1*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2004 Jul 26 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 33Aborting at the ATTENTION prompt causes trouble: 34 buffer remains active, nwindows isn't closed (fixed in buffer.c) 35 alternate buffer gets "read error" flag. 36 ":sbuf" and ":ball" leave an empty window behind. 37Change in handle_swap_exists() also in 6.3? 38 39 40For version 7.0: 41- Include many PATCHES: 42 8 Add functions: 43 setbufline() set line in any buffer (patch from Yegappan 44 Lakshmanan, 2003 Jan 21) 45 filter() Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2004 Jul 11 46 8 Make it possible to delete marks. Charles Campbell has a patch that 47 does this with the markclear() function (2004 Jan 9). 48 And the ":delmark" command (2004 Feb 9) 49 http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#Patch 50 ~/tmp/ptch.delmark.bz2 51 ~/tmp/ptch.markclear 52 Implement setmark(markname, lnum [, col [, filename]]) instead? 53 When "lnum" is zero delete the mark. 54 When "filename" has no wildcards and there is no matching buffer, add 55 the buffer (unlisted). 56 Patch for \xnn (Ciaran McCreesh) 2004 Jul 10 57 http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/patches/vim/vim-7.00a-regexp-numbered-characters-r5.patch 58 7 Add 'taglistfiles' option, show file name and type when listing matching 59 tags name with CTRL-D completion. Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan. 60 2004 Jul 11 61 7 For Visual mode: Command to do a search for the string in the marked 62 area. Only when fewer than two lines. Use "g/" and "gb". Patch from 63 Yegappan Lakshmanan. 2004 Jul 11 64 8 Make 'statusline' local, so that each window can have a different 65 value. But should it also be local to a buffer? (Yegappan Lakshmanan 66 has a patch, 2004 Jul 11) 67 8 Add buffer-local autocommands? Reduces overhead for autocommands that 68 trigger often (inserting a character, switching mode). 69 :au Event <buffer> do-something 70 E.g.: 71 :au BufEnter <buffer> menu enable ... 72 :au BufLeave <buffer> menu disable ... 73 Patch from Yakov Lerner, including test (2004 Jan 7). 74 VimResized - When the Vim window has been resized (SIGWINCH) 75 patch from Yakov Lerner, 2003 July 24. 76 --- awaiting updated patch --- 77 7 Add patch from Wall for this one ( ~/Mail/oldmail/wall/in.00019 ): 78 'flipcase' variable: upper/lowercase pairs. 79 Insert comma's between pairs and allow a range, make it look like 80 'isfname'. E.g. ":set flipcase=a-zA-Z,xX,23-33:143-153". The colon to 81 separate the from and to part is optional. 82 Resp: no time now. 83 8 Add GTK 2.3 file dialog support. Patch by Grahame Bowland, 2004 Mar 15, 84 but it doesn't use "initdir" or "dflt". (will update patch) 85 8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible. 86 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. 87 He will update the patch for 6.3. 88 Autocommands: 89 7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto. 90 Update 2004 Jun 17. 91 How does this work? Missing comments. 92 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 93 Update 2004 Jun 17 94 Missing docs. Search in 'runtimepath'? 95 How to get the messages into the .po files? 96 --- did not respond (yet) -- 97 7 Make "5dd" on last-but-one-line not delete anything (Vi compatible). 98 Add flag in 'cpoptions' for this. When not present, "2dd" in the last 99 line should delete the last line. Patch from greenx 2002 Apr 11. 100 8 Accelerators don't work in a dialog. Include patch from Martin Dalecki 101 (Jan 3, tested by David Harrison). Should work with Alt-o then. 102 7 Use accelerators for the Motif file selection dialog. Patch from 103 Martin Dalecki 2002 Jan 11. 104 8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina 105 (28 feb 2002). 106 7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears 107 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3. 108 - Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work 109 for multi-byte characters. 110 - Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind. 111 - Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5) 112 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not 113 been given values. 114 Add section in help files for these highlight groups? 115 8 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm 116 with an ESC sequence. Ideas in: ~/vim/patches/vikas.xtermcolors . 117 7 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Martin 118 Dalecki has a patch for Motif) 119 - Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a 120 line in between columns (e.g. for 'textwidth'). 121 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20. 122 8 Add functions: 123 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical 124 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg) 125 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag 126 (2003 May 13) 127 system({cmd}, {expr}) Filter {expr} through the shell command 128 {cmd} and return the result. 129 (Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan) 130 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for 131 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ ) 132 7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions 133 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10) 134 7 Motif: use the menu font consistently. Patch from Martin Dalecki 2002 135 Jan 11. 136 - Motif: add 3D shading for the menu entries? Patch from Martin Dalecki. 137 7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right 138 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli) 139 8 Lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk (uncrypted). 140 Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. 141 7 Support a stronger encryption. Jason Holt implemented AES (May 6 2003). 142 7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie) 143 8 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's 144 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1. 145 7 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David 146 Kotchan has a patch for it) 147 8 Add term entries for function keys on xterm with alt and ctrl (new in 148 pl 94). E.g., Control adds ";5" in "<Esc>[20;5~". Find a generic way 149 to prepend a modifier in console mode, to avoid having to specify each 150 individual modified key. 151 Steve Wall has a patch (2002 Mar 12) for adding function keys up to 37, 152 with modifiers. 153 8 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See 154 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface. 155 Or use emacs server kind of thing? 156 7 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25. 157 - findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at 158 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram, 159 incomplete patch Mar 18) 160 161 162- In the kvim/KDE source files fix the formatting. 163- KDE version is called "kvim". Make it "gvim", like the others? 164- Better configure check for KDE include files from Dan Sharp. 165- KDE Input method patch. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 166- Change ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be 167 incremented/decremented each time. 168- For string variables, use length instead of NUL termination. 169- new DATA TYPES: lists, dictionaries and function references. 170 Check old patch from Robert Webb for array support. 171 Add type checking? See ~/vim/ideas.txt. 172- Add SPELLCHECKER, with easy to add support for many languages. 173 8 Add spell checking. Use "ispell -a" somehow. 174 ~/vim/patches/wm_vim-5_4d.zip can be used as an example (includes 175 ispell inside Vim). Gautam Iyer has an example with "aspell". 176 "engspchk" from Charles Campbell is a good way. Support for 177 approximate-regexps will help (agrep http://www.tgries.de/agrep/). 178 - Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to 179 existing syntax items (to add @Spell). Add ":syntax contains 180 {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn cluster" but change 181 the contains list directly for matching syntax items. 182 - Keep wordlist in syntax group, load it only once and use it several 183 times later. Sort of global syntax items. 184- REFACTORING: The main() function is very long. Move parts to separate 185 functions, especially loops. Ideas from Walter Briscoe (2003 Apr 3, 2004 186 Feb 9). 187- Improve the interface between the generic GUI code and the system-specific 188 code. Generic code handles text window with scrollbars, system-specific 189 code menu, toolbar, etc. 190- Store messages to allow SCROLLING BACK for all commands. And other "less" 191 like commands. 192- "INTELLISENSE". First cleanup the Insert-mode completion. 193 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747 194 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim 195- PERSISTENT UNDO: store undo in a file. 196 Support multiple threads. Show the list of changes in a window to be able 197 to select a version. 1987 SWAP FILE CHANGE: When a dos format file was edited with ":e ++ff=unix", 199 Vim is killed and trying to recover the file, 'ff' will be dos. Same for 200 non-default fileencoding. (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jul 17) 201 Should store the values in block 0 of the swap file, but that is an 202 incompatible change. 2037 Support WINDOW TABS. Works like several pages, each with their own 204 split windows. Patch for GTK 1.2 from Christian Michon, 2004 Jan 6. 205 Also for the console! 206- EMBEDDING: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program. 207 For Xwindows this can be done with XReparentWindow(). 208 For GTK Neil Bird has a patch to use Vim like a widget. 209- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block 210 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2. 211- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye, 212 assisted by Mikolaj Machowski. Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it 213 generic. Also found here: http://skawina.eu.org/mikolaj/vimgdb 214 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program 215 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the 216 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the 217 other window. 218 Wishes for NetBeans commands: 219 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors. 220 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?) 221 in terminal mode. 222- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is. 223 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command 224 scrolls back to where the cursor is. 2258 Support four composing characters, needed for Hebrew. (Ron Aaron) 226- Add a few more things to 'diffopt': "horizontal", "vertical", 227 "foldcolumn". (Benji Fisher, 2004 Jun 21) 228- FileChangedShellPost autocommand event: after (not) reloading a changed 229 file. Can be used to update statusline oslt. 2308 When a file is change outside of Vim and unmodified in Vim there is no 231 simple way to automatically reload the file. Either add an option for 232 this or make it simple to have the FileChangedShell invoke the normal 233 action, telling it what to do. 234- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display. 235- Mac: Unicode input and display (Eckehard Berns, June 27) 2368 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac? 237 New patch 2004 Jun 16 2389 Add cursor-column highlighting. Enable it with 'cursorcolumn' option, 239 set highlighting with "CursorColumn" group. Useful for aligning text. 240 Also cursor-row highlighting. Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto for 241 underlining the cursor line: 2004 Jun 17. Should use highlight group 242 instead. 243 Alternative: when 'number' is set highlight the number of the current 244 line. 2457 Make ":startinsert" command work directly for functions and scripts? 246 Also make it possible to append (it's difficult at end of line). 247- When using 'incsearch" CTRL-R CTRL-W gets the word under the cursor, but 248 the part that already matched is doubled then. Remove the part of the 249 word that would be doubled. Make it work line CTRL-N in Insert mode. 250- Add Lua interface? (Wolfgang Oertl) 251 252 253Vi incompatibility: 2548 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other 255 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it 256 is deleted or restored. (Webb) 257 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo. 258 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the '' 259 position is one line down. (Veselinovic) 2608 ":change" in a single-line file adds an empty line. When the file used to 261 be longer a "~" line is displayed, but there really is an empty line. 262 (Haakon Riiser, 2003 Dec 3 and Dec 16) 2638 ":append" and ":insert" in an empty file add an extra empty line. (Haakon 264 Riiser, 2003 Dec 3) Test for ML_EMPTY. 2658 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should 266 make Vim exit. 2677 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line 268 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway). 269 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input. 2708 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips 271 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument 272 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded) 2736 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but 274 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag 275 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off. 2768 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another 277 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one. 278 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file 279 names in one buffer??? 280 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and 281 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not 282 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer. 2837 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some 284 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual" 285 command was one command. 2867 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep 287 the ":map" when it's used without arguments? 2887 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option. 2897 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty. 2907 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a 291 flag in 'cpoptions' for this. 2927 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when 293 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing 294 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either 295 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file). 2967 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode). 2977 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines. 2987 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go 299 to the match with the tag? Option? 3007 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option. 3017 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del> 302 (Sayre). 3037 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the 304 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible). 3057 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual". 306 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next 307 match. Nvi can do it too. 3087 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking) 309 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\ 310 line 1\ line 2\\ 311 line 2\ line 3\\ 312 . line4/ 3136 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of 314 the way the shell is started? 3156 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange 316 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line). 317 318 319GTK+ 1 (OK in GTK 2): 3208 When menus are disabled, 'm' removed from 'guioptions', Alt-F still pops 321 up the File menu. Cannot reproduce this: gives a warning for a NULL 322 pointer if the menu was never displayed. 3238 When using "gvim -geom 40x30" or setting 'columns' in .gvimrc or with a 324 GUIEnter autocommand, the width is still set to fit the toolbar. Also 325 happens when changing the font. How to avoid that the toolbar specifies 326 the minimal window width? 3278 When using a theme with different scrollbars (gtkstep), the scrollbars can 328 be too narrow. (Drazen Kacar) 3298 Font "7x14" has a bold version "7x14bold". Try to find the bold font by 330 appending "bold" when there are not 14 dashes. 331 332GTK+ GUI known bugs: 3338 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj 334 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in 335 creating a label? 3369 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim 337 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and 338 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works. 339 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again. 3407 DND doesn't work with KDE (also with GTK 1). 341 342KDE GUI known bugs: 343- The default font is ugly. bold text isn't displayed correctly. 344- Error messages when starting up. The "tip of the day" box is empty. 345- Encoding of menu items needs to be converted. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 346 347Win32 GUI known bugs: 3488 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2 349 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically? 3508 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications. 351 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs. 352 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html 3538 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be 354 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp) 3557 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow 356 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to 357 "lucida_console:h8"). 3586 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":" 359 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis) 3607 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason 361 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible 362 to use an opaque background in most places? 3638 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that 364 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly. 365 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters. 3668 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font 367 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the 368 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono. 3697 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan, 370 2004 May 9) 3718 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces 372 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim 373 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with 374 MS-Windows 98? 375 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a 376 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed 377 file: Window moves with the cursor! 378 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it? 3798 When activating the Vim window with mouse click, don't move cursor to 380 mouse position. Catch WM_MOUSEACTIVATE. (Luevelsmeyer) 3818 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it 382 appear. (Sami Salonen) 3838 Windows NT: writing to aux.* makes Vim hang. (Acevedo) 3848 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that 385 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win 386 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also 387 doesn't work properly. 3888 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops 389 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it 390 appears in the right position. (Webb) 3919 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse 392 button doesn't give popup menu. 393 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless 394 selection. 395 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button. 396 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the 397 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text. 3988 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the 399 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore) 400 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error 401 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code. 4028 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg. 403 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not 404 be read. 4058 MessageBox used for error messages can be too big. There is no way to 406 scroll it, or even hit the OK button (but you can hit return). 407 Use a scrollable window. 4087 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida 409 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char). 410 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'. 4117 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the 412 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to 413 scroll? Need to be able to get out of hit-enter prompt with the mouse 414 anyway. 4157 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance. 416 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar. 4177 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using 418 "/min" as the command name. (Rogall) 4196 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor). 4208 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work 421 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because 422 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr? 4238 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we 424 know which keyboard is being used? 4257 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern 426 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn 427 area (Koloseike). 4288 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might 429 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first, 430 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in 431 the font name). 432 433 434Athena and Motif: 4359 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is 436 required and it's missing? 4378 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned 438 wrong. 4399 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can 440 be off by default. 4419 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now, 442 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting 443 flag. 4448 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character. 445 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1. 446 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this. 4478 Perhaps use fontsets for everything? 4486 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting 449 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all 450 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of 451 the tooltips work though... 4527 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not 453 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory). 4548 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the 455 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the 456 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'. 457 458 459Athena GUI: 4609 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in 461 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving 462 through files. 4637 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to 464 read long file names. (Schroeder) 4654 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go 466 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the 467 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets" 468 problem during a refresh. 4695 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing 470 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the 471 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors. 472 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes 473 colors as it should. 474 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the 475 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug? 476 477 478Motif GUI: 4798 Popup menu ordering is wrong. 4807 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()? 481 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2). 4828 The texts in the find/replace dialog don't use the right font. 4838 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes 484 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes. 485 (Phillipps) 486 487 488GUI: 4899 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no 490 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy) 4919 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C. 492 e.g. on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on 493 Solaris 2.6. (Marley) 4949 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim 495 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf) 4968 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key 497 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version). 4988 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both 499 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate 500 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed. 5018 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling 502 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state 503 of where it is processing the output. 504 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code. 5058 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font 506 doesn't work. 5078 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS. 5088 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS. 5098 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for 510 browse(). 5118 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this, 512 use that code? Or use console dialog. 5138 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the 514 error message disappears too quick. 5158 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later, 516 to avoid problems. 5178 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there 518 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for 519 input. Or maybe every 100 ms? 5208 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank 521 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0". 522 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works. 5238 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed 524 up. Set erase character somehow? 5258 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character 526 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this. 527 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling. 528 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya) 5298 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11. 5307 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not 531 visible. 5327 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is 533 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey) 5347 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it 535 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw. 5368 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the 537 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek) 5388 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not 539 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32. 540 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the 541 remaining part of the window (Phillipps). 542- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun. 5434 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times 544 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times 545 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486. 546 547 548MSDOS/DJGPP: 5499 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao) 550 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the 551 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem. 5528 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists. 553 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error? 5549 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused 555 code and reduce static data. 5569 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C. 557 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since 558 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting 559 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work. 5609 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work. 561 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67 562 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71 563 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2) 564 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>. 565 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream? 566 Make this work like in Win32 console. 567 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended 568 key code. Use a translation table? 5699 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used. 570 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself. 5718 Use DJGPP 2.03. 5728 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT. 573 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip). 5748 setlocale() is bogus. 5758 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some 576 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched 577 Windows 95 system! 5788 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe) 5797 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g. in keyword completion) on a 8088 580 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin). 5817 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.: 582 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley) 583 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem). 5848 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add 585 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt. 5867 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen. 587 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a 588 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are 589 "[New file]". 5907 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode 591 that is supported? 5928 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them. 5938 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter 594 Briscoe) 595 596 597MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32: 5988 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use 599 gen_expand_wildcards(). 6008 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander 601 Wagner. 6028 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL. 6038 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt, 604 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name. 6058 Should $USERPROFILE be used instead of $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? 6068 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have 607 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key. 6088 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift. 609 Should work like in the GUI version. 6108 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for 611 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names. 6128 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when 613 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command? 6148 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file" 615 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be 616 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc. 6178 ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means directory "#bb" 618 in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth) 6198 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going 620 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to 621 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth) 622 623 624Windows 95: 6258 Editing a file by it's short file name and writing it, makes the long file 626 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps. 627 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly). 6288 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the 629 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32). 630 631 632Win32 console: 6339 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its 634 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister) 635 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor. 636 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable. 637 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1 638 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name. 639 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file. 640 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed 641 and the file is not saved. 642 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its 643 long name. 6448 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at 645 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT. 6467 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals, 647 besides the console. 6488 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes) 6499 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with 650 <C-S-i>? 6519 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on 652 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI? 6538 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__ 654 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around? 6557 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'? 656 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when 657 exiting. 658 659 660Amiga: 6618 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte 662 sequences. 6639 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove 664 backslashes in result. 6658 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do 666 all options, using white space separation. 667 668 669Macintosh: 6707 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard 671 Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff 672 Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it. 6737 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both. 674 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac 675 (Jack) 676 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html 6778 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear 678 to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17) 6798 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI. 6809 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher) 681 - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost. 6828 The Vim/About menu doesn't work. 6838 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV. 6848 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh. 6858 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh. 6869 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be 687 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone) 6889 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when 689 scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher) 6909 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two 691 seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher) 6929 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly. 6938 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige) 6948 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige) 695 696 697"Small" problems: 6988 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used, 699 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited 700 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure 701 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this. 7029 When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with 703 'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though 704 the fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to 705 check for the buffer to be unmodified. 7068 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the 707 error number, it's not a regular error message. 7087 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to 709 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 7108 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and 711 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column 712 for redirection. 7137 There is no way to change directory and go back without changing the local 714 and/or global directory. Add a way to find out if the current window uses 715 a local directory. Add cdcmd() that returns ":cd" or ":lcd"? 7167 After running "make test" the window title is sometimes not restored. 717 Mostly sticks at "test3.in", but not always. Appears to happen more often 718 when compiled with Python (threading). 7197 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use 720 'termencoding'. 7218 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor 722 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor 723 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when 724 using the horizontal scrollbar. 7257 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed 726 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the 727 invocations belong together. 7288 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this 729 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams) 7308 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the 731 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the 732 UnxUtils.zip archive. 733 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter 734 Briscoe says it's not as good. 7358 'fillchars' doesn't work for multi-byte characters. 7369 Editing a XML file with a long line is extremely slow. Example file from 737 Randy Parker (Dec 13). Editing the dictionaries for engspchk plugin with 738 syntax highlighting is also very slow. 739 Limit the searching for items to a few hundred characters? 7408 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing 741 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly) 7427 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names: 743 use "~/" when possible. 7447 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte 745 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail 746 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[] 747 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8). 7488 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when 749 defined. 7507 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an 751 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found. 752 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions. 7537 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode 754 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second 755 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel) 7567 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the 757 bottom window only bigger as much as needed. 7587 "[p" doesn't work in Visual mode. (David Brown) 7597 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere. 760 Remove? (Dan Sharp) 7619 The argument <f-args> of a user command doesn't handle backslashes 762 properly. "Cmd \ e" is one argument, "Cmd \\ e" still is one argument. 763 "Cmd \ e" is two arguments, first one ending in space. (Kontra Gergely) 7649 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This 765 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining 766 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command": 767 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining 768 script can be called. 7698 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po, 770 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still 771 works. 7729 When a syntax region does not use "keepend" and a contained item does use 773 "extend", this makes the outer region stop at the end of the contained 774 region. (Lutz Eymers) Another example Nov 14 2002. 7758 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with 776 CTRL-C. 7777 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X 778 server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp 779 of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK 780 doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it 781 won't work for GTK anyway. 7828 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error 783 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid. 7848 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line() 785 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this 786 configurable? 7878 'hkmap' should probably be global-local. 7889 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes 789 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work 790 then. (Pritesh Mistry) 7918 ":s!from!to!" works, but ":smagic!from!to!" doesn't. It sees the "!" as a 792 flag to to the command. Same for ":snomagic". (Johan Spetz) 7938 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save 794 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()? 7958 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is 796 always written, even when the original file already exists. 7977 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter, 798 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space. 7999 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file 800 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being 801 written. 8029 The "Error detected while processing modelines" message should have an 803 error number. 8047 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer. 8058 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose 806 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when 807 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'. 8088 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global 809 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez) 8109 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing 811 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give 812 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating 813 one. 8147 On MS-DOS or MS-Windows, when editing the same file over a network, the 815 drive letter is different, thus an existing swap file doesn't generate a 816 warning. Use some flag to indicate the swap file is in the same directory 817 as the original file? Could make b0_fname[] start with a special 818 character like ">". 8197 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes. 820 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs. 8217 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that 822 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back. 8237 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed 824 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's 825 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y 826 direction, not horizontally? 8278 When using CTRL-D after ":help", restrict the number of matches to a 828 thousand, otherwise using CTRL-D without an argument takes too long. 8298 ":hardcopy": 830 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16. 831 - Need to handle unprintable characters. 832 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform 833 dithering to make grey text? 834 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total 835 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams) 836 - Should interpreted CTRL-L as a page break. 837 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'. 838 Default to black when no syntax highlighting. 839 - Be able to print a window in diff mode. 840 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate 841 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected). 8428 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the 843 text in following lines where the linebreak changes. 8449 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on 845 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect 846 that Windows NT is being used? 8478 When opening the same file on Unix and on MS-Windows, there is no 848 ATTENTION message, because the path in the swap file is different. Using 849 a relative path name will cause no ATTENTION for Vim 5.8. 850 Somehow add a flag that the swap file is in the same dir as the file? 8518 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a 852 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it. 8538 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert 854 in lines that don't extend into the block? 8558 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O 856 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev) 857 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work. 8588 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from 859 'linebreak'. 8608 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection 861 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab. 862 (Helmut Stiegler) 8638 With 'virtualedit' set, a blockwise Visual selection that starts and ends 864 in a tab, "<" shifts too much. (Helmut Stiegler) 8659 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When 866 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending 867 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of 868 'magic' in history. (Margo) 8699 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for 870 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc". 8719 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern 872 isn't updated). 8739 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga). 8749 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled 875 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which 876 cause another redraw, etc. 8778 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path() 878 must escape special characters in the pattern. 8798 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an 880 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use 881 ":w!!" for that. 882 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and 883 restore file to readonly afterwards. 8847 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get 885 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the 886 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as 887 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from 888 clipboard) 8897 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal 890 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark 891 Waggoner) 8928 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window 893 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no 894 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\". 8958 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a 896 way to avoid using the builtin termcap. 8978 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also 898 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm. 899 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style. 9008 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator 901 (e.g., ":w"). 9028 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for 903 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long. 9048 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column 905 for ">>". 9068 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long 907 script in do_cmdline(). 9088 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the 909 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that 910 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have 911 changes. 9128 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT 913 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim". 9148 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to 915 check for file marks. This can be slow. 9167 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change 917 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's 918 needed. 919 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key. 9208 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option 921 to skip catch_signals()? 9229 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the 923 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert 924 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of 925 text? 9268 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts 927 all the text. Add ":rmenu"? 9288 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of 929 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>. 9309 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are 931 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7, 932 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed. 933 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or 934 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate(). 9357 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/". 936 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and 937 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings 938 in the list? 9398 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking 940 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up, 941 instead of on button down. 9428 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw. 9439 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for 944 reaching the end of the available buffer. 9458 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a 946 character is typed. 9478 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this. 948 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it. 9498 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not 950 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure 9518 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an 952 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template 953 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp". 954 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for 955 cygwin bash. 9567 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}". 957 Remember flags for backreferences. 9587 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been 959 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT? 9607 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names 961 that contain a '$' after all have been found. 9628 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about 963 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX. 9647 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting 965 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name. 9667 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing. 967 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and 968 "initdir" is the default path to be used. 9697 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of 970 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols) 9718 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo 972 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so 973 that the user knows he has to delete the files. 9747 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func 975 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this. 9767 After ":%d" an undo reports the number of lines added as if there still 977 was one line. 978 979 980I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!): 9819 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file 982 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three 983 files. (McCollister) 9848 Motif: Tear-off menu item crashes Vim on some machines. (Netherton) It 985 works fine for me, maybe it's a Motif problem. 986 987 988Problems that will (probably) not be solved: 989- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering 990 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the 991 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like 992 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external 993 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text. 994- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access 995 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message. 996 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it. 997- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim. 998 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim. 999- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will 1000 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which 1001 character gets the highlighting. 1002- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm 1003 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly. 1004- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem. 1005 (Jennings) 1006- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino). 1007- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25 1008 errors. How do we get the rest? 1009- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why? 1010- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The 1011 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong. 1012- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a 1013 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy 1014 first? 1015- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for 1016 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names. 1017- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy 1018 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim, 1019 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK. 1020- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The 1021 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working. 1022 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p". 1023 (Benzinger). 1024- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that 1025 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim 1026 can't get back what the external command didn't use. 1027- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error. 1028 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code. 1029- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being 1030 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar. 1031- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer 1032 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when 1033 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted. 1034 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library. 1035 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn) 1036 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)? 1037- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles 1038 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE. 1039 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134. 1040- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal 1041 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif 1042 libraries, get a patch from Sun. 1043- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X 1044 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash. 1045- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks 1046 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff. 1047- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim 1048 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy) 1049- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive 1050 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used. 1051- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up: 1052 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library 1053 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to 1054 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the 1055 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem. 1056- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the 1057 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line: 1058 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr> 1059- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a 1060 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert 1061 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard) 1062- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar. 1063 This is a GTK 2.4.x bug, fixed in GTK 2.4.2. (Thomas de Grenier de Latour) 1064- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co' 1065 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the 1066 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the 1067 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined 1068 in the vimrc file to be lost. 1069- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and 1070 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars. 1071 1072--------------------- extensions and improvements ---------------------- 1073 *extensions-improvements* 1074 1075Documentation: 10768 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth) 10777 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual. 10789 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention: 1079 - change to cursor position and curswant 1080 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.) 1081 - how it works for folded lines 1082 - how it works with multi-byte characters 10839 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would 1084 work too. 10858 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag" 1086 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double 1087 text. 10888 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running". 10897 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to 1090 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'. 10917 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and 1092 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag. 1093- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks. 1094 1095 1096Help: 1097- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a 1098 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag. 1099- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go 1100 to the other matches. 1101- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files. 1102- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|. 1103- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always 1104 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file, 1105 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a 1106 default contents. 1107- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal 1108 height for the help window (and other windows). 1109- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute". 1110- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive? 1111- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands. 1112 1113 1114User Friendlier: 11158 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for 1116 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter 1117 Briscoe) 11188 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types? 11198 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that 1120 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if 1121 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf". 11228 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc, 1123 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu. 1124- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file. 1125 ":mkplugin <file>"? 11268 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that 1127 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from 1128 'runtimepath'. 1129 " Vim plugin 1130 <main plugin code> 1131 " >>> plugin help start <<< 1132 <plugin docs> 1133- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."? 11349 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or 1135 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty 1136 item?). 1137 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands. 11388 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems. 11397 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output? 1140 1141 1142Diff mode: 11438 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file). 1144 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing: 1145 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis 11467 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also 1147 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same 1148 location. 1149 1150 1151Folding: 1152 (commands still available: zg zG zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zw zW zy zY; 1153 secondary: zB zS zT zZ) 11548 Add different highlighting for a fold line depending on the fold level. 1155 (Noel Henson) 11568 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the 1157 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the 1158 user aware of this? 11598 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which 1160 commands skip over a closed fold. 11618 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt) 11628 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB. 11637 When using 2html.vim, also reproduce folds as you can see them. When 1164 someone doesn't want the folds he can disable them before converting. 1165 First attempt by Carl Osterwisch, 2004 May 10. 11667 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds. 1167- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. Require showing a character in 1168 'foldcolumn' to avoid the missing line goes unnoticed. 1169- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll 1170 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds 1171 smoother? 1172- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list, 1173 using the wininfo in wi_folds. 1174- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects. 1175- Add 'hidecomment' option: don't display comments in /* */ and after //. 1176- "zu": undo change in manual fold. "zU" redo change in manual fold. How to 1177 implement this? 1178- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the 1179 cursor. 1180- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3": set fold level for a region. 1181- Can set 'foldtext' to empty string: don't display any line. How to 1182 implement this? 1183- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt) 1184- Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like 1185 searches. 1186 1187 1188Multi-byte characters: 11899 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the 1190 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal 1191 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single 1192 byte). 11938 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for 1194 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html. 1195 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like: 1196 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-" 1197 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first 1198 item. 11998 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for 1200 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"? 12018 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an 1202 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for 1203 ":grep". 12048 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search 1205 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka) 12067 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted, 1207 so that the user can fix the problem. 12088 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo 1209 Schweigert) 12109 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El) 12118 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters. 12128 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters. 12138 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes. 12148 "ga" should show all composing characters, also if there are more than 2. 12157 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored? 12168 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing. 12178 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes. 12188 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte 1219 characters. 12208 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters. 12218 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead 1222 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example. 12237 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead. 1224 'display' option to specify this. 12257 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default(): 1226 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c) 1227- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the 1228 fontselector somehow. 1229- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it 1230 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale. 1231- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for 1232 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong. 1233- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset, 1234 depending on the default value of 'encoding'. 1235 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used. 1236 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know 1237 if a font exists? 1238- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with 1239 convert_input() for Mac GUI, RiscOS GUI, BeOS GUI. 1240- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters. 1241 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_ 12427 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of 1243 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky) 1244- Make 'langmap' accept multi-byte characters. 1245- Do we need the reverse of 'keymap', like 'langmap' but with files and 1246 multi-byte characters? E.g., when using a Russian keyboard. 1247- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text 1248 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort 1249 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command? 1250- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into 1251 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it: 1252 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz 1253 But it's very complicated... 1254 1255 1256Printing: 1257- Add "page width" to wrap long lines. 1258- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for 1259 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function. 1260- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'. 1261- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer 1262 name, portrait/landscape, etc). 1263- PostScript: only works for 7-bit ASCII and EBCDIC. Should support 1264 different 'encoding' values somehow. 1265- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same 1266 units as for the margins. 1267- Support right-to-left text? 12688 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the 1269 color. 1270 1271 1272Syntax highlighting: 12738 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson) 1274 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual". 12758 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined 1276 cluster can be added to existing syntax items. 12778 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this: 1278 "({ something })", often used in GCC code. 12798 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing 1280 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for 1281 ":wq file". 12828 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script). 12839 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is 1284 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it... 12857 Make syntax keyword table configurable. Set number of bits used with 1286 ":syn clear [hashbits]", so that we don't need to reallocate the table. 1287 minimal 4 bits, maximal 16. (Campbell) 12887 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and 1289 Search highlighting. 12908 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to 1291 change this for each release. 12928 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end 1293 pattern, but not in the body. 12948 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this 1295 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item, 1296 instead of the containing item. 12978 For keywords, allow to define the size of the hash table with ":syn 1298 clear". Change KHASH_ defines into variables stored in buffer struct. 1299 Use something else than linear linked list from the hash table. (Campbell) 13008 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside (). 13018 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype 1302 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules? 1303 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, 1304 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax. 13058 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a 1306 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained] 13078 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey 1308 background) when on one of the parens or in between them. 1309 Or highlight the matching paren when the cursor is on one. 13108 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error". 13118 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop 1312 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be 1313 used. 13148 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will 1315 allow spell checking. (Fleiner) 13168 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And 1317 re-insert the [] if possible. 13188 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for 1319 the Cursor). 13208 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like 1321 using "\1" in a ":s" command. 13228 Support for deleting syntax items: 1323 :syn keyword cTodo remove this 1324 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern" 1325 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that" 13268 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way 1327 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for 1328 a '<'. (Fleiner) 13297 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification? 1330 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or 1331 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern. 13327 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be 1333 detected. 13348 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original 1335 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this). 13368 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to 1337 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible. 13388 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group. 13398 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values. 13407 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to 1341 ":mkvimrc". 13428 Improve c.vim: 1343 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on: 1344 "c_strict_ansi". 1345 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way... 13468 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the 1347 current line while in Insert mode. 13488 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been 1349 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again? 13508 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current 1351 display position. 13528 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to 1353 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern. 1354 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()". 13558 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until 1356 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when 1357 highlighting starts. 13587 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the 1359 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow. 1360 E.g. for this html: 1361 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I> 13627 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed 1363 (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"): 1364 :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display="" 13657 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is. 13667 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled 1367 words. 13687 Command line completion for ":find" should search in 'path'. 13698 Add more command line completion for :syntax. 13708 Add more command line completion for :highlight. 13718 Add more command line completion for :sign. 13727 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands. 1373 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and 1374 completion? 13758 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their 1376 highlighting. (Salman Halim) 13777 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to 1378 select one of the sets. 13798 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1 1380 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch 1381 2, etc. 13828 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the 1383 highlighting (for "." command). 13848 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /. 1385 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /? 13868 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing. 13877 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs": 1388 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c". 13896 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of 1390 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall) 1391- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful 1392 when extending an already existing syntax file. 1393- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too? 1394- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin 1395 (for comment blocks). 1396- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags: 1397 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor. 1398 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match. 1399 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match. 1400 Also for {}, <>, etc.? 1401 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?) 1402 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the 1403 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it. 1404 (Campbell) 1405 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around 1406 the cursor. (Iain Truskett) 14077 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword. 1408 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow). 14097 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should 1410 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set). 1411 And allows for sections with different highlighting. 14127 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it 1413 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from 1414 messages. And external commands? 14158 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for 1416 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim? 14177 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an 1418 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line. 1419 1420 1421Built-in script language: 14228 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and 1423 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings. 14248 Allow range for ":exec". Pass it on to the executed command. (Webb) 14258 exists("&&option") tests if 'option' is actually implemented. Useful for 1426 'shellslash', for example. 14278 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham) 14288 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When 1429 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an 1430 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same 1431 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle 1432 nested packages? 1433 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}(). 1434 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from 1435 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path). 14367 Make globpath() also work with "**" and upwards search. (Brian Medley) 14377 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode. 1438 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if 1439 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that 1440 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an 1441 autocommand. 1442 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a 1443 .vim file. Problem: distribution. 1444 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached 1445 file belongs to a sourced script? 14467 Add "n" flag to search() function, just like searchpair(). (Alexey 1447 Marinichev) 14487 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn', 1449 signs and/or 'number'. 14508 Add functions: 1451 search() Add optional offset argument. 1452 realname() Get user name (first, last, full) 1453 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov 1454 3 2002 1455 Only add this when also implemented for 1456 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could 1457 be used. 1458 get_user_name() gets login name. 1459 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what}) 1460 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}. 1461 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File". 1462 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu 1463 File.Open..." argument. 1464 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22 1465 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary 1466 with properties instead. 1467 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping. 1468 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4. 1469 Return a list instead. 1470 sprintf(format, arg, ..) How to prevent a crash??? 1471 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx" 1472 mkdir(dir) Create directory 1473 copy(from, to) Copy a file 1474 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string 1475 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace() 1476 input(prompt, complete) like input() but do specified completion 1477 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left 1478 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in 1479 Visual block mode. 1480 tagtype(tag) get type of tag (also checks if it exists) 1481 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard) 1482 getbufline() get line from any buffer 1483 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer 1484 appendbufline() append line in any buffer 1485 sort() Sort a newline-separated string. Also: 1486 ":sort". 1487 libcall() Allow more than one argument. 1488 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function 1489 to allow the library to execute a command or 1490 evaluate an expression. 1491 char2hex() convert char string to hex string. XX 1492 hex2char() convert hex string to char string. XX 14937 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the 1494 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero. 14958 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was 1496 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file. 14978 Pass the executable name to the Vim scripts in some way. As v:argv0? 14988 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts. 14998 When starting to source a vim script, delete all functions that it has 1500 previously defined? Avoids using ":fun!" all the time. 15017 Add optional arguments to user functions: 1502 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17) 15036 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"? 15048 Add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var" just ignore. 15058 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable, 1506 option or environment variable. 15078 ":let &option" should list the value of the option. 15087 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the 1509 stack available (separated with '\n'). 15108 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed: 1511 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands} 15128 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started. 15138 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default), 1514 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0, 1515 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and 1516 charwise({expr}). 15177 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer 1518 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch 1519 buffer for this? 1520 result = scratch(string, command) 1521 result = apply(string, command) 1522 result = execute(string, command) 1523 "command" would use <> notation. 1524 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number? 15257 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds). 15267 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an 1527 option for the search path. (Sekera) 15287 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files. 1529 1530 1531Robustness: 15328 This pattern in syntax/java.vim causes a recursive call of regmatch(): 1533 syn match javaStringError +"\([^"\\]\|\\.\)*$+ 1534 A long line with a " in it can cause a crash when it runs out of stack 1535 space (on systems where this isn't caught). How can we catch this for 1536 more systems? 15376 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or 1538 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing 1539 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking . 1540 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf). 1541 Andy doesn't have time to work on it. 1542 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a 1543 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded? 1544 1545 1546Performance: 15478 Loading plugins takes startup time. Only load the part that is used to 1548 trigger the rest, and load the rest when it's needed? 15498 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags. 15509 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster? 15518 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result? 15527 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when 1553 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start? 15548 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same 1555 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines 1556 when starting up in a color terminal. 15578 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on 1558 Win16. 15599 Setting GUI options in the console (e.g., 'guifont') should not cause a 1560 redraw. 15618 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this 1562 function be improved? 15638 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the 1564 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap 1565 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can 1566 this be improved? 15678 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up 1568 MS-DOS version. (Negri) 15697 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower when adding a region for folding 1570 from { to }. (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman) 15717 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying 1572 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang) 15737 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a 1574 lot of abbreviations). 15757 DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster. 15767 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file 1577 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line 1578 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>. 1579 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat. 1580 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place. 1581 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase. 1582 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc. 15838 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the 1584 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was 1585 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating 1586 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)? 15878 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to 1588 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid 1589 using strcmp() too often? 15907 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file? 1591 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating 1592 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a 1593 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another 1594 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from 1595 the two blocks to the memfile block. 15967 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory 1597 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called 1598 with an argument that can be messed with. 1599 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that 1600 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced. 16017 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)". 1602- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek() 16038 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in 1604 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim. 1605- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of 1606 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation? 1607- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki) 1608- Do profiling on: 1609 - :g/pat/normal cmd 1610 - 1000ii<Esc> 1611 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary) 1612 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan) 1613 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u". 1614 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and 1615 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl". 1616 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary. 1617 - editing a vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim). 16187 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were 1619 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it 1620 changed). 1621 - On each change, remember start and end of the change. 1622 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count. 1623- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest! 1624- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still 1625 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"? 1626- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to 1627 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from 1628 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg(). 1629- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of 1630 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing). 1631- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height. 1632- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if 1633 cursor is right of the screen. 16348 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a 1635 CTRL-C (it's slow). 1636 1637 1638Code size: 16398 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded. 1640- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be 1641 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions. 16428 Make a GUI-only version for Unix? 16438 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using 1644 it. 16457 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be 1646 left out. 16478 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals 1648 can be removed. 16498 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed? 1650 1651 1652Messages: 16538 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the 1654 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!". 16558 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip 1656 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()? 16578 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a 1658 script. 16598 "vim --version" output goes to stderr, should be stdout. Can all output 1660 from messages using printf() go to stdout? 1661- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key. 1662 Perhaps after ten seconds? 1663- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9. 16649 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays: 1665 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop. 1666 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long 1667 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before 1668 redrawing. 16697 Add an option, which is a regexp, that disables warning messages which 1670 match that regexp (Tsirkin). 16718 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more 1672 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text. 16738 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another 1674 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option 1675 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off". 1676 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts 1677 typing, error messages must be switched back on. 1678 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings). 1679- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed? 1680 sleep before second message? 16818 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is 1682 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers", 1683 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the 1684 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall) 1685 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and 1686 error messages, printing text, etc. 16878 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt. 1688 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when 1689 a prompt is present (with a callback function?). 1690 1691 1692Screen updating: 16937 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one 1694 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the 1695 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit). 1696- screen_line(): 1697 - insert/delete character stuff. 1698 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line). 1699- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when 1700 dragging the status line with the mouse). 1701- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when 1702 waiting for a character. 17038 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from 1704 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when 1705 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping. 17067 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together. 1707 1708 1709Scrolling: 17108 Add "zm" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle. 17116 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi) 1712- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc.. 1713 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound 1714 windows. 17157 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next 1716 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it 1717 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer. 1718- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it 1719 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this? 1720 (Goldfarb) 1721- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all 1722 bound windows. 1723- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to 1724 be bound by regexp searches 1725- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell) 1726- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the 1727 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number 1728 of lines but not with a single line). 1729 1730 1731Autoconf: 17328 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader. 17338 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb) 1734 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically? 1735- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the 1736 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner). 1737- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4(). 1738- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it? 1739- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf. 1740 1741 1742Perl interface: 17438 Rename typemap file to something else? 17447 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark) 17457 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C? 17466 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll). 1747 1748 1749Shared libraries: 17506 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it. 1751 :libload internal-name libname 1752 :libunload internal-name 1753 :liblist 1754 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...) 1755 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...) 1756 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment. 17576 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries. 1758 1759 1760Tags: 17618 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify 1762 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m". 17638 Add a function that returns the line in the tags file for a matching tag. 1764 Can be used to extract more info (class name, inheritance, etc.) (Rico 1765 Hendriks) 17667 Count before CTRL-]: jump to N'th match 17678 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis. 17688 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able 1769 to type the tag number directly. 17707 Add a tag-select window. Works like ":cwindow". (Michal Malecki) 17717 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a 1772 window for each tag. 17737 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting? 17747 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit 1775 bottom" search message. 17767 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry, 1777 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were 1778 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb) 17797 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and 1780 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod". 1781 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func" 1782 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx. 17837 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields: 1784 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c 1785 :tagargs clear 1786 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag 1787 matching). 17887 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command? 1789 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi. 1790 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi) 1791 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way. 17927 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With 1793 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again. 17947 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use 1795 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add 1796 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect". 1797 1798 1799Security: 1800- nothing at the moment 1801 1802 1803Win32 GUI: 18048 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for 1805 the message and input? 18067 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at 1807 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 1808 dynamically? 18097 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu. 1810 (Mike McCollister) 18118 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several 1812 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't 1813 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all 1814 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest 1815 common part of the path. 18168 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik) 18178 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that 1818 gettext and menus work. 18198 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit 1820 return in every console. 1821 Also: Look at how Emacs does runs external commands: 1822 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html. 18238 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands: 1824 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text). 18258 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF. 1826 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands? 18277 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme. 1828 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser) 18297 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog). 18307 <Esc> should close a dialog. 18317 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be 1832 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended 1833 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any 1834 prompts. 18357 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that 1836 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have 1837 the file added into an already running Vim. 18387 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide 1839 functions to find the window title. 1840 1841 1842GUI: 18438 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS. 1844- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a 1845 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier. 18467 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows. 18478 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI. 18486 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu. 18498 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When 1850 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position. 18519 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze) 18527 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype? 18538 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the 1854 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide". 18558 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text 1856 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine 1857 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated. 18588 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim) 1859 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front. 18608 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more 1861 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c. 1862 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow 1863 running them in separate processes. 18647 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument. 18658 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask 1866 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code. 18677 Add some code to handle proportional fonts? Need to draw each character 1868 separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font is not exactly 1869 double-width. (Maeda) 18708 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default). 18718 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to 1872 select one. Martin Dalecki has a font selector for Motif, but it needs a 1873 bit more work. 18748 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.). 18758 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all? 18768 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a 1877 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this 1878 portable (X11, Win32, ..)? 18797 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items. 1880 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The 1881 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything. 18827 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back. 1883 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim). 18847 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can 1885 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors. 1886 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For 1887 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs. 18887 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the 1889 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas) 18907 Should support multi-column menus. 1891- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far 1892 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right). 1893- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode". 18948 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus. 18956 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a 1896 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui". 18977 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'? 18987 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos', 1899 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>. 1900 Or add a command, like ":winsize"? 19017 Add toolbar for more GUIs. 19028 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item 1903 name can be chosen free. 19047 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of 1905 the window? Allows for softkey-like use. 19066 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the 1907 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a 1908 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is 1909 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to 1910 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks 1911 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI 1912 things. 19137 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default 1914 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog. 1915- Motif steals <F10> from us, to pop up menus with the keyboard. How do we 1916 get it back if we want it? 1917- Paste in Insert mode should not do autowrap etc. Or maybe this should be 1918 changeable with an option? 1919- Put a nice picture in the icon (but how do we do that?). 19207 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks 1921 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated. 1922- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal 1923 where it was started from? 19247 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument. 1925 1926 1927VMS: 1928- Improvement: rewrite term/TTY handling. 1929- Improvement: create VMS GTK runtime libraries on OpenVMS 7.1-2 (today GTK 1930 works just on 7.3). 1931 1932 1933Autocommands: 19349 Make sure that side effects of autocommands are handled correctly. Don't 1935 execute autocommands when a buffer or window is halfway some changes. 1936 Move all apply_autocmds() calls to a higher level where needed. 19378 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g. 1938 "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc". 19398 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two 1940 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more 1941 difficult). 19428 Also trigger CursorHold in Insert mode? 19437 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that user 1944 can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the kind 1945 of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient? 19468 Can't use ":normal" in CursorHold autocommands. Make the CursorHold event 1947 insert a special key code, and call the autocommand functions from a 1948 higher level, so that vgetc() isn't used recursively. 19498 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist? 1950 And anything else? 19518 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input 1952 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus). 1953 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ... 19548 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc". 19558 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag. 1956 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found. 19576 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be 1958 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron) 19597 Add a way to skip an autocommand if going from one *.c file to another *.c 1960 file. 19617 When trying to open a directory, don't load the file but trigger an 1962 autocommand event OpenDirectory. 19637 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link, 1964 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate 1965 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type 1966 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard) 19675 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the 1968 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will 1969 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas) 19707 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for 1971 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the 1972 file. 19738 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at 1974 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read 1975 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'. 1976- Add events to autocommands: 1977 Error - When an error happens 1978 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode 1979 InsertEnter - Entering Insert mode 1980 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode 1981 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode 1982 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode 1983 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter) 1984 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled 1985 when exiting isn't a good idea. 1986 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands. 1987 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M") 1988 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged 1989 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the 1990 window title) 1991 BufReadAction - replaces reading a file 1992 BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file 1993 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down 1994 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the 1995 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor. 1996 Set v:char to the character, can be changed. 1997 (not triggered when 'paste' is set). 1998 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting 1999 the char. 2000 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for 2001 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the 2002 file from CVS). 2003 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be 2004 used to do a :preserve for remote files. 2005 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate 2006 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so 2007 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add 2008 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah) 2009 WinResized - When a window has been resized 2010- Add autocommand to be executed every so many seconds? For writing the 2011 file now and then ('autosave'). 2012 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'* 2013 'autosave' 'aw' number (default 0) 2014 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the 2015 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set. 2016 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer. 2017 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make 2018 them save the file itself besides the swapfile. 2019 2020 2021Insert mode completion/expansion: 20228 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete 2023 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages. 20249 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with 2025 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended. 2026 (Webb) 20278 The code has become too complex. Redesign it, or at least add proper 2028 comments. 20298 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion: 2030 - ignore/match case 2031 - different characters than 'iskeyword' 20328 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text. 20338 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive 2034 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of 2035 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo. 2036 Should work for C++ and Java. 2037 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc. 20387 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?). 20397 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS 2040 instead of words. 20418 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents. 20428 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does). 2043 Requires remembering a number of insertions. 20448 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names. 2045 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion. 2046- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the 2047 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use 2048 wildcards in the file name)? 2049- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted). 2050- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?). 2051- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could 2052 be in another file). 2053- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches. 2054- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option? 2055- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string 2056 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W) 2057- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions. 2058- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows? 2059- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly) 20608 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that 2061 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb) 2062 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-]. 2063 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'. 2064- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list). 2065 2066 2067Command line editing: 20687 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command 2069 line. 20708 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion 2071 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of 2072 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc. 2073- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of 2074 lines wraps to start of line). 2075- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view 2076 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many 2077 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run 2078 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012). 2079 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history. 2080 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the 2081 cmdwin does now already. 2082 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal 2083 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T? 2084 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the 2085 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid 2086 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines? 2087 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate 2088 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode 2089 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh. 2090 Problems: 2091 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar' 2092 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations 2093 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches 2094 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands 2095 - Normal: no ":" commands? 2096 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line. 2097 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of 2098 character in first column? 2099 - Implementation ideas: 2100 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer. 2101 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum. 2102 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line. 2103 - sync undo after entering a command line? 2104 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line 2105 Mode. 2106 2107 2108Command line completion: 21098 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument. 21108 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate 2111 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h". 21128 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list 2113 them with the optional part inside []. 21147 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be 2115 edited. (Sven Guckes) 21167 Add completion for when entering an expression after CTRL-R= and "=. 2117 (Servatius Brandt) 2118- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible. 2119- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the 2120 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>". 21218 For ":find" and ":sfind" expand files found in 'path'. 21228 Add cmdline completion for the ":debug" command. 21238 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting 2124 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp? 21257 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the 2126 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb) 2127- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching 2128 identifiers (Webb). 21298 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>" 2130 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit. 21317 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion. 2132 Useful for ":s/word/xx/". 2133- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started. 2134 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line. 2135- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for 2136 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut) 2137 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D. 2138- Add completion for Environment variables: ":echo $SH<Tab>" -> "$SHELL". 2139 2140 2141Command line history: 2142- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a 2143 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a 2144 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't 2145 completely resulted from one mapping. 2146- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history, 2147 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel) 2148 2149 2150Insert mode: 21519 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after 2152 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line. 2153 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug. 21548 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command 2155 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink) 2156 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do 2157 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing. 2158 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode. 21597 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a 2160 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y. 21617 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it 2162 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'. 2163- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed 2164 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and 2165 also for characters that wrap to the next line. 2166 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register). 2167 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that 2168 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>. 2169- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in 2170 Normal mode. 2171- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their 2172 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands 2173 are used. 2174- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits. 2175- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b. 2176- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y. 2177 2178 2179'cindent', 'smartindent': 21808 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with line break in arguments: 2181 Foo::Foo (int one, 2182 int two) 2183 : something(4) 2184 {} 21858 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with multiple lines: 2186 Foo::Foo (int one, int two) 2187 : something(4), 2188 somethingelse(3) 2189 {} 21909 Too much indent for "lulu": (Uwe Zeisberger) 2191 int main () 2192 { 2193 if (lala) 2194 do 2195 ++(*lolo); 2196 while (lili 2197 && lele); 2198 lulu; 2199 } 22009 Function gets extra indent: (Jamax) 2201 void function(int param) { 2202 if (false) 2203 return; 2204 } 22059 brace not indented correctly: 2206 case 'c': if (cond) 2207 { 2208 Should align with "if" in case statement. 22097 Allow aligning a closing ")" with the line above, instead of the matching 2210 "(": (Riehm) if (asdfasdf && 2211 asdf 2212 ) 22138 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is 2214 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer) 22158 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna) 2216 func( 2217 new String[] { 2218 "asdf", 2219 "asdf" 2220 } 2221 ); 22227 Separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner): 2223 func( 2224 int x) // indent like "(4" 2225 { 2226 if (a 2227 && b) // indent like "(0" 22288 Strange problem with this code, "hello" is indented wrong: (Gary Holloway) 2229 main() { char foo[] = "/*"; 2230 /* This is a comment; the indentation of C 2231 * source below this comment gets messed up due to the string above. 2232 */ 2233 hello 22349 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler) 2235 if (a) 2236 { 2237 if (b) 2238 { 2239 // { 2240 } 2241 } <-- this is indented incorrect 22429 Wrong indent for cino=(4, removing the (void) fixes it: (Zellner) 2243 (void) MyFancyFunction( 2244 argument); 2245- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the 2246 indent to 0 should be switched on/off. 22477 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line. 2248- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first 2249 line). 2250- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}? 2251- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous 2252 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically? 22537 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines. 2254- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It 2255 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb) 2256- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out 2257 code), unless the line starts with "*". 2258- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"? 2259- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line 2260 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted). 22618 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the 2262 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more 2263 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment. 2264- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'. 2265- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where 2266 lines start with "\item". 2267- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown) 2268 /* here is a comment that 2269 is just autoindented, and 2270 nothing else */ 2271- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi". 22727 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for 2273 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the 2274 indents. 2275 And/or: Add option to copy indent as-is, without changing spaces to tabs. 2276 also for 'autoindent'. 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and 2277 spaces used for indent, when the indent remains the same or increases. 2278 2279 2280Java: 22818 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve 2282 Odendahl? 22838 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for 2284 "[i" commands and friends. 2285- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java. 2286 (Jason) 2287- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be 2288 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy) 2289 2290 2291'comments': 22928 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated 2293 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping. 2294 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader 2295 when it's "#" or "//". 22967 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line. 2297 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed. 22987 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item. 22996 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more 2300 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a 2301 regexp is used. 23028 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line 2303 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'? 2304 2305 2306Virtual edit: 23078 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left. 23087 Add a mode where the cursor is only allowed to go one character after the 2309 end of the line? 23107 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line? 2311 2312 2313Text objects: 23148 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc. 23157 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it 2316 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area. 23178 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single 2318 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at 2319 the end of the line or before a ".". 23207 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs" 2321 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus) 23227 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph 2323 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}"). 23246 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email. 23255 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For 2326 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one. 2327 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the 2328 cursor is on. 2329 2330 2331Select mode: 23328 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block, 2333 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall) 23347 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word. 2335 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743 23367 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line. 2337 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse' 2338 contains 'C' or 'A'. 2339 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in 2340 normal_cmd(). 2341 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info. 2342 - Typing text replaces the selection. 2343 2344 2345Visual mode: 2346- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero, 2347 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer 2348 is in the top line. 23498 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new 2350 text. make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding 2351 where needed. 23527 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width, 2353 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc. 23547 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start 2355 of each selected line. 23568 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode? 23578 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer. 2358 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any 2359 other buffer. (Ron Aaron) 23608 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron, 2361 Ben Godfrey) 23627 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and 2363 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey) 23647 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of 2365 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area. 23667 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David 2367 Young is working on this) 23687 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines. 2369 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with 2370 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line. 23718 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text? 2372 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful. 23737 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should 2374 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an 2375 option! 23767 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position 2377 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select 2378 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen 2379 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap. 2380 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to 2381 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line, 2382 without changing the column. 23836 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode. 23847 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the 2385 current buffer. 23867 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area. 23876 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line, 2388 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1. 23896 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line. 23906 ":'<,'>source" should read the selected lines and ":source" them. 23916 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed 2392 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB 2393 or other special character. 23946 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting. 2395 2396 2397More advanced repeating commands: 2398- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt"). 23997 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember 2400 the command line so that it can be repeated? 2401- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g. 2402 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb). 2403 "y." will repeat last yank. 2404 "c2." will repeat the last but one change? 2405 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history 2406 and/or pick an older command. 2407- History stack for . command? Use "g." command. 2408 2409 2410Mappings and Abbreviations: 24118 Let ":verbose map xx" report where the mapping was set, just like with 2412 ":verbose set". 24138 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be 2414 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell) 2415 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command? 24168 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work? 24177 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte". 2418 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway? 24198 ":verbose map" could show the script where the mapping was defined. 2420 m_script_ID can be used. 24218 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the 2422 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&. 24238 Add ":amap", like ":amenu". 24248 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to 2425 entering search strings. 24268 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the 2427 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and 2428 not the <Space>. 24298 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS). 24308 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never 2431 (?) work. 24327 ":verbose map" should display where a mapping was defined, like ":verbose 2433 set". 24348 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function 2435 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is 2436 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings? 24377 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation? 24387 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q", 2439 that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger' 2440 option. 24417 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try 2442 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy". 24437 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character 2444 (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for 2445 mapping a key to do something and then completion. 24467 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard. 24476 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the 2448 abbreviations are to be used. 2449- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For 2450 example, for a mouse escape sequence: 2451 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l 2452- Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping. 2453- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in 2454 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings 2455 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording? 2456- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a 2457 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r". 2458- Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in 2459 <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this? 2460- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings 2461 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does). 2462- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and 2463 mappings off for :unab and :unmap. 24646 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete 2465 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids 2466 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you 2467 hit another character. 2468- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings: 2469 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G 2470 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l 2471 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g 2472 Or implicit: 2473 :map q <Register>d<Number>$ 2474- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for 2475 non-replace Insert mode? 2476- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode? 24776 Alias for Normal mode commands, works like :substitute? Would allow 2478 mappings with arguments. 2479- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings. 2480- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key 2481 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself. 2482- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as 2483 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command? 2484- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they 2485 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>. 2486- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap. 2487- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping 2488 ":freekeys". 2489- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm). 2490 2491 2492Incsearch: 2493- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'? 2494- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn 2495 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled 2496 up every time. 2497- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the 2498 folds when going to another line. 2499- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many 2500 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?) 2501 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match 2502 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872. 2503- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other 2504 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid). 2505 2506 2507Searching: 25088 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\(([^()]*\@@[^()]*)\)\@r". \@@ stands 2509 for "go recursive here" and \@r marks the recursive atom. 2510item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on 2511 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of 2512 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"? 2513 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)* 25147 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for 2515 search(). (Brett) 25167 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's 2517 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference. 25188 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in 2519 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax? 25208 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current 2521 line. 25227 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an 2523 example. 25248 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in 2525 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif. 2526- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that 2527 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */). 2528 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back. 2529 Alternative: use matchit.vim 25308 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care? 25318 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that 2532 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it. 2533 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$". 25347 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and 2535 "\d". 25367 Add a way to specify characters as hex, octal or <C-M> form. Could be 2537 \%1ax, \%200o and \%<C-M>. Also \%1234u for multi-byte chars. 25388 Flags that apply to the whole pattern. 2539 This works for all places where a regexp is used. 2540 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern? 25418 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example, 2542 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line. 25438 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g" 2544 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command. 2545 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing 2546 search pattern. 2547- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group. 2548 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group. 2549- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade) 2550 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one. 2551 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's 2552 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities. 25537 Add POSIX regexp, like Nvi, with 'extended' option? It's like very-magic. 2554- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it. 2555 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling) 2556- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?): 2557 i ignore case 2558 I use case 2559 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?) 2560 v use Vi regexp syntax 2561 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command 2562 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command 2563 Perl uses these too: 2564 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only) 2565 m multiple line expression (we don't need it) 2566 o compile only once (Perl only) 2567 s single line expression (we don't need it) 2568 x extended regexp (we don't need it) 2569 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the 2570 following command. 2571 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault'). 2572- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used 2573 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/ 2574 for search string)? 25757 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special 2576 characters. See C't article, August 1997. 2577- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are 2578 equivalent (for Unix filenames). 2579- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text 2580 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin) 2581- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this". 2582- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer, 2583 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern: 2584 a for the next file in the argument list 2585 f for file in the buffer list 2586 w for file edited in a window. 2587 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for 2588 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask 2589 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No 2590 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ". 2591- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler) 2592- Special characters in patterns: 2593 Inside []: 2594 \012 octal character 2595 \0x1a hex character 2596 \0<BS> \0<Esc>: special character 25977 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search 2598 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark. 25997 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after 2600 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe 2601 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in 2602 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always). 26036 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side 2604 effects. 26057 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete 2606 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc. 2607 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary. 26087 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) 2609 Also ":dselect". 2610 2611 2612Undo: 2613- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not 2614 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a", 2615 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted? 26168 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo 2617 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new 2618 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing. 2619 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things. 26208 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change, 2621 only remember the lines that really changed. 26227 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous 2623 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a 2624 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need 2625 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone. 26267 Add an undo tree: When making a change, instead of clearing any future 2627 undo (thus redo) info, make a new branch. How to navigate through the 2628 undo tree? 2629- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and ']. 2630 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb). 2631- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the 2632 number of undo levels (with confirmation). 2633- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123]. 2634 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number: 2635 [-99]. 2636- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating. 2637- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once. 2638- Store undo info in a file that survives until the next edit. Then it's 2639 possible to undo to before the current editing session. Combined with 2640 viminfo? 2641- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed, 2642 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file?? 2643 2644 2645Buffer list: 26467 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}". 2647 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that 2648 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the 2649 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only". 26508 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files. 2651 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim. 26528 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check 2653 inode too. 26547 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When 2655 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use. (or the highest 2656 number in use plus one?) 26577 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and 2658 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann) 2659- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the 2660 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb) 2661- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the 2662 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"? 26637 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list. 2664 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson) 26657 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer 2666 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc. 26678 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected. 26688 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$' 2669 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel". 26707 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for 2671 internal use and for when executing an external program? 2672 2673 2674Swap (.swp) files: 26758 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another 2676 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when 2677 there are short file name problems. 26788 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap 2679 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions. 26808 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su. 26818 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same 2682 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file 2683 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup 2684 file the same as the actual file? 2685 Use the code for resolve()? 26867 Store the options 'fileencoding', 'fileformat', etc. in the swapfile, 2687 because they change what will be written to the file. Requires adding 2688 another block to the swapfile. 26897 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another 2690 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible. 26917 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere 2692 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'? 2693 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not 2694 enough room. 26957 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp 2696 or /var/preserve. 2697- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to 2698 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only. 2699- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen). 2700 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'? 2701- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the 2702 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do 2703 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a 2704 cached list of which line is where. 2705 2706 2707Viminfo: 27087 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file, 2709 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone 2710 else's viminfo file. 27118 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file 2712 name. (Schild) 27138 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu). 27148 Remember the last used register for "@@". 27158 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the 2716 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so. 2717 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display 2718 this? 27197 Also store the ". register (last inserted text). 27207 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some 2721 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron) 27226 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting 2723 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the 2724 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code? 2725- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of 2726 "last visited files" and select one to jump to. 2727 2728 2729Modelines: 27308 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid 2731 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it. 2732 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ". 2733- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to 2734 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the 2735 modeline setting. 2736- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings, 2737 no function calls, to avoid a security problem. 2738- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for 2739 .cpp files. 2740- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for 2741 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak. 2742- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed 2743 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir. 2744 2745 2746Options: 27478 Make ":mksession" store buffer-specific options for the specific buffer. 27488 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when 2749 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant) 27507 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only 2751 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the 2752 side effect. 27538 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to 2754 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their 2755 default value. 27568 Should ":mksession" restore the current directory when writing the 2757 session, or the directory where the session file is? Probably need a word 2758 in 'sessionoptions' to make a choice: 2759 "curdir" (cd to current directory when session file was generated) 2760 "sessiondir" (cd to directory of session file) 2761 "nodir" (don't cd at all) 27628 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string 2763 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should 2764 also be supported. 27658 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag 2766 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting 2767 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used. 27687 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas) 27697 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the 2770 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway) 27717 Add plugins for formatting. Should be able to make a choice depending on 2772 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.). 2773 2774 2775External commands: 27768 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen 2777 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd". 27784 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls" 2779 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g. 2780 -f). 27814 Allow direct execution, without using a shell. 27824 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI? 2783 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell! 27844 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands. 2785 2786 2787Multiple Windows: 27887 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits. 27898 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window. 2790 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window. 27917 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab> 2792 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to 2793 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer. 27947 Add a 'winfixwidth' option, similar to 'winfixheight'. 27956 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window. 2796 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new 2797 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would 2798 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel) 27997 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows 2800 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with 2801 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE 2802 too. Requires some form of inter process communication. 2803- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer 2804 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command. 2805 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer 2806 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made. 2807 2808 2809Marks: 28108 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this 2811 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-. 28128 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m? 28138 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times. 2814 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file. 28158 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle 2816 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when 2817 the mark was set. 28187 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers, 2819 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands 2820 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with 2821 ":browse marks"? 28226 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige) 28237 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the 2824 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark. 28257 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group). 2826 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does. 28277 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m 2828 command). 28297 Try to keep marks in the same position when: 2830 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the 2831 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo) 2832 - inserting/deleting characters in a line. 28335 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in 2834 mappings. 28356 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and 2836 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines. 2837 Highlight the marked lines somehow. 2838 2839 2840Digraphs: 28417 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists. 2842 Also the keymap? 2843- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line 2844 below/above). 2845- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special 2846 characters? 28478 Add command to remove (all) digraphs. (Brown) 28487 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At 2849 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32). 2850 2851 2852Writing files: 2853- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for 2854 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to 2855 shortname conversion. 28568 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc. 28578 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode' 2858 file. 28598 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some 2860 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another 2861 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'? 28627 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make 2863 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski) 28646 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like 2865 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'. 28666 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory. 2867 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas) 28686 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#". 2869 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name? 28708 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids 2871 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman) 28727 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations 2873 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition). 28747 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more 2875 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is 2876 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before 2877 waiting for a character to be typed). 28788 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status 2879 line of the window, like "[time]". 2880 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes. 2881 Automatic and/or with a command. 2882 2883 2884Substitute: 28858 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.: 2886 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w". 2887- :s///p prints the line after a substitution. 2888- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern. 28898 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective. 2890 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys. 2891- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or: 2892 :s///N substitutes N times. 2893- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.: 2894 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do 2895 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution. 28967 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex 2897 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the 2898 last line column 5. 28995 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks, 2900 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the 2901 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands. 2902 (Stanislav Sitar) 2903 2904 2905Mouse support: 29068 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'? 29077 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu. 29088 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic 2909 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you 2910 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar) 29117 Checkout sysmouse() for FreeBSD console mouse support. 2912- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console. 2913- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to 2914 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners). 2915- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!? 2916- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to. 2917 2918 2919Crypt and security: 29208 Also crypt the swapfile, each block separately. Change mf_write() and 2921 mf_read(). How to get b_p_key to these functions? 2922 2923 2924Argument list: 29256 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list. 2926 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches 2927 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match. 29286 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers? 2929 2930 2931Registers: 29328 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne) 29338 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping 2934 around in windows. 29358 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for 2936 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r" 2937 for every line. 29386 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the 2939 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What 2940 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.? 2941- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of 2942 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more". 2943- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment 2944 leader when line wraps? 2945- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each 2946 line in the range. 2947- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text 2948 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo") 29498 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register. 2950 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)? 2951 2952 2953Debug mode: 29547 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received. 29558 Add breakpoints for setting an option 29568 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable. 29577 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution 2958 when evaluating to non-zero. 29597 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo. 29607 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al. 2961 2962 2963Various improvements: 29648 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename 2965 the buffer. Buffer may be modified. 29666 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of 2967 errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c". 29686 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5) 29697 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>. 2970 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"? 2971 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command. 29727 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a 2973 window as a buffer-tab selection. 29747 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want 2975 to manipulate text without changing the window layout. 29768 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until 2977 all changes are gone. 29787 Add a ":cpfile", go in the other direction as ":cnfile". 29796 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri) 29808 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim. 2981 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim. 2982 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it 2983 in this Vim. 29848 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as 2985 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"? 29868 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes 2987 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and 2988 have it apply to the following command. 29898 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other 2990 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the 2991 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up. 2992 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'? 29937 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a 2994 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files. 29957 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>, 2996 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize 2997 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key 2998 without modifier (unless mapped). 29998 Add ":breakdel *": delete all breakpoints. 30007 Support ":browse edit" in console, using explorer.vim? 30016 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line. 30028 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map". 30039 Support ACLs on more systems. 30047 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be 3005 highlighted differently. 30068 Allow using "**" as a wildcard in commands like ":next" and ":args". 30078 Provide a way to avoid wildcard expansion. Use double quotes, like in the 3008 shell? :edit "my[file].txt" (currently works if there is no "myf.txt") 30097 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above 3010 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message 3011 (truncated to fit in the space). 30127 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner) 30138 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout) 30148 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise 3015 Visual mode. 30167 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use 3017 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV. 30187 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping 3019 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0". 30207 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name. 30217 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently. 30227 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines? 30238 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney) 30248 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in 3025 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for 3026 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef 3027 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do? 30288 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down. 30296 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain 3030 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron) 30318 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists. 30328 Use confirm/dialog stuff to ask the user, when a file has changed outside 3033 of Vim, if he wants to reload it. Triggered when focus gained, after 3034 shell command, when entering another buffer, etc.. 3035 Also do this when editing a new file, and another application creates 3036 the file before doing ":w" in Vim. 3037 Also check if the file protection has changed. When checking a file into 3038 RCS it is made read-only, when checking out it is made read-write. 30398 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file 3040 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would 3041 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist 3042 does something like this. (Shah) 30437 Use growarray for replace stack. 30447 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution 3045 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis). 30463 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"? 30478 Make "more" prompt accept command characters, like "hit-enter" prompt? 3048 Or extend it with more commands, like "less": 'b' for back, 'j' for one 3049 line down, etc. 30508 For the "--more--" prompt, support the 'b'ack command for more commands. 3051 Possible implementation: Do it at a very low level, caching the lines that 3052 are on the screen (with highlight attributes). Avoids that changes have 3053 to be made for all functions that list something. 30547 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same 3055 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers? 3056- Keep a list of most recently used files for each window, use "[o" to go 3057 back (older file) and "]n" to go forward (newer file) (like ^O and ^I for 3058 jumps) (Webb). Use ":files" and ":ls" to list the files in history order. 30597 Add a history of recently accessed buffer. Maybe make "2 CTRL-^" jump to 3060 the 2nd previously visited buffer, "3 CTRL-^" to the third, etc. Or use 3061 "3 g CTRL-^" for this? 3062- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode. 3063- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file. 3064- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c 3065- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window. 30667 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive 3067 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used. 3068- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home 3069 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc. 3070- Remove mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this. 3071- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set, 3072 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert) 3073- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to 3074 call "play newbeep.au"). 3075- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or 3076 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function. 3077 (Bhatt). 3078- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for 3079 blockwise registers). 3080- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the 3081 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt). 3082- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps 3083 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed, 3084 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't 3085 noticeable. 30869 When using ":w <fname>" it's possible that this file is loaded in another 3087 buffer. Give a warning right away, don't wait for a shell command. 3088- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb). 30897 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters. 3090 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code. 3091- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs 3092 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between 3093 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent 3094 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new 3095 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change. 30968 Add 'formatexpr' option: Used for formatting operator "gq" instead of the 3097 builtin formatting or 'formatprg'. 30988 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the 3099 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for 3100 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a 3101 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line). 3102 ":set autoformat=\\s$". 3103- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern? 31047 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the 3105 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt) 3106- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is 3107 not in column 1. 31086 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a 3109 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext". 31107 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined? 3111- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator? 31128 findmatchlimit() should be able to skip comments. Solves problem of 3113 matching the '{' in /* if (foo) { */ (Fiveash) 3114- Add more redirecting of Ex commands: 3115 :redir @> register (append) 3116 :redir # bufname 3117 :redir #> bufname (append) 3118 :redir = variable 3119 :redir => variable (append) 3120- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with 3121 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set". 3122 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit". 31236 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32 3124 console? (Klaus Hast) 3125- Add :delcr command: 3126 *:delcr* 3127 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines 3128 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is 3129 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range]. 3130 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If 3131 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all 3132 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi} 3133- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat(). 3134- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta 3135 characters from 'isprint'. 3136- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName(). 3137- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area. 3138 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn. 3139- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but 3140 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More 3141 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion. 3142- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()). 3143- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like 3144 Nvi). 3145- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the 3146 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define. 31477 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position. 3148- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that 3149 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'? 31506 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file. 3151- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the 3152 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13 3153 macro). 3154- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files. 3155- Add command like ":ts" that shows the output of "[I" and asks for a match 3156 to jump to. (Zellner) 3157- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also 3158 expanded. Is there a better way to do this? 3159- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source". 31608 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set. 3161- Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null". 3162- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty. 3163- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible! 3164- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down 3165 if it is not the first or last window. 3166- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if 3167 there is one) instead of the file itself. 31687 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example: 3169 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0 3170 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files. 3171- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion. 3172- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as 3173 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so 3174 many percent down the windows). 3175- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the 3176 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the 3177 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'. 3178- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g. 3179 'dictionary' when it is "*.h". 3180- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to 3181 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit). 3182- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent) 3183- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends. 3184- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the 3185 passwd file? (Antwerpen) 3186- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack. 3187- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush". 31888 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw", 3189 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is 3190 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack? 3191 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when 3192 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping? 3193- Use a builtin grep command for ":grep"? Makes it possible to add the 3194 column number. Can use the code of ":helpgrep". 3195 Also support using "**" in filename, so that a directory tree can be 3196 searched. 3197 Also see the "minigrep.vim" script on www.vim.org. 3198- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time 3199 t_bs is set? (Webb) 3200- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also 3201 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert). 3202- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline (Demirel). Store 3203 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window 3204 (Webb). 3205- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the 3206 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al. 3207- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering 3208 hex codes like 0xff). 3209- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command 3210 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo 3211 the last TYPED command. 3212- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf". 3213- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows. 3214- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/" 3215 should also work? 3216- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL? 32178 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file 3218 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine 3219 name. 3220- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a 3221 trailing '.'. 3222- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a 3223 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use 3224 find_file_in_path(). 3225- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between 3226 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon). 3227- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion. 3228- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a 3229 form usable by Vim on the current machine. 3230- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have 3231 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags. 3232- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one 3233 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains 3234 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline. 3235- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine 3236 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz) 3237- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments. 3238- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt) 3239- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back 3240 to the minimal size. 3241- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */). 3242- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline(). 3243- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb). 3244- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file. 3245- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers. 3246- Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw'). 3247- Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line: 3248 "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ??? 3249- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line 3250 entered)? 3251- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible 3252 as an output filter. 3253- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this. 3254- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line. 3255- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file. 3256- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc. 3257- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char. 3258- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long 3259 lines. 3260- Uppercase characters in ex commands can be made lowercase? 32618 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"), 3262 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option 3263 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex 3264 or in octal. 32657 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more 3266 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument? 3267- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source. 3268 After ":w !command" a wait_return? 3269- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()). 3270- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without 3271 insert line command). 3272- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it. 3273- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals. 3274- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000). 3275- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying. 3276- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace 3277 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>. 3278- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work 3279 yet. 3280- Implement 'redraw' option. 3281- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or 3282 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right). 3283- Use pipes for filtering on Unix. Requires using fork() to be able to read 3284 and write at the same time, or some select() mechanism. 32857 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs 3286 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin. 32878 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can 3288 do it. 3289- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to. 3290- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts, 3291 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list. 3292- Add text justification option. 3293- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on". 3294- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is 3295 off". 3296- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR. 3297- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message. 3298- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but 3299 gives read errors. Check protection before opening. 3300- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied". 3301- If file does not exists, check if directory exists. 3302- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor. 3303- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex 3304 commands. 3305- ":set -w all": list one option per line. 3306- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file. 3307- :table command (Webb) 3308- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ". 3309- Make it possible for a user to define a new operator. Implementation with 3310 internal scripting language or Perl? 3311- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?). 3312- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb). 3313- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files. 3314- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel). 3315- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited 3316 (Demirel). 3317- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc. 3318- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore", 3319 for use in macro's and the like. 3320- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while 3321 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window? 3322- Add possibility to put output of ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for 3323 ":set all". ":r :set all"? 3324- 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really 3325 read-only mode). 3326- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not 3327 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in 3328 a window to become smaller (Webb). 3329- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized 3330 proportionally (Webb). 3331- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use 3332 mkopttab to make option table? 3333- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current 3334 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)? 3335- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster 3336 (Haritsis). 3337- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used 3338 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev) 3339- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the 3340 cursor? 3341- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton). 3342- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)? 33435 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names. 3344 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix. 33458 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore 3346 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in 3347 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams: 3348 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another 3349 option name. 33508 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to 3351 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places. 3352 (Netherton) 33536 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a 3354 space after "(", for example. 33555 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs 3356 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit'). 3357 (Servatius Brandt) 3358 3359 3360From Elvis: 3361- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages? 3362- Add ":alias" command. 3363- fontchanges recognized "\\fB" etc. 3364- Search patterns: 3365 \@ match word under cursor. 3366 but do: 3367 \@w match the word under the cursor? 3368 \@W match the WORD under the cursor? 33698 ":window" command: 3370 :win + next window (up) 3371 :win ++ idem, wrapping 3372 :win - previous window (down) 3373 :win -- idem, wrapping 3374 :win nr to window number "nr" 3375 :win name to window editing buffer "name" 33767 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is 3377 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"? 3378 3379 3380From Nvi: 3381- 'searchincr' option, alias for 'incsearch'? 3382- 'leftright' option, alias for 'nowrap'? 3383- Have a look at "vi/doc/vi.chart", for Nvi specialties. 33848 Add 'keytime', time in 1/10 sec for mapping timeout? 3385- Add 'filec' option as an alternative for 'wildchar'. 33866 Support Nvi command names as an alias: 3387 :bg :hide 3388 :fg fname :buf fname (with 'hidden' set?) 3389 :dis b :ls 3390 :Edit fname :split fname 3391 :Fg fname :sbuf fname (with 'hidden' set?) 3392 :Next :snext (can't do this, already use :Next) 3393 :Previous :sprevious 3394 :Tag :stag 3395 3396 3397From xvi: 3398- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character. 3399- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet) 3400 3401 3402From vile: 3403- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window. 3404- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files 3405 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files. 3406 3407 3408Far future and "big" extensions: 3409- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice 3410 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,... 3411- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in 3412 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac). 3413 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the 3414 current layout mirrored. 3415- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer. 3416- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords, 3417 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.). 3418- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent). 3419- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different 3420 font in each top-level window. 3421- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit'). 3422- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them. 3423- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning. 3424- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to. 3425 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim). 3426- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all 3427 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files 3428 mentioned in the tags file. 3429 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???) 3430 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."? 3431- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other 3432 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter). 3433- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five 3434 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc.. 34354 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands: 3436 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format. 3437 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted. 3438 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list, 3439 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags 3440 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples: 3441 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list 3442- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes 3443 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but 3444 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/. 3445 3446 3447vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl: 3448vim: set fo+=n : 3449