1*todo.txt* For Vim version 8.2. Last change: 2021 Nov 14 2 3 4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar 5 6 7 TODO list for Vim *todo* 8 9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired 10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the older items are grouped 11by subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be 12able to look for "the next thing to do": 13 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|. 29 30Issues can also be entered online: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues 31Only use this for bug reports, not for questions! Those belong on the 32maillist. Updates will be forwarded to the |vim_dev| maillist. Issues 33entered there will not be repeated below, unless there is extra information. 34 35The #1234 numbers refer to an issue or pull request on github. To see it in a 36browser use: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/1234 37(replace 1234 with the issue/pull number) 38 *known-bugs* 39-------------------- Known bugs and current work ----------------------- 40 41mark ends up on last byte of char. (#9047) 42 43Delete runtime/rgb.txt after a while 44 45Vim9 - Make everything work: 46- "filter #pat# ls" should work, #pat# is not a comment 47 vim9script 48 edit foobar 49 filter #foobar# ls 50- Check TODO items in vim9compile.c and vim9execute.c 51- use CheckLegacyAndVim9Success(lines) in many more places 52- For builtin functions using tv_get_string*() use check_for_string() to be 53 more strict about the argument type (not a bool). 54 done: balloon_() 55- Check many more builtin function arguments at compile time. 56 map() could check that the return type of the function argument matches 57 the type of the list or dict member. (#8092) 58 Same for other functions, such as searchpair(). 59- Test try/catch and throw better, also nested. 60 Test that return inside try/finally jumps to finally and then returns. 61- Test that a function defined inside a :def function is local to that 62 function, g: functions can be defined and script-local functions cannot be 63 defined. 64- Unexpected error message when using "var x: any | x.key = 9", because "x" is 65 given the type number. Can we use VAR_ANY? 66- Check performance with callgrind and kcachegrind. 67 68Once Vim9 is stable: 69- Add the "vim9script" feature, can use has('vim9script') 70- Change the help to prefer Vim9 syntax where appropriate 71- Add all the error numbers in a good place in documentation. 72- In the generic eval docs, point out the Vim9 syntax where it differs. 73- Use Vim9 for runtime files. 74 PR #7497 for autoload/ccomplete.vim 75 76Further Vim9 improvements, possibly after launch: 77- better implementation for partial and tests for that. 78- Compile options that are an expression, e.g. "expr:" in 'spellsuggest', 79 'foldexpr', 'foldtext', 'printexpr', 'diffexpr', 'patchexpr', 'charconvert', 80 'balloonexpr', 'includeexpr', 'indentexpr', 'formatexpr'. 81 Give an error if compilation fails. (#7625) 82 Alternatively: Detect a compiled function call and skip the expression 83 evaluation. 84 Use the location where the option was set for deciding whether it's to be 85 evaluated in Vim9 script context. 86- Handle command that is only a range more efficient than calling ISN_EXEC 87- implement :type, "import type" 88- implement enum, "import enum". 89- implement class and interface: See |vim9-classes| 90- For range: make table of first ASCII character with flag to quickly check if 91 it can be a Vim9 command. E.g. "+" can, but "." can't. 92- Inline call to map() and filter(), better type checking. 93- Make accessing varargs faster: arg[expr] 94 EVAL expr 95 LOADVARARG (varargs idx) 96- When evaluating constants for script variables, some functions could work: 97 has(featureName), len(someString) 98- Implement as part of an expression: ++expr, --expr, expr++, expr--. 99 100 101Popup windows: 102- Preview popup not properly updated when it overlaps with completion menu. 103 (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2021 May 22 104- In some cases prop_remove() does not work correctly. (#8261) 105- Add a flag to make a popup window focusable? 106 CTRL-W P cycle over any preview window or focusable popup, end up back in 107 current window. 108 ? - switch between current window and all popup windows 109 Esc in popup window goes back to previous current window 110- Add a termcap entry for changing the cursor when it goes under the popup and 111 back. like t_SI and t_EI (t_SU and t_EU, where "U" means under?) 112- With terminal in popup, allow for popup_hide() to temporarily hide it.? 113- Make it possible to scroll horizontally when 'wrap' is off. Does this 114 require an ascii scrollbar, like with the vertical one? 115- Fire some autocommand event after a new popup window was created and 116 positioned? PopupNew? Could be used to set some options or move it out of 117 the way. (#5737) 118 However, it may also cause trouble, changing the popup of another plugin. 119- Width is not computed correctly when minwidth and maxwidth are &columns 120 and padding and a scrollbar are used. (#6676) 121- Should popup_getoptions() also return the mask? #7774 122- Add a way to use popup_menu() synchronously: instead of invoking the 123 callback, return the choice. (Ben Jackson, #6534) 124- Use popup (or popup menu) for command line completion 125- When using a popup for the info of a completion menu, and there is not 126 enough space, let the popup overlap with the menu. (#4544) 127- Implement flip option. 128- Make redrawing more efficient and avoid flicker: 129 - put popup menu also in popup_mask? 130- Match does not have right BG color if line length equals popup width. 131 (#5658) 132- Any other commands to disable in a popup window? 133 Use ERROR_IF_POPUP_WINDOW for these. 134- Figure out the size and position better if wrapping inserts indent 135 136Text properties: 137- property is overruled by cursorline. (#8225). 138 Add better control over priority? Make list of all highlighting, specify 139 where property fits in. 140 Or Should we let the textprop highlight overrule other (e.g. diff) highlight 141 if the priority is above a certain value? (#7392) 142- Popup attached to text property stays visible when text is no longer 143 visible. (#7736) 144- Popup attached to text property stays visible when text is deleted with 145 "cc". (#7737) "C" works OK. "dd" also files in a buffer with a single 146 line. 147- Auto-indenting may cause highlighting to shift. (#7719) 148- "cc" does not call inserted_bytes(). (Axel Forsman, #5763) 149- Combining text property with 'cursorline' does not always work (Billie 150 Cleek, #5533) 151- See remarks at top of src/textprop.c 152 153'incsearch' with :s: 154- :s/foo using CTRL-G moves to another line, should not happen, or use the 155 correct line (it uses the last but one line) (Lifepillar, Aug 18, #3345) 156- Also support range: :/foo/,/bar/delete 157- Also support for user command, e.g. Cfilter 158- :%s/foo should take the first match below the cursor line, unless there 159 isn't one? 160 Then :%s?foo should take the first match above the cursor line. 161 162Prompt buffer: 163- Add a command line history, using up/down keys. issue #5010 164- delay next prompt until plugin gives OK? 165- add prompt_addtext({buf}, {expr}) none add text to a prompt buffer 166 167Terminal debugger: 168- Make prompt-buffer variant work better. 169- Add option to not open the program window. It's not used when attaching to 170 an already running program. (M. Kelly) 171- When only gdb window exists, on "quit" edit another buffer. 172- Use a sign group 173- Termdebug does not work when Vim was built with mzscheme: gdb hangs just 174 after "run". Everything else works, including communication channel. Not 175 initializing mzscheme avoid the problem, thus it's not some #ifdef. 176- Add support for lldb? issue #3565 177- Could we do something similar for debugging Vim scripts? At least see the 178 script while stepping through it. Simple version would use an extra window. 179 More complete solution would actually run Vim in a Terminal and control it 180 with another Vim instance. 181 182Terminal emulator window: 183- Can escape a terminal popup with win_gotoid(), should be an error 184- No support for underline color, t_8u. 185- When in terminal-Normal mode when the job finishes, the cursor jumps to the 186 end but the window is not updated. This only happens when typing "a". 187 :term bash -c "for V in {0..5}; do echo $V; sleep 1; done" 188- When started with ":terminal ++close" and the shell exits but there is a 189 background process, the window remains open, because the channel still 190 exists (and output still shows). Perhaps close the window when an explicit 191 ++close was used? (#5931) 192- Using "CTRL-W :confirm quite" and selecting "yes" should work like ":quit!". 193 (Harm te Hennepe, #6129) 194- When the job in the terminal doesn't use mouse events, let the scroll wheel 195 scroll the scrollback, like a terminal does at the shell prompt. #2490 196 A bit like using CTRL-W N first. 197 Jump back like with "a" when any key is typed. 198 And use modeless selection. #2962 199- Use CTRL-W CTRL-K to enter a digraph? #5371 200- When Vim runs in the terminal and changes the title, the statusline needs to 201 be redrawn. 202- GUI: When using ":set go+=!" a system() call causes the hit-enter prompt. 203 (#3327) 204- Allow for specifying the directory, with ++cwd={dir}. 205- With a vertical split only one window is updated. (Linwei, 2018 Jun 2, 206 #2977) 207- When pasting should call vterm_keyboard_start_paste(), e.g. when using 208 K_MIDDLEMOUSE, calling insert_reg(). 209- Users expect parsing the :term argument like a shell does, also support 210 single quotes. E.g. with: :term grep 'alice says "hello"' (#1999) 211- Win32: Redirecting input does not work, half of Test_terminal_redir_file() 212 is disabled. 213- Win32: Redirecting output works but includes escape sequences. 214- Win32: Make terminal used for :!cmd in the GUI work better. Allow for 215 redirection. 216- When the job only outputs lines, we could handle resizing the terminal 217 better: store lines separated by line breaks, instead of screen lines, 218 then when the window is resized redraw those lines. 219- Redrawing is slow with Athena and Motif. (Ramel Eshed) 220- For the GUI fill termios with default values, perhaps like pangoterm: 221 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~leonerd/pangoterm/trunk/view/head:/main.c#L134 222- When 'encoding' is not utf-8, or the job is using another encoding, setup 223 conversions. 224 225Include patch #6290: recognize shell directory change. 226 227When using 'cryptmethod' xchaha20 the undo file is not encrypted. 228Need to handle extra bytes. 229 230Test_communicate_ipv6(): is flaky on many systems 231Fails in line 64 of Ch_communicate, no exception is thrown. 232 233Patch for Template string: #4634 234Have another look at the implementation. 235 236Rename getdigraphlist -> digraph_getlist() etc. 237 238Valgrind reports memory leaks in test_options. 239Valgrind reports overlapping memcpy in 240 test_conceal.3 241 test_edit.1 242 test_functions.4 243 test_ins_complete.3 244 test_method 245 test_normal 246 test_popupwin.35 et al. 247 test_search_stat 248Memory leak in test_debugger 249Memory leak in test_paste, using XtOpenDisplay several times 250OLD: 251TODO: be able to run all parts of test_alot with valgrind separately 252Memory leak in test_alot with pyeval() (allocating partial) 253Memory leak in test_alot with expand() 254Memory leaks in test_channel? (or is it because of fork()) 255 256Idea: when typing ":e /some/dir/" and "dir" does not exist, highlight in red. 257 258":set &shellpipe" and ":set &shellredir" should use the logic from 259initialization to figure out the default value from 'shell'. Add a test for 260this. 261 262MS-Windows: did path modifier :p:8 stop working? #8600 263 264test_arglist func Test_all_not_allowed_from_cmdwin() hangs on MS-Windows. 265 266Mapping with partial match not executed properly in GTK. (Ingo Karkat, #7082) 267 268Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to 269work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) With examples: (Malcolm Rowe, 2015 Dec 24) 270Also see #8487 for an example. 271 272Patch to implement the vimtutor with a plugin: #6414 273Was originally written by Felipe Morales. 274 275Request to use "." for the cursor column in search pattern \%<.c and \%<.v. 276(#8179) 277 278Remove SPACE_IN_FILENAME ? It is only used for completion. 279 280When 'term' starts with "foot" then default t_TI and t_TE to the values used 281for the builtin xterm termcap. 282 283Adding "10" to 'spellsuggest' causes spell suggestions to become very slow. 284(#4087) Did patch 8.2.2379 help? 285Also, z= in German on a long word can take a very long time, but CTRL-C to 286interrupt does not work. Where to add ui_breakcheck()? 287New English spell files also have very slow suggestions. 288 289Searching for \%'> does not find anything when using line Visual selection. 290Probably because it's using MAXCOL. #8238 291 292Make "g>" and "g<" in Visual mode move the text right or left. 293Also for a block selection. #8558 294 295Add optional argument to virtcol() that specifies "start", "cursor" or "end" 296to tell which value from getvvcol() should be used. (#7964) 297Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is 298inconsistent with the documentation. 299 300Making breakat support multibyte characters (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #6598) 301Scroll doesn't work correctly, why? 302 303glob() and globfile() do not always honor 'wildignorecase'. #8350 304globpath() does not use 'wildignorecase' at all? 305 306Add 'termguiattr' option, use "gui=" attributes in the terminal? Would work 307with 'termguicolors'. #1740 308 309Patch for blockwise paste reporting changes: #6660. Asked for a PR. 310 311Patch to make fillchars global-local. (#5206) 312 313Missing filetype test for bashrc, PKGBUILD, etc. 314 315Add an option to not fetch terminal codes in xterm, to avoid flicker when t_Co 316changes. 317 318When using ":bwipe!" also get rid of references to be buffer, e.g. in the 319jumplist and alternate file. 320 321Add an option to start_timer() to return from the input loop with K_IGNORE. 322This is useful e.g. when a popup was created that disables mappings, we need 323to return from vgetc() to make this happen. #7011 324 325Expanding <mods> should put the tab number from cmdmod.tab before "tab". 326Any way to convert "$" back by using a special value? (#6901) 327 328Can we detect true color support? https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728 329Try setting a color then request the current color, like using t_u7. 330 331Regexp to search for duplicate lines does not work correctly: 332/\(^.*\n\)\1 (Chris Morgan, #6239) 333 334MS-Windows: when writing undo file the infostreams are copied in 335mch_copy_file_attribute(), that seems unnecessary. (#7925) 336Add a flag to only copy attributes? 337 338Make the jumplist behave like a tag stack. (#7738) Should there be a more 339time bound navigation, like with undo? 340 341Changing a capturing group to non-capturing changes the result: #7607 342 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '\(.\{-1,}\>\)\|.*') 343 aaa 344 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '\%(.\{-1,}\>\)\|.*') 345 aaa bbb 346Should also work without any group: 347 :echo matchstr('aaa bbb', '.\{-1,}\>\|.*') 348 aaa bbb (should be aaa) 349 350Should add a match/str/list/pos method that also returns the test and position 351of submatches. #8355 352 353Syntax highlight for a region does not work with a "nextgroup" if the start 354match is empty. #8449 355 356Check out PR #543 (Roland Puntaier). 357Patch for multibyte characters in langmap and applying a mapping on them. 358(Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jun 12, update July 25) 359Is this the right solution? Need to cleanup langmap behavior: 360- in vgetorpeek() apply langmap to the typeahead buffer and put the result in 361 a copy-buffer, only when langmap is appropriate for the current mode. Then 362 check for mapping and let gotchars() work on the copy-buffer. 363- Remove LANGMAP_ADJUST() in other parts of the code. Make sure the mode is 364 covered by the above change. 365So that replaying the register doesn't use keymap/langmap and still does the 366same thing. 367Also see #737: langmap not applied to replaying recording. 368 369Buffer autocommands are a bit inconsistent. Add a separate set of 370autocommands for the buffer lifecycle: 371 BufIsCreated (after buffer ID exists) 372 BufIsLoaded (after buffer ID has content) 373 BufIsUnloaded (after buffer ID no longer has) 374 BufIsWiped (after buffer ID was wiped) 375 BufIsRenamed (after buffer ID gets another name) 376The buffer list and windows are locked, no changes possible 377 378Matchparen doesn't remove highlight after undo. (#7054) 379Is OK when syntax HL is active. 380 381Currently Del can be used to delete the last character of a typed count. 382Can it also be used to delete an incomplete Normal mode command? (#7096) 383After an operator: should work. After "a" or "i" for text objects: should 384work. 385 386Using "au!" after "filetype on" is a bit slow. Can the matching of 387autocommands be made faster? (#7056) 388 389Append in Visual block mode inserts the wrong character. 390Test_visual_block_mode() already has the proper check, which is commented out. 391(#8288) 392 393Add the <=> (spaceship) operator and "cond ?< expr ?= expr ?> expr" 394 replace this: 395 let left = GetLeftFunc() 396 let right = GetRightFunc() 397 let res = left < right ? lower : left == right ? equal : upper 398 by: 399 let res = GetLeftFunc() <=> GetRightFunc() ?< lower ?= equal ?> upper 400Patch to make :q work with local arglist. (Christian Brabandt, #6286) 401 402Why does Test_invalid_sid() not work in the GUI? 403 404":pedit" ignores the local working directory when 'pvp' is set (#7267) 405 406Lua: updating wrong buffer when using newly created, unloaded buffer. 407(#6539) 408 409When "+ register is set then "" points to it. If another Vim grabs the "+ 410register, then "" doesn't contain anything. Make it still follow "+. 411(#6435) 412 413File marks merging has duplicates since 7.4.1925. (Ingo Karkat, #5733) 414 415"make test_gui" crashed in submenu_change(). Fix and remove workaround in 416add_pixmap_args(). 417Athena is OK. 418Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields. 419Running test_gui and test_gui_init with Motif sometimes kills the window 420manager. Problem with Motif? 421 422Patch to add :argdedupe. (Nir Lichtman, #6235) 423 424When editing a file with ":edit" the output of :swapname is relative, while 425editing it with "vim file" it is absolute. (#355) 426Which one should it be? 427 428:map output does not clear the reset of the command line. 429(#5623, also see #5962) 430 431Problem with auto-formatting - inserting space and putting cursor before added 432character. (#6154) 433 434undo result wrong: Masato Nishihata, #4798 435 436After recovering from a swap file the undofile should not be used, it causes 437corruption. (#6631) 438 439When the computer crashes while writing the undofile, the contents may be 440lost. Write to a temp file, fsync and rename. (#8879) 441 442When 'lazyredraw' is set sometimes the title is not updated. 443(Jason Franklin, 2020 Feb 3) Looks like a race condition. 444 445With bash ":make" does not set v:shell_error. Possible solution: set 446'shellpipe' to "2>&1| tee %s; exit ${PIPESTATUS[0]}" #5994 447 448Using mode() when "/pat" is used in Visual mode returns "v" instead of "c", 449which is not useful. Return "c/v" instead. And "c/o" when using "d/pat". 450#6127 451 452Add a cterm attribute for "dimmed" or "faint" text. (#8269) 453 454When 'fileignorecase' is set ":e testfile.c" works to edit TestFile.c, but 455":find testfile.c" does not ignore case. 456Might be related to #6088. 457 458Error for reverse range when using :vimgrep in file "[id-01] file.txt". 459(#6919) 460 461When changing the crypt key the buffer should be considered modified. 462Like when changing 'fileformat'. Save the old key in save_file_ff(). 463(Ninu-Ciprian Marginean) 464 465Strange sequence of BufWipeout and BufNew events while doing omni-complete. 466(Paul Jolly, #5656) 467Get BufDelete without preceding BufNew. (Paul Jolly, #5694) 468 Later more requests for what to track. 469 Should we add new events that don't allow any buffer manipulation? 470 Really only for dealing with appearing and disappearing buffers, load and 471 unload. 472BufWinenter event not fired when saving unnamed buffer. (Paul Jolly, #5655) 473Another spurious BufDelete. (Dani Dickstein, #5701) 474 475Wrong error when using local arglist. (Harm te Hennepe, #6133) 476 477Test loose_clipboard() by selecting text before suspending. 478 479Undo puts cursor in wrong line after "cG<Esc>" undo. 480 481Implement completion for "breakadd". Should expand the second argument, e.g. 482"func", and then function names after ":breakadd func". Including 483script-local functions. 484Also for ":profile". 485 486:unmap <c-n> gives error but does remove the mapping. (Antony Scriven, 2019 487Dec 19) 488 489Patch to add an option to enable/disable VTP. (Nobuhiro Takasaki, #5344) 490Should have three values: empty, "off", "on". Name it 'winterm'? 491 492Patch to fix session file when using multiple tab pages. (Jason Franklin, 2019 493May 20) 494Also put :argadd commands at the start for all buffers, so that their order 495remains equal? Then %argdel to clean it up. Do try this with 'hidden' set. 496Also #5326: netrw buffers are not restored. 497 498When 'backupdir' has a path ending in double slash (meaning: use full path of 499the file) combined with 'patchmode' the file name is wrong. (#5791) 500 501Completion mixes results from the current buffer with tags and other files. 502Happens when typing CTRL-N while still searching for results. E.g., type "b_" 503in terminal.c and then CTRL-N twice. 504Should do current file first and not split it up when more results are found. 505(Also #1890) 506 507Undo history wrong when ":next file" re-uses a buffer. (#5426) 508ex_next() should pass flag to do_argfile(), then to do_ecmd(). 509Is there a test for this? 510 511Help for ":argadd fname" says that if "fname" is already in the argument list 512that entry is used. But instead it's always added. (#6210) 513Add flag AL_FIND_ADD, if there is one argument find it in the list. 514 515":bnext" in a help buffer is supposed to go to the next help buffer, but it 516goes to any buffer, and then :bnext skips help buffers, since they are 517unlisted. (#4478) 518 519Statusline highlighting error, off by one. (#5599) 520 521":find" with 'path' set to "data*" does not find files, while completion does 522find them. (Max Kukartsev, #6218) 523 524Enable 'termbidi' if $VTE_VERSION >= 5703 ? 525 526Sound: support on Mac? Or does libcanberra work there? 527 528Python 3.8 doesn't work. (Antonios Hadjigeorgalis, #5509) 529 530The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to 531support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) Also #4687 532 533"--cleanFOO" does not result in an error. (#5537) 534 535Output from assert_equalfile() doesn't give a hint about what's different. 536Assuming the files are text, print the line with the difference. 537 538Result of synID() sometimes wrong in help files. (#5252) 539 540When a help file is opened that doesn't have "ft=help" in the modeline then 541the FileType is first set to "text" before it is set to "help". (#8099) 542 543Problem showing a line if the number column width changes when using "o". 544(Mateusz Morusiewicz, #4245) 545 546When using :packadd for a replacement language plugin, it is loaded after the 547default one. #4698 548 549When using :packadd files under "later" are not used, which is inconsistent 550with packages under "start". (xtal8, #1994) 551 552Patch to add new motion ]( and ]{. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, #5320) 553Better: use the "z" prefix. or ]t) and [t(. 554 555Visual highlight not removed when 'display' is "lastline" and line doesn't 556fit. (Kevin Lawler, #4457) 557 558Current position in the changelist should be local to the buffer. (#2173) 559 560Does not build with MinGW out of the box: 561- _stat64 is not defined, need to use "struct stat" in vim.h 562- WINVER conflict, should use 0x0600 by default? 563- INT_MAX not defined: need to include <limits.h> in vim.h 564 565Display messed up with matchparen, wrapping and scrolling. (#5638) 566Screen update bug related to matchparen. (Chris Heath, 2017 Mar 4, #1532) 567 568When getting a focus event halfway a mapping this aborts the mapping. E.g. 569when "qq" is mapped and after the first "q" the mouse is moved outside of the 570gvim window (with focus follows mouse), then the K_FOCUSLOST key is put in the 571input buffer. (#5302) 572 573:buffer completion does not escape "+" properly and results in a regexp error. 574(#5467) 575 576Check_external_diff() is used too often. (Daniel Hahler, #4800) 577 578Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis, 5792007 Feb 18) 580Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems. 581 582Add a WindowScrolled event. Trigger around the same time as CursorMoved. 583Can be used to update highlighting. #3127 #5181 584 585Incorrect formatting with autoindent. (Sebastian Gniazdowski, #4909) 586 587Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12) 588Updated 2016 Jun 10, #858 Update 2017 Mar 28: use <buffer>. 589Better use ":bufgrep" ? 590 591Improve fallback for menu translations, to avoid having to create lots of 592files that source the actual file. E.g. menu_da_de -> menu_da 593Include part of #3242? 594 595Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel 596Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31) 597Added tests (James McCoy, 2016 Aug 3, #958). Still needs more work. 598 599Would be nice to set tab-local values for 'diffexpr' and 'diffopt'. Use 600t:diffexpr_option t:diffopt_option? (#4782) 601 602Internal diff doesn't handle binary file like external diff does. (Mike 603Williams, 2018 Oct 30) 604 605'[ mark in wrong column after put. (#4776) 606 607Problem with :tlmenu: Detach item added with all modes? Issue #3563. 608 609Add an argument to expandcmd() to expand like ":next" does. 610 611When both "a" and "l" is in 'formatoptions' then auto-formatting also happens 612in a long line. #5189 613 614The quoting of the [command] argument of :terminal is not clearly documented. 615Give a few examples. (#4288) 616 617Opening a file with --remote-tab-silent that matches 'wildignore' does not 618work, results in "E479: No match". (#4610) 619 6207 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida 621 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char). 622 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'. 623Patch for this (Tristan Konolige, #1011, only added the option, no implem.) 624 625Bug: script written with "-W scriptout" contains Key codes, while the script 626read with "-s scriptin" expects escape codes. Probably "scriptout" needs to 627be adjusted. (Daniel Steinberg, 2019 Feb 24, #4041) 628 629Add a string to the 'display' option ("smoothscroll" ?) to make CTRL-E and 630CTRL-Y scroll one screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start 631with the first character (like what happens with a last line that doesn't 632fit). Display "<<<" at the start of the first visible line (like "@@@" is 633displayed in the last line). (Arseny Nasokin, #5154) 634 635Window size changes after closing a tab. (#4741) 636 637Problem with colors in terminal window. (Jason Franklin, 2019 May 12) 638 639Color schemes: 640NOTE: modernizing the default colorschemes _AND_ introducing new ones is now 641a project in its own right: https://github.com/vim/colorschemes. Feel free to 642reach out if you want to lend a hand. 643- Lifepillar: Updated/cleaned up color schemes: 644 https://github.com/lifepillar/vim8-colorschemes. 645- Include a few color schemes, based on popularity: 646 - http://www.vim.org/scripts/script_search_results.php?keywords=&script_type=color+scheme&order_by=rating&direction=descending&search=search 647http://vimawesome.com/?q=tag:color-scheme 648- Use names that indicate their appearance (Christian Brabandt, 2017 Aug 3) 649 - monokai - Xia Crusoe (2017 Aug 4) 650 - seoul256 - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) 651 - gruvbox - Christian Brabandt (2017 Aug 3) (simplified version from 652 Lifepillar, 2018 Jan 22, #2573) 653 - janah - Marco Hinz (2017 Aug 4) 654 - apprentice - Romain Lafourcade (2017 Aug 6) remarks about help file #1964 655- Suggested by Hiroki Kokubun: 656 - [Iceberg](https://github.com/cocopon/iceberg.vim) (my one) 657 - [hybrid](https://github.com/w0ng/vim-hybrid) 658- Include solarized color scheme?, it does not support termguicolors. 659 - Sanitized version of pablo (Lifepillar, 2017 Nov 21) 660 661Bug: "vipgw" does not put cursor back where it belongs. (Jason Franklin, 2019 662Mar 5) 663 664Some composing characters actually add a cell width to the character they are 665on top off, making the whole thing two characters wide. (#4526) 666 667Should we include some part of pull request #4505, not increment changedtick 668in some cases? E.g. for ":write" when the changed flag was already off, the 669buffer didn't change at all. 670 671Session file contains absolute paths when "curdir" is removed form 672'sessionoptions', making it impossible to have a session with a relative path. 673(#4450) 674 675Session file only contains local option values for buffers that are in a 676window, not other buffers. (#7532) 677 678Script generated by :mksession does not work well if there are windows with 679modified buffers 680 change "silent only" into "silent only!" 681 change "edit fname" of first buffer to "hide edit fname" 682 skip "badd fname" if "fname" is already in the buffer list 683 remove remark about unloading buffers from documentation 684 685When session file has name in argument list but the buffer was deleted, the 686buffer is not deleted when using the session file. (#1393) 687Should add the buffer in hidden state. 688 689When a session file is created and there are "nofile" buffers, these are not 690filled. Need to trigger BufReadCmd autocommands. Also handle deleting the 691initial empty buffer better. (ZyX, 2015 March 8) 692 693Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the 694normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29) 695 696Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand. 697(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3) 698 699Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way 700that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the 701ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1) 702Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...". 703 704'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu 705Likonen, March 19) 706 707When using a timer callback vgetc_busy is reset, allowing for using input(). 708But in a channel callback this does not happen. We need to do something 709similar to check_due_timer(). Also see #3809. 710 711C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error. 712(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1) 713 714Check: __attribute__((format(printf, on semsg() and siemsg(). Where was this 715added? 716 717Add test for urxvt mouse codes. Also test that mouse coordinates can be 718negative. (see #4326) 719 720'cmdheight' has a tab-local value, but it cannot be obtained with 721`:echo gettabwinvar(2, 1, '&cmdheight')` returns the value for the _current_ 722tab page. (Ingo Karkat, #4324) 723:call settabwinvar(1, 1, '&cmdheight', 2) also doesn't work well. 724 725This modeline throws unexpected errors: (#4165) 726 vim: syn=nosyntax 727 728Make balloon_show() work outside of 'balloonexpr'? Users expect it to work: 729#2948. (related to #1512?) 730Also see #2352, want better control over balloon, perhaps set the position. 731Should also be possible to add highlighting, like in the status line? 732balloonexpr() on MS-Windows GUI doesn't handle accented chars? (nivaemail, 7332018 Sep 14) 734Another request: #3811. 735 736More warnings from static analysis: 737https://lgtm.com/projects/g/vim/vim/alerts/?mode=list 738 739Still a E315 error when using terminal. (Masato Nishihata, #3959) 740 741Not existing directory in CDPATH leads to two shell calls. (#4525) 742 743Use dict_iterate_start() / dict_iterate_next() instead of relying on the 744internals of the dict structure. 745 746nvo-mode mapping works on Windows, not on Linux. (#3678) 747 748Missing tests for: 749- add_termcap_entry() 750 751Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older 752change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list 753them: ":repeats". Add to history, like search history and command line history. 754 755Pasting foo} causes Vim to behave weird. (John Little, 2018 Jun 17) 756Related to bracketed paste. I cannot reproduce it. 757 758When 'confirm' is set a "silent q" doesn't show the prompt. It should in this 759case. (Nate Peterson, 2019 Jan 31, #3892) 760For "silent! q" it should not prompt and just fail. 761 762Add <aevent>, which expands to the currently triggered autocommand event name. 763(Daniel Hahler, #4232) Or add it to v:event (easier to use but slightly more 764expensive). 765 766Some xterm responses are not properly handled: (Markus Gömmel, 2019 Apr 1) 767 DCS 0 $ r Pt ST should be ignored. 768 DCS 0 + r/Pt/ ST already ignored? 769 770Using CTRL-L to add a character to the search string that contains \v, 771punctuation is repeated. (Smylers, 2018 Nov 17, #3621) 772 773Using single wide base character with double wide composing character gives 774drawing errors. Fill up the base character? (Dominique, #4328) 775 776Problem with two buffers with the same name a/b, if it didn't exist before and 777is created outside of Vim. (dskloetg, 2018 Jul 16, #3219) 778 779When 'sidescrolloff' is set, using "zl" to go to the end of the line, suddenly 780scrolls back. Should allow for this scrolling, like 'scrolloff' does when 781using CTRL-E. (Yee Cheng Chin, #3721) 782 783Invalid memory access with old regexp engine. (Dominique Pelle, 2018 Sep 3, 784#3405) Introduced by 8.0.1517, which was fixing another memory access error. 785(Sep 8) 786 787Add function to make use of internal diff, working on two lists and returning 788unified diff (list of lines). 789 790When splitting a window with few text lines, the relative cursor position is 791kept, which means part of the text isn't displayed. Better show all the text 792when possible. (Dylan Lloyd, #3973) 793 794Make ":interactive !cmd" stop termcap mode, also when used in an autocommand. 795(#3692) 796 797Add buffer argument to undotree(). (#4001) 798 799matchaddpos() gets slow with many matches. Proposal by Rick Howe, 2018 Jul 80019. 801 802Add something like 'fillchars' local to window, but allow for specifying a 803highlight name. Esp. for the statusline. 804And "extends" and "precedes" are also useful without 'list' set. Also in 805'fillchars' or another option? 806 807Sourceforge Vim pages still have content, redirect from empty page. 808Check for PHP errors. (Wayne Davison, 2018 Oct 26) 809 810Problem with Visual yank when 'linebreak' and 'showbreak' are set. 811Patch with tests, but it's not clear how it is supposed to work. (tommm, 2018 812Nov 17) Asked about this, Dec 22. Christian will have a look. 813 814home_replace() uses $HOME instead of "homedir". (Cesar Martins, 2018 Aug 9) 815 816When the status line uses term_gettitle(), it does not get updated when the 817terminal title changes. (Josh Triplett, 2018 Sep 9, #3418) 818How would we know that the status line needs to be updated? 819 820Update for xim-input-style help (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 Jan 10). 821Feedback from someone who uses this? 822 823Only output t_Cs when t_Ce is also set. do not use Cs and Ce termcap entries. (Daniel Hahler, 2018 Sep 25) 824Add t_cS and t_cR for cursor color select and reset. Use Cs and Cr terminfo 825values. 826 827Further xdiff changes: 828- More options, e.g. different kind of whitespace diff. 829- when editing text, update the surrounding diff blocks. 830- omit diff.exe from distribution 831- Can we make this show differences within a line? 832- add option to use external diff above a certain size. 833 834Difference between two regexp engines: #3373 835 836Patch to add ch_listen() (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2018 Nov 26, #3639) 837What is the practical use for this? Need an example. 838 839When the last line wraps, selecting with the mouse below that line only 840includes the first screen line. (2018 Aug 23, #3368) 841 842Refactored HTML indent file. (Michael Lee, #1821) 843Asked to write a test. 844 845Merge checking for 'cursorline' and 'concealcursor', see neovim #9492. 846 847Add a windowID argument to placing a sign, so that it only shows up in one 848window for the buffer. 849 850Win32 key codes are messy. Mike Williams tried to fix that, but now old 851mappings no longer work. Create a new terminal for the better solution? 852 853Compiler warnings (geeknik, 2017 Oct 26): 854- signed integer overflow in do_sub() (#2249) 855- signed integer overflow in get_address() (#2248) 856- undefined left shift in get_string_tv() (#2250) 857 858Add Native language protocol server (LSP) support. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2018 859Oct 28) 860 861Add more testing of the GTK GUI. 862- gtk_test_widget_click() can be used to simulate a click in a widget. 863 864Tests failing for "make testgui" with GTK: 865- Test_setbufvar_options() 866- Test_exit_callback_interval() 867 868Patch to be able to use hex numbers with :digraph. (Lcd, 2015 Sep 6) 869Update Sep 7. Update by Christian Brabandt, 2015 Sep 8, 2016 Feb 1. 870Patch to be able to disable default digraphs (incomplete) (Eric Pruitt, 2018 871Nov 22). 872 873Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14) 874 875Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug 87624) 877 878Try out background make plugin: 879 https://github.com/AndrewVos/vim-make-background 880or asyncmake: 881 https://github.com/yegappan/asyncmake 882 883Add an option with file patterns, to be used when unloading a buffer: If there 884is a match, remove entries for the buffer from marks, jumplist, etc. To be 885used for git temp files. 886 887Cursor in wrong position when line wraps. (#2540) 888 889Setting 'columns' in a BufEnter autocommand causes a second tab width to 890behave strangely, as if there is a gap and a vertical window separator. 891(Michael Soyka, 2018 Sep 23, #3477) 892 893Make {skip} argument of searchpair() consistent with other places where we 894pass an expression to evaluate. Allow passing zero for "never skip". 895 896Add an option similar to 'lazyredraw' to skip redrawing while executing a 897script or function. 898 899When using a menu item while the "more" prompt is displayed doesn't work well. 900E.g. after using help->version. Have a key that ends the "more" prompt and 901does nothing otherwise? 902 903MS-Windows: write may fail if another program is reading the file. 904If 'readonly' is not set but the file appears to be readonly later, try again 905(wait a little while). 906CreateFile() returns ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION (Linwei, 2018 May 5) 907 908Using --remote to open a file in which a # appears does not work on 909MS-Windows. Perhaps in \# the \ is seen as a path separator. (Axel Bender, 9102017 Feb 9) Can we expand wildcards first and send the path literally to the 911receiving Vim? Or make an exception for #, it's not useful remotely. 912 913Should add a test for every command line argument. Check coverage for what is 914missing: --nofork, -A , -b, -h, etc. 915 916":au * * command" should not be allowed, only use * for event when listing or 917deleting autocmds, not when adding them. 918 919With 'foldmethod' "indent" and appending an empty line, what follows isn't 920included in the existing fold. Deleting the empty line and undo fixes it. 921(Oleg Koshovetc, 2018 Jul 15, #3214) 922 923Patch to support "xxd -ps". (Erik Auerswald, 2018 May 1) 924Lacks a test. 925 926Column number is wrong when using 'linebreak' and 'wrap'. (Keith Smiley, 2018 927Jan 15, #2555) 928 929":bufdo e" disabled syntax HL in windows other than the current. (BPJ) 930 931Check argument of systemlist(). (Pavlov) 932 933No maintainer for Vietnamese translations. 934No maintainer for Simplified Chinese translations. 935 936Python indenting: alternative way to indent arguments: 937http://orchistro.tistory.com/236 938Should be supported with a flag. 939 940Add the debug command line history to viminfo. 941 942Add Makefiles to the runtime/spell directory tree, since nobody uses Aap. 943Will have to explain the manual steps (downloading the .aff and .dic files, 944applying the diff, etc. 945 946Pasting a register in Visual mode cannot be repeated. (Mahmoud Al-Qudsi, 2018 947Apr 26, #2849) 948 949User dictionary ~/.vim/spell/lang.utf-8.add not used for spell checking until a 950word is re-added to it. (Matej Cepl, 2018 Feb 6) 951 952Fold at end of the buffer behaves inconsistently. (James McCoy, 2017 Oct 9) 953 954With foldmethod=syntax and nofoldenable comment highlighting isn't removed. 955(Marcin Szewczyk, 2017 Apr 26) 956 957Using 'wildignore' also applies to literally entered file name. Also with 958:drop (remote commands). 959 960Implement option_save() and option_restore(): 961option_restore({list}) *option_restore()* 962 Restore options previously saved by option_save(). 963 When buffer-local options have been saved, this function must 964 be called when the same buffer is the current buffer. 965 When window-local options have been saved, this function must 966 be called when the same window is the current window. 967 When in the wrong buffer and/or window an error is given and 968 the local options won't be restored. 969 970option_save({list}) *option_save()* 971 Saves the options named in {list}. The returned value can be 972 passed to option_restore(). Example: > 973 let s:saved_options = option_save([ 974 \ 'ignorecase', 975 \ 'iskeyword', 976 \ ]) 977 au <buffer> BufLeave * 978 \ call option_restore(s:saved_options) 979< The advantage over using `:let` is that global and local 980 values are handled and the script ID is restored, so that 981 `:verbose set` will show where the option was originally set, 982 not where it was restored. 983 Alternatively: save and restore ALL options. Implementation needs to use 984 copy-on-write. Return an ID from option_save(), when 985 option_restore(ID) is called give an error if another option_save() 986 was called in the meantime, they must be balanced. 987 988"gvim --remote" from a directory with non-word characters changes the current 989directory (Paulo Marcel Coelho Arabic, 2017 Oct 30, #2266) 990Also see #1689. 991 992When 'virtualedit' is "all" and 'cursorcolumn' is set, the wrong column may be 993highlighted. (van-de-bugger, 2018 Jan 23, #2576) 994 995No profile information for function that executes ":quit". (Daniel Hahler, 9962017 Dec 26, #2501) 997 998A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25) 999 1000Add script number to profile? (#3330 breaks tests). 1001 1002A function defined locally and lambda's are not easily recognized. 1003Mention where they were defined somewhere. 1004 1005ml_get errors with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30) 1006 1007Error in emsg with buggy script. (Dominique, 2017 Apr 30) 1008 1009Join truncates xml comment. (Dmitrii Tcyganok, 2017 Dec 24, #2494) 1010Requires 'formatoptions' to include "j". (Gary Johnson, 2017 Dec 24) 1011 1012Patch to support hunspell. (Matej Cepl, Jan 2018, #2500) Based on older patch 1013in #846) 1014Doesn't work on Windows yet. Not ready to included, hard coded paths. 1015 1016Win32 GUI: when running a fast timer, the cursor no longer blinks. 1017Was reported: cursor blinks in terminal on widows with a timer. (xtal8, #2142) 1018 1019When a timer is running and typing CTRL-R on the command line, it is not 1020redrawn properly. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 23, #2241) 1021 1022In an optional package the "after" directory is not scanned? 1023(Renato Fabbri, 2018 Feb 22) 1024 1025Patch for Neovim concerning restoring when closing help window. (glacambre 1026neovim #7431) 1027 1028Patch for improving detecting Ruby on Mac in configure. (Ilya Mikhaltsou, 2017 1029Nov 21) 1030 1031When t_Co is changed from termresponse, the OptionSet autocommand event isn't 1032triggered. Use the code from the end of set_num_option() in 1033set_color_count(). 1034 1035Add another autocommand like TermResponse that is fired for the other terminal 1036responses, such as bg and fg. Use "bg", "fg", "blink", etc. for the name. 1037 1038When using command line window, CmdlineLeave is triggered without 1039CmdlineEnter. (xtal8, 2017 Oct 30, #2263) 1040Add some way to get the nested state. Although CmdwinEnter is obviously 1041always nested. 1042 1043matchit hasn't been maintained for a long time. #955. 1044 1045Problem with 'delcombine'. (agguser, 2017 Nov 10, #2313) 1046 1047'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul 104820) 1049 1050MS-Windows: buffer completion doesn't work when using backslash (or slash) 1051for a path separator. (xtal8, #2201) 1052 1053Would be nice for Insert mode completion to highlight the text that was added 1054(and may change when picking another completion). 1055 1056Test more runtime files. 1057 1058Window not closed when deleting buffer. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Aug 27, #2029) 1059 1060Add options_default() / options_restore() to set several options to Vim 1061defaults for a plugin. Comments from Zyx, 2017 May 10. 1062Perhaps use a vimcontext / endvimcontext command block. 1063 1064After using :noautocmd CursorMoved may still trigger. (Andy Stewart, 2017 Sep 106513, #2084). Set old position after the command. 1066 1067When bracketed paste is used, pasting at the ":append" prompt does not get the 1068line breaks. (Ken Takata, 2017 Aug 22) 1069 1070The ":move" command does not honor closed folds. (Ryan Lue, #2351) 1071 1072Cannot copy modeless selection when cursor is inside it. (lkintact, #2300) 1073 1074Test_writefile_fails_conversion failure on Solaris because if different iconv 1075behavior. Skip when "uname" returns "SunOS"? (Pavel Heimlich, #1872) 1076 1077'tagrelative' is broken in specific situation. (xaizek, 2017 Oct 19, #2221) 1078 1079The ++ options for the :edit command are also useful on the Vim command line. 1080 1081When recovering a file, put the swap file name in b:recovered_swapfile. Then 1082a command can delete it. 1083 1084Overlong utf-8 sequence is displayed wrong. (Harm te Hennepe, 2017 Sep 14, 1085#2089) Patch with possible solution by Björn Linse. 1086 1087The change list index is local to a buffer, but it doesn't make sense using it 1088for another buffer. (lacygoill) Copy w_changelistidx to wininfo_S and back. 1089 1090X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and 1091pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23) 1092clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length. 1093Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection. 1094Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before 1095clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code. 1096Kazunobu Kuriyama is working on a proper fix. (2017 Jul 25) 1097 1098Problem with three-piece comment. (Michael Lee, 2017 May 11, #1696) 1099 1100Creating a partial with an autoload function is confused about the "self" 1101attribute of the function. For an unknown function assume "self" and make 1102that optional? (Bjorn Linse, 2017 Aug 5) 1103 1104Cindent: returning a structure has more indent for the second item. 1105(Sam Pagenkopf, 2017 Sep 14, #2090) 1106 1107Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a 1108buffer. (2013 Dec 9) 1109Also fixes #2166? 1110 1111Profile of a dict function is lost when the dict is deleted. Would it be 1112possible to collect this? (Daniel Hahler, #2350) 1113 1114When checking if a bufref is valid, also check the buffer number, to catch the 1115case of :bwipe followed by :new. 1116 1117Patch to skip writing a temp file for diffing if the buffer is equal to the 1118existing file. (Akria Sheng, 2017 Jul 22) 1119Could also skip writing lines that are the same. 1120 1121MS-Windows: Opening same file in a second gvim hangs. (Sven Bruggemann, 2017 1122Jul 4) 1123 1124Setting 'clipboard' to "unnamed" makes a global command very slow (Daniel 1125Drucker, 2017 May 8). 1126This was supposed to be fixed, did it break again somehow? 1127Christian cannot reproduce it. 1128 1129Using composing char in mapping does not work properly. maparg() shows the 1130wrong thing. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Jul 8, #1827) 1131Or is this not an actual problem? 1132 1133Better TeX indent file. (Christian Brabandt, 2017 May 3) 1134 1135Use gvimext.dll from the nightly build? (Issue #249) 1136 1137'synmaxcol' works with bytes instead of screen cells. (Llandon, 2017 May 31, 1138#1736) 1139 1140Problem with using :cd when remotely editing a file. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2017 May 11418, #1690) 1142 1143Using "wviminfo /tmp/viminfo" does not store file marks that Vim knows about, 1144it only works when merging with an existing file. (Shougo, 2017 Jun 19, #1781) 1145 1146Memory leak in test97? The string is actually freed. Weird. 1147 1148assert_fails() can only check for the first error. Make it possible to have 1149it catch multiple errors and check all of them. 1150 1151Add a toolbar in the terminal. Can be global, above all windows, or specific 1152for one window. 1153 1154Make maparg() also return the raw rhs, so that it doesn't depend on 'cpo'. 1155(Brett Stahlman, 2017 May 23) 1156Even better: add a way to disable a mapping temporarily and re-enable it 1157later. This is for a sub-mode that is active for a short while (one buffer). 1158Still need maplist() to find the mappings. What can we use to identify a 1159mapping? Something unique would be better than the LHS. 1160Perhaps simpler: actually delete the mappings. Use maplist() to list matching 1161mappings (with a lhs prefix, like maparg()), mapdelete() to delete, 1162maprestore() to restore (using the output of maplist()). 1163 1164Add an argument to :mkvimrc (or add another command) to skip mappings from 1165plugins (source is a Vim script). No need to put these in a .vimrc, they will 1166be defined when the plugin is loaded. 1167 1168Use tb_set(winid, [{'text': 'stop', 'cb': callback, 'hi': 'Green'}]) 1169 tb_highlight(winid, 'ToolBar') 1170 tb_get(winid) 1171 1172json_encode(): should convert to utf-8. (Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Jan 23) 1173What if there is an invalid character? 1174 1175Json string with trailing \u should be an error. (Lcd) 1176 1177import can't be used in define option when include matches too. 1178(Romain Lafourcade, 2017 Jun 18, #1519) 1179 1180Wrong diff highlighting with three files. (2016 Oct 20, #1186) 1181Also get E749 on exit. 1182Another example in #1309 1183 1184Suggestion to improve pt-br spell checking. (Marcelo D Montu, 2016 Dec 15, 1185#1330) 1186 1187Error in test_startup_utf8 on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2016 Aug 17) 1188 1189GTK: When adding a timer from 'balloonexpr' it won't fire, because 1190g_main_context_iteration() doesn't return. Need to trigger an event when the 1191timer expires. 1192 1193Rule to use "^" for statusline does not work if a space is defined with 1194highlighting for both stl and stlnc. Patch by Ken Hamada (itchyny, 2016 Dec 11) 1195 1196Using CTRL-G_U in InsertCharPre causes trouble for redo. (Israel Chauca 1197Fuentes, 2017 Feb 12, #1470) 1198 1199Add a "keytrans()" function, which turns the internal byte representation of a 1200key into a form that can be used for :map. E.g. 1201 let xx = "\<C-Home>" 1202 echo keytrans(xx) 1203 <C-Home> 1204 1205Check for errors E704 and E705 only does VAR_FUNC, should also do VAR_PARTIAL. 1206(Nikolai Pavlov, 2017 Mar 13, #1557) 1207Make a function to check for function-like type? 1208 1209Implement named arguments for functions with optional arguments: 1210 func Foo(start, count = 1, all = 1) 1211 call Foo(12, all = 0) 1212 1213Add a command to take a range of lines, filter them and put the output 1214somewhere else. :{range}copy {dest} !cmd 1215 1216The TermResponse event is not triggered when a plugin has set 'eventignore' to 1217"all". Netrw does this. (Gary Johnson, 2017 Jan 24) 1218Postpone the event until 'eventignore' is reset. 1219 1220Expanding /**/ is slow. Idea by Luc Hermitte, 2017 Apr 14. 1221 1222Once .exe with updated installer is available: Add remark to download page 1223about /S and /D options (Ken Takata, 2016 Apr 13) 1224Or point to nightly builds: https://github.com/vim/vim-win32-installer/releases 1225 1226":sbr" docs state it respects 'switchbuf', but "vsplit" does not cause a 1227vertical split. (Haldean Brown, 2017 Mar 1) 1228 1229Use ADDR_OTHER instead of ADDR_LINES for many more commands. 1230E.g. all the location list commands use a count. 1231Add tests for using number larger than number of lines in buffer. 1232 1233Might be useful to have isreadonly(), like we have islocked(). 1234Avoids exceptions, e.g. when using the b: namespace as a dict. 1235 1236Patch to make v:shell_error writable. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Sep 27) 1237Useful to restore it. Is there another solution? 1238 1239"ci[" does not look for next [ like ci" does look for next ". 1240(J.F. 2017 Jan 7) 1241 1242Patch for wrong cursor position on wrapped line, involving breakindent. 1243(Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 25) 1244 1245Patch for 'cursorlinenr' option. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2016 Nov 30) 1246 1247Window resizing with 'winfixheight': With a vertical split the height changes 1248anyway. (Tommy allen, 2017 Feb 21, #1502) 1249 1250Invalid behavior with NULL list. (Nikolai Pavlov, #768) 1251E.g. deepcopy(test_null_list()) 1252 1253Patch to make it possible to extend a list with itself. 1254(Nikolai Pavlov, 2016 Sep 23) 1255 1256Patch to add Zstandard compressed file support. (Nick Terrell, 2016 Oct 24) 1257 1258On Windows buffer completion sees backslash as escape char instead of path 1259separator. (Toffanim, 2016 Nov 24, #1274) 1260 1261Should :vmap in matchit.vim be :xmap? (Tony Mechelynck) 1262 1263Problem with whitespace in errorformat. (Gerd Wachsmuth, 2016 May 15, #807) 1264 1265Undo problem: "g-" doesn't go back, gets stuck. (Björn Linse, 2016 Jul 18) 1266 1267Add "unicode true" to NSIS installer. Doesn't work with Windows 95, which we 1268no longer support. 1269 1270Support sort(l, 'F'), convert strings to float. (#7857) 1271 1272sort() is not stable when using numeric/float sort (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Sep 12734#1038) 1274 1275sort() does not use 'smartcase' for the skip pattern, even though 'ignorecase' 1276is used. (Filipe Brandenburger, #7322) 1277 1278+channel: 1279- Add a in_cb, invoked when the write buffer has become empty. (Matteo Landi) 1280- Add ch_readlines(): for a channel in NL mode, reads as many lines as are 1281 available. Should be more efficient than looping over ch_read() with 1282 ch_status() to check for more. 1283- If buffer contents is changed in a callback, set w_redr_status so that it 1284 gets redrawn in redraw_after_callback(). #6120 1285- Add a separate timeout for opening a socket. Currently it's fixed at 50 1286 msec, which is too small for a remote connection. (tverniquet, #2130) 1287- Writing raw mode to a buffer should still handle NL characters as line 1288 breaks. (Dmitry Zotikov, 2017 Aug 16) 1289- When out_cb executes :sleep, the close_cb may be invoked. (Daniel Hahler, 1290 2016 Dec 11, #1320) 1291- Implement |job-term| ? 1292- Calling a function when receiving a "call" on a channel, using feedkeys() 1293 does not work. It does work from a timer. (Qiming Zhao, #3852) 1294- Channel test fails with Motif. Sometimes kills the X11 server. 1295- When a message in the queue but there is no callback, drop it after a while? 1296 Add timestamp to queued messages and callbacks with ID, remove after a 1297 minute. Option to set the droptime. 1298- Add an option to drop text of very long lines? Default to 1 Mbyte. 1299- Add remark about undo sync, is there a way to force it? 1300- When starting a job, have an option to open the server socket, so we know 1301 the port, and pass it to the command with --socket-fd {nr}. (Olaf Dabrunz, 1302 Feb 9) How to do this on MS-Windows? 1303- For connection to server, a "keep open" flag would be useful. Retry 1304 connecting in the main loop with zero timeout. 1305- job_start(): run job in a newly opened terminal (not a terminal window). 1306 With xterm could use -S{pty}. 1307 Although user could use "xterm -e 'cmd arg'". 1308 1309Regexp problems: 1310- NFA engine can be slow for some patterns. Dominique found out that most 1311 time is spent in addstate_here() copying the threads. Instead of copying, 1312 let each thread point to the next one (by offset, the list is reallocated). 1313 (Dominique Pelle, 2019 Feb 18) 1314- Old engine: using 'incsearch' /\Zabc does not highlight the "c" if it has a 1315 composing character. New engine is OK. (Tony Mechelynck, 2019 May 5) 1316- When search pattern has the base character both with and without combining 1317 character, search fails. E.g. "รรีบ" in "การรีบรักใคร". (agguser, #2312) 1318- [:space:] only matches ASCII spaces. Add [:white:] for all space-like 1319 characters, esp. including 0xa0. Use character class zero. 1320- Since 7.4.704 the old regex engine fails to match [[:print:]] in 0xf6. 1321 (Manuel Ortega, 2016 Apr 24) 1322 Test fails on Mac. Avoid using isalpha(), isalnum(), etc? Depends on 1323 LC_CTYPE 1324- The old engine does not find a match for "/\%#=1\(\)\{80}", the new engine 1325 matches everywhere. 1326- Using win_linetabsize() can still be slow. Cache the result, store col and 1327 vcol. Reset them when moving to another line. 1328- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4) 1329- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$' 1330 (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3) 1331- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search. 1332- Ignorecase not handled properly for multibyte characters. (Axel Bender, 1333 2013 Dec 11) 1334- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin 1335 Szamotulski; Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7. 1336- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12) 1337- Does not work with NFA regexp engine: 1338 \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character 1339- Search for \%d0\+ may fail with E363. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Oct 4) 1340- \%'[ does not work. '%'] does work. (Masaaki Nakamura, 2016 Apr 4) 1341- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24) 1342- New RE does not give an error for empty group: "\(\)\{2}" (Dominique Pelle, 1343 2015 Feb 7) 1344- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old 1345 engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with 1346 "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags. 1347 This problem is probably the same: "\%(^\1.*$\n\)\@<=\(\d\+\).*$". 1348 (guotuofeng, 2015 Jun 22) 1349- Strange matching with "\(Hello\n\)\@<=A". (Anas Syed, 2015 Feb 12) 1350- Problem with \v(A)@<=b+\1c. (Issue 334) 1351- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309) 1352- Using %> for a virtual column has a check based on 'tabsize'. Better would 1353 be to cache the result of win_linetabsize(col), storing both col and vcol, 1354 and use them to decide whether win_linetabsize() needs to be called. Reset 1355 col and vcol when moving to another line. 1356- this doesn't work: "syntax match ErrorMsg /.\%9l\%>20c\&\%<28c/". Leaving 1357 out the \& works. Seems any column check after \& fails. 1358- Difference between two engines: ".*\zs\/\@>\/" on text "///" 1359 (Chris Paul, 2016 Nov 13) New engine not greedy enough? 1360 Another one: echom matchstr(" sdfsfsf\n sfdsdfsdf",'[^\n]*') 1361 (2017 May 15, #1252) 1362 1363Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct 13643. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira. 1365Also see #1635. 1366 1367Idea from Sven: record sequence of keys. Useful to show others what they are 1368doing (look over the shoulder), and also to see what happened. 1369Probably list of keystrokes, with some annotations for mode changes. 1370Could store in logfile to be able to analyse it with an external command. 1371E.g. to see when's the last time a plugin command was used. 1372 1373cmap using execute() has side effects. (Killthemule, 2016 Aug 17, #983) 1374 1375:map X may print invalid data. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2017 Jul 3, #1816) 1376 1377Patch to order results from taglist(). (Duncan McDougall, 2016 Oct 25) 1378 1379When using ":diffput" through a mapping, undo in the target buffer isn't 1380synced. (Ryan Carney, 2016 Sep 14) 1381 1382Syntax highlighting for messages with RFC3339 timestamp (#946) 1383Did maintainer reply? 1384 1385ml_get errors when reloading file. (Chris Desjardins, 2016 Apr 19) 1386Also with latest version. 1387 1388Completion for input() does not expand environment variables. (chdiza, 2016 1389Jul 25, #948) 1390 1391Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file 1392names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14) 1393Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to 1394the system encoding (usually utf-8). 1395 1396MS-Windows: use WS_HIDE instead of SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE in os_win32.c? 1397Otherwise task flickers in taskbar. 1398 1399Second problem in #966: ins_compl_add_tv() uses get_dict_string() multiple 1400times, overwrites the one buffer. (Nikolay Pavlov, 2016 Aug 5) 1401 1402Patch to improve map documentation. Issue #799. 1403 1404We can use '. to go to the last change in the current buffer, but how about 1405the last change in any buffer? Can we use ', (, is next to .)? 1406 1407Ramel Eshed: system() is much slower than job_start(), why? (Aug 26) 1408 1409When generating the Unicode tables with runtime/tools/unicode.vim the 1410emoji_width table has only one entry. 1411 1412It's possible to add ",," to 'wildignore', an empty entry. Causes problems. 1413Reject the value? #710. 1414 1415When doing "vi buf.md" a BufNew autocommand for *.md is not triggered. 1416Because of using the initial buffer? (Dun Peal, 2016 May 12) 1417 1418Neovim patch for utfc_ptr2char_len() https://github.com/neovim/neovim/pull/4574 1419No test, needs some work to include. 1420 1421Patch to improve indenting for C++ constructor with initializer list. 1422(Hirohito Higashi, 2016 Mar 31) 1423 1424Zero-out krypt key information when no longer in use. (Ben Fritz, 2017 May 15) 1425 1426Add stronger encryption. Could use libsodium (NaCl). 1427https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium/ 1428Possibly include the needed code so that it can be built everywhere. 1429 1430Add a way to restart a timer. It's similar to timer_stop() and timer_start(), 1431but the reference remains valid. 1432 1433Need to try out instructions in INSTALLpc.txt about how to install all 1434interfaces and how to build Vim with them. 1435Appveyor build with self-installing executable, includes getting most 1436interfaces: https://github.com/k-takata/vim/tree/chrisbra-appveyor-build 1437result: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/k-takata/vim/history 1438 1439Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15) 1440 1441Patch to make tests pass with EBCDIC. (Owen Leibman, 2016 Apr 10) 1442 1443Add ":read :command", to insert the output of an Ex command? 1444Can already do it with ":$put =execute('command')". 1445 1446exists(":tearoff") does not tell you if the command is implemented. (Tony 1447Mechelynck) Perhaps use exists("::tearoff") to check? 1448 1449Use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, but without ":" in 1450'iskeyword' for syntax. 1451 1452Installation of .desktop files does not work everywhere. 1453It's now fixed, but the target directory probably isn't right. 1454Add configure check? 1455Should use /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications. 1456Or use $XDG_DATA_DIRS. 1457Also need to run update-desktop-database (Kuriyama Kazunobu, 2015 Nov 4) 1458 1459Test object i{ and it do not behave the same. #1379 1460Do not include the linebreak at the start? 1461 1462Feature request: add the "al" text object, to manipulate a screen line. 1463Especially useful when using 'linebreak' 1464 1465":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the 1466directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29) 1467 1468Patch to avoid redrawing tabline when the popup menu is visible. 1469(Christian Brabandt, 2016 Jan 28) 1470 1471When the CursorMovedI event triggers, and CTRL-X was typed, a script cannot 1472restore the mode properly. (Andrew Stewart, 2016 Apr 20) 1473Do not trigger the event? 1474 1475Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013) 1476Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25: 1477https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477 1478 1479Patch to make the behavior of "w" more straightforward, but not Vi compatible. 1480With a 'cpo' flag. (Christian Brabandt, 2016 Feb 8) 1481 1482Patch to add optionproperties(). (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Mar 27, update Apr 13) 1483 1484Patch to add TagNotFound autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 3) 1485 1486Patch to add Error autocommand. (Anton Lindqvist, 2016 Feb 17) 1487Only remembers one error. 1488 1489GVim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab. 1490 1491Unexpected delay when using CTRL-O u. It's not timeoutlen. 1492(Gary Johnson, 2015 Aug 28) 1493 1494Instead of separately uploading patches to the ftp site, we can get them from 1495github with a URL like this: 1496 https://github.com/vim/vim/compare/v7.4.920%5E...v7.4.920.diff 1497Diff for version.c contains more context, can't skip a patch. 1498 1499Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack) 1500 1501Comparing nested structures with "==" uses a different comparator than when 1502comparing individual items. 1503 1504Using uninitialized memory. (Dominique Pelle, 2015 Nov 4) 1505 1506MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the 1507wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4. 1508 1509Can't recognize the $ProgramFiles(x86) environment variable. Recognize it 1510specifically? First try with the parens, then without. 1511 1512Patch to add :mapgroup, put mappings in a group like augroup. 1513(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2016 Feb 19) 1514 1515Can we cache the syntax attributes, so that updates for 'relativenumber' and 1516'cursorline'/'cursorcolumn' are a lot faster? Thus store the attributes 1517before combining them. 1518 1519C highlighting: modern C allows: /* comment */ #ifdef 1520and also line continuation after #include. 1521I can't recommend it though. 1522 1523Build with Python on Mac does not always use the right library. 1524(Kazunobu Kuriyama, 2015 Mar 28) 1525 1526To support Thai (and other languages) word boundaries, include the ICU 1527library: http://userguide.icu-project.org/boundaryanalysis 1528 1529Patch to use two highlight groups for relative numbers. (Shaun Brady, 2016 Jan 153030) 1531 1532MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\". 1533(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29) 1534 1535The OptionSet autocommand event is not always triggered. (Rick Howe, 2015 Sep 153624): :diffthis, :diffoff. 1537 1538":set all&" still does not handle all side effects. Centralize handling side 1539effects for when set by the user, on init and when reset to default. 1540 1541":tag" does not jump to the right entry of a :tselect. (James Speros, 2015 Oct 15429) 1543 1544The argument for "-S" is not taken literally, the ":so" command expands 1545wildcards. Add a ":nowild" command modifier? (ZyX, 2015 March 4) 1546 1547Proposal to make options.txt easier to read. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Aug 5) 1548Update Aug 14. 1549 1550When using --remote-tab on MS-Windows 'encoding' hasn't been initialized yet, 1551the file name ends up encoded wrong. (Raul Coronado, 2015 Dec 21) 1552 1553Example in editing.txt uses $HOME with the expectation that it ends in a 1554slash. For me it does, but perhaps not for everybody. Add a function that 1555inserts a slash when needed? pathconcat(dir, path) (Thilo Six, 2015 Aug 12) 1556 1557ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little, 15582014 Sep 11) 1559 1560Patch to fix checking global option value when not using it. 1561(Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 23) 1562 1563When 'showbreak' is set repeating a Visual operation counts the size of the 1564'showbreak' text as part of the operation. (Axel Bender, 2015 Jul 20) 1565 1566Patch to add grepfile(). (Scott Prager, 2015 May 26) 1567Work in progress. 1568 1569Would be useful to have a treemap() or deepmap() function. Like map() but 1570when an item is a list or dict would recurse into it. 1571 1572Patch for global-local options consistency. (Arnaud Decara, 2015 Jul 22) 1573Is this right? 1574 1575Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems. 1576(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8) 1577Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed? 1578 1579Patch to use different terminal mode settings for system(). (Hayaki Saito) 1580Does this work for everybody? 1581 1582Patch for man.vim. (SungHyun Nam, 2015 May 20) 1583Doesn't work completely (Dominique Orban) 1584 1585Patch to add a "literal" argument to bufnr(). (Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 Aug 4) 1586 1587Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306. 1588 1589Patch to add :lockjumps. (Carlo Baldassi, 2015 May 25) 1590OK to not block marks? 1591 1592Patch on Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep. 1593 1594When two SIGWINCH arrive very quickly, the second one may be lost. 1595(Josh Triplett, 2015 Sep 17) 1596 1597Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24) 1598 1599Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break. 1600(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27) 1601 1602When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats 1603any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19) 1604 1605Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21) 1606 1607Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19) 1608 1609Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting. 1610(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2) 1611 1612Patch to add digits argument to round(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Apr 26) 1613 1614Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined. 1615Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name 1616was already defined. 1617(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3) 1618 1619Patch for ordered dict. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2015 May 7) 1620 1621Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12) 1622Remark from Roland Eggner: does it cause crashes? (2014 Dec 12) 1623Updated patch by Roland Eggner, Dec 16 1624Updated patch from Charles, 2016 Jul 2 1625 1626Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler. 1627(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15) 1628 1629Patch: On MS-Windows shellescape() may have to triple double quotes. 1630(Ingo Karkat, 2015 Jan 16) 1631 1632Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22) 1633 1634When entering and leaving the preview window autocommands are triggered, but 1635these may not work well. Perhaps set a flag to indicate that the preview 1636window is involved? (John Otter, 2015 Oct 27) 1637 1638Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably 1639should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in 1640history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2) 1641Patch from Jacob, Nov 2. 1642 1643"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014 1644Jun 8) 1645 1646Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not 1647insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7) 1648 1649No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20) 1650 1651Patch to make extend() fail early when it might fail at some point. 1652(Olaf Dabrunz, 2015 May 2) Makes extend() slower, do we still want it? 1653Perhaps only the checks that can be done without looping over the dict or 1654arguments. 1655 1656Problem with transparent and matchgroup. Issue #475 1657 1658Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use 1659right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing 1660its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time. 1661 1662Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21) 1663 1664This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21) 1665 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1' 1666This neither: (ZyX) 1667 vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1' 1668 1669'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory. 1670Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read 1671from? 1672 1673Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman, 16742014 Jun 8) 1675 1676Include a plugin manager with Vim? vim-plug seems to be the best currently: 1677https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug. 1678Also Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle 1679Or minpac: https://github.com/k-takata/minpac, since it leverages the builtin 1680package feature. 1681Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies. 1682Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html 1683User view: 1684- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Or a central place that 1685 will work for everybody (github? redirects from vim.org?). 1686 Be able to look into the files before deciding to install. 1687- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces. 1688- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies 1689 (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc. 1690 Updater uses that to decide what/how to update. 1691 Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts 1692 on vim.org. 1693- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks 1694 there. Can manually update when really needed. 1695- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide? 1696- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin. 1697- Run the update manually, find latest version and install. 1698- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users. 1699Implementation: 1700- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each 1701 plugin separate. 1702- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This 1703 may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show 1704 the user what's going to change and ask for OK. 1705- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format 1706 sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest? 1707- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on 1708 tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before 1709 installing. 1710Out of scope: 1711- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world. 1712- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be 1713 useful). 1714 1715When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the 1716menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu? 1717 1718Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors. 1719(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30) 1720 1721":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for 1722various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30) 1723 1724Patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression. 1725(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25) 1726 1727VMS: Select() doesn't work properly, typing ESC may hang Vim. Use sys$qiow 1728instead. (Samuel Ferencik, 2013 Sep 28) 1729 1730Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4) 1731Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what? 1732Also see #2034. 1733 1734Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14) 1735 1736Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the 1737highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it? 1738 1739The undo file name can get too long. (Issue 346) 1740For the path use a hash instead of dir%dir%dir%name hash%name. 1741 1742Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as 1743possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22) 1744 1745Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16) 1746 1747Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12) 1748 17497 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow 1750 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to 1751 "lucida_console:h8"). 1752Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24 1753 1754:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work. 1755 1756Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10) 1757 1758Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6. 1759 1760When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work. 1761(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14) 1762 1763Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 1764Dec 13. Only helps a bit, 10000ii<Esc> is still too slow. 1765 1766GTK: problem with 'L' in 'guioptions' changing the window width. 1767(Aaron Cornelius, 2012 Feb 6) 1768 1769Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered 1770registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18) 1771 1772Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3. 1773 1774The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer. 1775(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22) 1776Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22. 1777 1778Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5) 1779Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables 1780reliably? 1781 1782Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}. 1783(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9) 1784 1785Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch. 1786(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19) 1787Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught. 1788(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26) 1789try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15) 1790try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25) 1791 1792Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt, 17932013 Mar 19, later message) 1794 1795Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15) 1796 1797Patch to invert characters differently in GTK. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2013 May 17985) 1799 1800Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are 1801carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19) 1802 1803Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets 1804highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4) 1805 1806Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18) 1807 1808Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep 180928) With tests: Oct 9. 1810 1811Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2) 1812 1813Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec) 1814 1815- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine 1816 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz) 1817Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished. 1818 1819Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work. 1820 1821In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the 1822process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after 1823a reboot. 1824 1825patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6) 1826Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate 1827Soares, 2012 Dec 3) 1828 1829Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is 1830not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27) 1831 1832Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4. 1833Or use expand('<sid>')? 1834 1835Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9) 1836 1837Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17) 1838 1839b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan 18407) 1841 1842Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at 1843compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically? 1844 1845Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from 1846Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with 1847vim.bindeval(). 1848 1849Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers, 18502012 Aug 4) 1851 1852Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns. 1853(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17) 1854 1855Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24) 1856But use Gnome instead of GTK? 1857 1858Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer. 1859Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin 1860Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8) 1861 1862Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after 1863loading all files. 1864 1865'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23) 1866 1867Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out 1868of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28) 1869 1870The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O. 1871Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18) 1872But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O. 1873 1874When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which 1875is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty". 1876 1877URXVT: 1878- will get stuck if byte sequence does not contain the expected semicolon. 1879- Use urxvt mouse support also in xterm. Explanations: 1880 http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2662 1881 1882Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer. 1883(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25) 1884Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column. 1885 1886Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns) 1887New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18. 1888 1889When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait 1890for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3) 1891Do give the prompt? Quit with an error? 1892 1893Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18) 1894 1895Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6) 1896 1897Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013 1898Apr 18) 1899 1900Patch for has('unnamedplus') docs. (Tony Mechelynck, 2011 Sep 27) 1901And one for gui_x11.txt. 1902 1903":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**". 1904finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10) 1905Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code. 1906 1907Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593. 1908 1909Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22) 1910 1911Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions, 1912they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11) 1913 1914Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8) 1915 1916Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011 1917Nov 20) 1918 1919Patch to improve GUI find/replace dialog. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 May 26) 1920Update Jun 2. 1921 1922`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character. 1923(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9) 1924 1925Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29) 1926 1927BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech 1928Lorens, 2012 Feb 21) 1929 1930Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17) 1931Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this? 1932 1933Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27) 1934 1935On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz, 19362012 Jun 19) 1937 1938'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and 1939'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser) 1940Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution. 1941Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13) 1942 1943With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position. 1944(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly, 1945need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called. 1946 1947Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2, 1948only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug 194921, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14) 1950 1951Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17) 1952New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks. 1953 1954Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 1955Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others. 1956 1957Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012 1958Jan 19) 1959 1960Need to escape $HOME on Windows for fnameescape()? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21, 1961discussion 2013 Jul 4) Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different 1962meaning already. Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used. 1963 1964"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011 1965Oct 26) 1966 1967Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20) 1968 1969With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty 1970register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it. 1971 1972Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26) 1973 1974When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message. 1975(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17) 1976 1977When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line, 1978then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader 1979from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27) 1980 1981Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a 1982":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 198315) 1984 1985Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3) 1986 1987BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not 1988cleared. See test64. 1989 1990On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a 199164 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the 1992right type. 1993 1994string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code? 1995(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23) 1996 1997When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else 1998(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo. 1999When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a 2000following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo. 2001(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27) 2002 2003When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim 2004doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18) 2005 2006Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19) 2007 2008When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that 2009indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in 2010the help file. 2011 2012After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18) 2013Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24) 2014 2015Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24) 2016 2017"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multibyte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22) 2018 2019Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30) 2020 2021Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27) 2022 2023Using "syn sync breaklines=2" works for when text is changed, but not when 2024scrolling or redrawing. Should start search for syntax patterns above the 2025first drawn line. (#8103) 2026 2027Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt, 20282010 Dec 18) 2029 2030With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line 2031number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5) 2032Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems. 2033 2034Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29) 2035Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use. 2036 20378 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error". 2038Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9. 2039 2040Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar 2041one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if 2042the match scrolls into view. 2043 20447 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----". 2045Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27. 2046Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30) 2047 20489 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to 2049 avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33. 2050Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27. 2051 2052Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22) 2053Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g 2054 2055In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change 2056or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the 2057sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings". 2058 2059GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters 2060doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8) 2061 2062GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25) 2063 2064Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus 2065Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095? 2066 2067Wish for NetBeans commands: 2068 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors. 2069 2070Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18) 2071 20727.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when 2073there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex 2074do? 2075 2076Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov 207722) 2078 2079New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30) 2080- move compflags to separate growarray? 2081- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be 2082 the maximum repeat for * and +? 2083 2084"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle, 20852011 Feb 27) 2086 2087Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the 2088^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer? 2089 2090When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't 2091exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan 20929) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c. 2093 2094g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on 2095the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25) 2096 2097Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim 2098crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17) 2099 2100Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line 2101number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15) 2102 2103Regexp engine performance: 2104- Profiling: 2105 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim 2106 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim 2107 ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim 2108 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim 2109 ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim 2110 Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7) 2111- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo. 2112- Performance tests: 2113 - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6) 2114 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune) 2115 - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML) 2116 - glts has five tests. (May 25) 2117 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch 2118 - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim 2119 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use 2120 'hlsearch'. 2121 - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to 2122 reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch 2123 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with 2124 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why. 2125 2126Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM. 2127Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2) 2128 2129'beval' option should be global-local. 2130 2131Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero. 2132 2133setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11) 2134 2135With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott, 21362010 Oct 24) 2137 2138Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples. 2139 2140When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 2141Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255". 2142 2143":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3) 2144 2145'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15) 2146 2147C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not 2148checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit(). 2149Issue 46. 2150 2151Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16) 2152 2153Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the 2154gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13) 2155 2156":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by 2157accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15) 2158 2159Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(), 2160setwinvar(). 2161 2162Patch for gVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7) 2163 2164When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines 2165instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10) 2166 2167Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn 2168Winckler, 2011 May 11) 2169Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode. 2170 2171Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read 2172back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13) 2173 2174Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11) 2175Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10) 2176 2177CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when 2178the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ| 2179FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Philippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2) 2180 2181Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29) 2182Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner) 2183 2184Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010 2185Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433? 2186 2187Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20) 2188 2189Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with 2190non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7) 2191 2192iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009 2193Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail 2194or replace with a character and continue? 2195 2196Add local time at start of --startuptime output. 2197Requires configure check for localtime(). 2198Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec. 2199 2200Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4) 2201 2202Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3) 2203Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in 2204path. 2205 2206Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9) 2207Dominique can't reproduce it. 2208 2209'ambiwidth' should be global-local. 2210 2211":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed 2212like it has ":keepjumps" before it. 2213 2214Coverity: Check if there are new reported defects: 2215https://scan.coverity.com/projects/241 2216 2217Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt, 22182010 Nov 5) 2219 2220Patch to use 'foldnestmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011 2221Jan 7) 2222 2223Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8) 2224 2225With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first 2226entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011 2227Feb 12) 2228 2229Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width 2230characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq) 2231 2232Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26) 2233 2234Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping: 2235 /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28) 2236 2237Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15) 2238 2239When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded. 2240Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9) 2241 2242For running gvim on a USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command 2243line argument -noregister. 2244 2245When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes 2246missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1) 2247 2248When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one 2249doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended? 2250 2251Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo". 2252(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15. 2253Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ? 2254There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view. 2255Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work? 2256 2257":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax 2258highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier 2259to avoid changing 'eventignore'? 2260 2261Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6) 2262Probably needs a bit of work. 2263 2264List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18) 2265Are they all OK? Update Jul 22. 2266 2267Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18) 2268 2269Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15) 2270 2271Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5) 2272 2273Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor 2274on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7) 2275 2276Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong, 22772009 Jul 18) 2278 2279Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in 2280window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12) 2281Needs more work. 2282 2283Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8) 2284 2285When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a 2286few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28) 2287 2288'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value. 2289(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15) 2290 2291Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark 2292J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31) 2293 2294When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done 2295for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10) 2296 2297Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9) 2298 2299":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window, 2300because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in 2301ex_docmd.c. 2302 2303Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)" 2304Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs. 2305 2306string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used 2307for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv. 2308 2309Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed. 2310 2311Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron, 23122009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14. 2313 2314Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview(). 2315 2316When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then 2317indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one. 2318(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17) 2319 2320Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands 2321are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11) 2322Ignore window options when not in the right window? 2323Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer 2324that doesn't have a window. 2325 2326When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo 2327doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6) 2328 2329getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not 2330displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer. 2331 2332":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u". 2333 2334There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what 2335was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted 2336perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo. 2337 2338Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4) 2339 2340Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr 2341command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13) 2342 2343Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which 2344does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22) 2345 2346opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change 2347height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not 2348very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22) 2349 2350Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab. 2351(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24) 2352 2353Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing 2354char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4) 2355 2356Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R. 2357Haskell, 2010 Aug 24) 2358 2359This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch). 2360 2361Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish 2362messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages 2363es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle, 23642009 Jan 26) 2365 2366When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used 2367in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5) 2368Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped. 2369 2370Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from 2371a modeline. 2372 2373Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by 2374Sergey Khorev) 2375 2376Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text 2377part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient. 23786 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the 2379 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What 2380 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.? 2381Also do this for the small delete register "-. 2382 2383After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not 2384correct. Don't use it in the swap file. 2385 2386Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off. 2387(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29) 2388 2389shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when 2390'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz) 2391Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a 2392unix-like shell? 2393 2394Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a 2395register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break. 2396(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16) 2397 2398Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23) 2399Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/ 2400 2401Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we 2402make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24) 2403 2404When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can 2405still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names? 2406 2407"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text. 2408(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2) 2409 2410MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew" 2411doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer 2412probably causes this. 2413 2414'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura, 24152009 Jan 16) 2416 2417Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources: 2418 XtDefaultFont: "9x15" 2419 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15" 2420(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12) 2421 2422Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for 2423":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the 2424option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument 2425is executed. 2426 2427":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the 2428first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this. 2429Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22) 2430 2431Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3 2432laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1) 2433Works OK with Vim in an xterm. 2434 2435Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change 2436anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7) 2437 2438On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it 2439doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9) 2440Shell expansion returns unexpanded string? 2441Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start? 2442 2443When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with 2444'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the 2445fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for 2446the buffer to be unmodified. 2447Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have 2448another look at it. 2449 2450c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0". 2451(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7) 2452 2453You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an 2454error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008 2455Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is 2456at the other match for 0xBF. 2457 2458When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the 2459argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19) 2460 2461Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a 2462backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5) 2463 2464When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a 2465line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21) 2466 2467After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33 2468(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the 2469command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling? 2470 2471":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim 2472Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14. 2473 2474When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work 2475either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses 2476put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice? 2477 2478Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly: 2479Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?') 2480Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', ''] 2481Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails? 2482(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8) 2483 2484Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12) 2485 2486ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value. 2487 2488Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[". 2489(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid 2490escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for 2491an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c. 2492This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008 2493July 7) 2494Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not 2495work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15) 2496 2497When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May 249831) 2499 2500Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't 2501work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery 2502Kondakoff, 2009 May 13) 2503 2504Win32: Using "gvim --remote-tab-silent elŝuti.txt" doesn't work, the 2505multibyte character isn't passed and edits elsuti.txt. 2506(Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado, 2015 Dec 18) 2507 2508Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull, 25092008 May 14) 2510Possibly related problem: Alexey Muranov, 2015 Apr 2 2511 2512Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21) 2513Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c". 2514'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27) 2515 2516Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008 2517Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately? 2518 2519Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23) 2520Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2. 2521 25228 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab 2523 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are 2524 several). 2525 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses 2526 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so 2527 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb) 2528Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31. 2529 2530The utf class table is missing some entries: 2531 0x2212, minus sign 2532 0x2217, star 2533 0x2500, bar 2534 0x26ab, circle 2535 2536Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the 2537line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1) 2538 2539GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this? 2540Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode. 2541 2542Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen, 2543try the Cocoa version. 2544 2545Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is 2546changed or the window is resized. 2547 2548GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit" 2549the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars. 2550 2551Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008 2552Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7. 2553 2554Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug 25551) Reply by Ben Schmidt. 2556 2557C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL 2558with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one. 2559Try to reproduce at work. 2560 2561Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19) 2562Is there a way to list all the files first? 2563 2564When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may 2565result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr 256616) 2567 2568Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set? 2569(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30) 2570 2571Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19) 2572Await response to question to make the register writable. 2573 2574Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct 25751) 2576 2577In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what 2578each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices" 2579 2580":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window. 2581Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck) 2582 2583Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold. 2584 2585Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences. 2586Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html 2587 2588Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26) 2589Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007 2590Jul 31) 2591 2592When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge 2593and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31) 2594 2595Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7 2596 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs 2597 2598New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge) 2599 2600":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of 2601a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2) 2602 2603Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some 2604other way to test buffer-local autocommands. 2605 2606The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it 2607appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding 2608matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24. 2609 2610When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every 2611character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for 2612'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which 2613(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE. 2614 2615Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11) 2616Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org. 2617 2618More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9) 2619 2620Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30) 2621http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff 2622 2623Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6) 2624No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix. 2625 2626Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the 2627terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7) 2628 2629Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18) 2630 2631Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib, 2632but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument, 2633that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21) 2634 2635Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul 2636Coronado, 2008 Oct 30) 2637 2638Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the 2639popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and 2640size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu. 2641This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22. 2642 2643When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading 2644it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer) 2645 2646Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and 2647then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include 2648files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15) 2649Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs 2650indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in 2651":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like 2652in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very 2653quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian 2654Kelling, 2008 July 4) 2655 2656When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the 2657parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape 2658neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on 2659particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008 2660Jun 3) 2661However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if 2662the user put quotes around the expanded item? 2663 2664A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros 2665Bousbouras, 2011 May 16) 2666 2667Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory. 2668Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp). 2669 2670Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a 2671switch list is noticed: 2672 switch (i) 2673 { 2674 case 1: 2675 foobar: 2676 } 2677 2678Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation. 2679 2680Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim 2681with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then 2682go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time 2683moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25) 2684 2685Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry. 2686GvimExt: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry. 2687Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an 2688argument list or opening each file in a separate tab. 2689(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26) 2690 2691Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap. 2692(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16) 2693 2694Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov, 26952007 Feb 8) 2696 2697Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in 2698set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME? 2699 2700Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7) 2701 2702Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias 2703Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31. 2704New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other 2705patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22) 2706 2707Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias 2708Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4. 2709 2710Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages 2711label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6. 2712 2713Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen 2714with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael 2715Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17) 2716 2717Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17) 2718 2719Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing. 2720Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape() 2721only takes 'shellslash' into account. 2722 2723Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16. 2724Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12) 2725Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set 2726properly? 2727 2728Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega, 27292007 Jun 21) 2730 2731When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008 2732Jun 18) 2733 2734If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work. 2735 2736In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through 2737the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28) 2738 2739C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26) 2740 2741":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop. 2742 2743When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479 2744error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20) 2745 2746GVim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then 2747use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no". 2748 2749Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for 2750if_ruby.c. 2751 2752":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'. 2753 2754The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put 2755it in keep_msg? 2756 2757Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match" 2758error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file 2759name literally, and esp. if there is only one name. 2760 2761Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes 2762longer than 2 seconds. 2763 2764Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow. 2765Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24) 2766Also for ":w" without a file name. 2767The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand. 2768 2769"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script. 2770Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7. 2771 2772VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first 2773directory of the path and not to the original location of the file. 2774(Zoltan Arpadffy) 2775 2776VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy) 2777 2778input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file 2779name? 2780 2781Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed? 2782 2783When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped. 2784(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right) 2785Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\(" 2786will be seen as a path separator plus "\(". 2787 2788gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (. 2789This also fails with --remote. 2790 2791When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye, 27922008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in 2793all places where buf_freeall() is called? 2794 2795aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page. 2796 2797When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset? 2798(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27) 2799 2800Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change 2801the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15) 2802 2803GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal. 2804 2805Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006 2806Jun 5) 2807 2808Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov 28092008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip 2810Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list. 2811 2812In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error, 2813but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 2814Jul 22) 2815 2816There should be something about spell checking in the user manual. 2817 2818Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21) 2819 2820Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is 2821moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check 2822that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars'). 2823 2824The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3) 2825 2826When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the 2827cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change 2828the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27) 2829 2830These two abbreviations don't give the same result: 2831 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>" 2832 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR> 2833 cabbr YYY xyz<Left> 2834 2835Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command 2836partly. (2006 Dec 7) 2837 2838In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another 2839buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to 2840reload it then? 2841 2842For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg. 2843 2844Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set, 2845only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors. 2846 2847Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory 2848tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that 2849doesn't contain other directories. 2850 2851Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors. 2852Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10. 2853 2854Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color: 2855 highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray 2856 set background=dark 2857This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background 2858color is, not reset it. 2859 2860Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the 2861start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to 2862show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the 2863middle? 2864 2865Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended. 2866 2867When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the 2868current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where 2869the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis) 2870 2871When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened. 2872Only skip shortening for ":cc"? 2873 2874Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles 2875Campbell 2006 Jul 06. 2876 2877Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6) 2878 2879A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy 2880Wokula, 2007 Aug 25) 2881 2882Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna 2883Dara, 2006 June 21) 2884 2885Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large 2886number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6) 2887 2888After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center 2889the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands. 2890 2891Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing? 2892 2893Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006 2894Jul 26, Gary Johnson) 2895 2896Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski, 28972008 Sep 29) 2898 2899In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can 2900check the result of has("patch13"). 2901 2902Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and 2903restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25) 2904 2905Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir> 2906and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>? 2907 2908Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to 2909put backslashes before special chars, only for white space. 2910 2911Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window, 2912resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other. 2913 2914In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way, 2915can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects? 2916 2917GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is 2918maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but 2919doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5. 2920Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not 2921visible. 2922 2923When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled 2924differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398? 2925 2926The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should 2927be only one. 2928 2929Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is 2930"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File 2931name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex 2932Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1) 2933 2934Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script. 2935(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 ) 2936 2937Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir 2938as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen) 2939 2940Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr 294123) 2942 2943":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using 2944tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007 2945Jun 18) 2946 2947When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion 2948text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is 2949latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24. 2950 2951Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is 2952no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11) 2953 2954In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the 2955VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas, 29562007 Oct 16) 2957 2958TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron 2959Griffis, 2007 Sep 19) 2960 2961Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it. 2962 2963When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously 2964typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 2965Sep 3, 11) 2966 2967":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect 2968this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)? 2969 2970When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle. 2971Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are 2972restored. (Luc St-Louis) 2973 2974Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler, 29752010 Jun 30) 2976 2977Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for 2978'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows. 2979(Kartik Agaram) 2980 2981 2982Better plugin support (not plugin manager, see elsewhere for that): 2983- Avoid use of feedkeys, add eval functions where needed: 2984 - manipulating the Visual selection? 2985- Add createmark(): add a mark like mM, but return a unique ID. Need some way 2986 to clean them up again... Use a name + the script ID. 2987 Add createmark( , 'c') to track inserts/deletes before the column. 2988- Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what 2989 happened before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about 2990 keeping the last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped? 2991- equivalent of netbeans_beval_cb(). With an autocommand? 2992- Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received. 2993 2994 2995More patches: 2996- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11) 2997 Needs a few tests. 2998- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3) 2999- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric 3000 Arnold, 2006 May 22) 3001- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30) 3002- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16) 3003- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad 3004 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a 3005 character at a time? 3006- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13) 3007- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana 3008 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17) 3009- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and 3010 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18) 3011- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul 3012 21) 3013- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in 3014 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20) 3015- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben 3016 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22. 3017- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill McCarthy, 2008 3018 Sep 13) 3019- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by 3020 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts 3021 more friendly for the Vim distribution. 3022 New version received 2008 Jan 6. 3023 No maintenance in two years... 3024- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3) 3025 3026Awaiting updated patches: 30279 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns): 3028 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac? 3029 New patch 2004 Jun 16 3030 - selecting proportional font breaks display 3031 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this. 3032 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt) 3033 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work. 3034 (Alan Schmitt) 3035 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed. 3036 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore 3037 'termencoding'? 30389 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search() 3039 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution. 30408 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24) 30417 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto. 3042 Update 2004 Sep 6. 3043 How does this work? Missing comments. 30448 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina 3045 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations... 30467 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears 3047 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3. 3048- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work 3049 for multibyte characters. 3050- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind. 3051- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5) 3052 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not 3053 been given values. 3054 Add section in help files for these highlight groups? 30557 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin 3056 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon) 3057- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a 3058 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth'). 3059 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20. 30608 Add functions: 3061 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 3062 Update 2004 Sep 10 3063 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24) 3064 Search in 'runtimepath'? 3065 More docs needed about how to use this. 3066 How to get the messages into the .po files? 3067 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical 3068 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg) 3069 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag 3070 (2003 May 13) 3071 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for 3072 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ ) 3073 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches. 3074 useful for interactive things or completion. 3075 col('^') column of first non-white character. 3076 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', '')) 3077 + 1", but that's ugly. 30787 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions 3079 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10) 30807 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right 3081 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli) 30828 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk 3083 (unencrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock. 30847 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie) 30858 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's 3086 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1. 30877 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David 3088 Kotchan has a patch for it) 30897 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25. 3090- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at 3091 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram, 3092 incomplete patch Mar 18) 3093- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif 3094 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18). 3095- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work. 3096 3097Better 'rightleft' or BIDI support: 3098- Minimal Vi with bidi support: https://github.com/aligrudi/neatvi 3099 By Ali Gholami Rudi, also worked on arabic.c 3100 3101 3102Spell checking: 3103- When 'cursorline' is set and the first word should have SpellCap 3104 highlighting, redrawing the line removes it when moving the cursor away 3105 from the line. (#7085) Would need to inspect the end of the previous line 3106 and update "capcol_lnum" and "cap_col". 3107- Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1) 3108- Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single 3109 quote: 0x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4) 3110 New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not 3111 compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be 3112 downloaded. 3113- Add a feature to only consider two spaces after a dot to start a new 3114 sentence. Don't give the capitalization error when there is one space. 3115- Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the superscript numbers 3116 by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079. 3117- In popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first character, 3118 don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list". 3119- Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word, 3120 ":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use 3121 "z=" somehow? Or use a new function. 3122 3123 3124Quickfix/Location List: 3125- Window size is wrong when using quickfix window. (Lifepillar, 2018 Aug 24, 3126 #2999) 3127- When using CTRL-W CR in the quickfix window, the jumplist in the opened 3128 window is cleared, to avoid going back to the list of errors buffer (would 3129 have two windows with it). Can we just remove the jump list entries for 3130 the quickfix buffer? 3131- When an item in the quickfix list has a file name that does not exist, 3132 behave like the item was not a match for :cnext. 3133- When adding an item to a new quickfix list make ":cnext" jump to that 3134 item. Make a difference being at the first item and not having used 3135 :cnext at all. (Afanasiy Fet, 2017 Jan 3) 3136- When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking? 3137- Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 3138 2007 Jan 1) 3139- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the 3140 quickfix window (2004 dec 2) 3141- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25 3142 errors. How do we get the rest? 31438 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an 3144 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for 3145 ":grep" and ":helpgrep". 3146 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function). 31477 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the 3148 first quickfix location. 3149 3150Vi incompatibility: 3151- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7) 3152 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal) 31538 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other 3154 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it 3155 is deleted or restored. (Webb) 3156 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo. 3157 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the '' 3158 position is one line down. (Veselinovic) 31598 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should 3160 make Vim exit. 31617 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line 3162 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway). 3163 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input. 31648 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips 3165 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument 3166 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded) 31676 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but 3168 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag 3169 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off. 31708 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another 3171 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one. 3172 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file 3173 names in one buffer??? 3174 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and 3175 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not 3176 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer. 31777 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some 3178 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual" 3179 command was one command. 3180 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last 3181 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo). 31827 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep 3183 the ":map" when it's used without arguments? 31847 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option. 31857 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when 3186 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing 3187 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either 3188 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file). 31897 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode). 31907 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines. 31917 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go 3192 to the match with the tag? Option? 31937 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option. 31947 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del> 3195 (Sayre). 31967 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the 3197 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible). 31987 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual". 3199 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next 3200 match. Nvi can do it too. 32017 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking) 3202 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\ 3203 line 1\ line 2\\ 3204 line 2\ line 3\\ 3205 . line4/ 32066 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of 3207 the way the shell is started? 32086 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange 3209 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line). 3210 3211 3212GTK+ GUI known bugs: 32139 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6) 32148 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj 3215 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in 3216 creating a label? 32178 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly. 3218 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do 3219 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it? 32209 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim 3221 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and 3222 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works. 3223 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again. 3224- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes 3225 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been 3226 blocked for now. 3227 3228 3229Win32 GUI known bugs: 3230- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than 3231 the screen. 32328 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications. 3233 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs. 3234 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html 32356 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":" 3236 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis) 32378 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide 3238 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both 3239 type of characters. 32407 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason 3241 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible 3242 to use an opaque background in most places? 32437 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan, 3244 2004 May 9) 32458 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces 3246 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim 3247 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with 3248 MS-Windows 98? 3249 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a 3250 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed 3251 file: Window moves with the cursor! 3252 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it? 32538 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that 3254 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win 3255 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also 3256 doesn't work properly. 32578 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops 3258 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it 3259 appears in the right position. (Webb) 32609 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse 3261 button doesn't give popup menu. 3262 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless 3263 selection. 3264 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button. 3265 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the 3266 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text. 32678 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the 3268 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore) 3269 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error 3270 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code. 32718 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg. 3272 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not 3273 be read. 32747 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the 3275 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to 3276 scroll? 32777 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance. 3278 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar. 32796 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor). 32808 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work 3281 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because 3282 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr? 32838 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we 3284 know which keyboard is being used? 32857 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern 3286 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn 3287 area (Koloseike). 32888 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might 3289 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first, 3290 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in 3291 the font name). 3292 3293 3294Athena and Motif: 32956 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki: 3296 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black. 3297 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file. 3298 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled 3299 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color. 33009 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is 3301 required and it's missing? 33028 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned 3303 wrong. 33049 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can 3305 be off by default. 33069 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now, 3307 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting 3308 flag. 33098 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character. 3310 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1. 3311 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this. 33128 Perhaps use fontsets for everything? 33136 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting 3314 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all 3315 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of 3316 the tooltips work though... 33177 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not 3318 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory). 33198 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the 3320 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the 3321 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'. 3322 3323 3324Athena GUI: 33259 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost. 3326 The second click on a menu does work. 33279 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in 3328 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving 3329 through files. 33307 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to 3331 read long file names. (Schroeder) 33324 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go 3333 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the 3334 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets" 3335 problem during a refresh. 33365 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing 3337 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the 3338 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors. 3339 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes 3340 colors as it should. 3341 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the 3342 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug? 3343 3344 3345Motif GUI: 3346- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely. 33477 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()? 3348 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2). 33498 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes 3350 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes. 3351 (Phillipps) 3352 3353 3354GUI: 33559 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no 3356 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy) 33579 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C. 3358 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on 3359 Solaris 2.6. (Marley) 33609 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim 3361 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf) 33628 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both 3363 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate 3364 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed. 33658 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling 3366 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state 3367 of where it is processing the output. 3368 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code. 33698 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font 3370 doesn't work. 33718 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga. 33728 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So 3373 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are 3374 still translated. 33758 Add menu separators for Amiga. 33768 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for 3377 browse(). 33788 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this, 3379 use that code? Or use console dialog. 33808 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the 3381 error message disappears too quick. 33827 More features in the find/replace dialog: 3383 - regexp on/off 3384 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory 3385 when all buffers/directory is used: 3386 - filter for file name 3387 when directory is used: 3388 - subdirectory on/off 3389 - top directory browser 33908 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later, 3391 to avoid problems. 33928 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there 3393 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for 3394 input. Or maybe every 100 ms? 33958 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank 3396 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0". 3397 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works. 33988 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed 3399 up. Set erase character somehow? 34008 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11. 34017 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not 3402 visible. 34037 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is 3404 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey) 34057 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it 3406 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw. 34078 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the 3408 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek) 34098 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not 3410 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32. 3411 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the 3412 remaining part of the window (Phillipps). 3413- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun. 34144 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times 3415 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times 3416 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486. 3417 3418 3419Win32 console: 34208 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's 3421 a good fallback, thus use: 3422 $HOME 3423 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH 3424 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE); 3425 $USERPROFILE 3426 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE); 3427 $ALLUSERSPROFILE 3428 $SYSTEMDRIVE\ 3429 C:\ 34308 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have 3431 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key. 34328 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift. 3433 Should work like in the GUI version. 34348 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for 3435 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names. 34368 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when 3437 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command? 34388 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file" 3439 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be 3440 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc. 34418 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going 3442 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to 3443 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth) 3444 3445 3446Win32 console: 34479 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its 3448 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister) 3449 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor. 3450 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable. 3451 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1 3452 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name. 3453 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file. 3454 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed 3455 and the file is not saved. 3456 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its 3457 long name. 34588 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at 3459 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT. 34607 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals, 3461 besides the console. 34628 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes) 34639 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with 3464 <C-S-i>? 34659 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on 3466 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI? 34678 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__ 3468 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around? 3469 3470 3471Amiga: 34728 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte 3473 sequences. 34749 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove 3475 backslashes in result. 34768 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do 3477 all options, using white space separation. 3478 3479 3480Macintosh: 3481- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing. 34827 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both. 3483 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac 3484 (Jack) 3485 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html 34868 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn, 3487 2006 Sept 28) 34888 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh. 34898 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh. 34909 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be 3491 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone) 34929 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly. 3493 3494 3495"Small" problems: 3496- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed, 3497 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from. 34989 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_ 3499 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz) 35009 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't 3501 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't, 3502 file isn't readonly, etc. 35038 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used, 3504 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited 3505 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure 3506 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this. 35077 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to 3508 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 35098 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and 3510 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column 3511 for redirection. 35127 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use 3513 'termencoding'. 3514- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the 3515 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed. 35168 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor 3517 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor 3518 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when 3519 using the horizontal scrollbar. 35207 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed 3521 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the 3522 invocations belong together. 35238 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this 3524 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams) 35258 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the 3526 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the 3527 UnxUtils.zip archive. 3528 Is it better than what we have in src/tee? 35298 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call 3530 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in 3531 an allocated structure? 35328 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing 3533 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly) 35347 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte 3535 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail 3536 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[] 3537 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8). 35387 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an 3539 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found. 3540 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions. 35417 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode 3542 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second 3543 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel) 35447 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the 3545 bottom window only bigger as much as needed. 35467 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere. 3547 Remove? (Dan Sharp) 35489 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This 3549 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining 3550 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command": 3551 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining 3552 script can be called. 35538 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po, 3554 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still 3555 works. 35568 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with 3557 CTRL-C. 35588 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line() 3559 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this 3560 configurable? 35618 'hkmap' should probably be global-local. 35628 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save 3563 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()? 35648 Should allow multibyte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+" 3565 is a multibyte character. 35668 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is 3567 always written, even when the original file already exists. 35689 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file 3569 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being 3570 written. 35717 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer. 35728 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose 3573 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when 3574 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'. 35758 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose", 3576 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values. 3577 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when 3578 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'. 35798 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global 3580 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez) 35819 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing 3582 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give 3583 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating 3584 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14. 35857 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes. 3586 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs. 35877 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed 3588 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's 3589 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y 3590 direction, not horizontally? 35918 ":hardcopy": 3592 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16. 3593 - Need to handle unprintable characters. 3594 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform 3595 dithering to make grey text? 3596 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total 3597 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams) 3598 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'? 3599 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break. 3600 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'. 3601 Default to black when no syntax highlighting. 3602 - Be able to print a window in diff mode. 3603 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate 3604 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected). 36058 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a 3606 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it. 36078 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert 3608 in lines that don't extend into the block? 36098 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O 3610 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev) 3611 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work. 36128 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from 3613 'linebreak'. 36148 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection 3615 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab. 3616 (Helmut Stiegler) 36179 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When 3618 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending 3619 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of 3620 'magic' in history. (Margo) 36219 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for 3622 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc". 36239 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga). 36249 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled 3625 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which 3626 cause another redraw, etc. 36278 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path() 3628 must escape special characters in the pattern. 36298 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an 3630 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use 3631 ":w!!" for that. 3632 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and 3633 restore file to readonly afterwards. 3634 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue. 36357 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get 3636 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the 3637 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as 3638 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from 3639 clipboard) 36407 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal 3641 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark 3642 Waggoner) 36436 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is 3644 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of 3645 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout. 36468 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a 3647 way to avoid using the builtin termcap. 36488 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also 3649 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm. 3650 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style. 36518 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator 3652 (e.g., ":w"). 36538 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for 3654 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long. 36558 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long 3656 script in do_cmdline(). 36578 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the 3658 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that 3659 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have 3660 changes. 36618 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT 3662 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim". 36638 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to 3664 check for file marks. This can be slow. 36658 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option 3666 to skip catch_signals()? 36679 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the 3668 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert 3669 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of 3670 text? 36718 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts 3672 all the text. Add ":rmenu"? 36738 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of 3674 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>. 36759 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are 3676 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7, 3677 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed. 3678 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or 3679 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate(). 36807 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/". 3681 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and 3682 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings 3683 in the list? 36848 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking 3685 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up, 3686 instead of on button down. 36878 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw. 36888 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a 3689 character is typed. 36908 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this. 3691 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it. 36928 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not 3693 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure 36948 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an 3695 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template 3696 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp". 3697 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for 3698 cygwin bash. 36997 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}". 3700 Remember flags for backreferences. 37017 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been 3702 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT? 37037 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names 3704 that contain a '$' after all have been found. 37058 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about 3706 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX. 37077 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting 3708 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name. 37097 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing. 3710 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and 3711 "initdir" is the default path to be used. 37127 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of 3713 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols) 37148 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo 3715 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so 3716 that the user knows the files have to be deleted. 3717 3718 3719I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!): 37209 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file 3721 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three 3722 files. (McCollister) 3723 3724 3725Problems that will (probably) not be solved: 3726- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the 3727 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the 3728 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this. 3729- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become 3730 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes 3731 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main 3732 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the 3733 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This 3734 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated. 3735 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3. 3736- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim 3737 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to 3738 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title 3739 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window 3740 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be 3741 worked around with a delay. 3742- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering 3743 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the 3744 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like 3745 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external 3746 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text. 3747- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access 3748 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message. 3749 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it. 3750- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim. 3751 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim. 3752- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin. 3753- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will 3754 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which 3755 character gets the highlighting. 3756- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm 3757 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly. 3758- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem. 3759 (Jennings) 3760- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino). 3761- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why? 3762- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The 3763 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong. 3764- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy 3765 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim, 3766 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK. 3767- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The 3768 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working. 3769 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p". 3770 (Benzinger). 3771- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that 3772 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim 3773 can't get back what the external command didn't use. 3774- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error. 3775 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code. 3776- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being 3777 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar. 3778- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer 3779 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when 3780 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted. 3781 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library. 3782 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn) 3783 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)? 3784- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles 3785 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE. 3786 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134. 3787- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up 3788 dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like 3789 "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern. 3790- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal 3791 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif 3792 libraries, get a patch from Sun. 3793- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X 3794 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash. 3795- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks 3796 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff. 3797- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive 3798 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used. 3799- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up: 3800 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library 3801 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to 3802 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the 3803 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem. 3804- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the 3805 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line: 3806 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr> 3807- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a 3808 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert 3809 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard) 3810- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar. 3811 This is a GTK 2.4.x bug, fixed in GTK 2.4.2. (Thomas de Grenier de Latour) 3812- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co' 3813 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the 3814 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the 3815 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined 3816 in the vimrc file to be lost. 3817- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and 3818 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars. 3819 3820--------------------- extensions and improvements ---------------------- 3821 *extensions-improvements* 3822 3823Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed: 3824- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)". 3825 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if 3826 calling a function. 3827 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)". 3828 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit(). 3829- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block 3830 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2. 3831 (issue #3292) 3832- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to 3833 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru 3834 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR 3835 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198. 3836 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine) 3837 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net 3838 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php 3839- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is. 3840 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command 3841 scrolls back to where the cursor is. 3842- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the 3843 first line to be able to start halfway. 38448 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify 3845 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m". 3846 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of 3847 taglist() can be used. 3848- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program. 3849 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly? 3850 3851 3852Documentation: 38538 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007 3854 Feb 20. 38558 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link 3856 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind". 38578 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded 3858 or not. 38598 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth) 38609 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention: 3861 - change to cursor position and curswant 3862 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.) 3863 - how it works for folded lines 3864 - how it works with multibyte characters 38658 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag" 3866 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double 3867 text. 38688 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running". 38697 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to 3870 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'. 38717 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and 3872 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag. 3873 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz. 3874- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks. 3875 3876 3877Help: 3878- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a 3879 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag. 3880- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go 3881 to the other matches. 3882- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files. 3883- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always 3884 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file, 3885 user can edit it to insert favorite commands, new account can contain a 3886 default contents. 3887- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal 3888 height for the help window (and other windows). 3889- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute". 3890- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive? 3891- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands. 3892 3893 3894User Friendlier: 38958 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for 3896 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter 3897 Briscoe) 38988 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types? 38998 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that 3900 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if 3901 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf". 39028 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc, 3903 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu. 3904- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file. 3905 ":mkplugin <file>"? 3906- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."? 39079 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or 3908 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty 3909 item?). 3910 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands. 39118 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems. 39127 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session 3913 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim 3914 window can be displayed. (Eduard) 39158 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do 3916 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The 3917 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest. 3918 global_event_filter() for GTK. 3919 3920 3921Tab pages: 39229 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems. 39237 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color, 3924 font, etc.) 39258 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu. 39268 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path. 39277 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows. 39287 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify 3929 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output. 39308 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between 3931 tab pages. 39327 Add local highlighting for each tab page? 3933 3934 3935Spell checking: 3936- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX. 3937 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777 3938- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent 3939 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match 3940 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote. 3941- Could filter é things for HTML before doing spell checking. 3942 Similarly for TeX. 3943- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW 3944 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes 3945 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this. 3946- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4: 3947 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do? 3948 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes? 3949- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now 3950 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/ 3951 (Teemu Likonen) 39528 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from 3953 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes. 39548 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG. 3955 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID 39568 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file: 3957 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP 3958 items and check if the result is a valid word. 3959 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP 3960 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE 3961 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case. 3962 How is it supposed to work? 3963- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its 3964 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file. 3965- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase. 3966- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of 3967 the word are not used. 3968- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to 3969 use same wordlist for hyphenation. 3970- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of 3971 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file? 3972- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now? 3973 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end? 3974- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following 3975 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words? 3976- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/ 3977 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that. 3978 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism 3979 in the affix file separately. 3980 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting 3981 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value. 3982 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX 3983 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word 3984 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc. 3985- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then 3986 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a 3987 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching 3988 specific prefixes with suffixes. 3989 Alternative: 3990 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond} 3991 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the 3992 affix which is required. 3993- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for 3994 COMPOUNDWORDMAX. 3995- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2, 3996 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word 3997 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3 3998- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after 3999 word/flags and affix. 4000- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item? 4001 Await comments from other spell checking authors. 4002- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/ 40038 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing 4004 syntax items (to add @Spell). 4005 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn 4006 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items. 4007- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org). 4008 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html 4009 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/ 4010 author: Kevin Hendricks <[email protected]> 40118 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and 4012 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"? 40138 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell. 40148 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their 4015 use of words with a dash. 40167 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists. 40178 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'? 4018 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath 4019 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments 4020 in English, strings in German (po file). 4021 4022 4023Diff mode: 40249 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff. 4025 Possibly without running diff. 40268 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what 4027 can be undone. (Tom Popovich) 4028 4029Folding: 4030 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY; 4031 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=) 40328 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves 4033 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling. 40348 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. Or use a regexp 4035 item, so that it can be used in any pattern. 40368 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the 4037 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the 4038 user aware of this? 40398 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which 4040 commands skip over a closed fold. 40418 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt) 40428 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB. 40437 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds. 4044- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an 4045 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the 4046 missing line goes unnoticed. 4047 How to implement this? 4048- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll 4049 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds 4050 smoother? 4051- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list, 4052 using the wininfo in wi_folds. 4053- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session 4054 file can contain: 4055 args version.c main.c 4056 edit version.c 4057 Can editing version.c twice be avoided? 4058- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects. 4059- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How 4060 to implement this? 4061- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the 4062 cursor. 4063- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or 4064 match. 4065- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt) 4066 4067Multi-byte characters: 4068- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back 4069 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8? 4070 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename 4071 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8. 40729 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the 4073 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal 4074 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single 4075 byte). 40769 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is 4077 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could 4078 it be done with an autocommand? 40798 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for 4080 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html. 4081 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like: 4082 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-" 4083 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first 4084 item. 40858 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for 4086 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"? 4087 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8". 40888 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search 4089 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka) 40908 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g., 4091 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a 4092 different fileencoding for filter output? 40937 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted, 4094 so that the user can fix the problem. 40958 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo 4096 Schweigert) 40979 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El) 40988 Should add test for using various commands with multibyte characters. 40998 'infercase' doesn't work with multibyte characters. 41008 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes. 41017 Searching and composing characters: 4102 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored? 4103 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing 4104 characters can be manipulated. 41058 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing. 41068 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes. 41078 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multibyte 4108 characters. 41098 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters. 41108 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead 4111 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example. 41127 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead. 4113 'display' option to specify this. 41147 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default(): 4115 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c) 4116- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the 4117 fontselector somehow. 4118- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it 4119 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale. 4120- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for 4121 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong. 4122- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset, 4123 depending on the default value of 'encoding'. 4124 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used. 4125 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know 4126 if a font exists? 4127- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with 4128 convert_input() for Mac GUI. 4129- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters. 4130 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_ 4131- Make 'breakat' accept multibyte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup 4132 table anymore (breakat_flags[]). 4133 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line 4134 at a multibyte character >= 0x100. 4135- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text 4136 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort 4137 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":amap" command? 4138- When breaking a line, take properties of multibyte characters into 4139 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it: 4140 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz 4141 But it's very complicated... 4142 4143 4144Printing: 41457 Implement "undercurl" for printing. 4146- Add "page width" to wrap long lines. 4147- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for 4148 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function. 4149- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George 4150 Reilly) 4151- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'. 4152- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer 4153 name, portrait/landscape, etc). 4154- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit 4155 character set. How to support Unicode fully? 4156- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same 4157 units as for the margins. 4158- Support right-to-left text? 41598 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the 4160 color. 4161 4162 4163Syntax highlighting: 4164 Long term goal: faster, better, etc. Options: 4165 - use treesitter, NeoVim uses it 4166 - use TextMate, vscode uses it. #9087 41678 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson) 4168 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual". 41698 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined 4170 cluster can be added to existing syntax items. 41718 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this: 4172 "({ something })", often used in GCC code. 41737 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region, 4174 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell) 41758 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing 4176 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for 4177 ":wq file". 41787 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be 4179 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax 4180 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27) 41818 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script). 41829 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is 4183 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it... 41847 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and 4185 Search highlighting. 41867 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line. 4187 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating. 41888 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to 4189 change this for each release. 41908 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end 4191 pattern, but not in the body. 41928 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this 4193 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item, 4194 instead of the containing item. 41958 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside (). 41968 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword', they should use "syn iskeyword". 4197 Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help 4198 window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different. 41998 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a 4200 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained] 42018 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey 4202 background) when on one of the parens or in between them. 4203 Option for the matchparen plugin? 42048 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop 4205 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be 4206 used. 42078 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will 4208 allow spell checking. (Fleiner) 42098 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And 4210 re-insert the [] if possible. 42118 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for 4212 the Cursor). 42138 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then 4214 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what 4215 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a 4216 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull) 4217 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern' 42188 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like 4219 using "\1" in a ":s" command. 42208 Support for deleting syntax items: 4221 :syn keyword cTodo remove this 4222 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern" 4223 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that" 42248 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way 4225 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for 4226 a '<'. (Fleiner) 42277 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification? 4228 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or 4229 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern. 42307 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be 4231 detected. 42328 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original 4233 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this). 42348 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to 4235 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible. 42368 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group. 42378 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values. 42387 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to 4239 ":mkvimrc". 42408 Improve c.vim: 4241 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on: 4242 "c_strict_ansi". 4243 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way... 42448 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the 4245 current line while in Insert mode. 42468 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been 4247 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again? 42488 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current 4249 display position. 42508 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to 4251 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern. 4252 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()". 42538 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until 4254 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when 4255 highlighting starts. 42567 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item 4257 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the 4258 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would 4259 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai 4260 Weibull) 42617 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the 4262 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow. 4263 E.g. for this html: 4264 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I> 42657 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is. 42667 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled 4267 words. 42688 Add more command line completion for :syntax. 42698 Add more command line completion for :highlight. 42707 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands. 4271 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and 4272 completion? 42738 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their 4274 highlighting. (Salman Halim) 42757 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to 4276 select one of the sets. 42778 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1 4278 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch 4279 2, etc. 42808 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the 4281 highlighting (for "." command). 42828 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /. 4283 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /? 42848 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing. 42857 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs": 4286 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c". 42876 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of 4288 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall) 4289- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful 4290 when extending an already existing syntax file. 4291- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too? 4292- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin 4293 (for comment blocks). 4294- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags: 4295 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor. 4296 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match. 4297 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match. 4298 Also for {}, <>, etc.? 4299 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?) 4300 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the 4301 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it. 4302 (Campbell) 4303 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around 4304 the cursor. (Iain Truskett) 43057 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword. 4306 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow). 43077 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should 4308 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set). 4309 And allows for sections with different highlighting. 43107 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it 4311 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from 4312 messages. And external commands? 43138 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for 4314 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim? 43157 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an 4316 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line. 4317 4318 4319Vim script language: 43208 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that 4321 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal. 4322 At least use this for error messages. 43237 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and 4324 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how 4325 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)? 4326- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb) 43278 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file. 4328 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them. 4329 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function. 4330 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling. 4331 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to 4332 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac(). 43337 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID? 4334 Will be tricky for the list of script names. 43358 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham) 43368 Have a prefix for a function to make it unique. When using packages it 4337 can be the plugin name. 4338 Perhaps also have a way to remove everything that the package added? 4339 including autocommands. 43407 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode. 4341 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if 4342 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that 4343 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an 4344 autocommand. 4345 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a 4346 .vim file. Problem: distribution. 4347 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached 4348 file belongs to a sourced script? 43497 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn', 4350 signs and/or 'number'. 43516 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to 4352 implement this? 43538 Add functions: 4354 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function 4355 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt". 4356 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with. 4357 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the 4358 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things. 4359 realname() Get user name (first, last, full) 4360 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov 4361 3 2002 4362 Only add this when also implemented for 4363 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could 4364 be used. 4365 get_user_name() gets login name. 4366 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what}) 4367 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}. 4368 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File". 4369 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu 4370 File.Open..." argument. 4371 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22 4372 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary 4373 with properties instead. 4374 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping. 4375 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4. 4376 Return a list instead. 4377 char2hex() convert char string to hex string. 4378 crypt() encrypt string 4379 decrypt() decrypt string 4380 base64enc() base 64 encoding 4381 base64dec() base 64 decoding 4382 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx" 4383 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file 4384 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace() 4385 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string 4386 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left 4387 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to 4388 find out what happened) 4389 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in 4390 Visual block mode. 4391 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard) 4392 libcall() Allow more than one argument. 4393 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function 4394 to allow the library to execute a command or 4395 evaluate an expression. 43967 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the 4397 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero. 43988 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was 4399 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file. 44008 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args 4401 List? Or extra parameter to argv()? 44028 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts. 44036 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"? 44048 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var" 4405 just ignore. 44068 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable, 4407 option or environment variable. 44088 ":let &option" should list the value of the option. 44098 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist. 4410 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List. 44117 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack 4412 available as a List. 44138 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed: 4414 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands} 44158 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started. 44168 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default), 4417 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0, 4418 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and 4419 charwise({expr}). 44207 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer 4421 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch 4422 buffer for this? 4423 result = scratch(string, command) 4424 result = apply(string, command) 4425 result = execute(string, command) 4426 "command" would use <> notation. 4427 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number? 44287 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds). 4429 4430 4431Robustness: 44326 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or 4433 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing 4434 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking . 4435 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf). 4436 Andy doesn't have time to work on it. 4437 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a 4438 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded? 4439 4440 4441Performance: 44427 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list 4443 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string). 44447 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before 4445 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this 4446 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where 4447 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it. 44488 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a 4449 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked 4450 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(), 4451 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7) 4452 With a patch, but does it work? 44538 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags. 44549 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster? 44558 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result? 44567 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when 4457 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start? 44588 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same 4459 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines 4460 when starting up in a color terminal. 44618 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on 4462 Win16. 44638 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this 4464 function be improved? 44658 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the 4466 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap 4467 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can 4468 this be improved? 44698 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up 4470 MS-DOS version. (Negri) 44717 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax". 4472 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman) 44737 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying 4474 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang) 44757 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a 4476 lot of abbreviations). 44777 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file 4478 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line 4479 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>. 4480 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat. 4481 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place. 4482 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase. 4483 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc. 44848 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to 4485 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid 4486 using strcmp() too often? 44877 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file? 4488 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating 4489 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a 4490 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another 4491 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from 4492 the two blocks to the memfile block. 44937 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory 4494 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called 4495 with an argument that can be messed with. 4496 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that 4497 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced. 44987 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)". 4499- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek() 45008 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in 4501 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim. 4502- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of 4503 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation? 4504- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki) 4505- Do profiling on: 4506 - :g/pat/normal cmd 4507 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary) 4508 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan) 4509 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u". 4510 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and 4511 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl". 4512 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary. 4513 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim). 45147 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were 4515 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it 4516 changed). 4517 - On each change, remember start and end of the change. 4518 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count. 4519- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest! 4520- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still 4521 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"? 4522- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to 4523 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from 4524 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg(). 4525- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height. 4526- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if 4527 cursor is right of the screen. 45288 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a 4529 CTRL-C (it's slow). 4530 4531 4532Code size: 45338 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded. 4534- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be 4535 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions. 45368 Make a GUI-only version for Unix? 45378 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using 4538 it. 45397 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be 4540 left out. 45418 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals 4542 can be removed. 45438 Can the check for libelf in configure.ac be removed? 4544 4545 4546Messages: 45478 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the 4548 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!". 45498 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip 4550 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()? 45518 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a 4552 script. 4553- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key. 4554 Perhaps after ten seconds? 4555- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9. 45569 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays: 4557 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop. 4558 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long 4559 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before 4560 redrawing. 45618 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more 4562 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text. 45638 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another 4564 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option 4565 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off". 4566 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts 4567 typing, error messages must be switched back on. 4568 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings). 4569- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed? 4570 Sleep before second message? 45718 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is 4572 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers", 4573 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the 4574 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall) 4575 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and 4576 error messages, printing text, etc. 45778 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt. 4578 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when 4579 a prompt is present (with a callback function?). 4580 4581 4582Screen updating: 4583- screen_line(): 4584 - insert/delete character stuff. 4585 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line). 4586- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when 4587 dragging the status line with the mouse). 4588- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when 4589 waiting for a character. 45908 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from 4591 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when 4592 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping. 4593 4594Scrolling: 45958 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle. 45966 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi) 4597- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc.. 4598 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound 4599 windows. 46007 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next 4601 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it 4602 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer. 4603- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it 4604 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this? 4605 (Goldfarb) 4606- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all 4607 bound windows. 4608- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to 4609 be bound by regexp searches 4610- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell) 4611- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the 4612 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number 4613 of lines but not with a single line). 4614 4615 4616Autoconf: 46178 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader. 46188 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb) 4619 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically? 4620- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the 4621 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner). 4622- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4(). 4623- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it? 4624- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf. 4625 4626 4627Perl interface: 46288 Rename typemap file to something else? 46297 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark) 46307 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C? 46316 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll). 4632 4633 4634Shared libraries: 46358 libcall() can keep the library around instead of always calling dlclose(). 4636 (Jason Felice, 2018 Mar 20) 46376 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it. 4638 :libload internal-name libname 4639 :libunload internal-name 4640 :liblist 4641 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...) 4642 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...) 4643 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment. 46446 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries. 4645 4646 4647Tags: 46489 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is 4649 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found 4650 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in 4651 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When 4652 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all. 46538 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path. 4654 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to 4655 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better 4656 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008 4657 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4) 46587 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the 4659 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members. 4660 (Flemming Madsen) 46618 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis. 46628 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able 4663 to type the tag number directly. 46647 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a 4665 window for each tag. 46667 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting? 46677 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit 4668 bottom" search message. 46697 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry, 4670 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were 4671 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb) 4672- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack. 4673- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush". 4674- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch 4675 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to 4676 what you were working on. 46777 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and 4678 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod". 4679 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func" 4680 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx. 46817 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields: 4682 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c 4683 :tagargs clear 4684 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag 4685 matching). 46867 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command? 4687 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi. 4688 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi) 4689 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way. 46907 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With 4691 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again. 46927 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use 4693 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add 4694 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect". 4695 4696 4697Win32 GUI: 46988 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for 4699 the message and input? 47007 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu. 4701 (Mike McCollister) 47028 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several 4703 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't 4704 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all 4705 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest 4706 common part of the path. 47078 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik) 47088 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that 4709 gettext and menus work. 47108 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit 4711 return in every console. 4712 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands: 4713 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html. 47148 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands: 4715 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text). 47168 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF. 4717 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands? 47187 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme. 4719 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser) 47207 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog). 47217 <Esc> should close a dialog. 47227 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be 4723 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended 4724 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any 4725 prompts. 47267 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that 4727 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have 4728 the file added into an already running Vim. 47297 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide 4730 functions to find the window title. 4731 4732 4733GUI: 47347 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows. 47358 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI. 47366 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu. 47378 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When 4738 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position. 47399 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze) 47407 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype? 47418 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the 4742 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide". 47438 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text 4744 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine 4745 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated. 47468 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim) 4747 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front. 47488 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more 4749 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c. 4750 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow 4751 running them in separate processes. 47527 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument. 47538 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask 4754 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code. 47557 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw 4756 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font 4757 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda) 47588 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default). 47598 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to 4760 select one. 47618 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.). 47628 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all? 47638 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a 4764 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this 4765 portable (X11, Win32, ..)? 47667 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items. 4767 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The 4768 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything. 47697 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back. 4770 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim). 47717 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can 4772 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors. 4773 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For 4774 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs. 47757 Should support multi-column menus. 4776- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far 4777 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right). 4778- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode". 47798 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus. 47806 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a 4781 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui". 47827 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'? 47837 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos', 4784 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>. 4785 Or add a command, like ":winsize"? 47867 Add toolbar for more GUIs. 47878 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item 4788 name can be chosen free. 47897 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of 4790 the window? Allows for softkey-like use. 47916 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the 4792 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a 4793 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is 4794 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to 4795 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks 4796 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI 4797 things. 47987 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default 4799 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog. 48007 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks 4801 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated. 4802- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal 4803 where it was started from? 48047 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument. 4805 4806 4807Autocommands: 48089 Rework the code from FEAT_OSFILETYPE for autocmd-osfiletypes to use 4809 'filetype'. Only for when the current buffer is known. 4810- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup? 48118 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the 4812 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc. 4813 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete 4814 the swap file. (Marc Merlin) 48158 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand 4816 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS. 48177 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g., 4818 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific 4819 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or 4820 changing the buffer name. 48217 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag. 48228 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag. 4823 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found. 48248 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two 4825 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more 4826 difficult). 48277 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the 4828 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the 4829 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient? 48308 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input 4831 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus). 4832 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ... 48338 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist? 4834 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things. 48358 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc". 48366 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be 4837 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron) 48387 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event. 48397 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link, 4840 <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The 4841 autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern 4842 match. (Leonard) 48435 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the 4844 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will 4845 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas) 48467 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for 4847 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the 4848 file. 48498 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at 4850 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read 4851 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'. 4852- Add events to autocommands: 4853 Error - When an error happens 4854 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled 4855 when exiting isn't a good idea. 4856 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing 4857 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J" 4858 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M") 4859 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged 4860 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the 4861 window title) 4862 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down 4863 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting 4864 the char. 4865 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for 4866 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the 4867 file from CVS). 4868 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be 4869 used to do a :preserve for remote files. 4870 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate 4871 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so 4872 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add 4873 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah) 4874 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size 4875 changes. 4876 WinResized - After a window has been resized 4877 WinClose - Just before closing a window 4878- Write the file now and then ('autosave'): 4879 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'* 4880 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0) 4881 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the 4882 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set. 4883 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer. 4884 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make 4885 them save the file itself besides the swapfile. 4886 4887 4888Omni completion: 4889- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and 4890 mix it with other kinds of completion). 4891- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE: 4892 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information. 4893 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc. 4894 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java. 4895 - Check Readline for its completion interface. 4896- Ideas from others: 4897 http://www.wholetomato.com/ 4898 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747 4899 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim 4900 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net 4901 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C# 4902 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet 4903 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries. 4904 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var. 4905 Uses Perl for C++. 4906 Uses ctags to find the info: 4907 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files 4908 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang) 4909 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265 4910 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/ 4911 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs) 4912 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java. 4913 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html 4914 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net 4915- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match? 4916 4917 4918Insert mode completion/expansion: 4919- Is it possible to keep the complete menu open when calling complete()? 4920 (Prabir Shrestha, 2017 May 19, #1713) 4921- When 'completeopt' has "noselect" does not insert a newline. 4922 (Lifepillar, 2017 Apr 23, #1653) 4923- Can 'completeopt' be made buffer-local? (#5487) 4924- When complete() first argument is before where insert started and 4925 'backspace' is Vi compatible, the completion fails. 4926 (Hirohito Higashi, 2015 Feb 19) 4927- The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it: 4928 - The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete) 4929 - Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func. 4930- When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a 4931 number, not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() 4932 to force a string value. 4933- When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes back to originally 4934 completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24) 4935 Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6. 4936- GUI implementation of the popup menu. 49377 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only 4938 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep". 49397 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with 4940 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and 4941 "$HOME/tmp" 49428 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete 4943 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages. 49449 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with 4945 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended. 4946 (Webb) 49478 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion: 4948 - ignore/match case 4949 - different characters than 'iskeyword' 49508 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that 4951 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb) 4952 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-]. 4953 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'. 4954 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be 4955 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc. 49568 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text. 49577 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant 4958 text does: www.textware.com 49598 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive 4960 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of 4961 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo. 4962 Should work for C++ and Java. 4963 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc. 49647 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?). 49657 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS 4966 instead of words. 49678 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents. 49688 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does). 4969 Requires remembering a number of insertions. 49708 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names. 4971 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion. 4972- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system 4973 header files. (Andri Moell) 4974- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the 4975 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use 4976 wildcards in the file name)? 4977- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted). 4978- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?). 4979- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could 4980 be in another file). 4981- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches. 4982- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option? 4983- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string 4984 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W) 4985- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions. 4986- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows? 4987- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly) 4988- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list). 4989 4990 4991Command line editing: 49927 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command 4993 line. 49948 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion 4995 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of 4996 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc. 4997- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of 4998 lines wraps to start of line). 4999- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view 5000 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many 5001 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run 5002 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012). 5003 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history. 5004 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the 5005 cmdwin does now already. 5006 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal 5007 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T? 5008 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the 5009 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid 5010 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines? 5011 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate 5012 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode 5013 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh. 5014 Problems: 5015 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar' 5016 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations 5017 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches 5018 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands 5019 - Normal: no ":" commands? 5020 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line. 5021 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of 5022 character in first column? 5023 - Implementation ideas: 5024 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer. 5025 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum. 5026 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line. 5027 - sync undo after entering a command line? 5028 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line 5029 Mode. 5030 5031 5032Command line completion: 5033- Feature request: Complete members of a dictionary. 5034 (Luc Hermitte, 2017 Jan 4, #1350) 5035- Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the 5036 matching command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen) 50378 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument. 50388 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate 5039 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h". 50408 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list 5041 them with the optional part inside []. 50428 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that 5043 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches). 50447 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be 5045 edited. (Sven Guckes) 5046- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible. 5047- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the 5048 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>". 50498 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting 5050 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp? 50517 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the 5052 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb) 5053- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching 5054 identifiers (Webb). 50558 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>" 5056 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit. 50577 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion. 5058 Useful for ":s/word/xx/". 5059- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started. 5060 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line. 5061- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for 5062 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut) 5063 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D. 5064 5065 5066Command line history: 5067- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a 5068 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a 5069 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't 5070 completely result from one mapping. 5071- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history, 5072 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel) 5073 5074 5075Insert mode: 50769 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after 5077 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line. 5078 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug. 50798 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command 5080 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink) 5081 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do 5082 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing. 5083 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode. 50848 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with 5085 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the 5086 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert. 50877 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a 5088 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y. 5089- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode. 50907 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it 5091 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'. 5092- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed 5093 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and 5094 also for characters that wrap to the next line. 5095 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register). 5096 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that 5097 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>. 5098- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in 5099 Normal mode. 5100- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their 5101 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands 5102 are used. 5103- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits. 5104- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b. 5105- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y. 5106 5107 5108'cindent', 'smartindent': 51099 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent: 5110 char * veryLongName = 5111 "very long string" 5112 Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly. 51138 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17) 51148 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.: 5115 long_type foo = 5116 value; 51178 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is 5118 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer) 5119 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then. 51208 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna) 5121 func( 5122 new String[] { 5123 "asdf", 5124 "asdf" 5125 } 5126 ); 51278 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace: 5128 (Chow Loong Jin) 5129 namespace { 5130 int 5131 func(int arg) { 5132 } 5133 } 51346 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer) 5135 func( arg1 5136 , arg2 5137 , arg3 5138 ); 51397 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner): 5140 func( 5141 int x) // indent like "(4" 5142 { 5143 if (a 5144 && b) // indent like "(0" 51459 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler) 5146 if (a) 5147 { 5148 if (b) 5149 { 5150 // { 5151 } 5152 } <-- this is indented incorrect 5153 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in 5154 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to 5155 findmatchlimit(). 5156- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the 5157 indent to 0 should be switched on/off. 51587 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line. 5159- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first 5160 line). 5161- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}? 5162- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous 5163 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically? 5164- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It 5165 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb) 5166- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out 5167 code), unless the line starts with "*". 5168- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"? 5169- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line 5170 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted). 51718 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the 5172 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more 5173 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment. 5174- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'. 5175- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where 5176 lines start with "\item". 5177- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown) 5178 /* here is a comment that 5179 is just autoindented, and 5180 nothing else */ 5181- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi". 51827 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for 5183 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the 5184 indents. 5185 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15. 5186 5187 5188Java: 51898 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve 5190 Odendahl? 51918 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for 5192 "[i" commands and friends. 5193- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java. 5194 (Jason) 5195- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be 5196 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy) 5197 5198 5199'comments': 52008 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated 5201 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping. 5202 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader 5203 when it's "#" or "//". 5204 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated 5205 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition? 52067 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line. 5207 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed. 52087 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item. 52096 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more 5210 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a 5211 regexp is used. 52128 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line 5213 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'? 5214 5215 5216Virtual edit: 52178 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left. 52187 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line? 5219 5220 5221Text objects: 52228 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open. 52238 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc. 52248 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word. 5225 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"? 52268 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multibyte 5227 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all) 5228 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like 5229 'matchpairs'? 52308 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multibyte ones. 52318 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires 5232 changing the starting position in oap->start. 52338 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single 5234 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at 5235 the end of the line or before a ".". 52367 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs" 5237 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus) 52387 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph 5239 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}"). 52406 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email. 52415 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For 5242 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one. 5243 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the 5244 cursor is on. 5245 5246 5247Select mode: 52488 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block, 5249 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall) 52507 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word. 5251 See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise. 52527 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line. 5253 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse' 5254 contains 'C' or 'A'. 5255 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in 5256 normal_cmd(). 5257 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info. 5258 - Typing text replaces the selection. 5259 5260 5261Visual mode: 52628 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual 5263 selection, if possible. 5264- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero, 5265 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer 5266 is in the top line. 5267- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display. 5268 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the 5269 characters. 52708 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new 5271 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding 5272 where needed. 52737 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width, 5274 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc. 52757 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start 5276 of each selected line. 52778 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode? 52788 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer. 5279 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any 5280 other buffer. (Ron Aaron) 52818 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron, 5282 Ben Godfrey) 52837 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and 5284 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey) 52857 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of 5286 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area. 52877 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines. 5288 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with 5289 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line. 52908 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text? 5291 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful. 52927 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should 5293 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an 5294 option! 52957 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position 5296 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select 5297 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen 5298 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap. 5299 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to 5300 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line, 5301 without changing the column. 53026 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode. 53037 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the 5304 current buffer. 53056 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line, 5306 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1. 53076 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line. 53086 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed 5309 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB 5310 or other special character. 53116 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting. 5312 5313 5314More advanced repeating commands: 5315- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt"). 5316- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count. 5317- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g. 5318 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb). 5319 "y." will repeat last yank. 5320 "c2." will repeat the last but one change? 5321 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history 5322 and/or pick an older command. 5323- History stack for . command? Use "g." command. 5324 5325 5326Mappings and Abbreviations: 53278 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be 5328 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell) 5329 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command? 53308 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work? 53317 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte". 5332 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway? 53338 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the 5334 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&. 53358 Add ":amap", like ":amenu". 53367 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard. 53378 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to 5338 entering search strings. 53398 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the 5340 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and 5341 not the <Space>. 53428 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never 5343 (?) work. 53447 Add <0x8f> (hex), <0o33> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation? 53457 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try 5346 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy". 53476 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the 5348 abbreviations are to be used. 5349- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For 5350 example, for a mouse escape sequence: 5351 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l 5352- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings: 5353 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G 5354 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l 5355 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g 5356 Or implicit: 5357 :map q <Register>d<Number>$ 5358- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in 5359 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings 5360 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording? 5361- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings 5362 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does). 5363- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and 5364 mappings off for :unab and :unmap. 53656 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete 5366 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids 5367 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you 5368 hit another character. 5369- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for 5370 non-replace Insert mode? 5371- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode? 5372- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings. 5373- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key 5374 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself. 5375- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as 5376 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command? 5377- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they 5378 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>. 5379- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap. 5380- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping 5381 ":freekeys". 5382- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm). 5383 5384 5385Incsearch: 5386- Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014 5387 Dec 4. Is this a good solution? 5388- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the 5389 folds when going to another line. 5390 Patch to open folds for 'incsearch'. (Christian Brabandt, 2015 Jan 6) 5391- Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17) 5392 Only with "vim -u NONE". 5393- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn 5394 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled 5395 up every time. 5396- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many 5397 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?) 5398 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match 5399 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872. 54009 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern 5401 isn't updated). 5402 5403 5404Searching: 54059 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match. 54068 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text? 5407 "g?" is already used for rot13. 5408 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this. 5409 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area. 5410 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area? 54119 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the 5412 matching text. 54138 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to 5414 search for a phrase. 54158 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands 5416 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part. 5417 Perl does it this way: 5418 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x; 5419 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp 5420 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be: 5421 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\) 54228 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C 5423 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the 5424 number? 54257 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep 5426 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html). 54278 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a 5428 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234]. 54297 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on 5430 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of 5431 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"? 5432 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)* 54337 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping 5434 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset). 54357 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's 5436 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference. 54378 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in 5438 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax? 54398 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current 5440 line. 54417 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use matchit.vim as an 5442 example. 54438 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in 5444 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif. 5445- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that 5446 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */). 5447 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back. 5448 Alternative: use matchit.vim 54498 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that 5450 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it. 5451 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$". 54527 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and 5453 "\d". 54547 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be 5455 \%<C-M>. 54568 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example, 5457 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line. 54588 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji 5459 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set? 54608 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g" 5461 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command. 5462 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing 5463 search pattern. 5464- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some 5465 of the windows. 5466- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group. 5467 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group. 5468- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade) 5469 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one. 5470 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's 5471 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities. 54728 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/". 5473 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop. 5474- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it. 5475 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling) 54768 Flags that apply to the whole pattern. 5477 This works for all places where a regexp is used. 5478 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern? 5479- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?): 5480 i ignore case 5481 I use case 5482 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?) 5483 v use Vi regexp syntax 5484 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command 5485 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command 5486 Perl uses these too: 5487 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only) 5488 m multiple line expression (we don't need it) 5489 o compile only once (Perl only) 5490 s single line expression (we don't need it) 5491 x extended regexp (we don't need it) 5492 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the 5493 following command. 5494 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault'). 5495- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used 5496 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/ 5497 for search string)? 54987 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special 5499 characters. See C't article, August 1997. 5500- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are 5501 equivalent (for Unix filenames). 5502- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text 5503 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin) 5504- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this". 5505- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer, 5506 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern: 5507 a for the next file in the argument list 5508 f for file in the buffer list 5509 w for file edited in a window. 5510 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for 5511 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask 5512 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No 5513 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ". 5514- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler) 55157 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search 5516 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark. 55177 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after 5518 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe 5519 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in 5520 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always). 55216 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side 5522 effects. 55237 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete 5524 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc. 5525 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary. 55267 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner) 5527 Also ":dselect". 5528 5529 5530Undo: 55319 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files 5532 in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful 5533 when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files. 55349 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or 5535 not. 55368 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text 5537 state, so that you can jump to it. 55388 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway) 5539 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the 5540 timestamp? 5541 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more 5542 indent? 5543- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a 5544 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r". 5545- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not 5546 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a", 5547 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted? 55488 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo 5549 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new 5550 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing. 5551 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things. 55528 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change, 5553 only remember the lines that really changed. 55547 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous 5555 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a 5556 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need 5557 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone. 5558- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and ']. 5559 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb). 5560- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the 5561 number of undo levels (with confirmation). 5562- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123]. 5563 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number: 5564 [-99]. 5565- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating. 5566- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once. 5567- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed, 5568 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file?? 5569 5570 5571Buffer list: 55727 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}". 5573 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that 5574 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the 5575 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only". 55768 Add File.{recent-files} menu entries: Recently edited files. 5577 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim. 55788 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check 5579 inode too. 55807 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When 5581 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest 5582 number in use plus one?). 55837 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and 5584 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann) 5585- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the 5586 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb) 5587- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the 5588 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"? 55897 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list. 5590 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson) 55917 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer 5592 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc. 55938 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected. 55947 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for 5595 internal use and for when executing an external program? 55968 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides 5597 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside 5598 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix. 5599 5600 5601Swap (.swp) files: 56028 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another 5603 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when 5604 there are short file name problems. 56058 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap 5606 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions. 56078 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su. 56088 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same 5609 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file 5610 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup 5611 file the same as the actual file? 5612 Use the code for resolve()? 56137 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another 5614 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible. 56157 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere 5616 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'? 5617 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not 5618 enough room. 56197 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp 5620 or /var/preserve. 5621- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to 5622 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only. 5623- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen). 5624 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskbackup' and 'umaskswap'? 5625- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the 5626 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do 5627 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a 5628 cached list of which line is where. 5629 5630 5631Viminfo: 56327 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file, 5633 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone 5634 else's viminfo file. 56358 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a 5636 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this? 5637 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root? 56388 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file 5639 name. (Schild) 56408 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu). 56418 Remember the last used register for "@@". 56428 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting. 56438 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the 5644 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so. 5645 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display 5646 this? 56477 Also store the ". register (last inserted text). 56487 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some 5649 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron) 56506 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting 5651 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the 5652 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code? 5653- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of 5654 "last visited files" and select one to jump to. 5655 5656 5657Modelines: 56588 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid 5659 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it. 5660 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ". 5661- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This 5662 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing 5663 'shiftwidth'. 5664- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones 5665 such as 'encoding'. 5666- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to 5667 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the 5668 modeline setting. 5669- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings, 5670 no function calls, to avoid a security problem. 5671- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for 5672 .cpp files. 5673- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for 5674 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak. 5675- Add an option setting to ask the user if the modelines are to be executed 5676 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir. 5677 5678 5679Sessions: 56808 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means 5681 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth) 56827 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that 5683 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back. 56848 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when 5685 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant) 56868 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to 5687 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their 5688 default value. 56897 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal 5690 Malecki) 56917 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files. 5692 5693 5694Options: 56957 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and 5696 restore it after the command has executed. 56978 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string 5698 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should 5699 also be supported. 57008 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag 5701 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting 5702 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used. 57037 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas) 5704 5705 5706External commands: 57078 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen 5708 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd". 57094 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls" 5710 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g. 5711 -f). 57124 Allow direct execution, without using a shell. 57134 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI? 5714 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell! 57154 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands. 5716 5717 5718Multiple Windows: 57197 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits. 57208 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window. 5721 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window. 57227 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab> 5723 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to 5724 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer. 57257 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can 5726 then fill it with something. ":popen"? 57277 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be 5728 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov) 57296 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window. 5730 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new 5731 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would 5732 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel) 57337 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows 5734 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with 5735 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE 5736 too. Requires some form of inter process communication. 5737- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer 5738 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command. 5739 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer 5740 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made. 5741 5742 5743Marks: 57448 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file. 57458 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this 5746 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-. 57478 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m? 57488 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times. 5749 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file. 57508 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle 5751 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when 5752 the mark was set. 57537 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers, 5754 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands 5755 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with 5756 ":browse marks"? 57576 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige) 57587 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the 5759 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark. 57607 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group). 5761 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does. 57627 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m 5763 command). 57647 Try to keep marks in the same position when: 5765 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the 5766 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo) 5767 - inserting/deleting characters in a line. 57685 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in 5769 mappings. 57706 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and 5771 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines. 5772 Highlight the marked lines somehow. 5773 5774 5775Digraphs: 57767 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists. 5777 Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'. 5778- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special 5779 characters? 57808 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown) 57817 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At 5782 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32). 5783 5784 5785Writing files: 5786- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for 5787 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to 5788 shortname conversion. 57898 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc. 57908 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode' 5791 file. 57928 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some 5793 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another 5794 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'? 57956 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like 5796 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'. 57976 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory. 5798 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas) 57996 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#". 5800 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name? 58018 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids 5802 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman) 58037 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations 5804 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition). 58057 When editing a file, check that it has been changed outside of Vim more 5806 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is 5807 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before 5808 waiting for a character to be typed). 58098 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status 5810 line of the window, like "[time]". 5811 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes. 5812 Automatic and/or with a command. 5813 5814 5815Substitute: 58168 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like 5817 "\%uabcd" in search pattern. 58188 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.: 5819 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w". 5820- :s///p prints the line after a substitution. 5821- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern. 58228 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective. 5823 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys. 5824- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or: 5825 :s///N substitutes N times. 5826- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.: 5827 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do 5828 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution. 58297 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex 5830 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the 5831 last line column 5. 58325 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks, 5833 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the 5834 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands. 5835 (Stanislav Sitar) 5836 5837 5838Mouse support: 58398 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'? 58407 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu. 58418 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic 5842 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you 5843 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar) 5844- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console. 5845- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to 5846 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners). 5847- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!? 5848- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to. 5849 5850 5851Argument list: 58526 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list. 5853 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches 5854 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match. 58556 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers? 5856 5857 5858Registers: 58598 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne) 58608 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for 5861 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r" 5862 for every line. 5863- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of 5864 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more". 5865- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment 5866 leader when line wraps? 5867- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each 5868 line in the range. 5869- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text 5870 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo") 58718 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register. 5872 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)? 5873 5874 5875Debug mode: 58768 Add breakpoints for setting an option 58778 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable. 58787 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo. 58797 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al. 5880 5881Various improvements: 58827 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on 5883 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.). 5884 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the 5885 "format/chinese.vim" plugin. 5886 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called. 5887 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages. 5888 (2005 Nov 24) 5889 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23) 58907 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next 5891 ("vatv"). 58927 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to 5893 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>. 58948 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename 5895 the buffer. Buffer may be modified. 58967 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to 5897 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes 5898 from the 'makeprg'? 5899- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh 5900 Govindachar) 59017 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a 5902 window as a buffer-tab selection. 59038 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner) 59047 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want 5905 to manipulate text without changing the window layout. 59068 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until 5907 all changes are gone. 59086 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri) 59098 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim. 5910 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim. 5911 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it 5912 in this Vim. 59138 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as 5914 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"? 59158 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes 5916 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and 5917 have it apply to the following command. 59188 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other 5919 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the 5920 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up. 5921 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'? 59227 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a 5923 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files. 59247 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>, 5925 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize 5926 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key 5927 without modifier (unless mapped). 59286 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line. 59298 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map". 59309 Support ACLs on more systems. 59317 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be 5932 highlighted differently. 59337 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above 5934 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message 5935 (truncated to fit in the space). 59367 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner) 59378 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout) 59388 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise 5939 Visual mode. 59407 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use 5941 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV. 59427 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping 5943 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0". 59447 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name. 59457 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently. 59467 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines? 59478 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney) 59488 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in 5949 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for 5950 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef 5951 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do? 59528 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down. 59538 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists. 59548 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file 5955 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would 5956 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist 5957 does something like this. (Shah) 59587 Use growarray for replace stack. 59597 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution 5960 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis). 59613 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"? 59627 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same 5963 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers? 59647 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number 5965 than the default). (Nikolai Weibull) 5966- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode. 5967- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file. 5968- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c 5969- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window. 59707 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive 5971 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used. 5972- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home 5973 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc. 5974- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this. 5975- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set, 5976 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert) 5977- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to 5978 call "play newbeep.au"). 5979- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or 5980 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function. 5981 (Bhatt). 5982- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for 5983 blockwise registers). 5984- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the 5985 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt). 5986- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps 5987 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed, 5988 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't 5989 noticeable. 5990- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb). 59917 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters. 5992 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code. 5993- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs 5994 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between 5995 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent 5996 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new 5997 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change. 59988 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do 5999 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting. 60008 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the 6001 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for 6002 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a 6003 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line). 6004 ":set autoformat=\\s$". 6005- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern? 6006- Support multibyte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson. 60077 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the 6008 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt) 6009- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is 6010 not in column 1. 60116 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a 6012 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext". 60137 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined? 6014- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator? 6015- Add more redirecting of Ex commands: 6016 :redir #> bufname 6017 :redir #>> bufname (append) 6018- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no 6019 redirection was active. 6020- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with 6021 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set". 6022 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit". 60236 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32 6024 console? (Klaus Hast) 6025- Add :delcr command: 6026 *:delcr* 6027 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines 6028 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is 6029 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range]. 6030 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If 6031 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all 6032 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. 6033- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat(). 6034- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta 6035 characters from 'isprint'. 6036- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName(). 6037- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area. 6038 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn. 6039- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but 6040 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More 6041 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion. 6042- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()). 6043- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like 6044 Nvi). 6045- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the 6046 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define. 60477 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position. 6048- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that 6049 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'? 60506 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file. 6051- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the 6052 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13 6053 macro). 6054- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files. 6055- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also 6056 expanded. Is there a better way to do this? 6057- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source". 60588 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set. 6059- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty. 6060- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible! 6061- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down 6062 if it is not the first or last window. 6063- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if 6064 there is one) instead of the file itself. 60657 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example: 6066 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0 6067 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files. 6068- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion. 6069- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as 6070 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so 6071 many percent down the windows). 6072- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the 6073 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the 6074 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'. 6075 Make 'showbreak' local to a window. 6076- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g. 6077 'dictionary' when it is "*.h". 6078- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to 6079 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit). 6080- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent) 6081- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends. 6082- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the 6083 passwd file? (Antwerpen) 60848 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw", 6085 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is 6086 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack? 6087 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when 6088 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping? 6089- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time 6090 t_bs is set? (Webb) 6091- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also 6092 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert). 6093- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store 6094 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window 6095 (Webb). 6096- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the 6097 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al. 6098- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering 6099 hex codes like 0xff). 6100- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command 6101 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo 6102 the last TYPED command. 6103- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf". 6104- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows. 6105- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/" 6106 should also work? 6107- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on a URL? 61088 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file 6109 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine 6110 name. 6111- When finding a URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a 6112 trailing '.'. 6113- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a 6114 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use 6115 find_file_in_path(). 6116- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between 6117 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon). 6118- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion. 6119- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a 6120 form usable by Vim on the current machine. 6121- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have 6122 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags. 6123- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one 6124 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains 6125 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline. 6126- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments. 6127- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt) 6128- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back 6129 to the minimal size. 6130- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */). 6131- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline(). 6132- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb). 6133- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file. 6134- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers. 6135- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line 6136 entered)? 6137- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible 6138 as an output filter. 6139- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this. 6140- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line. 6141- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file. 6142- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc. 6143- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char. 6144- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long 6145 lines. 6146- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase? 61478 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"), 6148 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option 6149 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex 6150 or in octal. 61517 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more 6152 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument? 6153- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source. 6154 After ":w !command" a wait_return? 6155- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()). 6156- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without 6157 insert line command). 6158- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it. 6159- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals. 6160- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000). 6161- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying. 6162- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace 6163 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>. 6164- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work 6165 yet. 6166- Implement 'redraw' option. 6167- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or 6168 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right). 61697 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs 6170 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin. 6171 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal 6172 I/O. 61738 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can 6174 do it. 6175- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to. 6176- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts, 6177 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list. 6178- Add text justification option. 6179- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on". 6180- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is 6181 off". 6182- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR. 6183- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message. 6184- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but 6185 gives read errors. Check protection before opening. 6186- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied". 6187- If file does not exist, check if directory exists. 6188- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex 6189 commands. 6190- ":set -w all": list one option per line. 6191- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file. 6192- :table command (Webb) 6193- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ". 6194- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?). 6195- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb). 6196- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files. 6197- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel). 6198- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited 6199 (Demirel). 6200- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc. 6201- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore", 6202 for use in macro's and the like. 6203- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while 6204 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window? 6205- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for 6206 ":set all". ":r :set all"? 6207- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not 6208 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in 6209 a window to become smaller (Webb). 6210- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized 6211 proportionally (Webb). 6212- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use 6213 mkopttab to make option table? 6214- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current 6215 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)? 6216- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster 6217 (Haritsis). 6218- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used 6219 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev) 6220- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the 6221 cursor? 6222- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)? 62238 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore 6224 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in 6225 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams: 6226 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another 6227 option name. 62288 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to 6229 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places. 6230 (Netherton) 62316 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a 6232 space after "(", for example. 62335 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs 6234 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit'). 6235 (Servatius Brandt) 6236 6237 6238From Elvis: 6239- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages? 6240- Add ":alias" command. 6241- Search patterns: 6242 \@ match word under cursor. 6243 but do: 6244 \@w match the word under the cursor? 6245 \@W match the WORD under the cursor? 62468 ":window" command: 6247 :win + next window (up) 6248 :win ++ idem, wrapping 6249 :win - previous window (down) 6250 :win -- idem, wrapping 6251 :win nr to window number "nr" 6252 :win name to window editing buffer "name" 62537 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is 6254 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"? 6255 6256 6257From xvi: 6258- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character. 6259- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet) 6260 6261 6262From vile: 6263- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window. 6264- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files 6265 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files. 6266 6267 6268Far future and "big" extensions: 6269- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to 6270 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something 6271 like an Aap recipe and configure.ac to C. Avoids depending on Python, 6272 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it 6273 would also work on MS-Windows. 6274- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice 6275 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,... 6276- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in 6277 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac). 6278 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the 6279 current layout mirrored. 6280- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer. 6281- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords, 6282 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.). 6283- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent). 6284- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different 6285 font in each top-level window. 6286- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit'). 6287- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them. 6288- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning. 6289- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to. 6290 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim). 6291- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other 6292 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter). 6293- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five 6294 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc.. 62954 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands: 6296 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format. 6297 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted. 6298 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list, 6299 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags 6300 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples: 6301 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list 6302- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes 6303 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but 6304 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/. 6305 6306vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl: 6307vim: set fo+=n : 6308
