117- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
6118- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
6119 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
6120- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
6121 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
6122 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
6123- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
6124- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
6125 Nvi).
6126- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
6127 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
61287 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
6129- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
6130 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
61316 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
6132- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
6133 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
6134 macro).
6135- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006136- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
6137 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
6138- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
61398 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006140- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
6141- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
6142- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
6143 if it is not the first or last window.
6144- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
6145 there is one) instead of the file itself.
61467 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
6147 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
6148 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
6149- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
6150- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006151 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006152 many percent down the windows).
6153- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
6154 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
6155 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
Bram Moolenaar30b65812012-07-12 22:01:11 +02006156 Make 'showbreak' local to a window.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006157- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
6158 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
6159- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
6160 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
6161- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
6162- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
6163- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
6164 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061658 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
6166 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
6167 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
6168 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
6169 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006170- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
6171 t_bs is set? (Webb)
6172- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006173 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
6174- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006175 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
6176 (Webb).
6177- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006178 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006179- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
6180 hex codes like 0xff).
6181- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
6182 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
6183 the last TYPED command.
6184- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
6185- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
6186- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
6187 should also work?
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006188- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000061898 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
6190 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
6191 name.
Bram Moolenaarf55e4c82017-08-01 20:44:53 +02006192- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006193 trailing '.'.
6194- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
6195 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
6196 find_file_in_path().
6197- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
6198 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
6199- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
6200- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
6201 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
6202- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006203 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006204- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
6205 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
6206 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006207- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
6208- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
6209- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
6210 to the minimal size.
6211- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
6212- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
6213- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
6214- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
6215- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006216- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
6217 entered)?
6218- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
6219 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006220- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006221- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
6222- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
6223- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
6224- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
6225- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
6226 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006227- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062288 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
6229 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
6230 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
6231 or in octal.
62327 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
6233 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006234- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006235 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
6236- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
6237- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
6238 insert line command).
6239- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
6240- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
6241- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
6242- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
6243- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
6244 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006245- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006246 yet.
6247- Implement 'redraw' option.
6248- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
6249 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062507 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
6251 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00006252 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
6253 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000062548 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
6255 do it.
6256- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
6257- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
6258 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
6259- Add text justification option.
6260- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
6261- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
6262 off".
6263- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
6264- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
6265- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006266 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006267- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02006268- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006269- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
6270 commands.
6271- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
6272- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
6273- :table command (Webb)
6274- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006275- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
6276- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
6277- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
6278- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
6279- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
6280 (Demirel).
6281- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
6282- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
6283 for use in macro's and the like.
6284- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006285 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01006286- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006287 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006288- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006289 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006290 a window to become smaller (Webb).
6291- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
6292 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006293- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006294 mkopttab to make option table?
6295- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
6296 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
6297- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
6298 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006299- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006300 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
6301- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
6302 cursor?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006303- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000063048 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
6305 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
6306 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
6307 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
6308 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000063098 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
6310 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
6311 (Netherton)
63126 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
6313 space after "(", for example.
63145 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
6315 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
6316 (Servatius Brandt)
6317
6318
6319From Elvis:
6320- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
6321- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006322- Search patterns:
6323 \@ match word under cursor.
6324 but do:
6325 \@w match the word under the cursor?
6326 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
63278 ":window" command:
6328 :win + next window (up)
6329 :win ++ idem, wrapping
6330 :win - previous window (down)
6331 :win -- idem, wrapping
6332 :win nr to window number "nr"
6333 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
63347 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
6335 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
6336
6337
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006338From xvi:
6339- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
6340- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
6341
6342
6343From vile:
6344- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
6345- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
6346 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
6347
6348
6349Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006350- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
6351 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
Bram Moolenaarc0514bf2016-11-17 14:50:09 +01006352 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python,
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00006353 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
6354 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006355- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
6356 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
6357- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
6358 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
6359 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
6360 current layout mirrored.
6361- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
6362- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
6363 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
6364- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
6365- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
6366 font in each top-level window.
6367- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
6368- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
6369- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
6370- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
6371 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006372- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
6373 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
6374- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
6375 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
63764 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
6377 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
6378 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
6379 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00006380 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006381 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
6382 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
6383- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
6384 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
6385 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
6386
Bram Moolenaard473c8c2018-08-11 18:00:22 +02006387vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006388vim: set fo+=n :