1*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2004 Jul 12 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 items are grouped by 11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able 12to look for "the next thing to do": 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 30 *known-bugs* 31-------------------- Known bugs and current work ----------------------- 32 33Make aap build script work again. Also with mzscheme 34 35Mac: Compiling --enable-gui=athena doesn't work. Try to fix without disabling 36Carbon. Otherwise adjust configure to disable darwin. (raf) 37 38Mac: "make install" doesn't install. 39 40 41For version 7.0: 42- Include many PATCHES: 43 8 Add functions: 44 strrep() Repeat a string (patch from Christophe Poucet, 45 2003 Sep 12, also contains XX) 46 Alt: repeat(expr, count) werkt ook voor lists. 47 mousex() mousey() get position of mouse pointer (patch by Ross 48 Presser) 49 He will send a new patch. 50 Is this really useful? 51 multibyteidx(string, idx) Byte index in multi-byte character. 52 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Feb 25 53 Update June 18 (third one). 54 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what}) 55 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}. 56 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File". 57 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu 58 File.Open..." argument. 59 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22 60 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping. 61 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4. 62 match({pat}, {string} [,start] [,count]) get index of count'th match 63 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Jun 19 64 find() find file in 'path' (patch from Johannes 65 Zellner 2001 Dec 20) 66 Update 2004 Jun 16. 67 realname() Get user name (first, last, full) 68 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov 69 3 2002) 70 getfperm() file permissions, in form "rwxrwxrwx" 71 (patch from Nikolai Weibull 2003 Jan 13) 72 getftype() "file", "dir", "link", "other"? 73 (patch from Nikolai Weibull 2003 Jan 13) 74 setbufline() set line in any buffer (patch from Yegappan 75 Lakshmanan, 2003 Jan 21) 76 winnr("$") Get number of windows. (patch from Nikolai 77 Weibull 2003 Jan 13) (another patch from 78 Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2004 Jul 11) 79 search() Add optional offset argument. 80 Add 'n' flag. (patch from Nikolai Weibull 81 2003 Jan 13) 82 filter() Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2004 Jul 11 83 8 Make it possible to delete marks. Charles Campbell has a patch that 84 does this with the markclear() function (2004 Jan 9). 85 And the ":delmark" command (2004 Feb 9) 86 http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#Patch 87 ~/tmp/ptch.delmark.bz2 88 ~/tmp/ptch.markclear 89 Implement setmark(markname, lnum [, col [, filename]]) instead? 90 When "lnum" is zero delete the mark. 91 When "filename" has no wildcards and there is no matching buffer, add 92 the buffer (unlisted). 93 Patch for \xnn (Ciaran McCreesh) 2004 Jul 10 94 7 Add 'taglistfiles' option, show file name and type when listing matching 95 tags name with CTRL-D completion. Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan. 96 2004 Jul 11 97 7 For Visual mode: Command to do a search for the string in the marked 98 area. Only when fewer than two lines. Use "g/" and "gb". Patch from 99 Yegappan Lakshmanan. 2004 Jul 11 100 8 Make 'statusline' local, so that each window can have a different 101 value. But should it also be local to a buffer? (Yegappan Lakshmanan 102 has a patch, 2004 Jul 11) 103 --- awaiting updated patch --- 104 7 Add patch from Wall for this one ( ~/Mail/oldmail/wall/in.00019 ): 105 'flipcase' variable: upper/lowercase pairs. 106 Insert comma's between pairs and allow a range, make it look like 107 'isfname'. E.g. ":set flipcase=a-zA-Z,xX,23-33:143-153". The colon to 108 separate the from and to part is optional. 109 Resp: no time now. 110 8 Add GTK 2.3 file dialog support. Patch by Grahame Bowland, 2004 Mar 15, 111 but it doesn't use "initdir" or "dflt". (will update patch) 112 8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible. 113 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. 114 He will update the patch for 6.3. 115 8 Add buffer-local autocommands? Reduces overhead for autocommands that 116 trigger often (inserting a character, switching mode). 117 :au Event <buffer> do-something 118 E.g.: 119 :au BufEnter <buffer> menu enable ... 120 :au BufLeave <buffer> menu disable ... 121 Patch from Yakov Lerner, including test (2004 Jan 7). 122 He'll send updated patch. 123 Autocommands: 124 VimResized - When the Vim window has been resized (SIGWINCH) 125 patch from Yakov Lerner, 2003 July 24. 126 He'll write documentation and send updated patch. 127 7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto. 128 Update 2004 Jun 17. 129 How does this work? Missing comments. 130 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 131 Update 2004 Jun 17 132 Missing docs. Search in 'runtimepath'? 133 How to get the messages into the .po files? 134 --- did not respond (yet) -- 135 7 Make "5dd" on last-but-one-line not delete anything (Vi compatible). 136 Add flag in 'cpoptions' for this. When not present, "2dd" in the last 137 line should delete the last line. Patch from greenx 2002 Apr 11. 138 8 Accelerators don't work in a dialog. Include patch from Martin Dalecki 139 (Jan 3, tested by David Harrison). Should work with Alt-o then. 140 7 Use accelerators for the Motif file selection dialog. Patch from 141 Martin Dalecki 2002 Jan 11. 142 8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina 143 (28 feb 2002). 144 7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears 145 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3. 146 - Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work 147 for multi-byte characters. 148 - Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind. 149 - Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5) 150 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not 151 been given values. 152 Add section in help files for these highlight groups? 153 8 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm 154 with an ESC sequence. Ideas in: ~/vim/patches/vikas.xtermcolors . 155 7 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Martin 156 Dalecki has a patch for Motif) 157 - Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a 158 line in between columns (e.g. for 'textwidth'). 159 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20. 160 8 Add functions: 161 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical 162 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg) 163 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag 164 (2003 May 13) 165 system({cmd}, {expr}) Filter {expr} through the shell command 166 {cmd} and return the result. 167 (Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan) 168 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for 169 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ ) 170 7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions 171 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10) 172 7 Motif: use the menu font consistently. Patch from Martin Dalecki 2002 173 Jan 11. 174 - Motif: add 3D shading for the menu entries? Patch from Martin Dalecki. 175 7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right 176 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli) 177 8 Lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk (uncrypted). 178 Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. 179 7 Support a stronger encryption. Jason Holt implemented AES (May 6 2003). 180 7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie) 181 8 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's 182 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1. 183 7 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David 184 Kotchan has a patch for it) 185 8 Add term entries for function keys on xterm with alt and ctrl (new in 186 pl 94). E.g., Control adds ";5" in "<Esc>[20;5~". Find a generic way 187 to prepend a modifier in console mode, to avoid having to specify each 188 individual modified key. 189 Steve Wall has a patch (2002 Mar 12) for adding function keys up to 37, 190 with modifiers. 191 8 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See 192 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface. 193 Or use emacs server kind of thing? 194 7 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25. 195 - findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at 196 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram, 197 incomplete patch Mar 18) 198 199 200- In the kvim/KDE source files fix the formatting. 201- KDE version is called "kvim". Make it "gvim", like the others? 202- Better configure check for KDE include files from Dan Sharp. 203- KDE Input method patch. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 204- Change ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be 205 incremented/decremented each time. 206- For string variables, use length instead of NUL termination. 207- new DATA TYPES: lists, dictionaries and function references. 208 Check old patch from Robert Webb for array support. 209 Add type checking? See ~/vim/ideas.txt. 210- Add SPELLCHECKER, with easy to add support for many languages. 211 8 Add spell checking. Use "ispell -a" somehow. 212 ~/vim/patches/wm_vim-5_4d.zip can be used as an example (includes 213 ispell inside Vim). Gautam Iyer has an example with "aspell". 214 "engspchk" from Charles Campbell is a good way. Support for 215 approximate-regexps will help (agrep http://www.tgries.de/agrep/). 216 - Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to 217 existing syntax items (to add @Spell). Add ":syntax contains 218 {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn cluster" but change 219 the contains list directly for matching syntax items. 220 - Keep wordlist in syntax group, load it only once and use it several 221 times later. Sort of global syntax items. 222- REFACTORING: The main() function is very long. Move parts to separate 223 functions, especially loops. Ideas from Walter Briscoe (2003 Apr 3, 2004 224 Feb 9). 225- Improve the interface between the generic GUI code and the system-specific 226 code. Generic code handles text window with scrollbars, system-specific 227 code menu, toolbar, etc. 228- Store messages to allow SCROLLING BACK for all commands. And other "less" 229 like commands. 230- "INTELLISENSE". First cleanup the Insert-mode completion. 231 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747 232 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim 233- PERSISTENT UNDO: store undo in a file. 234 Support multiple threads. Show the list of changes in a window to be able 235 to select a version. 2367 SWAP FILE CHANGE: When a dos format file was edited with ":e ++ff=unix", 237 Vim is killed and trying to recover the file, 'ff' will be dos. Same for 238 non-default fileencoding. (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jul 17) 239 Should store the values in block 0 of the swap file, but that is an 240 incompatible change. 2417 Support WINDOW TABS. Works like several pages, each with their own 242 split windows. Patch for GTK 1.2 from Christian Michon, 2004 Jan 6. 243 Also for the console! 244- EMBEDDING: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program. 245 For Xwindows this can be done with XReparentWindow(). 246 For GTK Neil Bird has a patch to use Vim like a widget. 247- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block 248 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2. 249- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye, 250 assisted by Mikolaj Machowski. Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it 251 generic. Also found here: http://skawina.eu.org/mikolaj/vimgdb 252 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program 253 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the 254 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the 255 other window. 256 Wishes for NetBeans commands: 257 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors. 258 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?) 259 in terminal mode. 260- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is. 261 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command 262 scrolls back to where the cursor is. 2638 Support four composing characters, needed for Hebrew. (Ron Aaron) 264- Add a few more things to 'diffopt': "horizontal", "vertical", 265 "foldcolumn". (Benji Fisher, 2004 Jun 21) 266- FileChangedShellPost autocommand event: after (not) reloading a changed 267 file. Can be used to update statusline oslt. 2688 When a file is change outside of Vim and unmodified in Vim there is no 269 simple way to automatically reload the file. Either add an option for 270 this or make it simple to have the FileChangedShell invoke the normal 271 action, telling it what to do. 272- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display. 273- Mac: Unicode input and display (Eckehard Berns, June 27) 2748 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac? 275 New patch 2004 Jun 16 2769 Add cursor-column highlighting. Enable it with 'cursorcolumn' option, 277 set highlighting with "CursorColumn" group. Useful for aligning text. 278 Also cursor-row highlighting. Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto for 279 underlining the cursor line: 2004 Jun 17. Should use highlight group 280 instead. 281 Alternative: when 'number' is set highlight the number of the current 282 line. 2837 Make ":startinsert" command work directly for functions and scripts? 284 Also make it possible to append (it's difficult at end of line). 285 286Vi incompatibility: 2878 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other 288 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it 289 is deleted or restored. (Webb) 290 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo. 291 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the '' 292 position is one line down. (Veselinovic) 2938 ":change" in a single-line file adds an empty line. When the file used to 294 be longer a "~" line is displayed, but there really is an empty line. 295 (Haakon Riiser, 2003 Dec 3 and Dec 16) 2968 ":append" and ":insert" in an empty file add an extra empty line. (Haakon 297 Riiser, 2003 Dec 3) Test for ML_EMPTY. 2988 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should 299 make Vim exit. 3007 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line 301 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway). 302 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input. 3038 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips 304 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument 305 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded) 3066 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but 307 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag 308 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off. 3098 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another 310 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one. 311 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file 312 names in one buffer??? 313 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and 314 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not 315 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer. 3167 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some 317 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual" 318 command was one command. 3197 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep 320 the ":map" when it's used without arguments? 3217 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option. 3227 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty. 3237 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a 324 flag in 'cpoptions' for this. 3257 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when 326 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing 327 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either 328 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file). 3297 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode). 3307 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines. 3317 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go 332 to the match with the tag? Option? 3337 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option. 3347 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del> 335 (Sayre). 3367 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the 337 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible). 3387 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual". 339 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next 340 match. Nvi can do it too. 3417 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking) 342 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\ 343 line 1\ line 2\\ 344 line 2\ line 3\\ 345 . line4/ 3466 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of 347 the way the shell is started? 3486 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange 349 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line). 350 351 352GTK+ 1 (OK in GTK 2): 3538 When menus are disabled, 'm' removed from 'guioptions', Alt-F still pops 354 up the File menu. Cannot reproduce this: gives a warning for a NULL 355 pointer if the menu was never displayed. 3568 When using "gvim -geom 40x30" or setting 'columns' in .gvimrc or with a 357 GUIEnter autocommand, the width is still set to fit the toolbar. Also 358 happens when changing the font. How to avoid that the toolbar specifies 359 the minimal window width? 3608 When using a theme with different scrollbars (gtkstep), the scrollbars can 361 be too narrow. (Drazen Kacar) 3628 Font "7x14" has a bold version "7x14bold". Try to find the bold font by 363 appending "bold" when there are not 14 dashes. 364 365GTK+ GUI known bugs: 3668 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj 367 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in 368 creating a label? 3699 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim 370 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and 371 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works. 372 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again. 3737 DND doesn't work with KDE (also with GTK 1). 374 375KDE GUI known bugs: 376- The default font is ugly. bold text isn't displayed correctly. 377- Error messages when starting up. The "tip of the day" box is empty. 378- Encoding of menu items needs to be converted. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 379 380Win32 GUI known bugs: 3818 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2 382 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically? 3838 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications. 384 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs. 385 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html 3868 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be 387 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp) 3887 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow 389 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to 390 "lucida_console:h8"). 3916 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":" 392 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis) 3937 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason 394 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible 395 to use an opaque background in most places? 3968 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that 397 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly. 398 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters. 3998 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font 400 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the 401 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono. 4027 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan, 403 2004 May 9) 4048 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces 405 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim 406 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with 407 MS-Windows 98? 408 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a 409 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed 410 file: Window moves with the cursor! 411 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it? 4128 When activating the Vim window with mouse click, don't move cursor to 413 mouse position. Catch WM_MOUSEACTIVATE. (Luevelsmeyer) 4148 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it 415 appear. (Sami Salonen) 4168 Windows NT: writing to aux.* makes Vim hang. (Acevedo) 4178 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that 418 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win 419 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also 420 doesn't work properly. 4218 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops 422 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it 423 appears in the right position. (Webb) 4249 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse 425 button doesn't give popup menu. 426 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless 427 selection. 428 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button. 429 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the 430 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text. 4318 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the 432 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore) 433 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error 434 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code. 4358 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg. 436 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not 437 be read. 4388 MessageBox used for error messages can be too big. There is no way to 439 scroll it, or even hit the OK button (but you can hit return). 440 Use a scrollable window. 4417 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida 442 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char). 443 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'. 4447 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the 445 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to 446 scroll? Need to be able to get out of hit-enter prompt with the mouse 447 anyway. 4487 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance. 449 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar. 4507 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using 451 "/min" as the command name. (Rogall) 4526 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor). 4538 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work 454 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because 455 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr? 4568 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we 457 know which keyboard is being used? 4587 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern 459 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn 460 area (Koloseike). 4618 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might 462 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first, 463 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in 464 the font name). 465 466 467Athena and Motif: 4689 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is 469 required and it's missing? 4708 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned 471 wrong. 4729 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can 473 be off by default. 4749 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now, 475 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting 476 flag. 4778 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character. 478 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1. 479 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this. 4808 Perhaps use fontsets for everything? 4816 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting 482 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all 483 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of 484 the tooltips work though... 4857 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not 486 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory). 4878 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the 488 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the 489 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'. 490 491 492Athena GUI: 4939 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in 494 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving 495 through files. 4967 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to 497 read long file names. (Schroeder) 4984 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go 499 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the 500 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets" 501 problem during a refresh. 5025 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing 503 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the 504 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors. 505 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes 506 colors as it should. 507 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the 508 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug? 509 510 511Motif GUI: 5128 Popup menu ordering is wrong. 5137 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()? 514 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2). 5158 The texts in the find/replace dialog don't use the right font. 5168 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes 517 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes. 518 (Phillipps) 519 520 521GUI: 5229 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no 523 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy) 5249 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C. 525 e.g. on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on 526 Solaris 2.6. (Marley) 5279 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim 528 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf) 5298 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key 530 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version). 5318 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both 532 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate 533 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed. 5348 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling 535 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state 536 of where it is processing the output. 537 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code. 5388 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font 539 doesn't work. 5408 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS. 5418 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS. 5428 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for 543 browse(). 5448 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this, 545 use that code? Or use console dialog. 5468 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the 547 error message disappears too quick. 5488 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later, 549 to avoid problems. 5508 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there 551 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for 552 input. Or maybe every 100 ms? 5538 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank 554 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0". 555 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works. 5568 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed 557 up. Set erase character somehow? 5588 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character 559 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this. 560 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling. 561 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya) 5628 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11. 5637 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not 564 visible. 5657 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is 566 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey) 5677 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it 568 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw. 5698 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the 570 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek) 5718 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not 572 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32. 573 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the 574 remaining part of the window (Phillipps). 575- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun. 5764 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times 577 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times 578 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486. 579 580 581MSDOS/DJGPP: 5829 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao) 583 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the 584 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem. 5858 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists. 586 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error? 5879 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused 588 code and reduce static data. 5899 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C. 590 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since 591 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting 592 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work. 5939 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work. 594 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67 595 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71 596 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2) 597 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>. 598 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream? 599 Make this work like in Win32 console. 600 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended 601 key code. Use a translation table? 6029 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used. 603 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself. 6048 Use DJGPP 2.03. 6058 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT. 606 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip). 6078 setlocale() is bogus. 6088 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some 609 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched 610 Windows 95 system! 6118 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe) 6127 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g. in keyword completion) on a 8088 613 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin). 6147 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.: 615 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley) 616 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem). 6178 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add 618 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt. 6197 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen. 620 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a 621 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are 622 "[New file]". 6237 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode 624 that is supported? 6258 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them. 6268 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter 627 Briscoe) 628 629 630MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32: 6318 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use 632 gen_expand_wildcards(). 6338 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander 634 Wagner. 6358 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL. 6368 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt, 637 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name. 6388 Should $USERPROFILE be used instead of $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? 6398 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have 640 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key. 6418 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift. 642 Should work like in the GUI version. 6438 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for 644 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names. 6458 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when 646 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command? 6478 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file" 648 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be 649 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc. 6508 ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means directory "#bb" 651 in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth) 6528 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going 653 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to 654 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth) 655 656 657Windows 95: 6588 Editing a file by it's short file name and writing it, makes the long file 659 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps. 660 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly). 6618 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the 662 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32). 663 664 665Win32 console: 6669 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its 667 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister) 668 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor. 669 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable. 670 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1 671 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name. 672 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file. 673 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed 674 and the file is not saved. 675 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its 676 long name. 6778 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at 678 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT. 6797 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals, 680 besides the console. 6818 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes) 6829 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with 683 <C-S-i>? 6849 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on 685 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI? 6868 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__ 687 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around? 6887 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'? 689 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when 690 exiting. 691 692 693Amiga: 6948 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte 695 sequences. 6969 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove 697 backslashes in result. 6988 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do 699 all options, using white space separation. 700 701 702Macintosh: 7037 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard 704 Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff 705 Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it. 7067 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both. 707 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac 708 (Jack) 709 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html 7108 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear 711 to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17) 7128 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI. 7139 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher) 714 - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost. 7158 The Vim/About menu doesn't work. 7168 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV. 7178 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh. 7188 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh. 7199 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be 720 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone) 7219 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when 722 scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher) 7239 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two 724 seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher) 7259 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly. 7268 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige) 7278 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige) 728 729 730"Small" problems: 7318 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used, 732 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited 733 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure 734 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this. 7359 When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with 736 'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though 737 the fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to 738 check for the buffer to be unmodified. 7398 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the 740 error number, it's not a regular error message. 7417 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to 742 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 7438 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and 744 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column 745 for redirection. 7467 There is no way to change directory and go back without changing the local 747 and/or global directory. Add a way to find out if the current window uses 748 a local directory. Add cdcmd() that returns ":cd" or ":lcd"? 7497 After running "make test" the window title is sometimes not restored. 750 Mostly sticks at "test3.in", but not always. Appears to happen more often 751 when compiled with Python (threading). 7527 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use 753 'termencoding'. 7548 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor 755 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor 756 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when 757 using the horizontal scrollbar. 7587 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed 759 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the 760 invocations belong together. 7618 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this 762 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams) 7638 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the 764 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the 765 UnxUtils.zip archive. 766 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter 767 Briscoe says it's not as good. 7688 'fillchars' doesn't work for multi-byte characters. 7699 Editing a XML file with a long line is extremely slow. Example file from 770 Randy Parker (Dec 13). Editing the dictionaries for engspchk plugin with 771 syntax highlighting is also very slow. 772 Limit the searching for items to a few hundred characters? 7738 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing 774 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly) 7757 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names: 776 use "~/" when possible. 7777 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte 778 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail 779 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[] 780 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8). 7818 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when 782 defined. 7837 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an 784 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found. 785 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions. 7867 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode 787 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second 788 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel) 7897 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the 790 bottom window only bigger as much as needed. 7917 "[p" doesn't work in Visual mode. (David Brown) 7927 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere. 793 Remove? (Dan Sharp) 7949 The argument <f-args> of a user command doesn't handle backslashes 795 properly. "Cmd \ e" is one argument, "Cmd \\ e" still is one argument. 796 "Cmd \ e" is two arguments, first one ending in space. (Kontra Gergely) 7979 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This 798 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining 799 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command": 800 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining 801 script can be called. 8028 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po, 803 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still 804 works. 8059 When a syntax region does not use "keepend" and a contained item does use 806 "extend", this makes the outer region stop at the end of the contained 807 region. (Lutz Eymers) Another example Nov 14 2002. 8088 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with 809 CTRL-C. 8107 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X 811 server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp 812 of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK 813 doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it 814 won't work for GTK anyway. 8158 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error 816 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid. 8178 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line() 818 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this 819 configurable? 8208 'hkmap' should probably be global-local. 8219 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes 822 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work 823 then. (Pritesh Mistry) 8248 ":s!from!to!" works, but ":smagic!from!to!" doesn't. It sees the "!" as a 825 flag to to the command. Same for ":snomagic". (Johan Spetz) 8268 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save 827 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()? 8288 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is 829 always written, even when the original file already exists. 8307 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter, 831 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space. 8329 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file 833 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being 834 written. 8359 The "Error detected while processing modelines" message should have an 836 error number. 8377 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer. 8388 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose 839 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when 840 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'. 8418 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global 842 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez) 8439 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing 844 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give 845 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating 846 one. 8477 On MS-DOS or MS-Windows, when editing the same file over a network, the 848 drive letter is different, thus an existing swap file doesn't generate a 849 warning. Use some flag to indicate the swap file is in the same directory 850 as the original file? Could make b0_fname[] start with a special 851 character like ">". 8527 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes. 853 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs. 8547 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that 855 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back. 8567 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed 857 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's 858 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y 859 direction, not horizontally? 8608 When using CTRL-D after ":help", restrict the number of matches to a 861 thousand, otherwise using CTRL-D without an argument takes too long. 8628 ":hardcopy": 863 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16. 864 - Need to handle unprintable characters. 865 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform 866 dithering to make grey text? 867 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total 868 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams) 869 - Should interpreted CTRL-L as a page break. 870 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'. 871 Default to black when no syntax highlighting. 872 - Be able to print a window in diff mode. 873 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate 874 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected). 8758 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the 876 text in following lines where the linebreak changes. 8779 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on 878 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect 879 that Windows NT is being used? 8808 When opening the same file on Unix and on MS-Windows, there is no 881 ATTENTION message, because the path in the swap file is different. Using 882 a relative path name will cause no ATTENTION for Vim 5.8. 883 Somehow add a flag that the swap file is in the same dir as the file? 8848 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a 885 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it. 8868 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert 887 in lines that don't extend into the block? 8888 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O 889 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev) 890 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work. 8918 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from 892 'linebreak'. 8938 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection 894 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab. 895 (Helmut Stiegler) 8968 With 'virtualedit' set, a blockwise Visual selection that starts and ends 897 in a tab, "<" shifts too much. (Helmut Stiegler) 8989 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When 899 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending 900 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of 901 'magic' in history. (Margo) 9029 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for 903 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc". 9049 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern 905 isn't updated). 9069 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga). 9079 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled 908 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which 909 cause another redraw, etc. 9108 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path() 911 must escape special characters in the pattern. 9128 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an 913 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use 914 ":w!!" for that. 915 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and 916 restore file to readonly afterwards. 9177 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get 918 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the 919 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as 920 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from 921 clipboard) 9227 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal 923 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark 924 Waggoner) 9258 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window 926 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no 927 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\". 9288 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a 929 way to avoid using the builtin termcap. 9308 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also 931 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm. 932 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style. 9338 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator 934 (e.g., ":w"). 9358 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for 936 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long. 9378 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column 938 for ">>". 9398 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long 940 script in do_cmdline(). 9418 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the 942 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that 943 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have 944 changes. 9458 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT 946 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim". 9478 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to 948 check for file marks. This can be slow. 9497 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change 950 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's 951 needed. 952 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key. 9538 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option 954 to skip catch_signals()? 9559 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the 956 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert 957 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of 958 text? 9598 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts 960 all the text. Add ":rmenu"? 9618 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of 962 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>. 9639 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are 964 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7, 965 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed. 966 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or 967 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate(). 9687 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/". 969 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and 970 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings 971 in the list? 9728 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking 973 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up, 974 instead of on button down. 9758 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw. 9769 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for 977 reaching the end of the available buffer. 9788 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a 979 character is typed. 9808 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this. 981 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it. 9828 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not 983 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure 9848 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an 985 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template 986 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp". 987 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for 988 cygwin bash. 9897 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}". 990 Remember flags for backreferences. 9917 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been 992 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT? 9937 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names 994 that contain a '$' after all have been found. 9958 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about 996 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX. 9977 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting 998 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name. 9997 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing. 1000 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and 1001 "initdir" is the default path to be used. 10027 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of 1003 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols) 10048 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo 1005 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so 1006 that the user knows he has to delete the files. 10077 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func 1008 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this. 10097 After ":%d" an undo reports the number of lines added as if there still 1010 was one line. 1011 1012 1013I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!): 10149 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file 1015 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three 1016 files. (McCollister) 10178 Motif: Tear-off menu item crashes Vim on some machines. (Netherton) It 1018 works fine for me, maybe it's a Motif problem. 1019 1020 1021Problems that will (probably) not be solved: 1022- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering 1023 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the 1024 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like 1025 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external 1026 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text. 1027- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access 1028 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message. 1029 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it. 1030- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim. 1031 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim. 1032- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will 1033 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which 1034 character gets the highlighting. 1035- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm 1036 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly. 1037- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem. 1038 (Jennings) 1039- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino). 1040- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25 1041 errors. How do we get the rest? 1042- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why? 1043- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The 1044 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong. 1045- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a 1046 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy 1047 first? 1048- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for 1049 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names. 1050- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy 1051 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim, 1052 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK. 1053- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The 1054 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working. 1055 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p". 1056 (Benzinger). 1057- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that 1058 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim 1059 can't get back what the external command didn't use. 1060- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error. 1061 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code. 1062- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being 1063 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar. 1064- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer 1065 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when 1066 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted. 1067 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library. 1068 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn) 1069 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)? 1070- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles 1071 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE. 1072 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134. 1073- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal 1074 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif 1075 libraries, get a patch from Sun. 1076- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X 1077 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash. 1078- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks 1079 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff. 1080- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim 1081 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy) 1082- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive 1083 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used. 1084- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up: 1085 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library 1086 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to 1087 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the 1088 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem. 1089- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the 1090 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line: 1091 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr> 1092- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a 1093 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert 1094 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard) 1095- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar. 1096 This is a GTK 2.4.x bug, fixed in GTK 2.4.2. (Thomas de Grenier de Latour) 1097- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co' 1098 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the 1099 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the 1100 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined 1101 in the vimrc file to be lost. 1102- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and 1103 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars. 1104 1105--------------------- extensions and improvements ---------------------- 1106 *extensions-improvements* 1107 1108Documentation: 11098 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth) 11107 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual. 11119 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention: 1112 - change to cursor position and curswant 1113 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.) 1114 - how it works for folded lines 1115 - how it works with multi-byte characters 11169 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would 1117 work too. 11188 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag" 1119 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double 1120 text. 11218 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running". 11227 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to 1123 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'. 11247 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and 1125 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag. 1126- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks. 1127 1128 1129Help: 1130- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a 1131 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag. 1132- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go 1133 to the other matches. 1134- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files. 1135- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|. 1136- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always 1137 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file, 1138 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a 1139 default contents. 1140- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal 1141 height for the help window (and other windows). 1142- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute". 1143- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive? 1144- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands. 1145 1146 1147User Friendlier: 11488 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for 1149 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter 1150 Briscoe) 11518 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types? 11528 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that 1153 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if 1154 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf". 11558 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc, 1156 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu. 1157- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file. 1158 ":mkplugin <file>"? 11598 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that 1160 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from 1161 'runtimepath'. 1162 " Vim plugin 1163 <main plugin code> 1164 " >>> plugin help start <<< 1165 <plugin docs> 1166- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."? 11679 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or 1168 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty 1169 item?). 1170 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands. 11718 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems. 11727 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output? 1173 1174 1175Diff mode: 11768 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file). 1177 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing: 1178 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis 11797 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also 1180 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same 1181 location. 1182 1183 1184Folding: 1185 (commands still available: zg zG zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zw zW zy zY; 1186 secondary: zB zS zT zZ) 11878 Add different highlighting for a fold line depending on the fold level. 1188 (Noel Henson) 11898 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the 1190 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the 1191 user aware of this? 11928 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which 1193 commands skip over a closed fold. 11948 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt) 11958 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB. 11967 When using 2html.vim, also reproduce folds as you can see them. When 1197 someone doesn't want the folds he can disable them before converting. 1198 First attempt by Carl Osterwisch, 2004 May 10. 11997 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds. 1200- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. Require showing a character in 1201 'foldcolumn' to avoid the missing line goes unnoticed. 1202- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll 1203 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds 1204 smoother? 1205- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list, 1206 using the wininfo in wi_folds. 1207- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects. 1208- Add 'hidecomment' option: don't display comments in /* */ and after //. 1209- "zu": undo change in manual fold. "zU" redo change in manual fold. How to 1210 implement this? 1211- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the 1212 cursor. 1213- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3": set fold level for a region. 1214- Can set 'foldtext' to empty string: don't display any line. How to 1215 implement this? 1216- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt) 1217- Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like 1218 searches. 1219 1220 1221Multi-byte characters: 12229 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the 1223 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal 1224 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single 1225 byte). 12268 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for 1227 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html. 1228 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like: 1229 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-" 1230 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first 1231 item. 12328 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for 1233 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"? 12348 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an 1235 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for 1236 ":grep". 12378 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search 1238 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka) 12397 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted, 1240 so that the user can fix the problem. 12418 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo 1242 Schweigert) 12439 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El) 12448 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters. 12458 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters. 12468 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes. 12478 "ga" should show all composing characters, also if there are more than 2. 12487 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored? 12498 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing. 12508 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes. 12518 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte 1252 characters. 12538 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters. 12548 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead 1255 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example. 12567 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead. 1257 'display' option to specify this. 12587 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default(): 1259 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c) 1260- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the 1261 fontselector somehow. 1262- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it 1263 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale. 1264- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for 1265 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong. 1266- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset, 1267 depending on the default value of 'encoding'. 1268 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used. 1269 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know 1270 if a font exists? 1271- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with 1272 convert_input() for Mac GUI, RiscOS GUI, BeOS GUI. 1273- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters. 1274 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_ 12757 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of 1276 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky) 1277- Make 'langmap' accept multi-byte characters. 1278- Do we need the reverse of 'keymap', like 'langmap' but with files and 1279 multi-byte characters? E.g., when using a Russian keyboard. 1280- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text 1281 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort 1282 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command? 1283- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into 1284 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it: 1285 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz 1286 But it's very complicated... 1287 1288 1289Printing: 1290- Add "page width" to wrap long lines. 1291- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for 1292 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function. 1293- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'. 1294- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer 1295 name, portrait/landscape, etc). 1296- PostScript: only works for 7-bit ASCII and EBCDIC. Should support 1297 different 'encoding' values somehow. 1298- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same 1299 units as for the margins. 1300- Support right-to-left text? 13018 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the 1302 color. 1303 1304 1305Syntax highlighting: 13068 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson) 1307 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual". 13088 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined 1309 cluster can be added to existing syntax items. 13108 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this: 1311 "({ something })", often used in GCC code. 13128 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing 1313 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for 1314 ":wq file". 13158 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script). 13169 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is 1317 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it... 13187 Make syntax keyword table configurable. Set number of bits used with 1319 ":syn clear [hashbits]", so that we don't need to reallocate the table. 1320 minimal 4 bits, maximal 16. (Campbell) 13217 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and 1322 Search highlighting. 13238 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to 1324 change this for each release. 13258 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end 1326 pattern, but not in the body. 13278 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this 1328 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item, 1329 instead of the containing item. 13308 For keywords, allow to define the size of the hash table with ":syn 1331 clear". Change KHASH_ defines into variables stored in buffer struct. 1332 Use something else than linear linked list from the hash table. (Campbell) 13338 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside (). 13348 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype 1335 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules? 1336 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, 1337 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax. 13388 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a 1339 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained] 13408 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey 1341 background) when on one of the parens or in between them. 1342 Or highlight the matching paren when the cursor is on one. 13438 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error". 13448 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop 1345 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be 1346 used. 13478 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will 1348 allow spell checking. (Fleiner) 13498 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And 1350 re-insert the [] if possible. 13518 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for 1352 the Cursor). 13538 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like 1354 using "\1" in a ":s" command. 13558 Support for deleting syntax items: 1356 :syn keyword cTodo remove this 1357 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern" 1358 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that" 13598 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way 1360 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for 1361 a '<'. (Fleiner) 13627 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification? 1363 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or 1364 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern. 13657 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be 1366 detected. 13678 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original 1368 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this). 13698 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to 1370 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible. 13718 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group. 13728 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values. 13737 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to 1374 ":mkvimrc". 13758 Improve c.vim: 1376 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on: 1377 "c_strict_ansi". 1378 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way... 13798 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the 1380 current line while in Insert mode. 13818 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been 1382 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again? 13838 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current 1384 display position. 13858 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to 1386 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern. 1387 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()". 13888 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until 1389 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when 1390 highlighting starts. 13917 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the 1392 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow. 1393 E.g. for this html: 1394 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I> 13957 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed 1396 (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"): 1397 :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display="" 13987 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is. 13997 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled 1400 words. 14017 Command line completion for ":find" should search in 'path'. 14028 Add more command line completion for :syntax. 14038 Add more command line completion for :highlight. 14048 Add more command line completion for :sign. 14057 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands. 1406 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and 1407 completion? 14088 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their 1409 highlighting. (Salman Halim) 14107 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to 1411 select one of the sets. 14128 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1 1413 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch 1414 2, etc. 14158 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the 1416 highlighting (for "." command). 14178 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /. 1418 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /? 14198 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing. 14207 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs": 1421 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c". 14226 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of 1423 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall) 1424- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful 1425 when extending an already existing syntax file. 1426- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too? 1427- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin 1428 (for comment blocks). 1429- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags: 1430 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor. 1431 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match. 1432 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match. 1433 Also for {}, <>, etc.? 1434 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?) 1435 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the 1436 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it. 1437 (Campbell) 1438 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around 1439 the cursor. (Iain Truskett) 14407 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword. 1441 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow). 14427 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should 1443 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set). 1444 And allows for sections with different highlighting. 14457 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it 1446 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from 1447 messages. And external commands? 14488 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for 1449 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim? 14507 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an 1451 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line. 1452 1453 1454Built-in script language: 14558 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and 1456 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings. 14578 Allow range for ":exec". Pass it on to the executed command. (Webb) 14588 exists("&&option") tests if 'option' is actually implemented. Useful for 1459 'shellslash', for example. 14608 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham) 14618 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When 1462 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an 1463 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same 1464 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle 1465 nested packages? 1466 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}(). 1467 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from 1468 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path). 14697 Make globpath() also work with "**" and upwards search. (Brian Medley) 14707 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode. 1471 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if 1472 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that 1473 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an 1474 autocommand. 1475 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a 1476 .vim file. Problem: distribution. 1477 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached 1478 file belongs to a sourced script? 14797 Add "n" flag to search() function, just like searchpair(). (Alexey 1480 Marinichev) 14817 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn', 1482 signs and/or 'number'. 14838 Add functions: 1484 sprintf(format, arg, ..) How to prevent a crash??? 1485 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx" 1486 mkdir(dir) Create directory 1487 copy(from, to) Copy a file 1488 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string 1489 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace() 1490 input(prompt, complete) like input() but do specified completion 1491 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left 1492 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in 1493 Visual block mode. 1494 tagtype(tag) get type of tag (also checks if it exists) 1495 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard) 1496 getbufline() get line from any buffer 1497 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer 1498 appendbufline() append line in any buffer 1499 sort() Sort a newline-separated string. Also: 1500 ":sort". 1501 libcall() Allow more than one argument. 1502 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function 1503 to allow the library to execute a command or 1504 evaluate an expression. 1505 char2hex() convert char string to hex string. XX 1506 hex2char() convert hex string to char string. XX 15077 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the 1508 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero. 15098 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was 1510 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file. 15118 Pass the executable name to the Vim scripts in some way. As v:argv0? 15128 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts. 15138 When starting to source a vim script, delete all functions that it has 1514 previously defined? Avoids using ":fun!" all the time. 15157 Add optional arguments to user functions: 1516 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17) 15176 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"? 15188 Add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var" just ignore. 15198 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable, 1520 option or environment variable. 15218 ":let &option" should list the value of the option. 15227 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the 1523 stack available (separated with '\n'). 15248 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed: 1525 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands} 15268 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started. 15278 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default), 1528 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0, 1529 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and 1530 charwise({expr}). 15317 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer 1532 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch 1533 buffer for this? 1534 result = scratch(string, command) 1535 result = apply(string, command) 1536 result = execute(string, command) 1537 "command" would use <> notation. 1538 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number? 15397 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds). 15407 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an 1541 option for the search path. (Sekera) 15427 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files. 1543 1544 1545Robustness: 15468 This pattern in syntax/java.vim causes a recursive call of regmatch(): 1547 syn match javaStringError +"\([^"\\]\|\\.\)*$+ 1548 A long line with a " in it can cause a crash when it runs out of stack 1549 space (on systems where this isn't caught). How can we catch this for 1550 more systems? 15516 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or 1552 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing 1553 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking . 1554 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf). 1555 Andy doesn't have time to work on it. 1556 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a 1557 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded? 1558 1559 1560Performance: 15618 Loading plugins takes startup time. Only load the part that is used to 1562 trigger the rest, and load the rest when it's needed? 15638 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags. 15649 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster? 15658 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result? 15667 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when 1567 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start? 15688 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same 1569 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines 1570 when starting up in a color terminal. 15718 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on 1572 Win16. 15739 Setting GUI options in the console (e.g., 'guifont') should not cause a 1574 redraw. 15758 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this 1576 function be improved? 15778 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the 1578 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap 1579 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can 1580 this be improved? 15818 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up 1582 MS-DOS version. (Negri) 15837 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower when adding a region for folding 1584 from { to }. (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman) 15857 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying 1586 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang) 15877 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a 1588 lot of abbreviations). 15897 DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster. 15907 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file 1591 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line 1592 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>. 1593 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat. 1594 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place. 1595 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase. 1596 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc. 15978 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the 1598 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was 1599 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating 1600 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)? 16018 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to 1602 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid 1603 using strcmp() too often? 16047 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file? 1605 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating 1606 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a 1607 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another 1608 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from 1609 the two blocks to the memfile block. 16107 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory 1611 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called 1612 with an argument that can be messed with. 1613 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that 1614 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced. 16157 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)". 1616- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek() 16178 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in 1618 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim. 1619- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of 1620 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation? 1621- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki) 1622- Do profiling on: 1623 - :g/pat/normal cmd 1624 - 1000ii<Esc> 1625 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary) 1626 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan) 1627 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u". 1628 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and 1629 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl". 1630 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary. 1631 - editing a vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim). 16327 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were 1633 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it 1634 changed). 1635 - On each change, remember start and end of the change. 1636 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count. 1637- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest! 1638- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still 1639 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"? 1640- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to 1641 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from 1642 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg(). 1643- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of 1644 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing). 1645- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height. 1646- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if 1647 cursor is right of the screen. 16488 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a 1649 CTRL-C (it's slow). 1650 1651 1652Code size: 16538 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded. 1654- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be 1655 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions. 16568 Make a GUI-only version for Unix? 16578 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using 1658 it. 16597 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be 1660 left out. 16618 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals 1662 can be removed. 16638 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed? 1664 1665 1666Messages: 16678 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the 1668 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!". 16698 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip 1670 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()? 16718 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a 1672 script. 16738 "vim --version" output goes to stderr, should be stdout. Can all output 1674 from messages using printf() go to stdout? 1675- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key. 1676 Perhaps after ten seconds? 1677- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9. 16789 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays: 1679 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop. 1680 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long 1681 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before 1682 redrawing. 16837 Add an option, which is a regexp, that disables warning messages which 1684 match that regexp (Tsirkin). 16858 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more 1686 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text. 16878 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another 1688 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option 1689 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off". 1690 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts 1691 typing, error messages must be switched back on. 1692 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings). 1693- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed? 1694 sleep before second message? 16958 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is 1696 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers", 1697 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the 1698 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall) 1699 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and 1700 error messages, printing text, etc. 17018 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt. 1702 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when 1703 a prompt is present (with a callback function?). 1704 1705 1706Screen updating: 17077 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one 1708 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the 1709 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit). 1710- screen_line(): 1711 - insert/delete character stuff. 1712 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line). 1713- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when 1714 dragging the status line with the mouse). 1715- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when 1716 waiting for a character. 17178 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from 1718 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when 1719 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping. 17207 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together. 1721 1722 1723Scrolling: 17248 Add "zm" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle. 17256 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi) 1726- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc.. 1727 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound 1728 windows. 17297 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next 1730 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it 1731 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer. 1732- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it 1733 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this? 1734 (Goldfarb) 1735- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all 1736 bound windows. 1737- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to 1738 be bound by regexp searches 1739- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell) 1740- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the 1741 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number 1742 of lines but not with a single line). 1743 1744 1745Autoconf: 17468 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader. 17478 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb) 1748 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically? 1749- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the 1750 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner). 1751- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4(). 1752- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it? 1753- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf. 1754 1755 1756Perl interface: 17578 Rename typemap file to something else? 17587 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark) 17597 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C? 17606 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll). 1761 1762 1763Shared libraries: 17646 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it. 1765 :libload internal-name libname 1766 :libunload internal-name 1767 :liblist 1768 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...) 1769 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...) 1770 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment. 17716 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries. 1772 1773 1774Tags: 17758 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify 1776 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m". 17778 Add a function that returns the line in the tags file for a matching tag. 1778 Can be used to extract more info (class name, inheritance, etc.) (Rico 1779 Hendriks) 17807 Count before CTRL-]: jump to N'th match 17818 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis. 17828 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able 1783 to type the tag number directly. 17847 Add a tag-select window. Works like ":cwindow". (Michal Malecki) 17857 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a 1786 window for each tag. 17877 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting? 17887 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit 1789 bottom" search message. 17907 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry, 1791 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were 1792 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb) 17937 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and 1794 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod". 1795 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func" 1796 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx. 17977 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields: 1798 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c 1799 :tagargs clear 1800 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag 1801 matching). 18027 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command? 1803 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi. 1804 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi) 1805 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way. 18067 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With 1807 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again. 18087 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use 1809 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add 1810 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect". 1811 1812 1813Security: 1814- nothing at the moment 1815 1816 1817Win32 GUI: 18188 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for 1819 the message and input? 18207 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at 1821 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 1822 dynamically? 18237 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu. 1824 (Mike McCollister) 18258 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several 1826 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't 1827 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all 1828 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest 1829 common part of the path. 18308 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik) 18318 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that 1832 gettext and menus work. 18338 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit 1834 return in every console. 1835 Also: Look at how Emacs does runs external commands: 1836 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html. 18378 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands: 1838 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text). 18398 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF. 1840 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands? 18417 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme. 1842 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser) 18437 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog). 18447 <Esc> should close a dialog. 18457 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be 1846 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended 1847 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any 1848 prompts. 18497 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that 1850 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have 1851 the file added into an already running Vim. 18527 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide 1853 functions to find the window title. 1854 1855 1856GUI: 18578 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS. 1858- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a 1859 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier. 18607 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows. 18618 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI. 18626 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu. 18638 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When 1864 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position. 18659 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze) 18667 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype? 18678 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the 1868 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide". 18698 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text 1870 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine 1871 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated. 18728 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim) 1873 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front. 18748 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more 1875 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c. 1876 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow 1877 running them in separate processes. 18787 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument. 18798 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask 1880 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code. 18817 Add some code to handle proportional fonts? Need to draw each character 1882 separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font is not exactly 1883 double-width. (Maeda) 18848 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default). 18858 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to 1886 select one. Martin Dalecki has a font selector for Motif, but it needs a 1887 bit more work. 18888 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.). 18898 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all? 18908 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a 1891 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this 1892 portable (X11, Win32, ..)? 18937 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items. 1894 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The 1895 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything. 18967 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back. 1897 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim). 18987 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can 1899 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors. 1900 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For 1901 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs. 19027 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the 1903 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas) 19047 Should support multi-column menus. 1905- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far 1906 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right). 1907- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode". 19088 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus. 19096 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a 1910 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui". 19117 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'? 19127 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos', 1913 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>. 1914 Or add a command, like ":winsize"? 19157 Add toolbar for more GUIs. 19168 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item 1917 name can be chosen free. 19187 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of 1919 the window? Allows for softkey-like use. 19206 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the 1921 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a 1922 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is 1923 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to 1924 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks 1925 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI 1926 things. 19277 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default 1928 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog. 1929- Motif steals <F10> from us, to pop up menus with the keyboard. How do we 1930 get it back if we want it? 1931- Paste in Insert mode should not do autowrap etc. Or maybe this should be 1932 changeable with an option? 1933- Put a nice picture in the icon (but how do we do that?). 19347 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks 1935 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated. 1936- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal 1937 where it was started from? 19387 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument. 1939 1940 1941VMS: 1942- Improvement: rewrite term/TTY handling. 1943- Improvement: create VMS GTK runtime libraries on OpenVMS 7.1-2 (today GTK 1944 works just on 7.3). 1945 1946 1947Autocommands: 19489 Make sure that side effects of autocommands are handled correctly. Don't 1949 execute autocommands when a buffer or window is halfway some changes. 1950 Move all apply_autocmds() calls to a higher level where needed. 19518 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g. 1952 "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc". 19538 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two 1954 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more 1955 difficult). 19568 Also trigger CursorHold in Insert mode? 19577 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that user 1958 can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the kind 1959 of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient? 19608 Can't use ":normal" in CursorHold autocommands. Make the CursorHold event 1961 insert a special key code, and call the autocommand functions from a 1962 higher level, so that vgetc() isn't used recursively. 19638 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist? 1964 And anything else? 19658 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input 1966 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus). 1967 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ... 19688 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc". 19698 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag. 1970 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found. 19716 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be 1972 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron) 19737 Add a way to skip an autocommand if going from one *.c file to another *.c 1974 file. 19757 When trying to open a directory, don't load the file but trigger an 1976 autocommand event OpenDirectory. 19777 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link, 1978 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate 1979 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type 1980 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard) 19815 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the 1982 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will 1983 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas) 19847 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for 1985 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the 1986 file. 19878 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at 1988 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read 1989 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'. 1990- Add events to autocommands: 1991 Error - When an error happens 1992 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode 1993 InsertEnter - Entering Insert mode 1994 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode 1995 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode 1996 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode 1997 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter) 1998 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands. 1999 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M") 2000 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged 2001 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the 2002 window title) 2003 BufReadAction - replaces reading a file 2004 BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file 2005 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down 2006 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the 2007 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor. 2008 Set v:char to the character, can be changed. 2009 (not triggered when 'paste' is set). 2010 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting 2011 the char. 2012 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for 2013 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the 2014 file from CVS). 2015 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be 2016 used to do a :preserve for remote files. 2017 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate 2018 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so 2019 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add 2020 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah) 2021 WinResized - When a window has been resized 2022- Add autocommand to be executed every so many seconds? For writing the 2023 file now and then ('autosave'). 2024 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'* 2025 'autosave' 'aw' number (default 0) 2026 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the 2027 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set. 2028 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer. 2029 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make 2030 them save the file itself besides the swapfile. 2031 2032 2033Insert mode completion/expansion: 20348 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete 2035 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages. 20369 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with 2037 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended. 2038 (Webb) 20398 The code has become too complex. Redesign it, or at least add proper 2040 comments. 20418 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion: 2042 - ignore/match case 2043 - different characters than 'iskeyword' 20448 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text. 20458 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive 2046 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of 2047 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo. 2048 Should work for C++ and Java. 2049 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc. 20507 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?). 20517 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS 2052 instead of words. 20538 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents. 20548 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does). 2055 Requires remembering a number of insertions. 20568 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names. 2057 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion. 2058- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the 2059 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use 2060 wildcards in the file name)? 2061- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted). 2062- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?). 2063- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could 2064 be in another file). 2065- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches. 2066- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option? 2067- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string 2068 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W) 2069- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions. 2070- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows? 2071- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly) 20728 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that 2073 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb) 2074 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-]. 2075 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'. 2076- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list). 2077 2078 2079Command line editing: 20807 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command 2081 line. 20828 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion 2083 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of 2084 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc. 2085- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of 2086 lines wraps to start of line). 2087- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view 2088 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many 2089 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run 2090 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012). 2091 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history. 2092 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the 2093 cmdwin does now already. 2094 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal 2095 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T? 2096 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the 2097 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid 2098 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines? 2099 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate 2100 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode 2101 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh. 2102 Problems: 2103 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar' 2104 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations 2105 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches 2106 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands 2107 - Normal: no ":" commands? 2108 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line. 2109 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of 2110 character in first column? 2111 - Implementation ideas: 2112 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer. 2113 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum. 2114 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line. 2115 - sync undo after entering a command line? 2116 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line 2117 Mode. 2118 2119 2120Command line completion: 21218 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument. 21228 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate 2123 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h". 21248 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list 2125 them with the optional part inside []. 21267 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be 2127 edited. (Sven Guckes) 21287 Add completion for when entering an expression after CTRL-R= and "=. 2129 (Servatius Brandt) 2130- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible. 2131- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the 2132 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>". 21338 For ":find" and ":sfind" expand files found in 'path'. 21348 Add cmdline completion for the ":debug" command. 21358 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting 2136 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp? 21377 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the 2138 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb) 2139- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching 2140 identifiers (Webb). 21418 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>" 2142 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit. 21437 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion. 2144 Useful for ":s/word/xx/". 2145- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started. 2146 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line. 2147- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for 2148 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut) 2149 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D. 2150- Add completion for Environment variables: ":echo $SH<Tab>" -> "$SHELL". 2151 2152 2153Command line history: 2154- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a 2155 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a 2156 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't 2157 completely resulted from one mapping. 2158- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history, 2159 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel) 2160 2161 2162Insert mode: 21639 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after 2164 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line. 2165 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug. 21668 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command 2167 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink) 2168 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do 2169 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing. 2170 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode. 21717 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a 2172 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y. 21737 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it 2174 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'. 2175- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed 2176 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and 2177 also for characters that wrap to the next line. 2178 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register). 2179 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that 2180 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>. 2181- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in 2182 Normal mode. 2183- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their 2184 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands 2185 are used. 2186- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits. 2187- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b. 2188- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y. 2189 2190 2191'cindent', 'smartindent': 21928 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with line break in arguments: 2193 Foo::Foo (int one, 2194 int two) 2195 : something(4) 2196 {} 21978 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with multiple lines: 2198 Foo::Foo (int one, int two) 2199 : something(4), 2200 somethingelse(3) 2201 {} 22029 Too much indent for "lulu": (Uwe Zeisberger) 2203 int main () 2204 { 2205 if (lala) 2206 do 2207 ++(*lolo); 2208 while (lili 2209 && lele); 2210 lulu; 2211 } 22129 Function gets extra indent: (Jamax) 2213 void function(int param) { 2214 if (false) 2215 return; 2216 } 22179 brace not indented correctly: 2218 case 'c': if (cond) 2219 { 2220 Should align with "if" in case statement. 22217 Allow aligning a closing ")" with the line above, instead of the matching 2222 "(": (Riehm) if (asdfasdf && 2223 asdf 2224 ) 22258 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is 2226 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer) 22278 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna) 2228 func( 2229 new String[] { 2230 "asdf", 2231 "asdf" 2232 } 2233 ); 22347 Separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner): 2235 func( 2236 int x) // indent like "(4" 2237 { 2238 if (a 2239 && b) // indent like "(0" 22408 Strange problem with this code, "hello" is indented wrong: (Gary Holloway) 2241 main() { char foo[] = "/*"; 2242 /* This is a comment; the indentation of C 2243 * source below this comment gets messed up due to the string above. 2244 */ 2245 hello 22469 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler) 2247 if (a) 2248 { 2249 if (b) 2250 { 2251 // { 2252 } 2253 } <-- this is indented incorrect 22549 Wrong indent for cino=(4, removing the (void) fixes it: (Zellner) 2255 (void) MyFancyFunction( 2256 argument); 2257- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the 2258 indent to 0 should be switched on/off. 22597 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line. 2260- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first 2261 line). 2262- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}? 2263- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous 2264 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically? 22657 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines. 2266- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It 2267 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb) 2268- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out 2269 code), unless the line starts with "*". 2270- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"? 2271- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line 2272 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted). 22738 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the 2274 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more 2275 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment. 2276- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'. 2277- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where 2278 lines start with "\item". 2279- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown) 2280 /* here is a comment that 2281 is just autoindented, and 2282 nothing else */ 2283- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi". 22847 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for 2285 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the 2286 indents. 2287 And/or: Add option to copy indent as-is, without changing spaces to tabs. 2288 also for 'autoindent'. 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and 2289 spaces used for indent, when the indent remains the same or increases. 2290 2291 2292Java: 22938 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve 2294 Odendahl? 22958 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for 2296 "[i" commands and friends. 2297- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java. 2298 (Jason) 2299- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be 2300 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy) 2301 2302 2303'comments': 23048 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated 2305 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping. 2306 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader 2307 when it's "#" or "//". 23087 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line. 2309 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed. 23107 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item. 23116 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more 2312 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a 2313 regexp is used. 23148 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line 2315 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'? 2316 2317 2318Virtual edit: 23198 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left. 23207 Add a mode where the cursor is only allowed to go one character after the 2321 end of the line? 23227 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line? 2323 2324 2325Text objects: 23268 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc. 23277 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it 2328 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area. 23298 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single 2330 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at 2331 the end of the line or before a ".". 23327 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs" 2333 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus) 23347 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph 2335 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}"). 23366 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email. 23375 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For 2338 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one. 2339 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the 2340 cursor is on. 2341 2342 2343Select mode: 23448 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block, 2345 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall) 23467 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word. 2347 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743 23487 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line. 2349 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse' 2350 contains 'C' or 'A'. 2351 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in 2352 normal_cmd(). 2353 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info. 2354 - Typing text replaces the selection. 2355 2356 2357Visual mode: 2358- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero, 2359 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer 2360 is in the top line. 23618 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new 2362 text. make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding 2363 where needed. 23647 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width, 2365 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc. 23667 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start 2367 of each selected line. 23688 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode? 23698 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer. 2370 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any 2371 other buffer. (Ron Aaron) 23728 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron, 2373 Ben Godfrey) 23747 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and 2375 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey) 23767 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of 2377 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area. 23787 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David 2379 Young is working on this) 23807 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines. 2381 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with 2382 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line. 23838 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text? 2384 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful. 23857 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should 2386 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an 2387 option! 23887 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position 2389 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select 2390 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen 2391 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap. 2392 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to 2393 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line, 2394 without changing the column. 23956 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode. 23967 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the 2397 current buffer. 23987 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area. 23996 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line, 2400 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1. 24016 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line. 24026 ":'<,'>source" should read the selected lines and ":source" them. 24036 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed 2404 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB 2405 or other special character. 24066 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting. 2407 2408 2409More advanced repeating commands: 2410- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt"). 24117 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember 2412 the command line so that it can be repeated? 2413- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g. 2414 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb). 2415 "y." will repeat last yank. 2416 "c2." will repeat the last but one change? 2417 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history 2418 and/or pick an older command. 2419- History stack for . command? Use "g." command. 2420 2421 2422Mappings and Abbreviations: 24238 Let ":verbose map xx" report where the mapping was set, just like with 2424 ":verbose set". 24258 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be 2426 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell) 2427 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command? 24288 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work? 24297 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte". 2430 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway? 24318 ":verbose map" could show the script where the mapping was defined. 2432 m_script_ID can be used. 24338 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the 2434 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&. 24358 Add ":amap", like ":amenu". 24368 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to 2437 entering search strings. 24388 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the 2439 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and 2440 not the <Space>. 24418 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS). 24428 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never 2443 (?) work. 24447 ":verbose map" should display where a mapping was defined, like ":verbose 2445 set". 24468 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function 2447 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is 2448 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings? 24497 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation? 24507 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q", 2451 that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger' 2452 option. 24537 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try 2454 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy". 24557 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character 2456 (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for 2457 mapping a key to do something and then completion. 24587 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard. 24596 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the 2460 abbreviations are to be used. 2461- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For 2462 example, for a mouse escape sequence: 2463 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l 2464- Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping. 2465- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in 2466 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings 2467 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording? 2468- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a 2469 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r". 2470- Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in 2471 <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this? 2472- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings 2473 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does). 2474- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and 2475 mappings off for :unab and :unmap. 24766 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete 2477 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids 2478 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you 2479 hit another character. 2480- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings: 2481 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G 2482 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l 2483 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g 2484 Or implicit: 2485 :map q <Register>d<Number>$ 2486- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for 2487 non-replace Insert mode? 2488- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode? 24896 Alias for Normal mode commands, works like :substitute? Would allow 2490 mappings with arguments. 2491- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings. 2492- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key 2493 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself. 2494- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as 2495 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command? 2496- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they 2497 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>. 2498- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap. 2499- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping 2500 ":freekeys". 2501- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm). 2502 2503 2504Incsearch: 2505- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'? 2506- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn 2507 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled 2508 up every time. 2509- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the 2510 folds when going to another line. 2511- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many 2512 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?) 2513 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match 2514 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872. 2515- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other 2516 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid). 2517 2518 2519Searching: 25208 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\(([^()]*\@@[^()]*)\)\@r". \@@ stands 2521 for "go recursive here" and \@r marks the recursive atom. 2522item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on 2523 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of 2524 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"? 2525 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)* 25267 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for 2527 search(). (Brett) 25287 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's 2529 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference. 25308 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in 2531 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax? 25328 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current 2533 line. 25347 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an 2535 example. 25368 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in 2537 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif. 2538- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that 2539 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */). 2540 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back. 2541 Alternative: use matchit.vim 25428 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care? 25438 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that 2544 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it. 2545 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$". 25467 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and 2547 "\d". 25487 Add a way to specify characters as hex, octal or <C-M> form. Could be 2549 \%1ax, \%200o and \%<C-M>. Also \%1234u for multi-byte chars. 25508 Flags that apply to the whole pattern. 2551 This works for all places where a regexp is used. 2552 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern? 25538 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example, 2554 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line. 25558 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g" 2556 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command. 2557 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing 2558 search pattern. 2559- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group. 2560 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group. 2561- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade) 2562 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one. 2563 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's 2564 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities. 25657 Add POSIX regexp, like Nvi, with 'extended' option? It's like very-magic. 2566- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it. 2567 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling) 2568- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?): 2569 i ignore case 2570 I use case 2571 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?) 2572 v use Vi regexp syntax 2573 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command 2574 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command 2575 Perl uses these too: 2576 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only) 2577 m multiple line expression (we don't need it) 2578 o compile only once (Perl only) 2579 s single line expression (we don't need it) 2580 x extended regexp (we don't need it) 2581 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the 2582 following command. 2583 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault'). 2584- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used 2585 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/ 2586 for search string)? 25877 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special 2588 characters. See C't article, August 1997. 2589- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are 2590 equivalent (for Unix filenames). 2591- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text 2592 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin) 2593- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this". 2594- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer, 2595 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern: 2596 a for the next file in the argument list 2597 f for file in the buffer list 2598 w for file edited in a window. 2599 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for 2600 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask 2601 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No 2602 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ". 2603- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler) 2604- Special characters in patterns: 2605 Inside []: 2606 \012 octal character 2607 \0x1a hex character 2608 \0<BS> \0<Esc>: special character 26097 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search 2610 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark. 26117 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after 2612 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe 2613 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in 2614 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always). 26156 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side 2616 effects. 26177 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete 2618 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc. 2619 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary. 26207 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) 2621 Also ":dselect". 2622 2623 2624Undo: 2625- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not 2626 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a", 2627 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted? 26288 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo 2629 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new 2630 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing. 2631 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things. 26328 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change, 2633 only remember the lines that really changed. 26347 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous 2635 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a 2636 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need 2637 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone. 26387 Add an undo tree: When making a change, instead of clearing any future 2639 undo (thus redo) info, make a new branch. How to navigate through the 2640 undo tree? 2641- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and ']. 2642 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb). 2643- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the 2644 number of undo levels (with confirmation). 2645- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123]. 2646 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number: 2647 [-99]. 2648- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating. 2649- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once. 2650- Store undo info in a file that survives until the next edit. Then it's 2651 possible to undo to before the current editing session. Combined with 2652 viminfo? 2653- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed, 2654 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file?? 2655 2656 2657Buffer list: 26587 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}". 2659 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that 2660 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the 2661 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only". 26628 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files. 2663 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim. 26648 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check 2665 inode too. 26667 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When 2667 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use. (or the highest 2668 number in use plus one?) 26697 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and 2670 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann) 2671- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the 2672 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb) 2673- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the 2674 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"? 26757 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list. 2676 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson) 26777 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer 2678 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc. 26798 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected. 26808 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$' 2681 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel". 26827 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for 2683 internal use and for when executing an external program? 2684 2685 2686Swap (.swp) files: 26878 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another 2688 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when 2689 there are short file name problems. 26908 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap 2691 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions. 26928 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su. 26938 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same 2694 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file 2695 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup 2696 file the same as the actual file? 2697 Use the code for resolve()? 26987 Store the options 'fileencoding', 'fileformat', etc. in the swapfile, 2699 because they change what will be written to the file. Requires adding 2700 another block to the swapfile. 27017 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another 2702 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible. 27037 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere 2704 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'? 2705 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not 2706 enough room. 27077 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp 2708 or /var/preserve. 2709- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to 2710 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only. 2711- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen). 2712 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'? 2713- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the 2714 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do 2715 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a 2716 cached list of which line is where. 2717 2718 2719Viminfo: 27207 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file, 2721 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone 2722 else's viminfo file. 27238 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file 2724 name. (Schild) 27258 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu). 27268 Remember the last used register for "@@". 27278 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the 2728 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so. 2729 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display 2730 this? 27317 Also store the ". register (last inserted text). 27327 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some 2733 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron) 27346 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting 2735 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the 2736 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code? 2737- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of 2738 "last visited files" and select one to jump to. 2739 2740 2741Modelines: 27428 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid 2743 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it. 2744 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ". 2745- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to 2746 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the 2747 modeline setting. 2748- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings, 2749 no function calls, to avoid a security problem. 2750- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for 2751 .cpp files. 2752- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for 2753 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak. 2754- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed 2755 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir. 2756 2757 2758Options: 27598 Make ":mksession" store buffer-specific options for the specific buffer. 27608 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when 2761 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant) 27627 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only 2763 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the 2764 side effect. 27658 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to 2766 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their 2767 default value. 27688 Should ":mksession" restore the current directory when writing the 2769 session, or the directory where the session file is? Probably need a word 2770 in 'sessionoptions' to make a choice: 2771 "curdir" (cd to current directory when session file was generated) 2772 "sessiondir" (cd to directory of session file) 2773 "nodir" (don't cd at all) 27748 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string 2775 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should 2776 also be supported. 27778 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag 2778 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting 2779 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used. 27807 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas) 27817 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the 2782 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway) 27837 Add plugins for formatting. Should be able to make a choice depending on 2784 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.). 2785 2786 2787External commands: 27888 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen 2789 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd". 27904 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls" 2791 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g. 2792 -f). 27934 Allow direct execution, without using a shell. 27944 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI? 2795 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell! 27964 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands. 2797 2798 2799Multiple Windows: 28007 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits. 28018 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window. 2802 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window. 28037 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab> 2804 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to 2805 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer. 28067 Add a 'winfixwidth' option, similar to 'winfixheight'. 28076 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window. 2808 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new 2809 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would 2810 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel) 28117 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows 2812 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with 2813 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE 2814 too. Requires some form of inter process communication. 2815- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer 2816 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command. 2817 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer 2818 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made. 2819 2820 2821Marks: 28228 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this 2823 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-. 28248 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m? 28258 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times. 2826 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file. 28278 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle 2828 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when 2829 the mark was set. 28307 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers, 2831 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands 2832 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with 2833 ":browse marks"? 28346 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige) 28357 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the 2836 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark. 28377 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group). 2838 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does. 28397 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m 2840 command). 28417 Try to keep marks in the same position when: 2842 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the 2843 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo) 2844 - inserting/deleting characters in a line. 28455 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in 2846 mappings. 28476 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and 2848 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines. 2849 Highlight the marked lines somehow. 2850 2851 2852Digraphs: 28537 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists. 2854 Also the keymap? 2855- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line 2856 below/above). 2857- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special 2858 characters? 28598 Add command to remove (all) digraphs. (Brown) 28607 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At 2861 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32). 2862 2863 2864Writing files: 2865- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for 2866 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to 2867 shortname conversion. 28688 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc. 28698 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode' 2870 file. 28718 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some 2872 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another 2873 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'? 28747 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make 2875 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski) 28766 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like 2877 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'. 28786 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory. 2879 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas) 28806 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#". 2881 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name? 28828 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids 2883 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman) 28847 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations 2885 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition). 28867 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more 2887 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is 2888 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before 2889 waiting for a character to be typed). 28908 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status 2891 line of the window, like "[time]". 2892 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes. 2893 Automatic and/or with a command. 2894 2895 2896Substitute: 28978 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.: 2898 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w". 2899- :s///p prints the line after a substitution. 2900- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern. 29018 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective. 2902 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys. 2903- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or: 2904 :s///N substitutes N times. 2905- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.: 2906 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do 2907 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution. 29087 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex 2909 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the 2910 last line column 5. 29115 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks, 2912 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the 2913 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands. 2914 (Stanislav Sitar) 2915 2916 2917Mouse support: 29188 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'? 29197 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu. 29208 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic 2921 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you 2922 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar) 29237 Checkout sysmouse() for FreeBSD console mouse support. 2924- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console. 2925- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to 2926 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners). 2927- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!? 2928- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to. 2929 2930 2931Crypt and security: 29328 Also crypt the swapfile, each block separately. Change mf_write() and 2933 mf_read(). How to get b_p_key to these functions? 2934 2935 2936Argument list: 29376 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list. 2938 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches 2939 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match. 29406 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers? 2941 2942 2943Registers: 29448 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne) 29458 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping 2946 around in windows. 29478 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for 2948 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r" 2949 for every line. 29506 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the 2951 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What 2952 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.? 2953- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of 2954 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more". 2955- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment 2956 leader when line wraps? 2957- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each 2958 line in the range. 2959- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text 2960 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo") 29618 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register. 2962 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)? 2963 2964 2965Debug mode: 29667 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received. 29678 Add breakpoints for setting an option 29688 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable. 29697 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution 2970 when evaluating to non-zero. 29717 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo. 29727 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al. 2973 2974 2975Various improvements: 29768 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename 2977 the buffer. Buffer may be modified. 29786 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of 2979 errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c". 29806 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5) 29817 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>. 2982 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"? 2983 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command. 29847 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a 2985 window as a buffer-tab selection. 29867 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want 2987 to manipulate text without changing the window layout. 29888 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until 2989 all changes are gone. 29907 Add a ":cpfile", go in the other direction as ":cnfile". 29916 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri) 29928 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim. 2993 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim. 2994 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it 2995 in this Vim. 29968 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as 2997 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"? 29988 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes 2999 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and 3000 have it apply to the following command. 30018 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other 3002 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the 3003 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up. 3004 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'? 30057 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a 3006 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files. 30077 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>, 3008 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize 3009 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key 3010 without modifier (unless mapped). 30118 Add ":breakdel *": delete all breakpoints. 30127 Support ":browse edit" in console, using explorer.vim? 30136 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line. 30148 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map". 30159 Support ACLs on more systems. 30167 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be 3017 highlighted differently. 30188 Allow using "**" as a wildcard in commands like ":next" and ":args". 30198 Provide a way to avoid wildcard expansion. Use double quotes, like in the 3020 shell? :edit "my[file].txt" (currently works if there is no "myf.txt") 30217 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above 3022 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message 3023 (truncated to fit in the space). 30247 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner) 30258 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout) 30268 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise 3027 Visual mode. 30287 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use 3029 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV. 30307 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping 3031 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0". 30327 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name. 30337 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently. 30347 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines? 30358 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney) 30368 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in 3037 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for 3038 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef 3039 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do? 30408 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down. 30416 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain 3042 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron) 30438 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists. 30448 Use confirm/dialog stuff to ask the user, when a file has changed outside 3045 of Vim, if he wants to reload it. Triggered when focus gained, after 3046 shell command, when entering another buffer, etc.. 3047 Also do this when editing a new file, and another application creates 3048 the file before doing ":w" in Vim. 3049 Also check if the file protection has changed. When checking a file into 3050 RCS it is made read-only, when checking out it is made read-write. 30518 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file 3052 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would 3053 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist 3054 does something like this. (Shah) 30557 Use growarray for replace stack. 30567 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution 3057 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis). 30583 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"? 30598 Make "more" prompt accept command characters, like "hit-enter" prompt? 3060 Or extend it with more commands, like "less": 'b' for back, 'j' for one 3061 line down, etc. 30628 For the "--more--" prompt, support the 'b'ack command for more commands. 3063 Possible implementation: Do it at a very low level, caching the lines that 3064 are on the screen (with highlight attributes). Avoids that changes have 3065 to be made for all functions that list something. 30667 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same 3067 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers? 3068- Keep a list of most recently used files for each window, use "[o" to go 3069 back (older file) and "]n" to go forward (newer file) (like ^O and ^I for 3070 jumps) (Webb). Use ":files" and ":ls" to list the files in history order. 30717 Add a history of recently accessed buffer. Maybe make "2 CTRL-^" jump to 3072 the 2nd previously visited buffer, "3 CTRL-^" to the third, etc. Or use 3073 "3 g CTRL-^" for this? 3074- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode. 3075- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file. 3076- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c 3077- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window. 30787 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive 3079 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used. 3080- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home 3081 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc. 3082- Remove mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this. 3083- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set, 3084 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert) 3085- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to 3086 call "play newbeep.au"). 3087- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or 3088 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function. 3089 (Bhatt). 3090- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for 3091 blockwise registers). 3092- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the 3093 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt). 3094- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps 3095 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed, 3096 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't 3097 noticeable. 30989 When using ":w <fname>" it's possible that this file is loaded in another 3099 buffer. Give a warning right away, don't wait for a shell command. 3100- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb). 31017 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters. 3102 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code. 3103- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs 3104 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between 3105 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent 3106 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new 3107 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change. 31088 Add 'formatexpr' option: Used for formatting operator "gq" instead of the 3109 builtin formatting or 'formatprg'. 31108 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the 3111 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for 3112 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a 3113 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line). 3114 ":set autoformat=\\s$". 3115- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern? 31167 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the 3117 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt) 3118- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is 3119 not in column 1. 31206 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a 3121 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext". 31227 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined? 3123- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator? 31248 findmatchlimit() should be able to skip comments. Solves problem of 3125 matching the '{' in /* if (foo) { */ (Fiveash) 3126- Add more redirecting of Ex commands: 3127 :redir @> register (append) 3128 :redir # bufname 3129 :redir #> bufname (append) 3130 :redir = variable 3131 :redir => variable (append) 3132- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with 3133 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set". 3134 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit". 31356 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32 3136 console? (Klaus Hast) 3137- Add :delcr command: 3138 *:delcr* 3139 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines 3140 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is 3141 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range]. 3142 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If 3143 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all 3144 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi} 3145- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat(). 3146- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta 3147 characters from 'isprint'. 3148- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName(). 3149- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area. 3150 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn. 3151- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but 3152 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More 3153 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion. 3154- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()). 3155- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like 3156 Nvi). 3157- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the 3158 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define. 31597 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position. 3160- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that 3161 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'? 31626 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file. 3163- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the 3164 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13 3165 macro). 3166- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files. 3167- Add command like ":ts" that shows the output of "[I" and asks for a match 3168 to jump to. (Zellner) 3169- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also 3170 expanded. Is there a better way to do this? 3171- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source". 31728 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set. 3173- Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null". 3174- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty. 3175- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible! 3176- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down 3177 if it is not the first or last window. 3178- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if 3179 there is one) instead of the file itself. 31807 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example: 3181 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0 3182 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files. 3183- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion. 3184- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as 3185 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so 3186 many percent down the windows). 3187- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the 3188 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the 3189 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'. 3190- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g. 3191 'dictionary' when it is "*.h". 3192- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to 3193 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit). 3194- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent) 3195- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends. 3196- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the 3197 passwd file? (Antwerpen) 3198- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack. 3199- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush". 32008 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw", 3201 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is 3202 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack? 3203 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when 3204 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping? 3205- Use a builtin grep command for ":grep"? Makes it possible to add the 3206 column number. Can use the code of ":helpgrep". 3207 Also support using "**" in filename, so that a directory tree can be 3208 searched. 3209- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time 3210 t_bs is set? (Webb) 3211- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also 3212 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert). 3213- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline (Demirel). Store 3214 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window 3215 (Webb). 3216- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the 3217 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al. 3218- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering 3219 hex codes like 0xff). 3220- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command 3221 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo 3222 the last TYPED command. 3223- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf". 3224- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows. 3225- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/" 3226 should also work? 3227- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL? 32288 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file 3229 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine 3230 name. 3231- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a 3232 trailing '.'. 3233- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a 3234 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use 3235 find_file_in_path(). 3236- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between 3237 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon). 3238- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion. 3239- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a 3240 form usable by Vim on the current machine. 3241- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have 3242 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags. 3243- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one 3244 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains 3245 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline. 3246- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine 3247 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz) 3248- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments. 3249- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt) 3250- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back 3251 to the minimal size. 3252- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */). 3253- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline(). 3254- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb). 3255- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file. 3256- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers. 3257- Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw'). 3258- Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line: 3259 "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ??? 3260- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line 3261 entered)? 3262- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible 3263 as an output filter. 3264- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this. 3265- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line. 3266- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file. 3267- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc. 3268- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char. 3269- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long 3270 lines. 3271- Uppercase characters in ex commands can be made lowercase? 32728 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"), 3273 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option 3274 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex 3275 or in octal. 32767 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more 3277 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument? 3278- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source. 3279 After ":w !command" a wait_return? 3280- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()). 3281- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without 3282 insert line command). 3283- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it. 3284- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals. 3285- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000). 3286- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying. 3287- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace 3288 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>. 3289- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work 3290 yet. 3291- Implement 'redraw' option. 3292- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or 3293 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right). 3294- Use pipes for filtering on Unix. Requires using fork() to be able to read 3295 and write at the same time, or some select() mechanism. 32967 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs 3297 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin. 32988 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can 3299 do it. 3300- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to. 3301- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts, 3302 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list. 3303- Add text justification option. 3304- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on". 3305- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is 3306 off". 3307- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR. 3308- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message. 3309- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but 3310 gives read errors. Check protection before opening. 3311- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied". 3312- If file does not exists, check if directory exists. 3313- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor. 3314- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex 3315 commands. 3316- ":set -w all": list one option per line. 3317- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file. 3318- :table command (Webb) 3319- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ". 3320- Make it possible for a user to define a new operator. Implementation with 3321 internal scripting language or Perl? 3322- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?). 3323- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb). 3324- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files. 3325- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel). 3326- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited 3327 (Demirel). 3328- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc. 3329- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore", 3330 for use in macro's and the like. 3331- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while 3332 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window? 3333- Add possibility to put output of ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for 3334 ":set all". ":r :set all"? 3335- 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really 3336 read-only mode). 3337- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not 3338 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in 3339 a window to become smaller (Webb). 3340- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized 3341 proportionally (Webb). 3342- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use 3343 mkopttab to make option table? 3344- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current 3345 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)? 3346- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster 3347 (Haritsis). 3348- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used 3349 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev) 3350- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the 3351 cursor? 3352- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton). 3353- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)? 33545 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names. 3355 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix. 33568 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore 3357 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in 3358 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams: 3359 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another 3360 option name. 33618 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to 3362 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places. 3363 (Netherton) 33646 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a 3365 space after "(", for example. 33665 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs 3367 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit'). 3368 (Servatius Brandt) 3369 3370 3371From Elvis: 3372- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages? 3373- Add ":alias" command. 3374- fontchanges recognized "\\fB" etc. 3375- Search patterns: 3376 \@ match word under cursor. 3377 but do: 3378 \@w match the word under the cursor? 3379 \@W match the WORD under the cursor? 33808 ":window" command: 3381 :win + next window (up) 3382 :win ++ idem, wrapping 3383 :win - previous window (down) 3384 :win -- idem, wrapping 3385 :win nr to window number "nr" 3386 :win name to window editing buffer "name" 33877 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is 3388 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"? 3389 3390 3391From Nvi: 3392- 'searchincr' option, alias for 'incsearch'? 3393- 'leftright' option, alias for 'nowrap'? 3394- Have a look at "vi/doc/vi.chart", for Nvi specialties. 33958 Add 'keytime', time in 1/10 sec for mapping timeout? 3396- Add 'filec' option as an alternative for 'wildchar'. 33976 Support Nvi command names as an alias: 3398 :bg :hide 3399 :fg fname :buf fname (with 'hidden' set?) 3400 :dis b :ls 3401 :Edit fname :split fname 3402 :Fg fname :sbuf fname (with 'hidden' set?) 3403 :Next :snext (can't do this, already use :Next) 3404 :Previous :sprevious 3405 :Tag :stag 3406 3407 3408From xvi: 3409- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character. 3410- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet) 3411 3412 3413From vile: 3414- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window. 3415- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files 3416 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files. 3417 3418 3419Far future and "big" extensions: 3420- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice 3421 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,... 3422- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in 3423 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac). 3424 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the 3425 current layout mirrored. 3426- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer. 3427- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords, 3428 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.). 3429- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent). 3430- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different 3431 font in each top-level window. 3432- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit'). 3433- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them. 3434- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning. 3435- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to. 3436 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim). 3437- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all 3438 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files 3439 mentioned in the tags file. 3440 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???) 3441 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."? 3442- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other 3443 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter). 3444- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five 3445 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc.. 34464 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands: 3447 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format. 3448 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted. 3449 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list, 3450 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags 3451 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples: 3452 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list 3453- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes 3454 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but 3455 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/. 3456 3457 3458vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl: 3459vim: set fo+=n : 3460