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Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +02001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.3. Last change: 2011 Oct 20
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002
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4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
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7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
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9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
12to look for "the next thing to do":
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14Priority classification:
159 next point release
168 next release
177 as soon as possible
186 soon
195 should be included
204 nice to have
213 consider including
222 maybe not
231 probably not
24- unclassified
25
26 *votes-for-changes*
27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
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Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020030Issues can also be entered online: http://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/list
31Updates will be forwarded to the vim_dev maillist. Issues entered there will
32not be repeated below, unless there is extra information.
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Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034 *known-bugs*
35-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
36
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +020037Patch for 'transparency' option. (Ben Boeckel, 2011 Sep 14)
38Do we want this? Also Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17.
39
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +020040Once syntax and other runtime files have been fixed: add "set cp" to
41check.vim. Use a function to run both with 'cp' and 'nocp'.
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +020042
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +020043Windows stuff:
44- Patch for gui_w32.c: call DefWindowProc(). (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 15, 17)
45- Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 15, 17)
46 Addition Sep 16.
47- Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep
48 15, 17)
49- Patch for redirection. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Sep 15) 2nd patch. Another
50 on Sep 15? Can't reproduce it. Only with vim.exe, compiled with Mingw?
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +020051
52Patch for phpcomplete.vim (Benjamin Haskell) picked up by maintainer?
53
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +020054Something weird with text formatting when 'compatible' is set.
55Only formats from Insert starting point, even when using "gqj"?
56(Peter Wagenaar, 2011 Oct 20)
57
58FocusGained event received event though it's in 'eventignore'?
59(Ben Fritz, 2011 Sep 25)
60
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +020061Add voting item: modern plugin management (automatic updates, handle
62dependencies).
63Add links to http://vimcasts.org/ and http://vimgolf.com/
64Read http://www.charlietanksley.net/philtex/sane-vim-plugin-management/
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020065
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020066Go through more coverity reports.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010067
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +020068Better D/Dtrace detection. (Jesse Phillips, 2011 Oct 18)
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +020069
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +020070Patch for not showing dict methods in completion. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011
71Oct 7) Move "<" methods to the end. Fix for compiler warnings, Oct 13.
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020072
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +020073FPE exception in mbyte.c. Stack trace: (Lomy, 2011 Sep 26)
74Can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020075
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020076Crash in autocomplete, valgrind log. (Greg Weber, 2011 Apr 22)
77
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020078Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10)
79
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020080Patch to fail if configure can't find an interface, such as Python.
81(Shlomi Fish, 2011 Jul 11)
82
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020083Patch to support UTF-8 for Hangul. (Shawn Y.H. Kim, 2011 May 1)
84Needs more work.
85
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +020086Other way to start Mzscheme. Tim Brown, 2011 Oct 5: change main call.
87Later patch by Sergey Khorev, 2011 Oct 9.
88
89Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4.
90Or use expand('<sid>')?
91
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020092Patch for glob() returning a list. (Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 24, second
93one)
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020094
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +020095Patch to highlight cursor line number. (Howard Buchholz (lhb), 2011 Oct 18)
96
97Docs fix for v:register. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Sep 26, 27)
98v:register doesn't work exactly as expected. (David Fishburn, 2011 Sep 20)
99
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200100Patch for: (Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 22)
101- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line
102 below/above).
103
104Patch for: (Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 24, updated patch)
1058 ":sign unplace * file={filename}" should work. Also: ":sign unplace *
106 buffer={bufnr}". So one can remove all signs for one file/buffer.
107
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200108Patch to add "onselected" callback for completion. (Taro Muraoka, 2011 Sep 24)
109
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200110Problem with winfixheight and resizing. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Sep 17)
111Patch Sep 18.
112
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200113Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27)
114And one for gui_x11.txt.
115
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200116Problem with l: dictionary being locked in a function. (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200117
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200118Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions,
119they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11)
120
121Updated syntax file for ssh_config, maintainer doesn't respond.
122(Leonard Ehrenfried, 2011 Sep 26)
123
124"fC" doesn't position the cursor correctly when there are concealed
125characters. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Oct 11)
126
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200127'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and
128'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser)
129Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200130Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200131
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200132With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position.
133(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly,
134need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called.
135
136Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2,
137only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug
13821, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14)
139
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200140Need to escape $HOME on Windows? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21)
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200141
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200142Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20)
143
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200144With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty
145register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it.
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200146
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +0200147In GTK Gvim, setting 'lines' and 'columns' to 99999 causes a crash (Tony
148Mechelynck, 2011 Apr 25). Can reproduce the crash sometimes:
149 gvim -N -u NONE --cmd 'set lines=99999 columns=99999'
150(gvim:25968): Gdk-WARNING **: Native Windows wider or taller than 65535 pixels are not supported
151The program 'gvim' received an X Window System error.
152This probably reflects a bug in the program.
153The error was 'RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)'.
154 (Details: serial 313 error_code 161 request_code 149 minor_code 8)
155 (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
156 that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
157 To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
158 option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
159 backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
160Check that number of pixels doesn't go above 65535?
161
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200162popup completion menu closes quickly when there is a fold in the buffer. (Jan
163Christoph Ebersbach, 2011 Jul 3)
164
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200165Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26)
166
167This line hangs Vim, because of syntax HL:
168call append(line, "INFO ....12....18....24....30....36....42....48....54....60....66....72....78%$")
169
170When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message.
171(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17)
172
173Bug: E685 error for func_unref(). (ZyX, 2010 Aug 5)
174
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200175Bug: Windows 7 64 bit system freezes when 'clipboard' set to "unnamed" and
176doing ":g/test/d". Putting every delete on the clipboard? (Robert Chan, 2011
177Jun 17)
178
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200179Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a
180":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct
18115)
182
183Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3)
184
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200185Changes to manpage plugin. (Elias Toivanen, 2011 Jul 25)
186
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200187On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a
18864 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the
189right type.
190
191string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code?
192(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23)
193
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200194Make 'formatprg' global-local. (Sung Pae)
195
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200196When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else
197(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo.
198
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200199When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim
200doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18)
201
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002027 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
203Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 19.
204
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200205maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a
206mapping, how to restore the script ID?
207
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200208Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught.
209(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26)
210
211Highlighting stops working after changing it many times. Script to reproduce
212it: Pablo Contreras, 2010 Oct 12 Windows XP and 7. Font is never freed?
213
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200214When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that
215indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in
216the help file.
217
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200218After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18)
219Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24)
220
221Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24)
222
223"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22)
224
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200225Patch to support sorting on floating point number. (Alex Jakushev, 2010 Oct
22630)
227
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200228Patch to addd TextDeletePost and TextYankPost events. (Philippe Vaucher, 2011
229May 24) Update May 26.
230
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200231When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a
232following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo.
233(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27)
234
235Problem with "syn sync gouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27)
236
237Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt,
2382010 Dec 18)
239
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200240With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line
241number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5)
242Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems.
243
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +02002448 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
245Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9.
246
2478 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
248 after typing something.
249Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a
250function that resets did_cursorhold.
251Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 May 6.
252
2537 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
254Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
255Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30)
256
2579 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to
258 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33.
259Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27.
260
261Patch to fix \%V item in regexp. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Nov 8)
262Update Nov 19. James Vega: still not right. Christian: it's difficult.
263
264Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22)
265Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g
266
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200267In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change
268or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the
269sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings".
270
271GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters
272doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8)
273
274GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25)
275
276Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus
277Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095?
278
279Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18)
280
2817.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when
282there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex
283do?
284
Bram Moolenaaradc21822011-04-01 18:03:16 +0200285Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov
28622)
287
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100288New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30)
289- move compflags to separate growarray?
290- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*", '+'. What would be
291 the maximum repeat for * and +?
292
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100293"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle,
2942011 Feb 27)
295
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200296Copy/paste between Vim and Google chrome doesn't work well for multi-byte
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200297characters. (Ben Haskell, 2010 Sep 17)
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200298When putting text in the cut buffer (when exiting) and conversion doesn't work
299properly, Prepend "ENC==={value of 'enc'}:" to the text and don't convert?
300Then it should at least work from Vim to Vim and in other applications it's
301clear why it doesn't work.
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200302
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200303Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the
304^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer?
305
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100306When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't
307exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan
3089) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c.
309
310g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on
311the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25)
312
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100313Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim
314crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17)
315
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100316Python: Adding line to buffer other than the current one doesn't work
317correctly. (Rozbujnik, 2010 Dec 19)
318
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200319Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file
320names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14)
321Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to
322the system encoding (usually utf-8).
323
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200324Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM.
325Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2)
326
Bram Moolenaar15146672011-10-20 22:22:38 +0200327'beval' option should be global-local.
328
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100329Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero.
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200330
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200331setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11)
Bram Moolenaar2a988a12010-08-13 15:24:39 +0200332
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +02003337 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
334 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
335 Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21.
336
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200337getpos()/setpos() don't include curswant. getpos() could return a fifth
338element. setpos() could accept an optional fifth element.
339Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6. Check that new argument is optional
340and that it's documented.
341
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200342With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott,
3432010 Oct 24)
344
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100345Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10)
346Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19)
347
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200348Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples.
349
Bram Moolenaar05365702010-10-27 18:34:44 +0200350When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010
351Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255".
352
Bram Moolenaardc685ab2010-08-13 21:16:49 +0200353Test 73 fails on MS-Windows when compiled with DJGPP and run twice. How to
354delete the Xfind directory? Add an rmdir() function, just like we have
355mkdir().
356
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200357":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3)
358
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200359'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15)
360
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100361When 'paste' is changed with 'pastetoggle', the ruler doesn't reflect this
362right away. (Samuel Ferencik, 2010 Dec 7)
363
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200364Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16)
365
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100366Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the
367gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13)
368
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200369":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by
370accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15)
371
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200372Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(),
373setwinvar().
374
Bram Moolenaar9de99972010-08-09 22:33:06 +0200375Echo starts in the wrong column:
376 while 1 | let s = input('A') | echo 'R' | endw
377(Boyko Bantchev, 2010 Aug 9)
378
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100379Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7)
380
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100381When writing a file > 2Gbyte, the reported number of bytes is negative.
382(Antonio Colombo, 2010 Dec 18)
383
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200384Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200385(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2)
Bram Moolenaar8408a9a2010-07-30 22:41:22 +0200386
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200387When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines
388instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10)
389
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100390Crash in setqflist(). (Benoit Mortgat, 2010 Nov 18)
391
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +0200392Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn
393Winckler, 2011 May 11)
394Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100395
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100396Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read
397back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13)
398
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100399Can 'undolevels' be a buffer-local option? Helps for making big changes in
400one file only, set 'ul' to -1 only for that buffer.
401Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 17. Needs test.
402
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100403Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200404Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10)
405
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100406CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when
407the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ|
408FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2)
409
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200410Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29)
411Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner)
412
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +0200413Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010
414Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433?
415
Bram Moolenaar5e3dae82010-03-02 16:19:40 +0100416I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
417Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
418an external command).
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +0100419
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200420Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20)
421
Bram Moolenaarb52073a2010-03-17 20:02:06 +0100422Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
423non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100424
425iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
426Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
427or replace with a character and continue?
428
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100429Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
430Requires configure check for localtime().
431Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
432
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100433Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
434Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
435path.
436
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100437Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9)
438Dominique can't reproduc it.
439
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200440":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed
441like it has ":keepjumps" before it.
442
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100443Coverity: ask someone to create new user: Dominique.
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200444Check if there are new reported defects: http://scan.coverity.com/rung2.html
445
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100446Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt,
4472010 Nov 5)
448
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100449Patch to use 'foldnextmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011
450Jan 7)
451
Bram Moolenaar755bd262010-08-14 17:46:20 +0200452When setting 'undofile' while the file is already loaded, but unchanged, try
453to read the undo file. Requires computing a checksum of the text. (Andy
454Wokula)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100455
456Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
457Only with "vim -u NONE".
458
459Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
460
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +0100461With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first
462entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011
463Feb 12)
464
Bram Moolenaar4421d6a2010-08-14 13:33:56 +0200465Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width
466characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq)
467
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100468Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
469
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +0200470Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping:
471 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28)
472
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200473Undo problem: line not removed as expected when using setline() from Insert
474mode. (Israel Chauca, 2010 May 13, more in second msg)
475Break undo when CTRL-R = changes the text? Or save more lines?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100476
Bram Moolenaar1d689522010-05-28 20:54:39 +0200477Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to reproduce
478it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch 7.2.274.
479(Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27)
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100480Generally, folding with 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to
481find out why.
Bram Moolenaar1d689522010-05-28 20:54:39 +0200482
Bram Moolenaard960d762011-09-21 19:22:10 +0200483Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15)
484
Bram Moolenaar97ea5112010-06-12 06:46:44 +0200485When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded.
486Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9)
487
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +0100488Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file. Works OK for
489echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar 17)
490
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100491When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
492not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
493string value.
494
Bram Moolenaar4a748032010-09-30 21:47:56 +0200495":e ~br<Tab>" does not complete to ":e /home/bram/". Would need to use
496getpwent() to find all the matches.
497
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100498Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
499
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100500For running gvim on an USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
501line argument -noregister.
502
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100503When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes
504missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1)
505
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200506When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one
507doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100508
509Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
510(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
511Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
512There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
513Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
514
515":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
516highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
517to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
518
519Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
520Probably needs a bit of work.
521
522List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiware, 2009 Jul 18)
523Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
524
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200525Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18)
526
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100527Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
528
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200529Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010
530Sep 1)
531
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +0200532Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor
533on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7)
534
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100535Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
5362009 Jul 18)
537
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100538Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
539Added test, updates, June 23.
540
541Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
542window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
543Needs more work.
544
545Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
546
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100547When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
548few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
549
550'cmdwinheight is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
551(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
552
553Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
554J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
555
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200556When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done
557for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10)
558
Bram Moolenaarede981a2010-08-11 23:37:32 +0200559Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9)
560
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200561Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields.
562
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100563When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
564
565":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
566because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
567ex_docmd.c.
568
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200569Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100570Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
571
572string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
573for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
574
575Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
576
577'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
57820)
579
580Unwanted file name escaping: ":echo input('file:' , '', 'file')"
581And use file name completion on a file with spaces. (Frederic Hardy, 2009 Mar
58223)
583
584Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
5852009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
586
587Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
588
589Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
590SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
591
592When 'foldmethod' is "indent", using >> on a line just above a fold makes the
593cursor line folded. (Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
594
595When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
596indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
597(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
598
599Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
600are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
601Ignore window options when not in the right window?
602Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
603that doesn't have a window.
604
605When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
606doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
607
608getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
609displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
610
611":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
612
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100613There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
614was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
615perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
616
Bram Moolenaar84f888a2010-08-05 21:40:16 +0200617Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4)
618
Bram Moolenaar483c5d82010-10-20 18:45:33 +0200619Support a 'systemencoding' option (for Unix). It specifies the encoding of
620file names. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 5). Useful on a latin1 or double-byte Asian
621system when 'encoding' is "utf-8".
622
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100623Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
624work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
625Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
626
627Win32 GUI: Changing manifest helps for dpi changes (Joe Castro, 2009 Mar 27)
628
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100629Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
630command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
631
632Win32: use different args for SearchPath()? (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2009 Jan 30)
633
634Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
635does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
636
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +0200637opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change
638height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not
Bram Moolenaar2c3b1d92010-07-24 16:58:02 +0200639very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22)
Bram Moolenaarf5963f72010-07-23 22:10:27 +0200640
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100641Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
642(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
643
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100644Session file generates error upon loading, cause bu --remote-silent-tab.
645(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24)
646
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100647Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
648char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
649
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100650A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (Zyx, 2010 Dec 25)
651
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100652Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
653messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
654es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
6552009 Jan 26)
656
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +0100657When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100658in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
659Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
660
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100661Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
662a modeline.
663
664Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
665Sergey Khorev)
666
667Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
668part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000669
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000670netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
671number to be below last visible line.
672
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100673After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
674correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
675
676Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
677(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
678
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +0100679shellescape() depends on 'shellshash' for quoting. That doesn't work when
680'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz)
681Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a
682unix-like shell?
683
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100684Allow patches to add something to version.c, like with an official patch, so
685that :version output shows which patches have been applied.
686
Bram Moolenaar00a927d2010-05-14 23:24:24 +0200687Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a
688register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break.
689(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16)
690
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100691Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
692Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
693
694Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
695make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
696
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100697When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
698still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
699
700"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
701(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
702
703Update src/testdir/main.aap.
704
705"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7)
706
707Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
708that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
709ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
710Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
711
712Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
713
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000714Runtime files for Clojure. (Toralf Wittner, 2008 Jun 25)
715
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100716MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
717doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
718probably causes this.
719
720'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
Bram Moolenaar927edbd2010-05-17 22:07:47 +02007212009 Jan 16)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100722
723Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
724 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
725 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
726(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
727
728Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
729":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
730option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
731is executed.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000732
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100733":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
734first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +0000735
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000736Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
737laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
738Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000739
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100740Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
741anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
742
743On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
744doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
745Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
746Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
747
748":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
749
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000750When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
751'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
752fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
753the buffer to be unmodified.
754Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
755another look at it.
756
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100757Patch for c.vim and cpp.vim syntax files. (Chung-chieh Shan, 2008 Nov 26)
758
759c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
760(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
761
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100762You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
763error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
764Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
765at the other match for 0xBF.
766
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000767Fix for matchparen HL doesn't work. beep.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000768
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100769When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
770argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
771
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000772Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
773backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
774
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200775Win32: bold font doesn't work when 'guifontwide' has been set. (Yue Wu, 2010
776Aug 23)
777
778When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a
779line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21)
780
781Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected
782position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29)
783
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000784After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
785(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000786command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000787
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000788":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
789Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
790
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100791Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
792Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
793
794When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
795either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
796put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
797
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000798Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
799Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
800Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
801Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
802(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
803
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100804Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
805
806ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000807
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000808Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
809(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
810escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
811an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000812This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
813July 7)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000814
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000815Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
8162008 May 14)
817
818Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
819Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
820'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
821
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100822Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
823Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
824
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000825Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
826Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
827
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100828Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
829
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000830The utf class table is missing some entries:
831 0x2212, minus sign
832 0x2217, star
833 0x2500, bar
834 0x26ab, circle
835
836Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
837line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
838
839GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
840Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
841
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100842Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
843try the Cocoa version.
844
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000845Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
846changed or the window is resized.
847
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +0100848GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
849the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
850
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000851Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
852Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000853
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000854Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
8551) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
856
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000857C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
858with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
859Try to reproduce at work.
860
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100861Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
862Is there a way to list all the files first?
863
864When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
865result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
86616)
867
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200868Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R.
869Haskell, 2010 Aug 24)
870
871Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set?
872(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30)
873
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000874Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
875Await response to question to make the register writable.
876
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100877src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
878remark why.
879
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000880Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
8811)
882
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100883In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
884each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
885
886try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
887
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +0100888try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25)
889
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100890":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
891Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
892
893":tab drop filename" doesn't work nicely when "filename" is open in a window
894in another tab. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Feb 13)
895
896Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
897
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000898Including NFA regexp code:
899Use "\%#= to set the engine: 0 = automatic, 1 = backtracking, 2 = new.
900Useful in tests.
901Performance tests:
902- ~/vim/test/veryslow.js (file from Daniel Fetchinson)
903- ~/vim/test/slowsearch
904- ~/vim/test/rgb.vim
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100905- ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000906- search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
907 'hlsearch'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000908
909Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
910Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
911
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000912Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
913Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
914Jul 31)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000915
916C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
917(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
918
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100919Can't easily close the help window, like ":pc" closes the preview window and
920":ccl" closes the quickfix window. Add ":hclose". (Chris Gaal)
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200921Patch for :helpclose, Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100922
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000923When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
924and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
925
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000926Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
927 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
928
929New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
930
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +0200931":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of
932a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2)
933
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000934'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
935Likonen, March 19)
936
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100937Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
938other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
939
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000940The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
941appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
942matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
943
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100944When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
945character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
946'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
947(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
948
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000949Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
950Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000951
952More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
953
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +0200954Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30)
955http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff
956
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000957Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
958back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
959Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000960
961Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
962No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
963
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000964Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
965terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000966
967Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
968
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000969Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
970but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
971that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000972
973When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
974
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100975Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
976Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
977
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +0000978Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
979popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
980size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
981This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
982
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +0000983Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
984a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
985isn't right?
986
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +0100987When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
988it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
989
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +0000990Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
991then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
992files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +0000993Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
994indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
995":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
996in ":1find /**/file". This is for a files that unix "find" can find very
997quick. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
998Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +0000999
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001000When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
1001parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
1002neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
1003particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1004Jun 3)
1005However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
1006the user put quotes around the expanded item?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001007
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001008A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros
1009Bousbouras, 2011 May 16)
1010
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001011Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
1012Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
1013
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001014Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
1015switch list is noticed:
1016 switch (i)
1017 {
1018 case 1:
1019 foobar:
1020 }
1021
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001022Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
1023
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001024Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
1025with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
1026go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
1027moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
1028
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001029Patch to use Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen, 2010 Jul 30)
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001030Latest version: 2011 May 18
Bram Moolenaar2a8a3ec2011-01-08 16:06:37 +010010318 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
1032 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
1033 Version from Guopeng Wen that does this (2010 Dec 27)
Bram Moolenaar8b682772010-07-30 21:49:40 +02001034
Bram Moolenaar20f90cf2011-05-19 12:22:51 +02001035Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap.
1036(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16)
1037
1038Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone
1039makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the
1040.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g.
1041 # uninstall key: vim7.3*
1042
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001043Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
10442007 Feb 8)
1045
1046Patch for Win32 clipboard under Cygwin. (Frodak Baksik, Feb 15)
1047 Sutcliffe says it works well.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001048 Update 2007 May 22 for Vim 7.1
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001049 Update 2008 Dec 2008 for Vim 7.2.xx (Sharonov)
1050
1051Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
1052set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001053
1054Win32: Patch for convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2)
1055
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001056Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
1057
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001058Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
1059Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
1060New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
1061patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
1062
1063Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
1064Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
1065
1066Win32: echo doesn't work for gvim.exe.mnf. Use inline file. Patch by Mathias
1067Michaelis. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/43765
1068Patch that includes this and does more by George Reilly, 2007 Feb 12
1069
1070Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
1071
1072Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
10732007 Feb 18)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001074Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001075
1076Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
Bram Moolenaared39e1d2008-08-09 17:55:22 +00001077label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
1078
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001079Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
1080with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
1081Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001082
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001083Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
1084pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
1085
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001086Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
1087
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001088Win32: When 'shell' is cmd.exe this command fails:
1089 echo system('"c:/path/echo.exe" "foo bar"')
1090Should we set the default for 'shellxquote' to a double quote, when 'shell'
1091contains "cmd" in the tail? (Benjamin Fritz, 2008 Oct 13)
1092Also set 'shellcmdflag' to include /s.
1093
1094Win32: When there is 4 Gbyte of memory mch_avail_mem() doesn't work properly.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001095Unfinished patch by Jelle Geerts, 2008 Aug 24.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001096Let mch_avail_mem() return Kbyte instead?
1097
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001098Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
1099Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
1100only takes 'shellslash' into account.
1101
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001102Pressing the 'pastetoggle' key doesn't update the statusline. (Jan Christoph
1103Ebersbach, 2008 Feb 1)
1104
1105Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
1106Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
1107Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'filenecodings' is set
1108properly?
1109
1110Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
11112007 Jun 21)
1112
1113When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
1114Jun 18)
1115
1116If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
1117
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001118Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
1119windows. (Adam George)
1120
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001121F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
1122modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
1123K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001124
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001125UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
1126to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
1127
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001128In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
1129the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
1130
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001131C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
1132
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001133":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
1134
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001135When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001136error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00001137
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001138Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
1139use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
1140
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001141Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
1142if_ruby.c.
1143
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001144":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
1145
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001146Patch to dynamically load Python on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2009 Feb 16)
1147Needs more work.
1148
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001149The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
1150it in keep_msg?
1151
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001152Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001153error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001154name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
1155
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +00001156Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
1157longer than 2 seconds.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001158
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001159Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
1160Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
1161Also for ":w" without a file name.
1162The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001163
1164"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
1165Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
1166
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001167VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
1168directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
1169(Zoltan Arpadffy)
1170
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001171VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1172
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001173input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
1174name?
1175
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001176Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
1177
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001178When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
1179(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
1180Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
1181will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
1182
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001183gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
1184This also fails with --remote.
1185
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001186When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
11872008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
1188all places where buf_freeall() is called?
1189
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001190":python os.chdir('/tmp')" makes short buffer names invalid. (Xavier de Gaye)
1191Check directory and call shorten_fnames()?
1192
1193aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
1194
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001195When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
1196(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
1197
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001198Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
1199the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
1200
1201Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001202Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
1203Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
1204argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00001205(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001206
1207GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
1208
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001209Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
1210superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
1211
1212Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
1213character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
1214
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001215Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
1216Jun 5)
1217
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001218Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
12192008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
1220Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
1221
1222In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
1223but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
1224Jul 22)
1225
1226There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
1227
1228Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
1229":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
1230somehow? Or use a new function.
1231
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001232Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
1233
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001234Mac: OS/X 10.4 with Python 2.5 installed: configure finds an extra argument
1235that breaks the build. (Brian Victor, 2008 Sep 1)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001236
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001237Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
1238moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
1239that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
1240
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001241The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
1242
1243Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
1244loading all files.
1245
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001246Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
1247line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
1248after starting up?
1249
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01001250When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001251cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
1252the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
1253
1254Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
1255has been created.
1256
1257Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
1258shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
1259fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
1260background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
1261A.Politz may work on this.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001262
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001263These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
1264 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
1265 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
1266 cabbr YYY xyz<Left>
1267
1268Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
1269partly. (2006 Dec 7)
1270
1271In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
1272buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
1273reload it then?
1274
1275New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
1276previous version.
1277
1278For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
1279
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001280Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
1281only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
1282
1283Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
1284tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
1285doesn't contain other directories.
1286
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01001287Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color:
1288 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray
1289 set background=dark
1290This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background
1291color is, not reset it.
1292
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001293Linux distributions:
1294- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
1295 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
1296 xfree-xterm".
1297- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
1298
1299Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
1300start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
1301show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
1302middle?
1303
1304When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001305(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001306connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
1307dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
1308
1309Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
1310
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001311When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
1312current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
1313the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
1314
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001315When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
1316Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
1317
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001318Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
1319 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
1320 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
1321 - getting colors in xterm
1322 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
1323
1324Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
1325Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
1326
1327Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
1328
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001329A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
1330Wokula, 2007 Aug 25)
1331
1332Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
1333Dara, 2006 June 21)
1334
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001335Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
1336number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
1337
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001338After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
1339the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
1340
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001341Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
1342Does multi-byte printing with ":hardcopy" work? Add remark in documentation
1343about this.
1344
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001345Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
1346copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
1347error and stop using the connection to the server.
1348
1349Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
1350Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
1351
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02001352Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski,
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010013532008 Sep 29)
1354
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001355In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
1356check the result of has("patch13").
1357
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001358Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
1359restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
1360
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001361Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir>
1362and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>?
1363
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001364Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
1365put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
1366
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001367Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
1368resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
1369
1370In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
1371can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
1372
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +02001373Completion menu disappears when using 'cursorcolumn'. (Sven-Hendrik Haase,
13742011 May 23)
1375
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001376GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
1377maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
1378doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001379Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
1380visible.
1381
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +01001382When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled
1383differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001384
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001385The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
1386be only one.
1387
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001388"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
1389script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
1390
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001391It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
1392the function name before resolving it to a number?
1393 let d = {}
1394 fun! d.foo()
1395 echo "here"
1396 endfun
1397 call d.foo(9)
1398
1399Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
1400only set after Visual moded is ended.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001401Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
1402used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
1403
1404Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
1405output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
1406Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
1407
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02001408Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001409"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
1410name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
1411Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001412
1413Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
1414(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
1415
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001416Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
1417as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
1418
1419Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
1420Jan 1)
1421
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001422Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
142323)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001424
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001425":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
1426tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
1427Jun 18)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001428
1429xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1430buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1431Xterm 224 supports it!
1432
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001433When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
1434text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
1435latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
1436
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001437Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
1438
1439Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
1440no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
1441
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001442In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
1443VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
14442007 Oct 16)
1445
1446TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
1447Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
1448
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001449Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001450
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001451When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
1452typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
1453Sep 3, 11)
1454
1455When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
1456respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
1457the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
1458what happens for the GUI.
1459
1460X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1461pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1462clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1463Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1464Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1465clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
1466
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001467":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
1468this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
1469
1470When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
1471Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
1472restored. (Luc St-Louis)
1473
Bram Moolenaarb2c03502010-07-02 20:20:09 +02001474Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler,
14752010 Jun 30)
1476
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001477
Bram Moolenaar00654022011-02-25 14:42:19 +01001478At next release:
1479- Rename src/Makefile and create a new one like toplevel Makefile that
1480 creates auto/config.mk when it's not there? (Ben Schmidt, 2011 Feb 11)
1481
1482
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001483More patches:
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001484- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11)
1485 Needs a few tests.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001486- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
1487- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
1488 21)
1489- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
1490 patch May 10)
1491- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
1492 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
1493- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
1494 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
1495- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
1496- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
1497- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
1498 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
1499 character at a time?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001500- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00001501- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
1502 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
1503- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
1504 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
1505- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
1506 21)
1507- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
1508 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
1509- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
1510 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001511- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
1512 Sep 13)
1513- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
1514 Docs patch Oct 30)
Bram Moolenaar26dcc7e2010-07-14 22:35:55 +02001515- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by
1516 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts
1517 more friendly for the Vim distribution.
1518 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
1519 No maintenance in two years...
Bram Moolenaar4d32c2d2010-07-18 22:10:01 +02001520- Patch to access screen under Python. (Marko Mahni, 2010 Jul 18)
Bram Moolenaar5aae4192010-08-03 23:00:38 +02001521- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +00001522
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001523Awaiting updated patches:
Bram Moolenaarf9393ef2006-04-24 19:47:27 +000015249 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
1525 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
1526 New patch 2004 Jun 16
1527 - selecting proportional font breaks display
1528 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
1529 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
1530 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
1531 (Alan Schmitt)
1532 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001533 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
1534 'termencoding'?
Bram Moolenaar76b92b22006-03-24 22:46:53 +000015359 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001536 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000015378 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000015388 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00001539 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000015407 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
1541 Update 2004 Sep 6.
1542 How does this work? Missing comments.
1543- Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001544 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31, update 2007 May 30)
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01001545 Version for latest MacVim: Tobia Conforto, 2009 Nov 23
Bram Moolenaar97293012011-07-18 19:40:27 +02001546 More recent version: https://retracile.net/wiki/VimBreakIndent
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000015478 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001548 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000015497 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
1550 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
1551- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
1552 for multi-byte characters.
1553- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
1554- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
1555 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
1556 been given values.
1557 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
15588 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00001559 with an ESC sequence.
1560 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
1561 <Esc>]12;?<Bel>
1562 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000015637 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
1564 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
1565- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
1566 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
1567 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
15688 Add functions:
1569 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
1570 Update 2004 Sep 10
1571 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
1572 Search in 'runtimepath'?
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00001573 More docs needed about how to use this.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001574 How to get the messages into the .po files?
Bram Moolenaar72597a52010-07-18 15:31:08 +02001575 strchars() Like strlen() and strwidth() but counting characters
1576 instead of bytes.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001577 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
1578 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
1579 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
1580 (2003 May 13)
1581 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
1582 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00001583 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
1584 useful for interactive things or completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00001585 col('^') column of first non-white character.
1586 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
1587 + 1", but that's ugly.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000015887 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
1589 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
1590- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
1591 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
15927 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
1593 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +000015948 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
1595 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000015967 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
15978 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
1598 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
15997 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
1600 Kotchan has a patch for it)
16018 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
1602 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
1603 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
16047 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
1605- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
1606 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
1607 incomplete patch Mar 18)
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001608- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
1609 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
1610- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
1611
1612
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001613Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001614- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
1615 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016168 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
1617 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
1618 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
1619 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
1620 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
1621 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016228 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
1623 make Vim exit.
16247 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
1625 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
1626 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
16278 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
1628 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
1629 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
16306 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
1631 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
1632 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
16338 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
1634 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
1635 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
1636 names in one buffer???
1637 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
1638 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
1639 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
16407 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
1641 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
1642 command was one command.
Bram Moolenaareaa48e72005-06-08 22:07:37 +00001643 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
1644 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016457 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
1646 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
16477 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
16487 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
16497 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
1650 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
16517 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
1652 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
1653 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
1654 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
16557 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
16567 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
16577 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
1658 to the match with the tag? Option?
16597 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
16607 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
1661 (Sayre).
16627 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
1663 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016647 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
1665 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
1666 match. Nvi can do it too.
16677 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
1668 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
1669 line 1\ line 2\\
1670 line 2\ line 3\\
1671 . line4/
16726 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
1673 the way the shell is started?
16746 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
1675 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
1676
1677
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001678GTK+ GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000016799 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016808 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
1681 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
1682 creating a label?
Bram Moolenaar6e7c7f32005-08-24 22:16:11 +000016838 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
1684 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
1685 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000016869 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
1687 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
1688 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
1689 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
Bram Moolenaare580b0c2006-03-21 21:33:03 +00001690- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
1691 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
1692 blocked for now.
1693
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001694
1695Win32 GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00001696- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
1697 the screen.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000016988 non-ASCII font names don't work. Need to convert from 'encoding' and use
1699 the wide functions.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017008 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
1701 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +020017028 Win32: With two monitors, gvim partly on both, and adding/removing a
1703 scrollbar Vim resizes and moves to one of the monitors. (Chris Monkiewicz,
1704 2008 Oct)
Bram Moolenaar1423b9d2006-05-07 15:16:06 +000017058 When the primary monitor is below or right of the secondary monitor and
1706 Vim is on the secondary monitor it will often move to the primary monitor.
1707 Window position coordinates can be negative. (James Harvey)
Bram Moolenaar24ea3ba2010-09-19 19:01:21 +02001708 When the primary monitor is on the right, coordinates on the left monitor
1709 are negative. Clamping to zero means gvim jups to the primary monitor.
1710 (Michael Wookey, 2010 Aug 17)
1711 Probably the same issue: When the GUI tab pages line is displayed Vim
1712 jumps from the secondary to the primary monitor. (Afton Lewis, 2007 Mar 9)
1713 Possible solution using GetSystemMetrics() (Sergey Khorev, 2010 Aug 18)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017148 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
1715 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
1716 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
17178 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
1718 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
17197 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1720 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1721 "lucida_console:h8").
17226 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
1723 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000017248 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
1725 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
1726 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017277 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
1728 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
1729 to use an opaque background in most places?
17308 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
1731 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
1732 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
17338 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
1734 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
1735 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
17367 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
1737 2004 May 9)
17388 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
1739 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
1740 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
1741 MS-Windows 98?
1742 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
1743 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
1744 file: Window moves with the cursor!
1745 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017468 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it
1747 appear. (Sami Salonen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017488 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
1749 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
1750 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
1751 doesn't work properly.
17528 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
1753 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
1754 appears in the right position. (Webb)
17559 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
1756 button doesn't give popup menu.
1757 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
1758 selection.
1759 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
1760 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
1761 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
17628 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
1763 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
1764 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
1765 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
17668 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
1767 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
1768 be read.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017697 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
1770 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
1771 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
17727 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
1773 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
Bram Moolenaar4463f292005-09-25 22:20:24 +00001774 scroll?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017757 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
1776 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017776 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
17788 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
1779 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
1780 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
17818 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
1782 know which keyboard is being used?
17837 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
1784 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
1785 area (Koloseike).
17868 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
1787 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
1788 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
1789 the font name).
1790
1791
1792Athena and Motif:
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000017936 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
1794 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
1795 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
1796 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
1797 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017989 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
1799 required and it's missing?
18008 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
1801 wrong.
18029 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
1803 be off by default.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000018049 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001805 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
1806 flag.
18078 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
1808 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
1809 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
18108 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
18116 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
1812 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
1813 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
1814 the tooltips work though...
18157 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
1816 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
18178 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
1818 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
1819 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
1820
1821
1822Athena GUI:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010018239 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost.
1824 The second click on a menu does work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018259 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
1826 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
1827 through files.
18287 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
1829 read long file names. (Schroeder)
18304 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
1831 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
1832 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
1833 problem during a refresh.
18345 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
1835 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
1836 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
1837 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
1838 colors as it should.
1839 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
1840 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
1841
1842
1843Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02001844- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018457 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
1846 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018478 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
1848 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
1849 (Phillipps)
1850
1851
1852GUI:
18539 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
1854 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
18559 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +00001856 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001857 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
18589 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
1859 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
18608 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
1861 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
18628 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
1863 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
1864 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
18658 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
1866 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
1867 of where it is processing the output.
1868 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
18698 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
1870 doesn't work.
18718 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000018728 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
1873 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
1874 still translated.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020018758 Add menu separators for Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018768 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
1877 browse().
18788 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
1879 use that code? Or use console dialog.
18808 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
1881 error message disappears too quick.
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000018827 More features in the find/replace dialog:
1883 - regexp on/off
1884 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
1885 when all buffers/directory is used:
1886 - filter for file name
1887 when directory is used:
1888 - subdirectory on/off
1889 - top directory browser
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018908 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
1891 to avoid problems.
18928 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
1893 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
1894 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
18958 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
1896 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
1897 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
18988 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
1899 up. Set erase character somehow?
19008 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
1901 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
1902 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
1903 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
19048 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
19057 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
1906 visible.
19077 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
1908 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
19097 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
1910 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
19118 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
1912 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
19138 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
1914 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
1915 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
1916 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
1917- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
19184 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
1919 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
1920 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
1921
1922
1923MSDOS/DJGPP:
19249 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
1925 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
1926 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
19278 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
1928 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
19299 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
Bram Moolenaare2f98b92006-03-29 21:18:24 +00001930 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
1931 write a file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019329 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
1933 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
1934 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
1935 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
19369 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
1937 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
1938 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
1939 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
1940 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
1941 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
1942 Make this work like in Win32 console.
1943 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
1944 key code. Use a translation table?
19459 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
1946 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
19478 Use DJGPP 2.03.
19488 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
1949 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
19508 setlocale() is bogus.
19518 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
1952 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
1953 Windows 95 system!
19548 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000019557 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001956 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
19577 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
1958 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
1959 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
19608 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
1961 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
19627 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
1963 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
1964 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
1965 "[New file]".
19667 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
1967 that is supported?
19688 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
19698 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
1970 Briscoe)
1971
1972
1973MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
19748 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
1975 gen_expand_wildcards().
19768 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
1977 Wagner.
19788 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
19798 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
1980 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000019818 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
1982 a good fallback, thus use:
1983 $HOME
1984 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH
1985 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
1986 $USERPROFILE
1987 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
1988 $ALLUSERSPROFILE
1989 $SYSTEMDRIVE\
1990 C:\
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019918 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
1992 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
19938 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
1994 Should work like in the GUI version.
19958 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
1996 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
19978 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
1998 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
19998 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
2000 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
2001 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020028 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
2003 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
2004 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
2005
2006
2007Windows 95:
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +020020088 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002009 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
2010 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
20118 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
2012 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
2013
2014
2015Win32 console:
20169 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
2017 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
2018 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
2019 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
2020 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
2021 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
2022 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
2023 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
2024 and the file is not saved.
2025 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
2026 long name.
20278 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
2028 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
20297 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
2030 besides the console.
20318 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
20329 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
2033 <C-S-i>?
20349 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
2035 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
20368 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
2037 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020387 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
2039 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
2040 exiting.
2041
2042
2043Amiga:
20448 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
2045 sequences.
20469 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
2047 backslashes in result.
20488 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
2049 all options, using white space separation.
2050
2051
2052Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002053- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020547 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
2055 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
2056 (Jack)
2057 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000020588 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
2059 2006 Sept 28)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020608 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
20618 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
20629 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
2063 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020649 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002065
2066
2067"Small" problems:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002068- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
2069 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002070- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
2071 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002072- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
2073 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
2074 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
2075 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
2076 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
2077 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
2078 the command.
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000020799 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
2080 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
Bram Moolenaarc93b83a2006-04-29 22:02:36 +000020819 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002082 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
2083 file isn't readonly, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020848 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
2085 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
2086 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00002087 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020888 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the
2089 error number, it's not a regular error message.
20907 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
2091 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
20928 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
2093 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
2094 for redirection.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020957 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
2096 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002097- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
2098 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020998 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
2100 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
2101 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
2102 using the horizontal scrollbar.
21037 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
2104 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
2105 invocations belong together.
21068 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
2107 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
21088 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
2109 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
2110 UnxUtils.zip archive.
2111 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
2112 Briscoe says it's not as good.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000021138 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000021148 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
2115 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
2116 an allocated structure?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000021176 Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021188 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
2119 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021207 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
2121 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
2122 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
2123 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
21248 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
2125 defined.
21267 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
2127 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
2128 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
21297 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
2130 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
2131 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
21327 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
2133 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021347 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
2135 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021369 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
2137 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
2138 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
2139 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
2140 script can be called.
21418 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
2142 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
2143 works.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021448 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
2145 CTRL-C.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000021468 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002147 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
2148 configurable?
21498 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
21509 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
2151 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
2152 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021538 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
2154 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000021558 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
2156 is a multi-byte character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021578 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
2158 always written, even when the original file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021599 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
2160 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
2161 written.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021627 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021638 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
2164 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
2165 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +000021668 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
2167 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002168 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
2169 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021708 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
2171 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
21729 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
2173 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
2174 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002175 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021767 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
2177 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021787 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
2179 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
2180 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
2181 direction, not horizontally?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021828 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002183 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
2184 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
2185 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
2186 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002187 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
2188 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +00002189 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar996343d2010-07-04 22:20:21 +02002190 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002191 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
2192 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
2193 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
2194 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
2195 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
21968 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
2197 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
21989 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
2199 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
2200 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022018 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
2202 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
22038 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
2204 in lines that don't extend into the block?
22058 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
2206 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
2207 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
22088 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
2209 'linebreak'.
22108 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
2211 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
2212 (Helmut Stiegler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022139 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
2214 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
2215 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
2216 'magic' in history. (Margo)
22179 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
2218 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
22199 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
2220 isn't updated).
22219 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
22229 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
2223 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
2224 cause another redraw, etc.
22258 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
2226 must escape special characters in the pattern.
22278 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
2228 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
2229 ":w!!" for that.
2230 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
2231 restore file to readonly afterwards.
Bram Moolenaar04a09c12005-08-01 22:02:32 +00002232 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022337 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
2234 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
2235 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
2236 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
2237 clipboard)
22387 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
2239 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
2240 Waggoner)
22418 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
2242 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
2243 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000022446 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
2245 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
2246 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022478 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
2248 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
22498 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
2250 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
2251 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
Bram Moolenaar8424a622006-04-19 21:23:36 +000022528 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022538 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
2254 (e.g., ":w").
22558 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
2256 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
22578 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
2258 for ">>".
22598 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
2260 script in do_cmdline().
22618 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
2262 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
2263 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
2264 changes.
22658 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
2266 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
22678 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
2268 check for file marks. This can be slow.
22697 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
2270 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
2271 needed.
2272 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
22738 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
2274 to skip catch_signals()?
22759 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
2276 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
2277 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
2278 text?
22798 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
2280 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
22818 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
2282 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
22839 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
2284 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
2285 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
2286 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
2287 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
22887 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
2289 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
2290 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
2291 in the list?
22928 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
2293 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
2294 instead of on button down.
22958 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
22969 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
2297 reaching the end of the available buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002298 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
2299 May 14)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023008 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
2301 character is typed.
23028 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
2303 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
23048 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
2305 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
23068 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
2307 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
2308 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
2309 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
2310 cygwin bash.
23117 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
2312 Remember flags for backreferences.
23137 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
2314 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
23157 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
2316 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
23178 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
2318 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
23197 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
2320 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000023217 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
2322 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
2323 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
23247 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
2325 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
23268 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
2327 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
2328 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
23297 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
2330 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002331
2332
2333I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
23349 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
2335 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
2336 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002337
2338
2339Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaara93fa7e2006-04-17 22:14:47 +00002340- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
2341 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
2342 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
Bram Moolenaare37d50a2008-08-06 17:06:04 +00002343- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
2344 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
2345 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
2346 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
2347 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
2348 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
Bram Moolenaar33aea182010-08-07 13:19:27 +02002349 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002350- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
2351 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00002352 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00002353 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
2354 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
2355 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002356- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
2357 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
2358 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
2359 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
2360 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
2361- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
2362 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
2363 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
2364- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
2365 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002366- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002367- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
2368 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
2369 character gets the highlighting.
2370- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
2371 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
2372- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
2373 (Jennings)
2374- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
2375- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2376 errors. How do we get the rest?
2377- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002378- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002379 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
2380- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
2381 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
2382 first?
2383- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
2384 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
2385- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
2386 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
2387 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
2388- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
2389 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
2390 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
2391 (Benzinger).
2392- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
2393 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
2394 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
2395- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
2396 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
2397- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
2398 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
2399- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
2400 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
2401 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
2402 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
2403 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
2404 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
2405- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
2406 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
2407 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +01002408- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up
2409 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like
2410 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002411- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
2412 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
2413 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
2414- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
2415 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
2416- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
2417 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
2418- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim
2419 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2420- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
2421 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
2422- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
2423 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
2424 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
2425 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
2426 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
2427- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
2428 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
2429 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
2430- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
2431 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
2432 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00002433- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
2434 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 +00002435- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
2436 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
2437 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
2438 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
2439 in the vimrc file to be lost.
2440- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
2441 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
2442
2443--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
2444 *extensions-improvements*
2445
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002446Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
2447- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
2448 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
2449 calling a function.
2450 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
2451 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002452- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
2453 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
2454- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
2455 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
2456 http://clewn.sf.net.
2457 And the idevim plugin/script.
2458 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
2459 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
2460 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
2461 other window.
2462 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
2463 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2464 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
2465 in terminal mode.
2466- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
2467 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
2468 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
2469 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
2470 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
2471 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002472 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002473- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
2474 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
2475 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01002476- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
2477 first line to be able to start halfway.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002478- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
2479 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
2480 http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000024818 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
2482 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
2483 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
2484 taglist() can be used.
Bram Moolenaar27dc1952006-03-15 23:06:44 +00002485- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
2486 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002487
2488
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002489Documentation:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000024908 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
2491 Feb 20.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000024928 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
2493 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000024948 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
2495 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024968 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024977 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
24989 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
2499 - change to cursor position and curswant
2500 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
2501 - how it works for folded lines
2502 - how it works with multi-byte characters
25039 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
2504 work too.
25058 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
2506 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
2507 text.
25088 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
25097 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
2510 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
25117 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
2512 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002513 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002514- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
2515
2516
2517Help:
2518- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
2519 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
2520- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
2521 to the other matches.
2522- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
2523- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
2524- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
2525 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
2526 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
2527 default contents.
2528- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
2529 height for the help window (and other windows).
2530- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
2531- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
2532- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
2533
2534
2535User Friendlier:
25368 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
2537 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
2538 Briscoe)
25398 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
25408 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
2541 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
2542 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
25438 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
2544 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
2545- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
2546 ":mkplugin <file>"?
25478 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
2548 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
2549 'runtimepath'.
2550 " Vim plugin
2551 <main plugin code>
2552 " >>> plugin help start <<<
2553 <plugin docs>
2554- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
25559 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
2556 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
2557 item?).
2558 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025598 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
25607 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
Bram Moolenaar51ac12f2005-07-02 23:21:11 +000025617 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
2562 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
2563 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
Bram Moolenaar33aec762006-01-22 23:30:12 +000025648 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
2565 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
2566 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
2567 global_event_filter() for GTK.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002568
2569
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002570Tab pages:
25719 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000025727 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
2573 font, etc.)
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000025748 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +000025758 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000025768 :tabmove +N move tab page N pages forward
25778 :tabmove -N move tab page N pages backward
25787 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000025797 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
Bram Moolenaar49325942007-05-10 19:19:59 +00002580 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +000025817 Add local variables for each tab page?
25828 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
2583 tab pages.
25847 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000025857 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
2586 window-local directories?
Bram Moolenaareddf53b2006-02-27 00:11:10 +00002587
2588
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002589Spell checking:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002590- have some way not to give spelling errors for a range of characters.
2591 E.g. for Chinese and other languages with specific characters for which we
2592 don't have a spell file. Useful when there is also text in other
2593 languages in the file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002594- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
2595 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
2596- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
2597 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
2598 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
2599- Could filter &eacute; things for HTML before doing spell checking.
2600 Similarly for TeX.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002601- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
2602 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
2603 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002604- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
2605 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
2606 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00002607- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
2608 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
Bram Moolenaar6dfc28b2010-02-11 14:19:15 +01002609- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002610 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
2611 (Teemu Likonen)
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +000026128 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
2613 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
26148 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
2615 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
26168 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
2617 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00002618 items and check if the result is a valid word.
Bram Moolenaar18144c82006-04-12 21:52:12 +00002619 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
2620 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
2621 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
2622 How is it supposed to work?
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +00002623- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
2624 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
Bram Moolenaar261bfea2006-03-01 22:12:31 +00002625- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
Bram Moolenaar7b89edc2006-04-06 20:21:51 +00002626- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
2627 the word are not used.
Bram Moolenaardb552d602006-03-23 22:59:57 +00002628- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002629 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002630- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002631 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002632- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
2633 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002634- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
2635 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
2636- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar69e0ff92005-09-30 21:23:56 +00002637 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002638 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
2639 in the affix file separately.
2640 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002641 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002642 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
2643 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
2644 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
2645- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
2646 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
2647 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
2648 specific prefixes with suffixes.
2649 Alternative:
2650 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
2651 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
2652 affix which is required.
2653- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
Bram Moolenaar899dddf2006-03-26 21:06:50 +00002654 COMPOUNDWORDMAX.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002655- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
2656 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
2657 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002658- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
2659 word/flags and affix.
Bram Moolenaarda2303d2005-08-30 21:55:26 +00002660- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
2661 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
2662- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000026638 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
2664 syntax items (to add @Spell).
2665 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
2666 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002667- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
2668 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
2669 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
2670 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000026718 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
2672 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000026738 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
26748 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
2675 use of words with a dash.
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +000026767 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
26778 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
2678 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
2679 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
2680 in English, strings in German (po file).
Bram Moolenaar7d1f5db2005-07-03 21:39:27 +00002681
2682
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002683Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000026849 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
2685 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
Bram Moolenaarc400cb92010-07-19 19:52:13 +02002686 It's quite big and badly documented though.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026878 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
2688 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
2689 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +00002690 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
2691 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026927 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
2693 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
2694 location.
2695
2696
2697Folding:
Bram Moolenaarbba577a2005-11-28 23:05:55 +00002698 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
2699 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027008 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
2701 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000027028 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000027039 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
2704 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027058 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
2706 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
2707 user aware of this?
27088 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
2709 commands skip over a closed fold.
27108 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
27118 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027127 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002713- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
2714 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
2715 missing line goes unnoticed.
2716 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002717- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
2718 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
2719 smoother?
2720- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
2721 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +00002722- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
2723 file can contain:
2724 args version.c main.c
2725 edit version.c
2726 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002727- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00002728- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
2729 to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002730- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
2731 cursor.
Bram Moolenaar3517bb12006-03-03 22:58:45 +00002732- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
2733 match.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002734- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000027358 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002736 searches.
2737
2738
2739Multi-byte characters:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00002740- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
2741 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
2742 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
2743 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027449 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
2745 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
2746 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
2747 byte).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020027489 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is
2749 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could
2750 it be done with an autocommand?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027518 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
2752 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
2753 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
2754 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
2755 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
2756 item.
27578 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002758 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
2759 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027608 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
2761 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00002762 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00002763 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027648 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
2765 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000027668 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
2767 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
2768 different fileencoding for filter output?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027697 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
2770 so that the user can fix the problem.
27718 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
2772 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027739 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
27748 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027758 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
27768 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000027777 Searching and composing characters:
2778 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
2779 Add special item to match with a composing character, zero-width, so that
2780 one can replace a base character and keep the composing characters.
2781 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
2782 characters can be manipulated.
2783 Add a modifier to ignore composing characters, only compare base
2784 characters. Useful for Hebrew (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027858 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
27868 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
27878 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
2788 characters.
27898 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
27908 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
2791 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
27927 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
2793 'display' option to specify this.
27947 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
2795 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
2796- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
2797 fontselector somehow.
2798- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
2799 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
2800- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
2801 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
2802- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
2803 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
2804 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
2805 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
2806 if a font exists?
2807- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02002808 convert_input() for Mac GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002809- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
2810 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
28117 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
2812 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
Bram Moolenaarac6e65f2005-08-29 22:25:38 +00002813- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
2814 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
2815 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
2816 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002817- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
2818 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
2819 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
2820- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
2821 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
2822 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
2823 But it's very complicated...
2824
2825
2826Printing:
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000028277 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002828- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
2829- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
2830 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00002831- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
2832 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002833- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
2834- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
2835 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00002836- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
2837 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002838- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
2839 units as for the margins.
2840- Support right-to-left text?
28418 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
2842 color.
2843
2844
2845Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028468 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
2847 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
28488 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
2849 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
28508 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
2851 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
Bram Moolenaar910f66f2006-04-05 20:41:53 +000028527 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
2853 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028548 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
2855 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
2856 ":wq file".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000028577 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
2858 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
2859 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028608 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
28619 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
2862 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028637 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
2864 Search highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar17be7e62006-03-12 22:13:45 +000028657 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
2866 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028678 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
2868 change this for each release.
28698 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
2870 pattern, but not in the body.
28718 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
2872 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
2873 instead of the containing item.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028748 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
28758 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
2876 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
2877 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
2878 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
28798 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
2880 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
28818 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
2882 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +00002883 Option for the matchparen plugin?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028848 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
2885 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
2886 used.
28878 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
2888 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
28898 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
2890 re-insert the [] if possible.
28918 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
2892 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaara5792f52005-11-23 21:25:05 +000028938 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
2894 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
2895 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
2896 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
2897 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028988 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
2899 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
29008 Support for deleting syntax items:
2901 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
2902 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
2903 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
29048 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
2905 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
2906 a '<'. (Fleiner)
29077 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
2908 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
2909 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
29107 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
2911 detected.
29128 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00002913 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029148 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
2915 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029168 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
29178 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
29187 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
2919 ":mkvimrc".
29208 Improve c.vim:
2921 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
2922 "c_strict_ansi".
2923 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
29248 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
2925 current line while in Insert mode.
29268 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
2927 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
29288 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
2929 display position.
29308 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
2931 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
2932 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
29338 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
2934 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
2935 highlighting starts.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000029368 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
2937 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
2938 sequence.
Bram Moolenaarf193fff2006-04-27 00:02:13 +000029397 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
2940 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
2941 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
2942 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
2943 Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029447 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
2945 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
2946 E.g. for this html:
2947 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029487 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
29497 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
2950 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029518 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
29528 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029537 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
2954 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
2955 completion?
29568 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
2957 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
29587 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
2959 select one of the sets.
29608 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
2961 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
2962 2, etc.
29638 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
2964 highlighting (for "." command).
29658 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
2966 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
29678 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
29687 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
2969 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
29706 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
2971 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
2972- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
2973 when extending an already existing syntax file.
2974- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002975- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
2976 (for comment blocks).
2977- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
2978 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
2979 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
2980 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
2981 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
2982 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
2983 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
2984 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
2985 (Campbell)
2986 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
2987 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
29887 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
2989 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
29907 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
2991 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
2992 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
29937 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
2994 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
2995 messages. And external commands?
29968 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
2997 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
29987 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
2999 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
3000
3001
3002Built-in script language:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000030038 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
3004 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +000030057 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
3006 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
3007 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030088 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
3009 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003010- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
3011 2006 Dec 11.
3012- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaarc5604bc2010-07-17 15:20:30 +020030138 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
3014 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
3015 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
3016 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
3017 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to
3018 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac().
Bram Moolenaar1056d982006-03-09 22:37:52 +000030197 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
3020 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030218 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
30228 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
3023 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
3024 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
3025 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
3026 nested packages?
3027 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
3028 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
3029 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030307 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
3031 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
3032 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
3033 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
3034 autocommand.
3035 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
3036 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
3037 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
3038 file belongs to a sourced script?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030397 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
3040 signs and/or 'number'.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000030416 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
3042 implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030438 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003044 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
3045 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
3046 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
3047 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
3048 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
3049 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
3050 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00003051 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
3052 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
3053 3 2002
3054 Only add this when also implemented for
3055 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
3056 be used.
3057 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00003058 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
3059 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
3060 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
3061 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
3062 File.Open..." argument.
3063 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
3064 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
3065 with properties instead.
3066 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
3067 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
3068 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003069 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003070 crypt() encrypt string
3071 decrypt() decrypt string
3072 base64enc() base 64 encoding
3073 base64dec() base 64 decoding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003074 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003075 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003076 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003077 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003078 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003079 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
3080 find out what happened)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003081 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
3082 Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003083 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003084 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
3085 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003086 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
3087 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
3088 to allow the library to execute a command or
3089 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030907 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
3091 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
30928 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
3093 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000030948 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
3095 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030968 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030977 Add optional arguments to user functions:
3098 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
30996 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000031008 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
3101 just ignore.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031028 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
3103 option or environment variable.
31048 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031058 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003106 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
Bram Moolenaar5e3cb7e2006-02-27 23:58:35 +000031077 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
3108 available as a List.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031098 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
3110 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
31118 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
31128 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
3113 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
3114 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
3115 charwise({expr}).
31167 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
3117 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
3118 buffer for this?
3119 result = scratch(string, command)
3120 result = apply(string, command)
3121 result = execute(string, command)
3122 "command" would use <> notation.
3123 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
31247 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003125
3126
3127Robustness:
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000031286 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
3129 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
3130 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
3131 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
3132 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
3133 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
3134 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003135
3136
3137Performance:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000031387 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
3139 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
Bram Moolenaare6dc5732010-07-24 23:52:26 +020031407 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
3141 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
3142 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where
3143 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000031448 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
3145 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
3146 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
3147 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
Bram Moolenaard04b7502010-07-08 22:27:55 +02003148 With a patch, but does it work?
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000031498 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
3150 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
3151 repeating it in various system files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031528 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
31539 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
31548 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
31557 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
3156 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
31578 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
3158 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
3159 when starting up in a color terminal.
31608 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
3161 Win16.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031628 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
3163 function be improved?
31648 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
3165 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
3166 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
3167 this be improved?
31688 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
3169 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000031707 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
3171 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031727 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
3173 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
31747 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
3175 lot of abbreviations).
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020031767 MS-DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031777 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
3178 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
3179 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
3180 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
3181 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
3182 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
3183 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
31848 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the
3185 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was
3186 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating
3187 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)?
31888 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
3189 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
3190 using strcmp() too often?
31917 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
3192 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
3193 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
3194 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
3195 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
3196 the two blocks to the memfile block.
31977 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
3198 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
3199 with an argument that can be messed with.
3200 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
3201 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
32027 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
3203- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
32048 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
3205 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
3206- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
3207 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
3208- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
3209- Do profiling on:
3210 - :g/pat/normal cmd
3211 - 1000ii<Esc>
3212 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
3213 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
3214 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
3215 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
3216 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
3217 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003218 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032197 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
3220 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
3221 changed).
3222 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
3223 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
3224- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
3225- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
3226 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
3227- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
3228 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
3229 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
3230- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
3231 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
3232- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
3233- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
3234 cursor is right of the screen.
32358 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
3236 CTRL-C (it's slow).
3237
3238
3239Code size:
32408 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
3241- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
3242 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
32438 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
32448 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
3245 it.
32467 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
3247 left out.
32488 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
3249 can be removed.
32508 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
3251
3252
3253Messages:
32548 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
3255 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
32568 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
3257 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
32588 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
3259 script.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003260- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
3261 Perhaps after ten seconds?
3262- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000032638 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
3264 message.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032659 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
3266 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
3267 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
3268 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
3269 redrawing.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032708 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
3271 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
32728 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
3273 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
3274 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
3275 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
3276 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
3277 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003278- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003279 Sleep before second message?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032808 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
3281 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
3282 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
3283 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
3284 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
3285 error messages, printing text, etc.
32868 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
3287 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
3288 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
3289
3290
3291Screen updating:
32927 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
3293 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
3294 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
3295- screen_line():
3296 - insert/delete character stuff.
3297 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
3298- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
3299 dragging the status line with the mouse).
3300- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
3301 waiting for a character.
33028 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
3303 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
3304 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
33057 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003306
3307
3308Scrolling:
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +020033098 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033106 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
3311- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
3312 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
3313 windows.
33147 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
3315 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
3316 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
3317- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
3318 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
3319 (Goldfarb)
3320- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
3321 bound windows.
3322- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
3323 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00003324- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003325- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
3326 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
3327 of lines but not with a single line).
3328
3329
3330Autoconf:
33318 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
33328 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
3333 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
3334- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
3335 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
3336- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
3337- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
3338- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
3339
3340
3341Perl interface:
33428 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033437 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
33447 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
33456 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
3346
3347
3348Shared libraries:
33496 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
3350 :libload internal-name libname
3351 :libunload internal-name
3352 :liblist
3353 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3354 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3355 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
33566 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
3357
3358
3359Tags:
Bram Moolenaarc6fe9192006-04-09 21:54:49 +000033609 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
3361 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
3362 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
3363 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
3364 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000033658 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
3366 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
3367 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
Bram Moolenaarf91787c2010-07-17 12:47:16 +02003368 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003369 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
Bram Moolenaard68071d2006-05-02 22:08:30 +000033708 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
3371 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
3372 several).
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003373 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
3374 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
3375 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000033767 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
3377 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
3378 (Flemming Madsen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033798 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
33808 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
3381 to type the tag number directly.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033827 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
3383 window for each tag.
33847 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
33857 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
3386 bottom" search message.
33877 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
3388 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
3389 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar485db9b2005-01-31 19:23:41 +00003390- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
3391- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003392- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
3393 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
3394 what you were working on.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000033957 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
3396 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
3397 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
3398 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
33997 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
3400 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
3401 :tagargs clear
3402 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
3403 matching).
34047 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
3405 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
3406 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
3407 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
34087 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
3409 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
34107 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
3411 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
3412 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003413
3414
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003415Win32 GUI:
34168 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
3417 the message and input?
34187 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
3419 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2
3420 dynamically?
34217 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
3422 (Mike McCollister)
34238 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
3424 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
3425 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
3426 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
3427 common part of the path.
34288 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
34298 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
3430 gettext and menus work.
34318 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
3432 return in every console.
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02003433 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003434 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
34358 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
3436 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
34378 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
3438 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
34397 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
3440 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
34417 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
34427 <Esc> should close a dialog.
34437 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
3444 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
3445 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
3446 prompts.
34477 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
3448 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
3449 the file added into an already running Vim.
34507 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
3451 functions to find the window title.
3452
3453
3454GUI:
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +020034558 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003456- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
3457 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
34587 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
34598 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
34606 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
34618 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
3462 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
34639 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
34647 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
34658 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
3466 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
34678 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
3468 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
3469 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
34708 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
3471 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
34728 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
3473 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
3474 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
3475 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034767 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
34778 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
3478 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000034797 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
3480 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
3481 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034828 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
34838 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00003484 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034858 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
34868 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
34878 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
3488 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
3489 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
34907 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
3491 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
3492 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
34937 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
3494 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
34957 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
3496 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
3497 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
3498 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
34997 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
3500 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
35017 Should support multi-column menus.
3502- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
3503 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
3504- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
35058 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
35066 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
3507 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
35087 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
35097 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
3510 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
3511 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
35127 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
35138 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
3514 name can be chosen free.
35157 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
3516 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
35176 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
3518 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
3519 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
3520 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
3521 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
3522 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
3523 things.
35247 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
3525 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035267 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003527 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003528- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
3529 where it was started from?
35307 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
3531
3532
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003533Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaar251e1912011-06-19 05:09:16 +020035349 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use
3535 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003536- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010035378 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
3538 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
3539 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
3540 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
35418 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
3542 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000035437 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
3544 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
3545 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
3546 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000035477 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000035488 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
3549 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035508 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
3551 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
3552 difficult).
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000035537 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
3554 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
3555 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035568 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
3557 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
3558 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000035597 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option
3560 name?
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000035618 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
3562 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035638 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035646 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
3565 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
Bram Moolenaar3d0a6032006-02-09 23:54:54 +000035667 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035677 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
Bram Moolenaar446beb42011-05-10 17:18:44 +02003568 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The
3569 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern
3570 match. (Leonard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000035715 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
3572 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
3573 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
35747 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
3575 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
3576 file.
35778 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
3578 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
3579 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003580- Add events to autocommands:
3581 Error - When an error happens
3582 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003583 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
Bram Moolenaarfc1421e2006-04-20 22:17:20 +00003584 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
3585 different mapping)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003586 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00003587 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00003588 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
3589 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003590 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00003591 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003592 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003593 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
3594 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
3595 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
3596 window title)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003597 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003598 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
3599 the char.
3600 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
3601 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
3602 file from CVS).
3603 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
3604 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
3605 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
3606 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
3607 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
3608 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00003609 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
3610 changes.
3611 WinResized - After a window has been resized
3612 WinClose - Just before closing a window
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00003613- Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003614 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01003615 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003616 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
3617 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
3618 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
3619 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
3620 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
3621
3622
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003623Omni completion:
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003624- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
3625 mix it with other kinds of completion).
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003626- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
3627 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
3628 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
3629 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
3630 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003631- Ideas from others:
3632 http://www.wholetomato.com/
3633 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
3634 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
3635 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
3636 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
3637 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
3638 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
3639 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
3640 Uses Perl for C++.
3641 Uses ctags to find the info:
3642 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
3643 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
3644 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
3645 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
3646 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
3647 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaarff312a42010-05-16 15:14:25 +02003648 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00003649 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
3650- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
3651
3652
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003653Insert mode completion/expansion:
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003654- GUI implementation of the popup menu.
Bram Moolenaar8b2d9c42006-05-03 21:28:47 +000036557 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
3656 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000036577 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
3658 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
3659 "$HOME/tmp"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036608 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
3661 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
36629 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
3663 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
3664 (Webb)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036658 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
3666 - ignore/match case
3667 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000036688 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
3669 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
3670 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
3671 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
3672 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
3673 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036748 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
Bram Moolenaaraba2f482005-08-10 07:57:38 +000036757 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
3676 text does: www.textware.com
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000036778 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
3678 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
3679 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
3680 Should work for C++ and Java.
3681 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
36827 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
36837 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
3684 instead of words.
36858 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
36868 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
3687 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
36888 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
3689 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00003690- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
3691 header files. (Andri Moell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003692- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
3693 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
3694 wildcards in the file name)?
3695- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
3696- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
3697- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
3698 be in another file).
3699- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
3700- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
3701- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
3702 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
3703- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
3704- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
3705- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003706- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
3707
3708
3709Command line editing:
37107 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
3711 line.
37128 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
3713 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
3714 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
3715- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
3716 lines wraps to start of line).
3717- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
3718 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
3719 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
3720 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
3721 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
3722 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
3723 cmdwin does now already.
3724 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
3725 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
3726 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
3727 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
3728 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
3729 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
3730 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
3731 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
3732 Problems:
3733 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
3734 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
3735 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
3736 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
3737 - Normal: no ":" commands?
3738 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
3739 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
3740 character in first column?
3741 - Implementation ideas:
3742 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
3743 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
3744 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
3745 - sync undo after entering a command line?
3746 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
3747 Mode.
3748
3749
3750Command line completion:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000037518 Completing ":r ~br" should find matching user names.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037528 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
37538 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
3754 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
37558 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
3756 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000037578 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
3758 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037597 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
3760 edited. (Sven Guckes)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003761- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
3762- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
3763 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037648 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
3765 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
37667 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
3767 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
3768- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
3769 identifiers (Webb).
37708 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
3771 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
37727 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
3773 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
3774- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
3775 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
3776- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
3777 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
3778 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003779
3780
3781Command line history:
Bram Moolenaar60c78922005-03-20 22:40:14 +000037829 Remember which command lines were actually typed and were not loaded from
3783 viminfo. When writing viminfo append only these lines, so that lines from
3784 other Vim's are not overwritten.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003785- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
3786 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
3787 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
3788 completely resulted from one mapping.
3789- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
3790 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
3791
3792
3793Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000037949 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
3795 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
3796 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000037978 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
3798 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
3799 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
3800 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
3801 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038028 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
3803 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
3804 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038057 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
3806 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +00003807- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
Bram Moolenaar8e5af3e2011-04-28 19:02:44 +020038089 Can't use multi-byte characters for 'matchpairs'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038097 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
3810 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
3811- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
3812 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
3813 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
3814 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
3815 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
3816 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
3817- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
3818 Normal mode.
3819- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
3820 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
3821 are used.
3822- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
3823- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
3824- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
3825
3826
3827'cindent', 'smartindent':
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010038289 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent:
3829 char * veryLongName =
3830 "very long string"
3831 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038328 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000038338 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
3834 long_type foo =
3835 value;
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038368 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
3837 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
Bram Moolenaar8cacf352006-04-15 20:27:24 +00003838 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038398 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
3840 func(
3841 new String[] {
3842 "asdf",
3843 "asdf"
3844 }
3845 );
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010038468 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
3847 (Chow Loong Jin)
3848 namespace {
3849 int
3850 func(int arg) {
3851 }
3852 }
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000038536 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
3854 func( arg1
3855 , arg2
3856 , arg3
3857 );
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +000038587 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003859 func(
3860 int x) // indent like "(4"
3861 {
3862 if (a
3863 && b) // indent like "(0"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000038649 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
3865 if (a)
3866 {
3867 if (b)
3868 {
3869 // {
3870 }
3871 } <-- this is indented incorrect
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00003872 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
3873 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
3874 findmatchlimit().
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00003875- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003876 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
38777 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
3878- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
3879 line).
3880- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
3881- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
3882 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
38837 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines.
3884- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
3885 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
3886- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
3887 code), unless the line starts with "*".
3888- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
3889- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
3890 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
38918 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
3892 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
3893 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
3894- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
3895- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
3896 lines start with "\item".
3897- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
3898 /* here is a comment that
3899 is just autoindented, and
3900 nothing else */
3901- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
39027 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
3903 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
3904 indents.
Bram Moolenaar9e54a0e2006-04-14 20:42:25 +00003905 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and spaces used for indent,
3906 when the indent remains the same or increases.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003907
3908
3909Java:
39108 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
3911 Odendahl?
39128 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
3913 "[i" commands and friends.
3914- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
3915 (Jason)
3916- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
3917 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
3918
3919
3920'comments':
39218 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
3922 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
3923 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
3924 when it's "#" or "//".
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00003925 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
3926 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039277 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
3928 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
39297 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
39306 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
3931 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
3932 regexp is used.
39338 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
3934 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
3935
3936
3937Virtual edit:
39388 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039397 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
3940
3941
3942Text objects:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039438 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039448 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000039458 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
Bram Moolenaar4399ef42005-02-12 14:29:27 +00003946 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000039478 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
3948 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
Bram Moolenaar05159a02005-02-26 23:04:13 +00003949 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
3950 'matchpairs'?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +000039518 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039527 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
3953 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000039548 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
3955 changing the starting position in oap->start.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039568 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
3957 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
3958 the end of the line or before a ".".
39597 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
3960 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
39617 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
3962 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039636 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
39645 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
3965 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
3966 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
3967 cursor is on.
3968
3969
3970Select mode:
39718 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
3972 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
39737 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
3974 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743
39757 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
3976 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
3977 contains 'C' or 'A'.
3978 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
3979 normal_cmd().
3980 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
3981 - Typing text replaces the selection.
3982
3983
3984Visual mode:
3985- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
3986 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
3987 is in the top line.
Bram Moolenaar768b8c42006-03-04 21:58:33 +00003988- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
3989 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
3990 characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000039918 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
Bram Moolenaarcc016f52005-12-10 20:23:46 +00003992 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003993 where needed.
39947 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
3995 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
39967 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
3997 of each selected line.
39988 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
39998 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
4000 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
4001 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
40028 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
4003 Ben Godfrey)
40047 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
4005 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
40067 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
4007 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
40087 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
4009 Young is working on this)
40107 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004011 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004012 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
40138 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
4014 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
40157 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
4016 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
4017 option!
40187 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
4019 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
4020 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
4021 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
4022 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
4023 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
4024 without changing the column.
40256 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040267 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
4027 current buffer.
40287 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
40296 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
4030 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
40316 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040326 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004033 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004034 or other special character.
40356 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
4036
4037
4038More advanced repeating commands:
4039- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000040407 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004041 the command line so that it can be repeated?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004042- Add "gn": repeat last movement command. Including count.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004043- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004044 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
4045 "y." will repeat last yank.
4046 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
4047 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
4048 and/or pick an older command.
4049- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
4050
4051
4052Mappings and Abbreviations:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040538 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
4054 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
4055 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
40568 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
40577 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
4058 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040598 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
4060 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
40618 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +000040627 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040638 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
4064 entering search strings.
40658 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
4066 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
4067 not the <Space>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040688 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
4069 (?) work.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040708 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
4071 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
4072 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
40737 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040747 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
4075 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000040766 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
4077 abbreviations are to be used.
4078- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
4079 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
4080 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
Bram Moolenaarade00832006-03-10 21:46:58 +00004081- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
4082 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
4083 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
4084 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
4085 Or implicit:
4086 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004087- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
4088 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
4089 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004090- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
4091 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
4092- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
4093 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
40946 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
4095 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
4096 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
4097 hit another character.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004098- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
4099 non-replace Insert mode?
4100- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004101- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
4102- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
4103 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
4104- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004105 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004106- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
4107 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
4108- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
4109- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
4110 ":freekeys".
4111- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
4112
4113
4114Incsearch:
4115- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
4116- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
4117 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
4118 up every time.
4119- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
4120 folds when going to another line.
4121- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
4122 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
4123 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
4124 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
4125- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
4126 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
4127
4128
4129Searching:
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +000041308 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +00004131 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004132 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
Bram Moolenaar4770d092006-01-12 23:22:24 +00004133 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +00004134 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010041359 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
4136 matching text.
Bram Moolenaar662db672011-03-22 14:05:35 +010041378 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to
4138 search for a phrase.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +000041398 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
4140 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
4141 Perl does it this way:
4142 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
4143 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
4144 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
4145 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000041468 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
4147 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
4148 number?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010041498 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
4150 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
4151 before each line.
Bram Moolenaarc998e3c2005-06-14 22:13:23 +000041527 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
4153 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
Bram Moolenaarc0761132005-03-18 20:30:32 +000041548 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
4155 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000041567 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004157 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
4158 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
4159 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
41607 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
4161 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000041627 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004163 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041647 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
4165 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041668 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
4167 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
41688 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
4169 line.
41707 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
4171 example.
41728 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
4173 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
4174- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
4175 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
4176 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
4177 Alternative: use matchit.vim
41788 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
41798 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
4180 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
4181 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
41827 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
4183 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000041847 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
4185 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041868 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
4187 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000041888 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
4189 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000041908 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
4191 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
4192 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
4193 search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004194- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
4195 of the windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004196- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
4197 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
4198- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
4199 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
4200 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
4201 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042028 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
4203 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004204- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
4205 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042068 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
4207 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
4208 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004209- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
4210 i ignore case
4211 I use case
4212 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
4213 v use Vi regexp syntax
4214 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
4215 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
4216 Perl uses these too:
4217 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
4218 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
4219 o compile only once (Perl only)
4220 s single line expression (we don't need it)
4221 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
4222 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
4223 following command.
4224 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
4225- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
4226 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
4227 for search string)?
42287 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
4229 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
4230- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
4231 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
4232- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
4233 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
4234- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
4235- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004236 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004237 a for the next file in the argument list
4238 f for file in the buffer list
4239 w for file edited in a window.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004240 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
4241 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004242 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
4243 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
4244- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042457 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004246 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000042477 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
4248 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
4249 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
4250 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
42516 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
4252 effects.
42537 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
4254 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
4255 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
Bram Moolenaar34cdc3e2005-05-18 22:24:46 +000042567 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004257 Also ":dselect".
4258
4259
4260Undo:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042619 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
4262 not.
Bram Moolenaard43848c2010-07-14 14:28:26 +020042638 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found
4264 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum
4265 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc.
42668 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
4267 state, so that you can jump to it.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000042688 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
4269 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
4270 timestamp?
4271 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
4272 indent?
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000042738 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
4274 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
4275 was changed outside of Vim.
4276 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
4277 storing the differences.
Bram Moolenaar23c347c2010-07-14 20:57:00 +02004278 Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list
4279 of about 10 last reloaded buffers.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00004280- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
4281 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004282- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
4283 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
4284 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
42858 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
4286 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
4287 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
4288 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
42898 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
4290 only remember the lines that really changed.
42917 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
4292 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
4293 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
4294 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004295- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
4296 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
4297- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
4298 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
4299- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
4300 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
4301 [-99].
4302- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
4303- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004304- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
4305 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
4306
4307
4308Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043097 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
4310 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
4311 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
4312 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
43138 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
4314 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
43158 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
4316 inode too.
43177 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004318 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
4319 number in use plus one?).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043207 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
4321 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
4322- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
4323 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
4324- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
4325 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
43267 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
4327 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
43287 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
4329 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
43308 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000043318 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004332 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
43337 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
4334 internal use and for when executing an external program?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010043358 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides
4336 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside
4337 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004338
4339
4340Swap (.swp) files:
43418 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
4342 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
4343 there are short file name problems.
43448 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
4345 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
43468 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
43478 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004348 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004349 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
4350 file the same as the actual file?
4351 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043527 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
4353 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
43547 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004355 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004356 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
4357 enough room.
43587 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
4359 or /var/preserve.
4360- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
4361 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
4362- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
4363 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
4364- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
4365 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
4366 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
4367 cached list of which line is where.
4368
4369
4370Viminfo:
43717 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
4372 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
4373 else's viminfo file.
Bram Moolenaar994cd122007-05-12 15:19:41 +000043748 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
4375 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
4376 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043778 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
4378 name. (Schild)
43798 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
43808 Remember the last used register for "@@".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000043818 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000043828 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
4383 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
4384 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
4385 this?
43867 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
43877 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
4388 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
43896 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
4390 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
4391 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
4392- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
4393 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
4394
4395
4396Modelines:
43978 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
4398 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
4399 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004400- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
4401 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
4402 'shiftwidth'.
4403- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
4404 such as 'encoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004405- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
4406 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
4407 modeline setting.
4408- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
4409 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
4410- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
4411 .cpp files.
4412- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
4413 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
4414- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
4415 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
4416
4417
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004418Sessions:
44198 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
4420 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
44217 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
4422 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044238 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
4424 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044258 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
4426 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
4427 default value.
Bram Moolenaar9ba0eb82005-06-13 22:28:56 +000044287 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
4429 Malecki)
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +000044307 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaarc9b4b052006-04-30 18:54:39 +00004431
Bram Moolenaard5bc83f2005-12-07 21:07:59 +00004432
4433Options:
44347 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
4435 restore it after the command has executed.
44367 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only
4437 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the
4438 side effect.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044398 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
4440 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
4441 also be supported.
44428 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
4443 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
4444 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
44457 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
44467 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
4447 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004448
4449
4450External commands:
44518 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
4452 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
44534 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
4454 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
4455 -f).
44564 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
44574 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
4458 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
44594 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
4460
4461
4462Multiple Windows:
44637 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
44648 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
4465 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
44667 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
4467 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
4468 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
Bram Moolenaarc236c162008-07-13 17:41:49 +000044697 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
4470 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
Bram Moolenaar97b2ad32006-03-18 21:40:56 +000044717 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
4472 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044736 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
4474 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004475 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004476 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
44777 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
4478 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
4479 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
4480 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
4481- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
4482 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
4483 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
4484 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
4485
4486
4487Marks:
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +000044888 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000044898 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
4490 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000044918 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 +000044928 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
4493 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
44948 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
4495 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
4496 the mark was set.
44977 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
4498 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
4499 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
4500 ":browse marks"?
45016 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045027 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
4503 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
45047 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
4505 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
45067 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
4507 command).
45087 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
4509 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
4510 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
4511 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
45125 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
4513 mappings.
45146 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
4515 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
4516 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
4517
4518
4519Digraphs:
Bram Moolenaar5302d9e2011-09-14 17:55:08 +020045207 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists.
Bram Moolenaard58e9292011-02-09 17:07:58 +01004521 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'filenecoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004522- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
4523 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000045248 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045257 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
4526 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
4527
4528
4529Writing files:
4530- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
4531 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
4532 shortname conversion.
45338 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
45348 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
4535 file.
45368 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
4537 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
4538 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045396 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
4540 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
45416 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
4542 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
45436 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
4544 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000045458 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004546 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
45477 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
4548 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
45497 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
4550 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
4551 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
4552 waiting for a character to be typed).
45538 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
4554 line of the window, like "[time]".
4555 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
4556 Automatic and/or with a command.
4557
4558
4559Substitute:
Bram Moolenaar3f770472005-06-19 22:56:27 +000045608 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
4561 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +000045628 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004563 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
4564- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
4565- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
45668 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
4567 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004568- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004569 :s///N substitutes N times.
4570- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
4571 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
4572 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
45737 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
4574 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
4575 last line column 5.
45765 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
4577 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
4578 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
4579 (Stanislav Sitar)
4580
4581
4582Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000045838 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
45847 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
45858 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
4586 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
4587 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004588- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
4589- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
4590 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
4591- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
4592- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
4593
4594
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004595Argument list:
45966 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
4597 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
4598 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
45996 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
4600
4601
4602Registers:
46038 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
46048 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
4605 around in windows.
46068 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
4607 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
4608 for every line.
46096 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
4610 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
4611 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
4612- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
4613 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
4614- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
4615 leader when line wraps?
4616- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
4617 line in the range.
4618- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
4619 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
46208 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
4621 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00004622
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004623
4624Debug mode:
46257 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
46268 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000046278 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046287 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00004629 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
4630 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
4631 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046327 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
46337 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
4634
4635
4636Various improvements:
Bram Moolenaar166af9b2010-11-16 20:34:40 +010046379 Python: be able to define a Python function that can be called directly
4638 from Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value.
Bram Moolenaar1d2ba7f2006-02-14 22:29:30 +000046397 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
4640 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
4641 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
4642 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
4643 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
4644 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
4645 (2005 Nov 24)
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004646 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
Bram Moolenaar87b774d2005-07-20 22:04:36 +000046477 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
4648 ("vatv").
Bram Moolenaar342337a2005-07-21 21:11:17 +000046497 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
4650 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046518 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
4652 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046537 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
4654 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
4655 from the 'makeprg'?
Bram Moolenaar1ef15e32006-02-01 21:56:25 +00004656- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00004657 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000046587 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
4659 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +010046607 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
4661 window as a buffer-tab selection.
46628 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046636 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5)
46647 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
4665 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
4666 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
Bram Moolenaar8c8de832008-06-24 22:58:06 +00004667 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
4668 Assign them to a v: variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046697 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
4670 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
46718 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
4672 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046736 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046748 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
4675 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
4676 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
4677 in this Vim.
46788 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004679 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046808 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
4681 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
4682 have it apply to the following command.
46838 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
4684 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
4685 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
4686 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046877 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
4688 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046897 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
4690 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
4691 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
4692 without modifier (unless mapped).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046936 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
46948 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
46959 Support ACLs on more systems.
46967 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
4697 highlighted differently.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000046987 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
4699 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
4700 (truncated to fit in the space).
47017 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
47028 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
47038 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
4704 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000047057 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004706 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
47077 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
4708 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047097 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047107 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
47117 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047128 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
47138 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
4714 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
4715 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
4716 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
47178 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
47186 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
4719 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
Bram Moolenaarebefac62005-12-28 22:39:57 +00004720 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047218 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047228 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
4723 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
4724 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
4725 does something like this. (Shah)
47267 Use growarray for replace stack.
47277 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
4728 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
47293 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047307 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
4731 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
Bram Moolenaar81af9252010-12-10 20:35:50 +010047327 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number
4733 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004734- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
4735- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
4736- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
4737- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
47387 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
4739 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
4740- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
4741 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
Bram Moolenaar00659062010-09-21 22:34:02 +02004742- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004743- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
4744 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
4745- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
4746 call "play newbeep.au").
4747- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
4748 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
4749 (Bhatt).
4750- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
4751 blockwise registers).
4752- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
4753 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
4754- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
4755 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
4756 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
4757 noticeable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004758- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047597 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
4760 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
4761- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
4762 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
4763 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
4764 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
4765 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaarc81e5e72007-05-05 18:24:42 +000047668 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
4767 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047688 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
4769 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
4770 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
4771 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
4772 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
4773- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
Bram Moolenaar5313dcb2005-02-22 08:56:13 +00004774- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000047757 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
4776 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
4777- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
4778 not in column 1.
47796 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
4780 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
47817 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
4782- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004783- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
Bram Moolenaarce5e58e2005-01-19 22:24:34 +00004784 :redir #> bufname
4785 :redir #>> bufname (append)
Bram Moolenaarbee0c5b2005-02-07 22:03:36 +00004786- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
4787 redirection was active.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004788- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
4789 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
4790 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
47916 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
4792 console? (Klaus Hast)
4793- Add :delcr command:
4794 *:delcr*
4795 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
4796 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
4797 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
4798 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
4799 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
4800 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
4801- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
4802- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
4803 characters from 'isprint'.
4804- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
4805- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
4806 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
4807- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
4808 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
4809 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
4810- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
4811- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
4812 Nvi).
4813- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
4814 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
48157 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
4816- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
4817 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
48186 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
4819- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
4820 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
4821 macro).
4822- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004823- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
4824 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
4825- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
48268 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004827- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
4828- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
4829- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
4830 if it is not the first or last window.
4831- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
4832 there is one) instead of the file itself.
48337 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
4834 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
4835 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
4836- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
4837- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004838 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004839 many percent down the windows).
4840- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
4841 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
4842 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
4843- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
4844 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
4845- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
4846 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
4847- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
4848- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
4849- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
4850 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000048518 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
4852 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
4853 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
4854 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
4855 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004856- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
4857 t_bs is set? (Webb)
4858- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004859 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
4860- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004861 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
4862 (Webb).
4863- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004864 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004865- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
4866 hex codes like 0xff).
4867- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
4868 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
4869 the last TYPED command.
4870- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
4871- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
4872- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
4873 should also work?
4874- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
48758 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
4876 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
4877 name.
4878- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
4879 trailing '.'.
4880- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
4881 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
4882 find_file_in_path().
4883- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
4884 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
4885- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
4886- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
4887 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
4888- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004889 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004890- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
4891 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
4892 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004893- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004894 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
4895- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
4896- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
4897- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
4898 to the minimal size.
4899- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
4900- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
4901- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
4902- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
4903- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004904- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
4905 entered)?
4906- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
4907 as an output filter.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004908- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004909- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
4910- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
4911- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
4912- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
4913- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
4914 lines.
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004915- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049168 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
4917 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
4918 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
4919 or in octal.
49207 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
4921 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004922- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004923 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
4924- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
4925- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
4926 insert line command).
4927- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
4928- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
4929- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
4930- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
4931- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
4932 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004933- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004934 yet.
4935- Implement 'redraw' option.
4936- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
4937 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049387 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
4939 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
Bram Moolenaar2641f772005-03-25 21:58:17 +00004940 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
4941 I/O.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000049428 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
4943 do it.
4944- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
4945- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
4946 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
4947- Add text justification option.
4948- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
4949- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
4950 off".
4951- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
4952- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
4953- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004954 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004955- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
Bram Moolenaar06b5d512010-05-22 15:37:44 +02004956- If file does not exist, check if directory exists.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004957- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
4958- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
4959 commands.
4960- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
4961- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
4962- :table command (Webb)
4963- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004964- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
4965- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
4966- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
4967- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
4968- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
4969 (Demirel).
4970- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
4971- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
4972 for use in macro's and the like.
4973- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004974 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
Bram Moolenaar8f3f58f2010-01-06 20:52:26 +01004975- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004976 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004977- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004978 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004979 a window to become smaller (Webb).
4980- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
4981 proportionally (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004982- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004983 mkopttab to make option table?
4984- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
4985 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
4986- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
4987 (Haritsis).
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00004988- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004989 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
4990- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
4991 cursor?
4992- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
4993- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
49945 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
4995 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000049968 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
4997 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
4998 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
4999 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
5000 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000050018 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
5002 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
5003 (Netherton)
50046 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
5005 space after "(", for example.
50065 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
5007 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
5008 (Servatius Brandt)
5009
5010
5011From Elvis:
5012- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
5013- Add ":alias" command.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005014- Search patterns:
5015 \@ match word under cursor.
5016 but do:
5017 \@w match the word under the cursor?
5018 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
50198 ":window" command:
5020 :win + next window (up)
5021 :win ++ idem, wrapping
5022 :win - previous window (down)
5023 :win -- idem, wrapping
5024 :win nr to window number "nr"
5025 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
50267 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
5027 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
5028
5029
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005030From xvi:
5031- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
5032- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
5033
5034
5035From vile:
5036- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
5037- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
5038 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
5039
5040
5041Far future and "big" extensions:
Bram Moolenaar07d4d732005-10-03 22:04:08 +00005042- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
5043 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
5044 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
5045 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
5046 would also work on MS-Windows.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005047- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
5048 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
5049- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
5050 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
5051 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
5052 current layout mirrored.
5053- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
5054- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
5055 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
5056- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
5057- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
5058 font in each top-level window.
5059- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
5060- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
5061- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
5062- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
5063 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
5064- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
5065 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
5066 mentioned in the tags file.
5067 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
5068 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
5069- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
5070 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
5071- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
5072 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
50734 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
5074 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
5075 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
5076 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
Bram Moolenaar13fcaaf2005-04-15 21:13:42 +00005077 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005078 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
5079 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
5080- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
5081 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
5082 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
5083
Bram Moolenaar280f1262006-01-30 00:14:18 +00005084When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
5085empty line would appear.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005086
5087vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
5088vim: set fo+=n :