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Bram Moolenaarf1ab3802005-01-15 22:17:32 +00001*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 Jan 15
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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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30 *known-bugs*
31-------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
32
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000033Dictionary:
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000034- Define nameless function: ":function dict.key(arg)"
35- ":delfunc dict.key".
36- ":unlet dict.key" "unlet list[idx]"
Bram Moolenaarf1ab3802005-01-15 22:17:32 +000037- Set the error message numbers for E999.
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39Make ":call Funcref()" work?
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000040
41Mention Rsync command on runtime.php page:
42 rsync -avzcP --delete --exclude="dos" --delete-excluded ftp.nluug.nl::Vim/runtime/ vim63-runtime
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +000043
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +000044List type:
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000045- Make second index in list[i:j] exclusive, like Python?
46 Marcus Aurelius: yes
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +000047- Add List functions to version7.txt.
48- Add List functions to overview of funtions in user manual.
49- Explain Lists in the user manual?
50
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +000051Add +=, -= and .= assignments.
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53netrw plugin:
54- provide :Explore and :Sexplore like the old file explorer?
55- alignment of long listing isn't very good.
56
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +000057Better way to get temp file for tcltags and vimspell scripts. (javier Pena)
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +000058Possibly leave out code for temp directory.
Bram Moolenaarb7d6e722005-01-09 21:22:45 +000059
Bram Moolenaar8a283e52005-01-06 23:28:25 +000060When allocating a new variable, a search is done for an empty entry. May
61waste a lot of time if there isn't one. Keep an index of available entry,
62none available, or unknown.
63
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +000064patch for QuickFixCmdPre and QuickFixCmdPost autocommands. (Ciaran McCreesh,
652005 Jan 1)
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Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +000067New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +000068- add remark in version7.txt
69- check if it works for pixmap loaded from a file.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +000070
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +000071Awaiting response:
72- Patch for mch_FullName() also in Vim 6.3? os_mswin.c
73- Win32: "gvim -V100" should use dialog with scrollbar. Using
74 gui_mch_dialog() would be good, but need to move display_errors() to after
75 creating the window, so that s_hwnd is valid.
76 How to add a scrollbar to the dialog?
77- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
78 the screen.
79- Included NetBeans patches (Gordon Prieur, Oct 20)
80 See two messages for list of changed files. Additionally:
81 doc/eval.txt
82 Docs for message E680.
83 Docs for ":nbkey".
84 Asked Gordon to send the differences again, some parts apparently are
85 missing.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +000086
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000087
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000088PLANNED FOR VERSION 7.0:
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000089
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000090- For string variables, use length instead of NUL termination?
91 + can include NUL characters
92 - setline() will have problems with NL vs NUL.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +000093 Can use list of numbers instead (inefficient though).
Bram Moolenaar49cd9572005-01-03 21:06:01 +000094 Also: for strings up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, VAR_STRINGX.
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +000095- new DATA TYPES:
96 - None? (or use empty string?)
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +000097 - dictionary
Bram Moolenaar6cc16192005-01-08 21:49:45 +000098 range(start, end, stride) creates a listable dict.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000099 Add type checking? See ~/vim/ideas.txt.
100- Add SPELLCHECKER, with easy to add support for many languages.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +0000101 8 Add spell checking. Use "ispell -a" somehow.
102 ~/vim/patches/wm_vim-5_4d.zip can be used as an example (includes
103 ispell inside Vim). Gautam Iyer has an example with "aspell".
104 "engspchk" from Charles Campbell is a good way. Support for
105 approximate-regexps will help (agrep http://www.tgries.de/agrep/).
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000106 - Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to
107 existing syntax items (to add @Spell). Add ":syntax contains
108 {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn cluster" but change
109 the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
110 - Keep wordlist in syntax group, load it only once and use it several
111 times later. Sort of global syntax items.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000112 - Use wordlists from openoffice (myspell). Work together with them to
113 update the wordlist. (Adri Verhoef, Aad Nales)
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +0000114 - Patch from Marcin Dalecki. (2004 Dec) Uses ispell
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +0000115 implements "undercurl" attribute. But how to set its color?
116 Perhaps use "guicurl=Red" instead?
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +0000117 If underline and undercurl are both there use undercurl only.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000118- REFACTORING: The main() function is very long. Move parts to separate
119 functions, especially loops. Ideas from Walter Briscoe (2003 Apr 3, 2004
120 Feb 9).
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +0000121- Improve the interface between the generic GUI code and the system-specific
122 code. Generic code handles text window with scrollbars, system-specific
123 code menu, toolbar, etc.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000124- Support using "**" in filename for ":next", ":vimgrep", etc., so that a
125 directory tree can be searched.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000126- Store messages to allow SCROLLING BACK for all commands. And other "less"
127 like commands.
128- "INTELLISENSE". First cleanup the Insert-mode completion.
129 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
130 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +0000131 of http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +0000132 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000133 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000134 Can't call it Intellisense, it is a trademark by Microsoft.
135 Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
136 - It's not possible to have one solution for all languages. Design an
137 interface for completion plugins. The matches can be done in a
138 Vim-script list.
139 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
140 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
141 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
142 - Use ctags for other languages. Writing a file could trigger running
143 ctags, merging the tags of the changed file.
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000144 Also see "Visual Assist" http://www.wholetomato.com/products:
145 - Put the list of choices right under the place where they would be
146 inserted.
147 - Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000148- UNDO TREE: keep all states of the text, don't delete undo info.
149 When making a change, instead of clearing any future undo (thus redo)
150 info, make a new branch.
151 To navigate through the undo tree number the states of the text
152 sequentially and make it possible to go through the tree in that order.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +0000153 Use "g+++" to go forward, "g---" to go backward. Can mix - and +.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000154 Could also use timestamps (to show the time and/or jump to a state five
155 minutes ago). (David Schweikert)
156 To go from one state to another: backtrack to a common state, then forward
157 again.
158 Only difficult thing: When going back in time, how to find the previous
159 text state in the tree?
160 Show the list of changes in a window to be able to select a version?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000161- PERSISTENT UNDO: store undo in a file.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000162 Use timestamps, so that a version a certain time ago can be found and info
163 before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum time to
164 keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc. For the file use dot and
165 extension: ".filename.un~" (like swapfile but "un~" instead of "swp").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001667 Support WINDOW TABS. Works like several pages, each with their own
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000167 split windows. Patch for GTK 1.2 passed on by Christian Michon, 2004 Jan 6.
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000168 Don't forget to provide an "X" to close a tab.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000169 Also for the console!
170 In Emacs these are called frames. Could also call them "pages".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +0000171 Use "1gt" - "99gt" to switch to a tab?
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000172 Simple patch for GTK by Luis M (nov 7).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000173- EMBEDDING: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
174 For Xwindows this can be done with XReparentWindow().
175 For GTK Neil Bird has a patch to use Vim like a widget.
176- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
177 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
178- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye,
179 assisted by Mikolaj Machowski. Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it
180 generic. Also found here: http://skawina.eu.org/mikolaj/vimgdb
181 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
182 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
183 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
184 other window.
185 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
186 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
187 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
188 in terminal mode.
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +0000189- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
190 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
191 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
192 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000193- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
194 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
195 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000196- Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
197 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
198 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00001998 Support four composing/combining characters, needed for Hebrew. (Ron Aaron)
200 Add the 'maxcombining' option to set the nr. of composing characters.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +0000201 At the same time support more colors (use two bytes when necessary).
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000202- Add a few more things to 'diffopt': "horizontal", "vertical",
203 "foldcolumn". (Benji Fisher, 2004 Jun 21)
204- FileChangedShellPost autocommand event: after (not) reloading a changed
205 file. Can be used to update statusline oslt.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +0000206- VimResized autocmd event: When the Vim window has been resized (SIGWINCH)
207 patch from Yakov Lerner, 2003 July 24.
208 It's not clear that this doesn't cause problems when the executed
209 commands do something like changing 'lines'. Esp. because the
210 screen has not yet been allocated with the new size.
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +0000211- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
212 the Vim shell project can help: http://vimshell.wana.at
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +00002138 When a file is change outside of Vim and unmodified in Vim there is no
214 simple way to automatically reload the file. Either add an option for
215 this or make it simple to have the FileChangedShell invoke the normal
216 action, telling it what to do.
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +0000217- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +0000218- Mac: Unicode input and display (Eckehard Berns, June 27)
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +00002198 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
220 New patch 2004 Jun 16
Bram Moolenaar592e0a22004-07-03 16:05:59 +00002219 Add cursor-column highlighting. Enable it with 'cursorcolumn' option,
222 set highlighting with "CursorColumn" group. Useful for aligning text.
223 Also cursor-row highlighting. Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto for
224 underlining the cursor line: 2004 Jun 17. Should use highlight group
225 instead.
226 Alternative: when 'number' is set highlight the number of the current
227 line.
Bram Moolenaar325b7a22004-07-05 15:58:32 +00002287 Make ":startinsert" command work directly for functions and scripts?
229 Also make it possible to append (it's difficult at end of line).
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +0000230- When using 'incsearch" CTRL-R CTRL-W gets the word under the cursor, but
231 the part that already matched is doubled then. Remove the part of the
232 word that would be doubled. Make it work line CTRL-N in Insert mode.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000233- Add Lua interface? (Wolfgang Oertl)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000234- "onemore" flag in 'virtualedit': move cursor past end of line. Patch by
235 Mattias Flodin (2004 Jul 30)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000236- In a :s command multi-byte characters should also be upper/lower cased
237 with \u, \U, etc.
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +0000238
239Support ":set syntax=cpp.doxygen"? Suggested patch by Michael Geddes (9 Aug
2402004). Should also work for 'filetype'.
241
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000242For manipulating buffers without opening a new window, support Virtual
243windows. Example:
244 :virtwin let l = GetBufLine(4, 10)
245 :fun GetBufLine(bufnr, lnum)
246 : exe "buffer " . a:bufnr
247 : return getline(lnum)
248 :endfun
249The getline() and setline() functions could work for other buffers, using a
250Virtual window.
251A Virtual window only exists for one command. There can be several (for
252nested commands). The window works as if it comes after the last window, size
253is the Vim window size, but it's never displayed.
254
255Win32: In the generated batch files, use $VIMRUNTIME if it's set. Examples by
256Mathias Michaelis (2004 Sep 6)
257Also place vimtutor.bat in %windir%?
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +0000258
Bram Moolenaar7b0294c2004-10-11 10:16:09 +0000259Add gui_mch_browsedir() for Motif, KDE and Mac OS/X.
260
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +0000261HTML indenting can be slow, find out why. Any way to do some kind of
262profiling for Vim script?
263
Bram Moolenaar0d660222005-01-07 21:51:51 +0000264List data type performance:
265- Cache the length of a List?
Bram Moolenaar31c67ef2005-01-11 21:34:41 +0000266- Cache the last used index?
Bram Moolenaar0d660222005-01-07 21:51:51 +0000267- Use blocks of items, so that finding an item by index is faster?
268
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000269Dictionary data type performance:
270- Use a hash to locate items
271
Bram Moolenaarf1ab3802005-01-15 22:17:32 +0000272Updated Ruby interface. (Ryan Paul)
Bram Moolenaar8c711452005-01-14 21:53:12 +0000273
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000274Awaiting updated patches:
275 --- awaiting updated patch ---
276 7 Add patch from Wall for this one ( ~/Mail/oldmail/wall/in.00019 ):
277 'flipcase' variable: upper/lowercase pairs.
278 Insert comma's between pairs and allow a range, make it look like
279 'isfname'. E.g. ":set flipcase=a-zA-Z,xX,23-33:143-153". The colon to
280 separate the from and to part is optional.
281 Resp: no time now.
282 8 Add GTK 2.3 file dialog support. Patch by Grahame Bowland, 2004 Mar
283 15, but it doesn't use "initdir" or "dflt". (will update patch)
284 8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
285 Aric Blumer has a patch for this.
286 He will update the patch for 6.3.
287 Autocommands:
288 7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
289 Update 2004 Sep 6.
290 How does this work? Missing comments.
291 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
292 Update 2004 Sep 10
293 More docs. Search in 'runtimepath'?
294 How to get the messages into the .po files?
295 --- did not respond (yet) --
296 - Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
297 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31)
298 Asked for improvements 2004 Dec 20.
299 7 Make "5dd" on last-but-one-line not delete anything (Vi compatible).
300 Add flag in 'cpoptions' for this. When not present, "2dd" in the last
301 line should delete the last line. Patch from greenx 2002 Apr 11.
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000302 8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
303 (28 feb 2002).
304 7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
305 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
306 - Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
307 for multi-byte characters.
308 - Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
309 - Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
310 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
311 been given values.
312 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
313 8 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
314 with an ESC sequence. Ideas in: ~/vim/patches/vikas.xtermcolors .
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +0000315 7 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
Bram Moolenaar6cc16192005-01-08 21:49:45 +0000316 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000317 - Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
318 line in between columns (e.g. for 'textwidth').
319 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
320 8 Add functions:
321 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
322 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
323 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
324 (2003 May 13)
325 system({cmd}, {expr}) Filter {expr} through the shell command
326 {cmd} and return the result.
327 (Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan)
328 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
329 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
330 7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
331 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
332 - Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
333 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +0000334 7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
335 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
336 8 Lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk (uncrypted).
337 Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23.
338 7 Support a stronger encryption. Jason Holt implemented AES (May 6 2003).
339 7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
340 8 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
341 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
342 7 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
343 Kotchan has a patch for it)
344 8 Add term entries for function keys on xterm with alt and ctrl (new in
345 pl 94). E.g., Control adds ";5" in "<Esc>[20;5~". Find a generic way
346 to prepend a modifier in console mode, to avoid having to specify each
347 individual modified key.
348 Steve Wall has a patch (2002 Mar 12) for adding function keys up to 37,
349 with modifiers.
350 8 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
351 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
352 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
353 7 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
354 - findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
355 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
356 incomplete patch Mar 18)
357 - Set user variables to the names of the actually used user vimrc file,
358 the first directory looked for user plugins/syntax files.
359 $MYVIMRC for .vimrc, $MYGVIMRC for .gvimrc, $MYRUNTIME/plugin for
360 runtime files?
361 Also: when the environment variable exists, use it. If it doesn't
362 exist, set it. Requires good names: $VIM_USER_VIMRC $VIM_USER_DIR
363 - The Replace dialog takes "\r" literal, unless "replace all" is used.
364 Need to escape backslashes.
365 Win32: the text to replace with isn't remembered.
366 - For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
367 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000368
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +0000369Check if file explorer can handle directory names and links with a single
370quote. (Nieko Maatjes, 2005 Jan 4)
371
372
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000373Vi incompatibility:
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00003749 In Ex mode, "u" undoes all changes, not just the last one. (John Cowan)
3758 In Ex mode, an empty file doesn't have a first line, "1p" should fail.
3768 In Ex mode, "1,3" should print three lines.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003778 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
378 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
379 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
380 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
381 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
382 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
3838 ":change" in a single-line file adds an empty line. When the file used to
384 be longer a "~" line is displayed, but there really is an empty line.
385 (Haakon Riiser, 2003 Dec 3 and Dec 16)
3868 ":append" and ":insert" in an empty file add an extra empty line. (Haakon
387 Riiser, 2003 Dec 3) Test for ML_EMPTY.
3888 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
389 make Vim exit.
3907 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
391 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
392 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
3938 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
394 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
395 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
3966 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
397 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
398 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
3998 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
400 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
401 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
402 names in one buffer???
403 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
404 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
405 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
4067 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
407 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
408 command was one command.
4097 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
410 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
4117 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
4127 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
4137 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
414 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
4157 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
416 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
417 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
418 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
4197 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
4207 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
4217 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
422 to the match with the tag? Option?
4237 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
4247 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
425 (Sayre).
4267 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
427 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004287 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
429 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
430 match. Nvi can do it too.
4317 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
432 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
433 line 1\ line 2\\
434 line 2\ line 3\\
435 . line4/
4366 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
437 the way the shell is started?
4386 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
439 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
440
441
442GTK+ 1 (OK in GTK 2):
4438 When menus are disabled, 'm' removed from 'guioptions', Alt-F still pops
444 up the File menu. Cannot reproduce this: gives a warning for a NULL
445 pointer if the menu was never displayed.
4468 When using "gvim -geom 40x30" or setting 'columns' in .gvimrc or with a
447 GUIEnter autocommand, the width is still set to fit the toolbar. Also
448 happens when changing the font. How to avoid that the toolbar specifies
449 the minimal window width?
4508 When using a theme with different scrollbars (gtkstep), the scrollbars can
451 be too narrow. (Drazen Kacar)
4528 Font "7x14" has a bold version "7x14bold". Try to find the bold font by
453 appending "bold" when there are not 14 dashes.
454
455GTK+ GUI known bugs:
4568 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
457 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
458 creating a label?
4599 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
460 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
461 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
462 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
4637 DND doesn't work with KDE (also with GTK 1).
464
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000465KDE GUI known bugs:
Bram Moolenaar8fc061c2004-12-29 21:03:02 +0000466- There is no active maintenance and "yzis" is supposed to replace it.
467- With the default 'guifont' value bold text differs in size from normal
468 text, causing the display to be messed up.
Bram Moolenaarcfbc5ee2004-07-02 15:38:35 +0000469- Error messages when starting up. The "tip of the day" box is empty.
470- Encoding of menu items needs to be converted. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000471
472Win32 GUI known bugs:
4738 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
474 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
4758 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
476 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
477 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
4788 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
479 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
4807 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
481 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
482 "lucida_console:h8").
4836 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
484 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +00004858 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
486 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
487 type of characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00004887 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
489 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
490 to use an opaque background in most places?
4918 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
492 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
493 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
4948 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
495 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
496 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
4977 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
498 2004 May 9)
4998 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
500 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
501 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
502 MS-Windows 98?
503 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
504 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
505 file: Window moves with the cursor!
506 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
5078 When activating the Vim window with mouse click, don't move cursor to
508 mouse position. Catch WM_MOUSEACTIVATE. (Luevelsmeyer)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00005098 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it
510 appear. (Sami Salonen)
5118 Windows NT: writing to aux.* makes Vim hang. (Acevedo)
5128 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
513 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
514 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
515 doesn't work properly.
5168 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
517 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
518 appears in the right position. (Webb)
5199 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
520 button doesn't give popup menu.
521 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
522 selection.
523 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
524 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
525 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
5268 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
527 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
528 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
529 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
5308 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
531 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
532 be read.
5338 MessageBox used for error messages can be too big. There is no way to
534 scroll it, or even hit the OK button (but you can hit return).
535 Use a scrollable window.
5367 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
537 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
538 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
5397 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
540 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
541 scroll? Need to be able to get out of hit-enter prompt with the mouse
542 anyway.
5437 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
544 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
5457 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using
546 "/min" as the command name. (Rogall)
5476 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
5488 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
549 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
550 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
5518 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
552 know which keyboard is being used?
5537 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
554 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
555 area (Koloseike).
5568 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
557 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
558 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
559 the font name).
560
561
562Athena and Motif:
5639 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
564 required and it's missing?
5658 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
566 wrong.
5679 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
568 be off by default.
5699 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
570 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
571 flag.
5728 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
573 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
574 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
5758 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
5766 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
577 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
578 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
579 the tooltips work though...
5807 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
581 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
5828 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
583 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
584 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
585
586
587Athena GUI:
5889 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
589 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
590 through files.
5917 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
592 read long file names. (Schroeder)
5934 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
594 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
595 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
596 problem during a refresh.
5975 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
598 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
599 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
600 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
601 colors as it should.
602 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
603 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
604
605
606Motif GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006077 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
608 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006098 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
610 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
611 (Phillipps)
612
613
614GUI:
6159 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
616 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
6179 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
618 e.g. on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
619 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
6209 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
621 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
6228 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
623 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
6248 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
625 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
626 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
6278 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
628 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
629 of where it is processing the output.
630 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
6318 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
632 doesn't work.
6338 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
6348 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00006358 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
636 browse().
6378 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
638 use that code? Or use console dialog.
6398 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
640 error message disappears too quick.
6418 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
642 to avoid problems.
6438 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
644 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
645 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
6468 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
647 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
648 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
6498 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
650 up. Set erase character somehow?
6518 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
652 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
653 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
654 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
6558 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
6567 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
657 visible.
6587 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
659 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
6607 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
661 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
6628 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
663 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
6648 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
665 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
666 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
667 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
668- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
6694 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
670 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
671 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
672
673
674MSDOS/DJGPP:
6759 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
676 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
677 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
6788 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
679 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
6809 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
681 code and reduce static data.
6829 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
683 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
684 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
685 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
6869 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
687 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
688 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
689 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
690 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
691 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
692 Make this work like in Win32 console.
693 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
694 key code. Use a translation table?
6959 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
696 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
6978 Use DJGPP 2.03.
6988 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
699 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
7008 setlocale() is bogus.
7018 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
702 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
703 Windows 95 system!
7048 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
7057 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g. in keyword completion) on a 8088
706 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
7077 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
708 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
709 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
7108 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
711 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
7127 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
713 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
714 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
715 "[New file]".
7167 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
717 that is supported?
7188 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
7198 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
720 Briscoe)
721
722
723MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
7248 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
725 gen_expand_wildcards().
7268 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
727 Wagner.
7288 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
7298 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
730 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
7318 Should $USERPROFILE be used instead of $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH?
7328 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
733 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
7348 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
735 Should work like in the GUI version.
7368 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
737 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
7388 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
739 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
7408 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
741 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
742 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
7438 ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means directory "#bb"
744 in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
7458 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
746 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
747 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
748
749
750Windows 95:
7518 Editing a file by it's short file name and writing it, makes the long file
752 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
753 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
7548 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
755 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
756
757
758Win32 console:
7599 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
760 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
761 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
762 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
763 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
764 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
765 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
766 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
767 and the file is not saved.
768 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
769 long name.
7708 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
771 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
7727 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
773 besides the console.
7748 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
7759 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
776 <C-S-i>?
7779 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
778 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
7798 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
780 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00007817 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
782 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
783 exiting.
784
785
786Amiga:
7878 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
788 sequences.
7899 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
790 backslashes in result.
7918 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
792 all options, using white space separation.
793
794
795Macintosh:
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00007967 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard
797 Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff
798 Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00007997 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
800 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
801 (Jack)
802 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
8038 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear
804 to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17)
8058 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00008069 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher)
807 - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost.
8088 The Vim/About menu doesn't work.
8098 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV.
8108 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
8118 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
8129 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
813 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
8149 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when
815 scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher)
8169 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two
817 seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher)
8189 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
8198 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige)
8208 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige)
821
822
823"Small" problems:
8248 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
825 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
826 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
Bram Moolenaar2df6dcc2004-07-12 15:53:54 +0000827 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00008289 When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
829 'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though
830 the fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to
831 check for the buffer to be unmodified.
8328 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the
833 error number, it's not a regular error message.
8347 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
835 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
8368 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
837 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
838 for redirection.
8397 There is no way to change directory and go back without changing the local
840 and/or global directory. Add a way to find out if the current window uses
841 a local directory. Add cdcmd() that returns ":cd" or ":lcd"?
8427 After running "make test" the window title is sometimes not restored.
843 Mostly sticks at "test3.in", but not always. Appears to happen more often
844 when compiled with Python (threading).
8457 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
846 'termencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00008478 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
848 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
849 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
850 using the horizontal scrollbar.
8517 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
852 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
853 invocations belong together.
8548 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
855 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
8568 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
857 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
858 UnxUtils.zip archive.
859 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
860 Briscoe says it's not as good.
8618 'fillchars' doesn't work for multi-byte characters.
8629 Editing a XML file with a long line is extremely slow. Example file from
863 Randy Parker (Dec 13). Editing the dictionaries for engspchk plugin with
864 syntax highlighting is also very slow.
865 Limit the searching for items to a few hundred characters?
8668 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
867 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
8687 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names:
869 use "~/" when possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00008707 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
871 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
872 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
873 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
8748 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
875 defined.
8767 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
877 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
878 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
8797 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
880 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
881 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
8827 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
883 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
8847 "[p" doesn't work in Visual mode. (David Brown)
8857 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
886 Remove? (Dan Sharp)
8879 The argument <f-args> of a user command doesn't handle backslashes
888 properly. "Cmd \ e" is one argument, "Cmd \\ e" still is one argument.
889 "Cmd \ e" is two arguments, first one ending in space. (Kontra Gergely)
8909 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
891 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
892 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
893 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
894 script can be called.
8958 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
896 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
897 works.
8989 When a syntax region does not use "keepend" and a contained item does use
899 "extend", this makes the outer region stop at the end of the contained
900 region. (Lutz Eymers) Another example Nov 14 2002.
9018 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
902 CTRL-C.
9037 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X
904 server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp
905 of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK
906 doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it
907 won't work for GTK anyway.
9088 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error
909 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid.
9108 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
911 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
912 configurable?
9138 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
9149 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
915 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
916 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
9178 ":s!from!to!" works, but ":smagic!from!to!" doesn't. It sees the "!" as a
918 flag to to the command. Same for ":snomagic". (Johan Spetz)
9198 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
920 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
9218 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
922 always written, even when the original file already exists.
9237 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter,
924 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space.
9259 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
926 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
927 written.
9289 The "Error detected while processing modelines" message should have an
929 error number.
9307 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00009318 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
932 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
933 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
9348 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
935 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
9369 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
937 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
938 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
939 one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00009407 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
941 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
9427 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
943 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
9447 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
945 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
946 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
947 direction, not horizontally?
9488 When using CTRL-D after ":help", restrict the number of matches to a
949 thousand, otherwise using CTRL-D without an argument takes too long.
9508 ":hardcopy":
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000951 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
952 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
953 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
954 dithering to make grey text?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000955 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
956 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +0000957 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +0000958 - Should interpreted CTRL-L as a page break.
959 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
960 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
961 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
962 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
963 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
9648 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
965 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
9669 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
967 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
968 that Windows NT is being used?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00009698 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
970 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
9718 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
972 in lines that don't extend into the block?
9738 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
974 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
975 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
9768 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
977 'linebreak'.
9788 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
979 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
980 (Helmut Stiegler)
9818 With 'virtualedit' set, a blockwise Visual selection that starts and ends
982 in a tab, "<" shifts too much. (Helmut Stiegler)
9839 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
984 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
985 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
986 'magic' in history. (Margo)
9879 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
988 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
9899 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
990 isn't updated).
9919 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
9929 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
993 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
994 cause another redraw, etc.
9958 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
996 must escape special characters in the pattern.
9978 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
998 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
999 ":w!!" for that.
1000 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
1001 restore file to readonly afterwards.
10027 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
1003 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
1004 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
1005 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
1006 clipboard)
10077 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
1008 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
1009 Waggoner)
10108 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
1011 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
1012 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +000010136 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
1014 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
1015 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000010168 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
1017 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
10188 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
1019 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
1020 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
10218 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
1022 (e.g., ":w").
10238 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
1024 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
10258 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
1026 for ">>".
10278 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
1028 script in do_cmdline().
10298 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
1030 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
1031 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
1032 changes.
10338 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
1034 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
10358 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
1036 check for file marks. This can be slow.
10377 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
1038 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
1039 needed.
1040 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
10418 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
1042 to skip catch_signals()?
10439 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
1044 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
1045 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
1046 text?
10478 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
1048 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
10498 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
1050 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
10519 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
1052 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
1053 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
1054 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
1055 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
10567 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
1057 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
1058 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
1059 in the list?
10608 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
1061 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
1062 instead of on button down.
10638 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
10649 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
1065 reaching the end of the available buffer.
10668 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
1067 character is typed.
10688 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
1069 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
10708 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
1071 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
10728 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
1073 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
1074 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
1075 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
1076 cygwin bash.
10777 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
1078 Remember flags for backreferences.
10797 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
1080 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
10817 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
1082 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
10838 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
1084 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
10857 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
1086 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000010877 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
1088 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
1089 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
10907 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
1091 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
10928 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
1093 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
1094 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
10957 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
1096 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
10977 After ":%d" an undo reports the number of lines added as if there still
1098 was one line.
1099
1100
1101I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
11029 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
1103 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
1104 files. (McCollister)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001105
1106
1107Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
Bram Moolenaar35a9aaa2004-10-24 19:23:07 +00001108- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
1109 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
1110 "xterm" when exiting with an ESC sequence. Vim 2 obtains the old title
1111 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
1112 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
1113 worked around with a delay.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001114- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
1115 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
1116 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
1117 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
1118 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
1119- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
1120 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
1121 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
1122- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
1123 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
1124- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
1125 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
1126 character gets the highlighting.
1127- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
1128 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
1129- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
1130 (Jennings)
1131- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
1132- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
1133 errors. How do we get the rest?
1134- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
1135- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
1136 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
1137- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
1138 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
1139 first?
1140- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
1141 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
1142- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
1143 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
1144 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
1145- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
1146 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
1147 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
1148 (Benzinger).
1149- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
1150 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
1151 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
1152- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
1153 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
1154- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
1155 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
1156- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
1157 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
1158 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
1159 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
1160 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
1161 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
1162- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
1163 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
1164 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
1165- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
1166 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
1167 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
1168- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
1169 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
1170- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
1171 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
1172- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim
1173 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
1174- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
1175 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
1176- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
1177 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
1178 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
1179 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
1180 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
1181- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
1182 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
1183 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
1184- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
1185 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
1186 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +00001187- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
1188 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 +00001189- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
1190 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
1191 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
1192 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
1193 in the vimrc file to be lost.
1194- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
1195 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
1196
1197--------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
1198 *extensions-improvements*
1199
1200Documentation:
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000012018 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
1202 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000012038 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
1204 or not.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012058 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012067 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
12079 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
1208 - change to cursor position and curswant
1209 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
1210 - how it works for folded lines
1211 - how it works with multi-byte characters
12129 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
1213 work too.
12148 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
1215 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
1216 text.
12178 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
12187 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
1219 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
12207 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
1221 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
1222- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
1223
1224
1225Help:
1226- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
1227 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
1228- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
1229 to the other matches.
1230- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
1231- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
1232- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
1233 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
1234 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
1235 default contents.
1236- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
1237 height for the help window (and other windows).
1238- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
1239- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
1240- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
1241
1242
1243User Friendlier:
12448 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
1245 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
1246 Briscoe)
12478 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
12488 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
1249 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
1250 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
12518 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
1252 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
1253- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
1254 ":mkplugin <file>"?
12558 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
1256 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
1257 'runtimepath'.
1258 " Vim plugin
1259 <main plugin code>
1260 " >>> plugin help start <<<
1261 <plugin docs>
1262- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
12639 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
1264 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
1265 item?).
1266 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012678 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
12687 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
1269
1270
1271Diff mode:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012728 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
1273 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
1274 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
12757 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
1276 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
1277 location.
1278
1279
1280Folding:
1281 (commands still available: zg zG zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zw zW zy zY;
1282 secondary: zB zS zT zZ)
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000012838 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012848 Add different highlighting for a fold line depending on the fold level.
1285 (Noel Henson)
12868 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
1287 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
1288 user aware of this?
12898 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
1290 commands skip over a closed fold.
12918 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
12928 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000012937 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001294- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
1295 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
1296 missing line goes unnoticed.
1297 How to implement this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001298- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
1299 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
1300 smoother?
1301- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
1302 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
1303- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
1304- Add 'hidecomment' option: don't display comments in /* */ and after //.
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001305 Or is the conceal patch from Vince Negri a more generic solution?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001306- "zu": undo change in manual fold. "zU" redo change in manual fold. How to
1307 implement this?
1308- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
1309 cursor.
1310- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3": set fold level for a region.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001311- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000013128 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001313 searches.
1314
1315
1316Multi-byte characters:
13179 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
1318 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
1319 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
1320 byte).
13218 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
1322 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
1323 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
1324 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
1325 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
1326 item.
13278 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
1328 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
13298 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
1330 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +00001331 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
Bram Moolenaar46c9c732004-12-12 11:37:09 +00001332 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013338 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
1334 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
13357 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
1336 so that the user can fix the problem.
13378 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
1338 Schweigert)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013399 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
13408 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013418 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
13428 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000013438 "ga" should show all composing characters, also if there are more than 2.
13447 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
13458 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
13468 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
13478 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
1348 characters.
13498 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
13508 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
1351 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
13527 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
1353 'display' option to specify this.
13547 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
1355 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
1356- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
1357 fontselector somehow.
1358- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
1359 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
1360- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
1361 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
1362- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
1363 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
1364 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
1365 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
1366 if a font exists?
1367- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
Bram Moolenaar6cc16192005-01-08 21:49:45 +00001368 convert_input() for Mac GUI and RiscOS GUI.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001369- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
1370 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
13717 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
1372 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
1373- Make 'langmap' accept multi-byte characters.
1374- Do we need the reverse of 'keymap', like 'langmap' but with files and
1375 multi-byte characters? E.g., when using a Russian keyboard.
1376- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
1377 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
1378 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
1379- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
1380 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
1381 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
1382 But it's very complicated...
1383
1384
1385Printing:
1386- Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
1387- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
1388 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
Bram Moolenaar567e4de2004-12-31 21:01:02 +00001389- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
1390 Reilly)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001391- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
1392- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
1393 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001394- PostScript: only works for 7-bit ASCII and EBCDIC. Should support
1395 different 'encoding' values somehow.
1396- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
1397 units as for the margins.
1398- Support right-to-left text?
13998 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
1400 color.
1401
1402
1403Syntax highlighting:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014048 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
1405 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
14068 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
1407 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
14088 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
1409 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
14108 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
1411 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
1412 ":wq file".
14138 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
14149 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
1415 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
14167 Make syntax keyword table configurable. Set number of bits used with
1417 ":syn clear [hashbits]", so that we don't need to reallocate the table.
1418 minimal 4 bits, maximal 16. (Campbell)
14197 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
1420 Search highlighting.
14218 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
1422 change this for each release.
14238 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
1424 pattern, but not in the body.
14258 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
1426 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
1427 instead of the containing item.
14288 For keywords, allow to define the size of the hash table with ":syn
1429 clear". Change KHASH_ defines into variables stored in buffer struct.
1430 Use something else than linear linked list from the hash table. (Campbell)
14318 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
14328 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
1433 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
1434 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
1435 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
14368 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
1437 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
14388 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
1439 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
1440 Or highlight the matching paren when the cursor is on one.
14418 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
14428 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
1443 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
1444 used.
14458 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
1446 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
14478 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
1448 re-insert the [] if possible.
14498 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
1450 the Cursor).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014518 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
1452 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
14538 Support for deleting syntax items:
1454 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
1455 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
1456 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
14578 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
1458 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
1459 a '<'. (Fleiner)
14607 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
1461 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
1462 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
14637 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
1464 detected.
14658 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
1466 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
14678 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
1468 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014698 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
14708 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
14717 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
1472 ":mkvimrc".
14738 Improve c.vim:
1474 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
1475 "c_strict_ansi".
1476 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
14778 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
1478 current line while in Insert mode.
14798 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
1480 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
14818 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
1482 display position.
14838 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
1484 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
1485 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
14868 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
1487 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
1488 highlighting starts.
14897 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
1490 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
1491 E.g. for this html:
1492 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
14937 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed
1494 (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"):
1495 :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display=""
14967 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
14977 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
1498 words.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000014997 Command line completion for ":find" should search in 'path'.
15008 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
15018 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
15028 Add more command line completion for :sign.
15037 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
1504 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
1505 completion?
15068 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
1507 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
15087 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
1509 select one of the sets.
15108 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
1511 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
1512 2, etc.
15138 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
1514 highlighting (for "." command).
15158 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
1516 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
15178 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
15187 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
1519 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
15206 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
1521 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
1522- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
1523 when extending an already existing syntax file.
1524- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001525- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
1526 (for comment blocks).
1527- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
1528 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
1529 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
1530 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
1531 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
1532 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
1533 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
1534 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
1535 (Campbell)
1536 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
1537 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
15387 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
1539 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
15407 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
1541 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
1542 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
15437 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
1544 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
1545 messages. And external commands?
15468 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
1547 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
15487 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
1549 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
1550
1551
1552Built-in script language:
15538 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
1554 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015558 exists("&&option") tests if 'option' is actually implemented. Useful for
1556 'shellslash', for example.
Bram Moolenaar1c2fda22005-01-02 11:43:19 +00001557- Add "{range}source": execute lines from a buffer.
1558 Alternative: Allow range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command.
1559 (Webb)
1560 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015618 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
15628 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
1563 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
1564 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
1565 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
1566 nested packages?
1567 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
1568 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
1569 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
15707 Make globpath() also work with "**" and upwards search. (Brian Medley)
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000015717 Add the markclear() function to delete a mark in another buffer. Charles
1572 Campbell (2004 Jan 9)
1573 http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#Patch
1574 Implement setmark(markname, lnum [, col [, filename]]) instead?
1575 When "lnum" is zero delete the mark.
1576 When "filename" has no wildcards and there is no matching buffer, add
1577 the buffer (unlisted).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015787 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
1579 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
1580 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
1581 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
1582 autocommand.
1583 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
1584 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
1585 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
1586 file belongs to a sourced script?
15877 Add "n" flag to search() function, just like searchpair(). (Alexey
1588 Marinichev)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000015897 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
1590 signs and/or 'number'.
15918 Add functions:
Bram Moolenaar5eb86f92004-07-26 12:53:41 +00001592 search() Add optional offset argument.
1593 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
1594 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
1595 3 2002
1596 Only add this when also implemented for
1597 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
1598 be used.
1599 get_user_name() gets login name.
Bram Moolenaarab79bcb2004-07-18 21:34:53 +00001600 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
1601 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
1602 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
1603 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
1604 File.Open..." argument.
1605 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
1606 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
1607 with properties instead.
1608 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
1609 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
1610 Return a list instead.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001611 sprintf(format, arg, ..) How to prevent a crash???
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001612 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
1613 mkdir(dir) Create directory
1614 copy(from, to) Copy a file
1615 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
1616 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
1617 input(prompt, complete) like input() but do specified completion
1618 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
1619 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
1620 Visual block mode.
1621 tagtype(tag) get type of tag (also checks if it exists)
1622 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001623 getbufline() get line from any buffer
1624 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
1625 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001626 sort() Sort a newline-separated string. Also:
1627 ":sort".
1628 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
1629 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
1630 to allow the library to execute a command or
1631 evaluate an expression.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001632 char2hex() convert char string to hex string. XX
1633 hex2char() convert hex string to char string. XX
16347 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
1635 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
16368 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
1637 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
16388 Pass the executable name to the Vim scripts in some way. As v:argv0?
16398 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
16408 When starting to source a vim script, delete all functions that it has
1641 previously defined? Avoids using ":fun!" all the time.
16427 Add optional arguments to user functions:
1643 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
16446 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
16458 Add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var" just ignore.
16468 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
1647 option or environment variable.
16488 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
16497 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the
1650 stack available (separated with '\n').
16518 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
1652 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
16538 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
16548 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
1655 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
1656 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
1657 charwise({expr}).
16587 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
1659 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
1660 buffer for this?
1661 result = scratch(string, command)
1662 result = apply(string, command)
1663 result = execute(string, command)
1664 "command" would use <> notation.
1665 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
16667 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
16677 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an
1668 option for the search path. (Sekera)
16697 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001670
1671
1672Robustness:
16738 This pattern in syntax/java.vim causes a recursive call of regmatch():
1674 syn match javaStringError +"\([^"\\]\|\\.\)*$+
1675 A long line with a " in it can cause a crash when it runs out of stack
1676 space (on systems where this isn't caught). How can we catch this for
1677 more systems?
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +000016786 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
1679 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
1680 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
1681 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
1682 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
1683 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
1684 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001685
1686
1687Performance:
16888 Loading plugins takes startup time. Only load the part that is used to
1689 trigger the rest, and load the rest when it's needed?
16908 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
16919 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
16928 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
16937 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
1694 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
16958 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
1696 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
1697 when starting up in a color terminal.
16988 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
1699 Win16.
17009 Setting GUI options in the console (e.g., 'guifont') should not cause a
1701 redraw.
17028 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
1703 function be improved?
17048 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
1705 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
1706 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
1707 this be improved?
17088 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
1709 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
Bram Moolenaar293ee4d2004-12-09 21:34:53 +000017107 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
1711 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000017127 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
1713 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
17147 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
1715 lot of abbreviations).
17167 DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
17177 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
1718 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
1719 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
1720 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
1721 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
1722 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
1723 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
17248 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the
1725 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was
1726 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating
1727 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)?
17288 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
1729 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
1730 using strcmp() too often?
17317 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
1732 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
1733 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
1734 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
1735 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
1736 the two blocks to the memfile block.
17377 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
1738 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
1739 with an argument that can be messed with.
1740 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
1741 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
17427 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
1743- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
17448 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
1745 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
1746- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
1747 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
1748- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
1749- Do profiling on:
1750 - :g/pat/normal cmd
1751 - 1000ii<Esc>
1752 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
1753 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
1754 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
1755 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
1756 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
1757 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
1758 - editing a vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
17597 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
1760 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
1761 changed).
1762 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
1763 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
1764- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
1765- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
1766 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
1767- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
1768 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
1769 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
1770- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
1771 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
1772- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
1773- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
1774 cursor is right of the screen.
17758 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
1776 CTRL-C (it's slow).
1777
1778
1779Code size:
17808 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
1781- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
1782 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
17838 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
17848 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
1785 it.
17867 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
1787 left out.
17888 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
1789 can be removed.
17908 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
1791
1792
1793Messages:
17948 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
1795 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
17968 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
1797 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
17988 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
1799 script.
18008 "vim --version" output goes to stderr, should be stdout. Can all output
1801 from messages using printf() go to stdout?
1802- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
1803 Perhaps after ten seconds?
1804- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
18059 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
1806 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
1807 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
1808 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
1809 redrawing.
18107 Add an option, which is a regexp, that disables warning messages which
1811 match that regexp (Tsirkin).
18128 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
1813 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
18148 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
1815 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
1816 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
1817 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
1818 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
1819 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
1820- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
1821 sleep before second message?
18228 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
1823 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
1824 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
1825 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
1826 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
1827 error messages, printing text, etc.
18288 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
1829 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
1830 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
1831
1832
1833Screen updating:
18347 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
1835 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
1836 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
1837- screen_line():
1838 - insert/delete character stuff.
1839 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
1840- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
1841 dragging the status line with the mouse).
1842- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
1843 waiting for a character.
18448 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
1845 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
1846 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
18477 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001848
1849
1850Scrolling:
18518 Add "zm" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
18526 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
1853- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
1854 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
1855 windows.
18567 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
1857 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
1858 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
1859- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
1860 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
1861 (Goldfarb)
1862- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
1863 bound windows.
1864- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
1865 be bound by regexp searches
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +00001866- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001867- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
1868 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
1869 of lines but not with a single line).
1870
1871
1872Autoconf:
18738 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
18748 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
1875 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
1876- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
1877 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
1878- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
1879- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
1880- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
1881
1882
1883Perl interface:
18848 Rename typemap file to something else?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000018857 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
18867 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
18876 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
1888
1889
1890Shared libraries:
18916 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
1892 :libload internal-name libname
1893 :libunload internal-name
1894 :liblist
1895 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
1896 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
1897 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
18986 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
1899
1900
1901Tags:
19028 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
1903 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
19048 Add a function that returns the line in the tags file for a matching tag.
1905 Can be used to extract more info (class name, inheritance, etc.) (Rico
1906 Hendriks)
19077 Count before CTRL-]: jump to N'th match
19088 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
19098 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
1910 to type the tag number directly.
19117 Add a tag-select window. Works like ":cwindow". (Michal Malecki)
19127 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
1913 window for each tag.
19147 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
19157 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
1916 bottom" search message.
19177 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
1918 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
1919 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
19207 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
1921 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
1922 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
1923 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
19247 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
1925 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
1926 :tagargs clear
1927 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
1928 matching).
19297 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
1930 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
1931 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
1932 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
19337 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
1934 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
19357 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
1936 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
1937 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00001938
1939
1940Security:
1941- nothing at the moment
1942
1943
1944Win32 GUI:
19458 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
1946 the message and input?
19477 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
1948 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2
1949 dynamically?
19507 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
1951 (Mike McCollister)
19528 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
1953 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
1954 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
1955 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
1956 common part of the path.
19578 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
19588 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
1959 gettext and menus work.
19608 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
1961 return in every console.
1962 Also: Look at how Emacs does runs external commands:
1963 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
19648 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
1965 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
19668 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
1967 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
19687 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
1969 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
19707 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
19717 <Esc> should close a dialog.
19727 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
1973 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
1974 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
1975 prompts.
19767 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
1977 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
1978 the file added into an already running Vim.
19797 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
1980 functions to find the window title.
1981
1982
1983GUI:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000019848 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS.
1985- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
1986 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
19877 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
19888 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
19896 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
19908 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
1991 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
19929 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
19937 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
19948 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
1995 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
19968 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
1997 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
1998 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
19998 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
2000 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
20018 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
2002 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
2003 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
2004 running them in separate processes.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020057 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
20068 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
2007 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
20087 Add some code to handle proportional fonts? Need to draw each character
2009 separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font is not exactly
2010 double-width. (Maeda)
20118 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
20128 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
Bram Moolenaar0a56cb82005-01-04 21:45:14 +00002013 select one.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020148 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
20158 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
20168 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
2017 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
2018 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
20197 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
2020 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
2021 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
20227 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
2023 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
20247 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
2025 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
2026 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
2027 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
20287 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
2029 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
20307 Should support multi-column menus.
2031- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
2032 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
2033- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
20348 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
20356 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
2036 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
20377 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
20387 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
2039 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
2040 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
20417 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
20428 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
2043 name can be chosen free.
20447 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
2045 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
20466 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
2047 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
2048 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
2049 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
2050 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
2051 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
2052 things.
20537 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
2054 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020557 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
2056 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
2057- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
2058 where it was started from?
20597 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
2060
2061
2062VMS:
2063- Improvement: rewrite term/TTY handling.
2064- Improvement: create VMS GTK runtime libraries on OpenVMS 7.1-2 (today GTK
2065 works just on 7.3).
2066
2067
2068Autocommands:
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000020697 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
2070 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
2071 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
2072 changing the buffer name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000020738 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g.
2074 "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc".
20758 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
2076 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
2077 difficult).
20788 Also trigger CursorHold in Insert mode?
20797 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that user
2080 can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the kind
2081 of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
20828 Can't use ":normal" in CursorHold autocommands. Make the CursorHold event
2083 insert a special key code, and call the autocommand functions from a
2084 higher level, so that vgetc() isn't used recursively.
20858 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
2086 And anything else?
20878 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
2088 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
2089 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
20908 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
20918 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
2092 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
20936 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
2094 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
20957 Add a way to skip an autocommand if going from one *.c file to another *.c
2096 file.
20977 When trying to open a directory, don't load the file but trigger an
2098 autocommand event OpenDirectory.
20997 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
2100 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate
2101 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type
2102 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard)
21035 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
2104 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
2105 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
21067 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
2107 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
2108 file.
21098 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
2110 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
2111 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002112- Add events to autocommands:
2113 Error - When an error happens
2114 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
2115 InsertEnter - Entering Insert mode
2116 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
2117 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode
2118 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
Bram Moolenaar843ee412004-06-30 16:16:41 +00002119 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
Bram Moolenaar21cf8232004-07-16 20:18:37 +00002120 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
2121 when exiting isn't a good idea.
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00002122 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002123 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002124 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
2125 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
2126 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
2127 window title)
2128 BufReadAction - replaces reading a file
2129 BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file
2130 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
2131 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the
2132 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor.
2133 Set v:char to the character, can be changed.
2134 (not triggered when 'paste' is set).
2135 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
2136 the char.
2137 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
2138 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
2139 file from CVS).
2140 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
2141 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
2142 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
2143 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
2144 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
2145 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
2146 WinResized - When a window has been resized
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002147- Add autocommand to be executed every so many seconds? For writing the
2148 file now and then ('autosave').
2149 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
2150 'autosave' 'aw' number (default 0)
2151 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
2152 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
2153 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
2154 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
2155 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
2156
2157
2158Insert mode completion/expansion:
21598 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
2160 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
21619 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
2162 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
2163 (Webb)
21648 The code has become too complex. Redesign it, or at least add proper
2165 comments.
21668 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
2167 - ignore/match case
2168 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000021698 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
21708 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
2171 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
2172 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
2173 Should work for C++ and Java.
2174 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
21757 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
21767 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
2177 instead of words.
21788 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
21798 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
2180 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
21818 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
2182 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
2183- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
2184 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
2185 wildcards in the file name)?
2186- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
2187- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
2188- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
2189 be in another file).
2190- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
2191- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
2192- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
2193 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
2194- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
2195- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
2196- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
21978 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
2198 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
2199 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
2200 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
2201- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
2202
2203
2204Command line editing:
22057 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
2206 line.
22078 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
2208 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
2209 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
2210- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
2211 lines wraps to start of line).
2212- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
2213 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
2214 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
2215 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
2216 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
2217 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
2218 cmdwin does now already.
2219 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
2220 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
2221 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
2222 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
2223 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
2224 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
2225 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
2226 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
2227 Problems:
2228 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
2229 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
2230 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
2231 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
2232 - Normal: no ":" commands?
2233 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
2234 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
2235 character in first column?
2236 - Implementation ideas:
2237 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
2238 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
2239 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
2240 - sync undo after entering a command line?
2241 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
2242 Mode.
2243
2244
2245Command line completion:
22468 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
22478 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
2248 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
22498 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
2250 them with the optional part inside [].
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022517 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
2252 edited. (Sven Guckes)
22537 Add completion for when entering an expression after CTRL-R= and "=.
2254 (Servatius Brandt)
2255- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
2256- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
2257 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
22588 For ":find" and ":sfind" expand files found in 'path'.
22598 Add cmdline completion for the ":debug" command.
22608 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
2261 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
22627 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
2263 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
2264- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
2265 identifiers (Webb).
22668 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
2267 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
22687 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
2269 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
2270- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
2271 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
2272- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
2273 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
2274 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
2275- Add completion for Environment variables: ":echo $SH<Tab>" -> "$SHELL".
2276
2277
2278Command line history:
2279- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
2280 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
2281 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
2282 completely resulted from one mapping.
2283- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
2284 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
2285
2286
2287Insert mode:
Bram Moolenaarf4b8e572004-06-24 15:53:16 +000022889 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
2289 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
2290 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022918 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
2292 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
2293 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
2294 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
2295 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
22967 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
2297 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000022987 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
2299 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
2300- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
2301 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
2302 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
2303 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
2304 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
2305 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
2306- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
2307 Normal mode.
2308- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
2309 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
2310 are used.
2311- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
2312- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
2313- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
2314
2315
2316'cindent', 'smartindent':
23178 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with line break in arguments:
2318 Foo::Foo (int one,
2319 int two)
2320 : something(4)
2321 {}
23228 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with multiple lines:
2323 Foo::Foo (int one, int two)
2324 : something(4),
2325 somethingelse(3)
2326 {}
23279 Too much indent for "lulu": (Uwe Zeisberger)
2328 int main ()
2329 {
2330 if (lala)
2331 do
2332 ++(*lolo);
2333 while (lili
2334 && lele);
2335 lulu;
2336 }
23379 Function gets extra indent: (Jamax)
2338 void function(int param) {
2339 if (false)
2340 return;
2341 }
23429 brace not indented correctly:
2343 case 'c': if (cond)
2344 {
2345 Should align with "if" in case statement.
23467 Allow aligning a closing ")" with the line above, instead of the matching
2347 "(": (Riehm) if (asdfasdf &&
2348 asdf
2349 )
23508 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
2351 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
23528 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
2353 func(
2354 new String[] {
2355 "asdf",
2356 "asdf"
2357 }
2358 );
23597 Separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
2360 func(
2361 int x) // indent like "(4"
2362 {
2363 if (a
2364 && b) // indent like "(0"
23658 Strange problem with this code, "hello" is indented wrong: (Gary Holloway)
2366 main() { char foo[] = "/*";
2367 /* This is a comment; the indentation of C
2368 * source below this comment gets messed up due to the string above.
2369 */
2370 hello
23719 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
2372 if (a)
2373 {
2374 if (b)
2375 {
2376 // {
2377 }
2378 } <-- this is indented incorrect
23799 Wrong indent for cino=(4, removing the (void) fixes it: (Zellner)
2380 (void) MyFancyFunction(
2381 argument);
2382- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
2383 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
23847 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
2385- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
2386 line).
2387- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
2388- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
2389 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
23907 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines.
2391- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
2392 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
2393- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
2394 code), unless the line starts with "*".
2395- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
2396- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
2397 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
23988 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
2399 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
2400 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
2401- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
2402- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
2403 lines start with "\item".
2404- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
2405 /* here is a comment that
2406 is just autoindented, and
2407 nothing else */
2408- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
24097 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
2410 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
2411 indents.
2412 And/or: Add option to copy indent as-is, without changing spaces to tabs.
2413 also for 'autoindent'. 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and
2414 spaces used for indent, when the indent remains the same or increases.
2415
2416
2417Java:
24188 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
2419 Odendahl?
24208 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
2421 "[i" commands and friends.
2422- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
2423 (Jason)
2424- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
2425 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
2426
2427
2428'comments':
24298 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
2430 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
2431 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
2432 when it's "#" or "//".
24337 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
2434 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
24357 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
24366 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
2437 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
2438 regexp is used.
24398 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
2440 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
2441
2442
2443Virtual edit:
24448 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
24457 Add a mode where the cursor is only allowed to go one character after the
2446 end of the line?
24477 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
2448
2449
2450Text objects:
24518 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
24527 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
2453 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
24548 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
2455 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
2456 the end of the line or before a ".".
24577 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
2458 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
24597 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
2460 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000024616 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
24625 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
2463 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
2464 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
2465 cursor is on.
2466
2467
2468Select mode:
24698 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
2470 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
24717 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
2472 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743
24737 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
2474 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
2475 contains 'C' or 'A'.
2476 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
2477 normal_cmd().
2478 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
2479 - Typing text replaces the selection.
2480
2481
2482Visual mode:
2483- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
2484 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
2485 is in the top line.
24868 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
2487 text. make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
2488 where needed.
24897 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
2490 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
24917 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
2492 of each selected line.
24938 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
24948 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
2495 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
2496 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
24978 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
2498 Ben Godfrey)
24997 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
2500 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
25017 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
2502 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
25037 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
2504 Young is working on this)
25057 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00002506 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002507 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
25088 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
2509 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
25107 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
2511 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
2512 option!
25137 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
2514 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
2515 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
2516 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
2517 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
2518 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
2519 without changing the column.
25206 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000025217 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
2522 current buffer.
25237 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
25246 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
2525 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
25266 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
25276 ":'<,'>source" should read the selected lines and ":source" them.
25286 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
2529 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
2530 or other special character.
25316 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
2532
2533
2534More advanced repeating commands:
2535- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
25367 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
2537 the command line so that it can be repeated?
2538- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
2539 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
2540 "y." will repeat last yank.
2541 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
2542 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
2543 and/or pick an older command.
2544- History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
2545
2546
2547Mappings and Abbreviations:
25488 Let ":verbose map xx" report where the mapping was set, just like with
2549 ":verbose set".
25508 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
2551 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
2552 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
25538 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
25547 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
2555 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
25568 ":verbose map" could show the script where the mapping was defined.
2557 m_script_ID can be used.
25588 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
2559 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
25608 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
25618 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
2562 entering search strings.
25638 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
2564 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
2565 not the <Space>.
25668 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS).
25678 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
2568 (?) work.
25697 ":verbose map" should display where a mapping was defined, like ":verbose
2570 set".
25718 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
2572 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
2573 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
25747 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
25757 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q",
2576 that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger'
2577 option.
25787 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
2579 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
25807 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character
2581 (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for
2582 mapping a key to do something and then completion.
25837 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
25846 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
2585 abbreviations are to be used.
2586- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
2587 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
2588 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
2589- Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping.
2590- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
2591 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
2592 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002593- Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in
2594 <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this?
2595- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
2596 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
2597- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
2598 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
25996 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
2600 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
2601 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
2602 hit another character.
2603- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
2604 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
2605 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
2606 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
2607 Or implicit:
2608 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
2609- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
2610 non-replace Insert mode?
2611- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
26126 Alias for Normal mode commands, works like :substitute? Would allow
2613 mappings with arguments.
2614- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
2615- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
2616 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
2617- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
2618 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
2619- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
2620 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
2621- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
2622- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
2623 ":freekeys".
2624- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
2625
2626
2627Incsearch:
2628- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
2629- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
2630 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
2631 up every time.
2632- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
2633 folds when going to another line.
2634- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
2635 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
2636 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
2637 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
2638- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
2639 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
2640
2641
2642Searching:
Bram Moolenaarb5bf5b82004-12-24 14:35:23 +000026437 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
2644 "g?" is already used for rot13.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026458 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\(([^()]*\@@[^()]*)\)\@r". \@@ stands
2646 for "go recursive here" and \@r marks the recursive atom.
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000026477 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002648 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
2649 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
2650 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
26517 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
2652 search(). (Brett)
Bram Moolenaar1cd871b2004-12-19 22:46:22 +000026537 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
2654 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for an offset).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026557 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
2656 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026578 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
2658 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
26598 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
2660 line.
26617 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
2662 example.
26638 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
2664 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
2665- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
2666 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
2667 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
2668 Alternative: use matchit.vim
26698 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
26708 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
2671 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
2672 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
26737 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
2674 "\d".
Bram Moolenaarc0197e22004-09-13 20:26:32 +000026757 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
2676 \%<C-M>.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000026778 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
2678 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
2679 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
26808 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
2681 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
26828 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
2683 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
2684 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
2685 search pattern.
2686- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
2687 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
2688- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
2689 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
2690 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
2691 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
26927 Add POSIX regexp, like Nvi, with 'extended' option? It's like very-magic.
2693- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
2694 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
2695- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
2696 i ignore case
2697 I use case
2698 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
2699 v use Vi regexp syntax
2700 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
2701 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
2702 Perl uses these too:
2703 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
2704 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
2705 o compile only once (Perl only)
2706 s single line expression (we don't need it)
2707 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
2708 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
2709 following command.
2710 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
2711- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
2712 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
2713 for search string)?
27147 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
2715 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
2716- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
2717 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
2718- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
2719 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
2720- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
2721- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
2722 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
2723 a for the next file in the argument list
2724 f for file in the buffer list
2725 w for file edited in a window.
2726 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
2727 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
2728 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
2729 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
2730- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027317 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
2732 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
27337 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
2734 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
2735 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
2736 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
27376 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
2738 effects.
27397 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
2740 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
2741 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
27427 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron)
2743 Also ":dselect".
2744
2745
2746Undo:
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +00002747- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
2748 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002749- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
2750 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
2751 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
27528 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
2753 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
2754 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
2755 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
27568 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
2757 only remember the lines that really changed.
27587 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
2759 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
2760 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
2761 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00002762- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
2763 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
2764- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
2765 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
2766- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
2767 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
2768 [-99].
2769- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
2770- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
2771- Store undo info in a file that survives until the next edit. Then it's
2772 possible to undo to before the current editing session. Combined with
2773 viminfo?
2774- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
2775 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
2776
2777
2778Buffer list:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000027797 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
2780 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
2781 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
2782 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
27838 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
2784 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
27858 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
2786 inode too.
27877 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
2788 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use. (or the highest
2789 number in use plus one?)
27907 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
2791 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
2792- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
2793 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
2794- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
2795 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
27967 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
2797 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
27987 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
2799 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
28008 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
28018 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
2802 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
28037 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
2804 internal use and for when executing an external program?
2805
2806
2807Swap (.swp) files:
28088 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
2809 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
2810 there are short file name problems.
28118 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
2812 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
28138 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
28148 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
2815 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
2816 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
2817 file the same as the actual file?
2818 Use the code for resolve()?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000028197 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
2820 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
28217 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
2822 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
2823 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
2824 enough room.
28257 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
2826 or /var/preserve.
2827- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
2828 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
2829- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
2830 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
2831- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
2832 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
2833 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
2834 cached list of which line is where.
2835
2836
2837Viminfo:
28387 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
2839 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
2840 else's viminfo file.
28418 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
2842 name. (Schild)
28438 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
28448 Remember the last used register for "@@".
28458 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
2846 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
2847 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
2848 this?
28497 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
28507 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
2851 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
28526 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
2853 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
2854 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
2855- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
2856 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
2857
2858
2859Modelines:
28608 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
2861 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
2862 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
2863- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
2864 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
2865 modeline setting.
2866- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
2867 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
2868- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
2869 .cpp files.
2870- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
2871 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
2872- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
2873 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
2874
2875
2876Options:
28778 Make ":mksession" store buffer-specific options for the specific buffer.
28788 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
2879 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
28807 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only
2881 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the
2882 side effect.
28838 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
2884 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
2885 default value.
28868 Should ":mksession" restore the current directory when writing the
2887 session, or the directory where the session file is? Probably need a word
2888 in 'sessionoptions' to make a choice:
2889 "curdir" (cd to current directory when session file was generated)
2890 "sessiondir" (cd to directory of session file)
2891 "nodir" (don't cd at all)
28928 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
2893 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
2894 also be supported.
28958 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
2896 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
2897 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
28987 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
28997 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
2900 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
29017 Add plugins for formatting. Should be able to make a choice depending on
2902 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
2903
2904
2905External commands:
29068 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
2907 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
29084 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
2909 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
2910 -f).
29114 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
29124 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
2913 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
29144 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
2915
2916
2917Multiple Windows:
29187 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
29198 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
2920 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
29217 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
2922 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
2923 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
29247 Add a 'winfixwidth' option, similar to 'winfixheight'.
29256 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
2926 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
2927 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
2928 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
29297 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
2930 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
2931 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
2932 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
2933- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
2934 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
2935 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
2936 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
2937
2938
2939Marks:
29408 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
2941 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
29428 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m?
29438 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
2944 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
29458 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
2946 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
2947 the mark was set.
29487 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
2949 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
2950 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
2951 ":browse marks"?
29526 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029537 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
2954 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
29557 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
2956 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
29577 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
2958 command).
29597 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
2960 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
2961 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
2962 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
29635 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
2964 mappings.
29656 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
2966 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
2967 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
2968
2969
2970Digraphs:
29717 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
2972 Also the keymap?
2973- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line
2974 below/above).
2975- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
2976 characters?
Bram Moolenaar3fdfa4a2004-10-07 21:02:47 +000029778 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000029787 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
2979 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
2980
2981
2982Writing files:
2983- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
2984 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
2985 shortname conversion.
29868 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
29878 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
2988 file.
29898 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
2990 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
2991 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
29927 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
2993 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
29946 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
2995 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
29966 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
2997 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
29986 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
2999 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
30008 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
3001 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
30027 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
3003 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
30047 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
3005 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
3006 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
3007 waiting for a character to be typed).
30088 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
3009 line of the window, like "[time]".
3010 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
3011 Automatic and/or with a command.
3012
3013
3014Substitute:
30158 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
3016 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
3017- :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
3018- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
30198 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
3020 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
3021- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
3022 :s///N substitutes N times.
3023- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
3024 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
3025 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
30267 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
3027 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
3028 last line column 5.
30295 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
3030 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
3031 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
3032 (Stanislav Sitar)
3033
3034
3035Mouse support:
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030368 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
30377 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
30388 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
3039 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
3040 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
30417 Checkout sysmouse() for FreeBSD console mouse support.
3042- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
3043- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
3044 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
3045- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
3046- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
3047
3048
3049Crypt and security:
30508 Also crypt the swapfile, each block separately. Change mf_write() and
3051 mf_read(). How to get b_p_key to these functions?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003052
3053
3054Argument list:
30556 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
3056 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
3057 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
30586 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
3059
3060
3061Registers:
30628 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
30638 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
3064 around in windows.
30658 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
3066 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
3067 for every line.
30686 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
3069 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
3070 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
3071- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
3072 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
3073- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
3074 leader when line wraps?
3075- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
3076 line in the range.
3077- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
3078 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
30798 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
3080 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +00003081
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003082
3083Debug mode:
30847 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
30858 Add breakpoints for setting an option
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000030868 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030877 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
Bram Moolenaar15d0a8c2004-09-06 17:44:46 +00003088 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
3089 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
3090 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000030917 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
30927 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
3093
3094
3095Various improvements:
30968 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
3097 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
Bram Moolenaar86b68352004-12-27 21:59:20 +00003098- Perhaps ":cexpr" could read errors from a list?
3099 Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
3100 Govindachar)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031016 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of
3102 errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c".
Bram Moolenaard4755bb2004-09-02 19:12:26 +000031037 Add a ":cstring" command. Works like ":cfile" but reads from a string
3104 variable. Also accept a list variable?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031056 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5)
31067 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
3107 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
3108 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
31097 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
3110 window as a buffer-tab selection.
31117 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
3112 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
31138 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
3114 all changes are gone.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031157 Add a ":cpfile", go in the other direction as ":cnfile".
31166 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031178 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
3118 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
3119 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
3120 in this Vim.
31218 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
3122 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
31238 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
3124 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
3125 have it apply to the following command.
31268 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
3127 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
3128 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
3129 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031307 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
3131 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031327 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
3133 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
3134 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
3135 without modifier (unless mapped).
31368 Add ":breakdel *": delete all breakpoints.
31377 Support ":browse edit" in console, using explorer.vim?
31386 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
31398 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
31409 Support ACLs on more systems.
31417 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
3142 highlighted differently.
31438 Allow using "**" as a wildcard in commands like ":next" and ":args".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031447 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
3145 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
3146 (truncated to fit in the space).
31477 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
31488 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
31498 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
3150 Visual mode.
Bram Moolenaared203462004-06-16 11:19:22 +000031517 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003152 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
31537 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
3154 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031557 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031567 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
31577 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000031588 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
31598 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
3160 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
3161 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
3162 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
31638 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
31646 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
3165 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
31668 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
31678 Use confirm/dialog stuff to ask the user, when a file has changed outside
3168 of Vim, if he wants to reload it. Triggered when focus gained, after
3169 shell command, when entering another buffer, etc..
3170 Also do this when editing a new file, and another application creates
3171 the file before doing ":w" in Vim.
3172 Also check if the file protection has changed. When checking a file into
3173 RCS it is made read-only, when checking out it is made read-write.
31748 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
3175 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
3176 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
3177 does something like this. (Shah)
31787 Use growarray for replace stack.
31797 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
3180 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
31813 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
31828 Make "more" prompt accept command characters, like "hit-enter" prompt?
3183 Or extend it with more commands, like "less": 'b' for back, 'j' for one
3184 line down, etc.
31858 For the "--more--" prompt, support the 'b'ack command for more commands.
3186 Possible implementation: Do it at a very low level, caching the lines that
3187 are on the screen (with highlight attributes). Avoids that changes have
3188 to be made for all functions that list something.
31897 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
3190 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
3191- Keep a list of most recently used files for each window, use "[o" to go
3192 back (older file) and "]n" to go forward (newer file) (like ^O and ^I for
3193 jumps) (Webb). Use ":files" and ":ls" to list the files in history order.
31947 Add a history of recently accessed buffer. Maybe make "2 CTRL-^" jump to
3195 the 2nd previously visited buffer, "3 CTRL-^" to the third, etc. Or use
3196 "3 g CTRL-^" for this?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003197- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
3198- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
3199- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
3200- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
32017 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
3202 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
3203- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
3204 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
3205- Remove mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
3206- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
3207 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
3208- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
3209 call "play newbeep.au").
3210- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
3211 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
3212 (Bhatt).
3213- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
3214 blockwise registers).
3215- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
3216 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
3217- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
3218 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
3219 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
3220 noticeable.
32219 When using ":w <fname>" it's possible that this file is loaded in another
3222 buffer. Give a warning right away, don't wait for a shell command.
3223- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032247 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
3225 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
3226- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
3227 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
3228 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
3229 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
3230 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
Bram Moolenaar269ec652004-07-29 08:43:53 +000032317 Add a way to define an item list with a pattern in 'formatoptions'. The
3232 'n' flag doesn't work for "6.3" or "6a.".
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000032338 Add 'formatexpr' option: Used for formatting operator "gq" instead of the
3234 builtin formatting or 'formatprg'.
32358 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
3236 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
3237 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
3238 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
3239 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
3240- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
32417 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
3242 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
3243- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
3244 not in column 1.
32456 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
3246 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
32477 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
3248- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
32498 findmatchlimit() should be able to skip comments. Solves problem of
3250 matching the '{' in /* if (foo) { */ (Fiveash)
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003251- Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
3252 :redir @> register (append)
3253 :redir # bufname
3254 :redir #> bufname (append)
3255 :redir = variable
3256 :redir => variable (append)
3257- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
3258 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
3259 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
32606 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
3261 console? (Klaus Hast)
3262- Add :delcr command:
3263 *:delcr*
3264 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
3265 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
3266 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
3267 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
3268 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
3269 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
3270- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
3271- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
3272 characters from 'isprint'.
3273- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
3274- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
3275 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
3276- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
3277 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
3278 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
3279- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
3280- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
3281 Nvi).
3282- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
3283 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
32847 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
3285- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
3286 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
32876 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
3288- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
3289 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
3290 macro).
3291- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
3292- Add command like ":ts" that shows the output of "[I" and asks for a match
3293 to jump to. (Zellner)
3294- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
3295 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
3296- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
32978 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
3298- Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null".
3299- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
3300- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
3301- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
3302 if it is not the first or last window.
3303- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
3304 there is one) instead of the file itself.
33057 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
3306 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
3307 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
3308- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
3309- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
3310 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
3311 many percent down the windows).
3312- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
3313 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
3314 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
3315- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
3316 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
3317- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
3318 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
3319- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
3320- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
3321- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
3322 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
3323- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
3324- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
33258 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
3326 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
3327 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
3328 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
3329 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003330- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
3331 t_bs is set? (Webb)
3332- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
3333 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
3334- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline (Demirel). Store
3335 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
3336 (Webb).
3337- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
3338 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
3339- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
3340 hex codes like 0xff).
3341- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
3342 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
3343 the last TYPED command.
3344- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
3345- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
3346- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
3347 should also work?
3348- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
33498 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
3350 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
3351 name.
3352- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
3353 trailing '.'.
3354- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
3355 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
3356 find_file_in_path().
3357- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
3358 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
3359- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
3360- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
3361 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
3362- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
3363 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
3364- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
3365 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
3366 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
3367- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
3368 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
3369- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
3370- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
3371- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
3372 to the minimal size.
3373- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
3374- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
3375- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
3376- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
3377- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
3378- Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw').
3379- Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line:
3380 "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ???
3381- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
3382 entered)?
3383- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
3384 as an output filter.
3385- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
3386- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
3387- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
3388- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
3389- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
3390- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
3391 lines.
3392- Uppercase characters in ex commands can be made lowercase?
33938 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
3394 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
3395 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
3396 or in octal.
33977 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
3398 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
3399- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
3400 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
3401- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
3402- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
3403 insert line command).
3404- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
3405- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
3406- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
3407- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
3408- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
3409 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
3410- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
3411 yet.
3412- Implement 'redraw' option.
3413- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
3414 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +00003415- Use pipes for filtering on Unix. Requires using fork() to be able to read
3416 and write at the same time, or some select() mechanism.
34177 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
3418 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
34198 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
3420 do it.
3421- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
3422- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
3423 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
3424- Add text justification option.
3425- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
3426- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
3427 off".
3428- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
3429- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
3430- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
3431 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
3432- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
3433- If file does not exists, check if directory exists.
3434- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
3435- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
3436 commands.
3437- ":set -w all": list one option per line.
3438- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
3439- :table command (Webb)
3440- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
3441- Make it possible for a user to define a new operator. Implementation with
3442 internal scripting language or Perl?
3443- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
3444- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
3445- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
3446- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
3447- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
3448 (Demirel).
3449- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
3450- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
3451 for use in macro's and the like.
3452- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
3453 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
3454- Add possibility to put output of ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
3455 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
3456- 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really
3457 read-only mode).
3458- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
3459 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
3460 a window to become smaller (Webb).
3461- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
3462 proportionally (Webb).
3463- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
3464 mkopttab to make option table?
3465- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
3466 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
3467- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
3468 (Haritsis).
3469- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
3470 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
3471- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
3472 cursor?
3473- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
3474- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
34755 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
3476 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
Bram Moolenaar69a7cb42004-06-20 12:51:53 +000034778 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
3478 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
3479 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
3480 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
3481 option name.
Bram Moolenaar071d4272004-06-13 20:20:40 +000034828 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
3483 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
3484 (Netherton)
34856 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
3486 space after "(", for example.
34875 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
3488 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
3489 (Servatius Brandt)
3490
3491
3492From Elvis:
3493- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
3494- Add ":alias" command.
3495- fontchanges recognized "\\fB" etc.
3496- Search patterns:
3497 \@ match word under cursor.
3498 but do:
3499 \@w match the word under the cursor?
3500 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
35018 ":window" command:
3502 :win + next window (up)
3503 :win ++ idem, wrapping
3504 :win - previous window (down)
3505 :win -- idem, wrapping
3506 :win nr to window number "nr"
3507 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
35087 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
3509 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
3510
3511
3512From Nvi:
3513- 'searchincr' option, alias for 'incsearch'?
3514- 'leftright' option, alias for 'nowrap'?
3515- Have a look at "vi/doc/vi.chart", for Nvi specialties.
35168 Add 'keytime', time in 1/10 sec for mapping timeout?
3517- Add 'filec' option as an alternative for 'wildchar'.
35186 Support Nvi command names as an alias:
3519 :bg :hide
3520 :fg fname :buf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
3521 :dis b :ls
3522 :Edit fname :split fname
3523 :Fg fname :sbuf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
3524 :Next :snext (can't do this, already use :Next)
3525 :Previous :sprevious
3526 :Tag :stag
3527
3528
3529From xvi:
3530- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
3531- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
3532
3533
3534From vile:
3535- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
3536- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
3537 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
3538
3539
3540Far future and "big" extensions:
3541- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
3542 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
3543- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
3544 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
3545 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
3546 current layout mirrored.
3547- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
3548- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
3549 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
3550- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
3551- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
3552 font in each top-level window.
3553- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
3554- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
3555- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
3556- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
3557 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
3558- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
3559 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
3560 mentioned in the tags file.
3561 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
3562 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
3563- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
3564 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
3565- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
3566 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
35674 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
3568 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
3569 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
3570 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
3571 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
3572 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
3573 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
3574- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
3575 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
3576 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
3577
3578
3579vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl:
3580vim: set fo+=n :