1*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2004 Oct 10 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 33Folding support for 2html. (Carl Osterwisch, Oct 4) 34Now diff output! 35 36Aborting at the ATTENTION prompt causes trouble: 37 buffer remains active, nwindows isn't closed (fixed in buffer.c) 38 alternate buffer gets "read error" flag. 39 ":sbuf" and ":ball" leave an empty window behind. 40Change in handle_swap_exists() also in 6.3? 41Add enter_cleanup() and leave_cleanup() also in 6.3? 42 buffer.c 43 ex_eval.c 44 proto/ex_eval.pro 45 structs.h 46 vim.h 47 48Win32: When the path to a file has Russian characters, ":cd %:p:h" doesn't 49work. (Valery Kondakoff) 50Solved in os_mswin.c. Add to 6.3? 51 52Patch for Win32 textdomain: NAKADAIRA Yukihiro, Sept 17. 53 54Valencia: executable("xxd.exe") returns true while "!xxd" doesn't work. 55Works fine for me. Only in specific environment? 56 57netrw plugin: When coming back to the same directory a scratch buffer appears. 58Only on Win32. (Charles Campbell, Sept 15) 59 60New Eiffel indent script from Jocelyn Fiat. OK with David Clarke. 61 62Win32: not using 'tenc' in GUI causes problems on Win 98? (Jiri Jezdinsky) 63Try out with Russian input method. 64 65After "Y" '[ and '] are not at start/end of the yanked text. (Ken Clark) 66 67Patch for adding 'fsync' option: disable using fsync() on file write. (Sept. 6826, Ciaran McCreesh) 69 70Folding for C syntax: (Olaf Dabrunz 27 sept 2004) 71 72Add remark about using Vim with VS .net to Visvim docs. (David Fishburn, Sept 7327) 74 75Vim icon for documents associated with Vim? (Rahul Kulkarni, sept 28) 76 77Add a function to test if a font name actually works. 78 79When using "set laststatus=2 cmdheight=2" in the .gvimrc you only get one line 80for the cmdline. (Christian Robinson) When the Vim window is resized (e.g., 81xterm with many lines) it's OK. 82 83 84For version 7.0: 85 86- Include many PATCHES: 87 7 Add 'taglistfiles' option, show file name and type when listing matching 88 tags name with CTRL-D completion. Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan. 89 2004 Jul 11 90 7 For Visual mode: Command to do a search for the string in the marked 91 area. Only when fewer than two lines. Use "g/" and "gb". Patch from 92 Yegappan Lakshmanan. 2004 Jul 11 93 When more than two lines: perform a search in the Visual area only. 94 8 Make 'statusline' local, so that each window can have a different 95 value. But should it also be local to a buffer? (Yegappan Lakshmanan 96 has a patch, 2004 Jul 11) 97 8 Add buffer-local autocommands? Reduces overhead for autocommands that 98 trigger often (inserting a character, switching mode). 99 :au Event <buffer> do-something 100 E.g.: 101 :au BufEnter <buffer> menu enable ... 102 :au BufLeave <buffer> menu disable ... 103 Patch from Yakov Lerner, including test (2004 Jan 7). 104 VimResized - When the Vim window has been resized (SIGWINCH) 105 patch from Yakov Lerner, 2003 July 24. 106 Patch for specifying an expression for numbered lists. (Hugo Haas, 107 2004 Aug 7) 108 --- awaiting updated patch --- 109 7 Add patch from Wall for this one ( ~/Mail/oldmail/wall/in.00019 ): 110 'flipcase' variable: upper/lowercase pairs. 111 Insert comma's between pairs and allow a range, make it look like 112 'isfname'. E.g. ":set flipcase=a-zA-Z,xX,23-33:143-153". The colon to 113 separate the from and to part is optional. 114 Resp: no time now. 115 8 Add GTK 2.3 file dialog support. Patch by Grahame Bowland, 2004 Mar 15, 116 but it doesn't use "initdir" or "dflt". (will update patch) 117 8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible. 118 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. 119 He will update the patch for 6.3. 120 Autocommands: 121 7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto. 122 Update 2004 Sep 6. 123 How does this work? Missing comments. 124 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 125 Update 2004 Sep 10 126 More docs. Search in 'runtimepath'? 127 How to get the messages into the .po files? 128 --- did not respond (yet) -- 129 7 Make "5dd" on last-but-one-line not delete anything (Vi compatible). 130 Add flag in 'cpoptions' for this. When not present, "2dd" in the last 131 line should delete the last line. Patch from greenx 2002 Apr 11. 132 8 Accelerators don't work in a dialog. Include patch from Martin Dalecki 133 (Jan 3, tested by David Harrison). Should work with Alt-o then. 134 7 Use accelerators for the Motif file selection dialog. Patch from 135 Martin Dalecki 2002 Jan 11. 136 8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina 137 (28 feb 2002). 138 7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears 139 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3. 140 - Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work 141 for multi-byte characters. 142 - Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind. 143 - Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5) 144 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not 145 been given values. 146 Add section in help files for these highlight groups? 147 8 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm 148 with an ESC sequence. Ideas in: ~/vim/patches/vikas.xtermcolors . 149 7 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Martin 150 Dalecki has a patch for Motif) 151 - Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a 152 line in between columns (e.g. for 'textwidth'). 153 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20. 154 8 Add functions: 155 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical 156 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg) 157 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag 158 (2003 May 13) 159 system({cmd}, {expr}) Filter {expr} through the shell command 160 {cmd} and return the result. 161 (Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan) 162 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for 163 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ ) 164 7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions 165 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10) 166 7 Motif: use the menu font consistently. Patch from Martin Dalecki 2002 167 Jan 11. 168 - Motif: add 3D shading for the menu entries? Patch from Martin Dalecki. 169 7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right 170 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli) 171 8 Lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk (uncrypted). 172 Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. 173 7 Support a stronger encryption. Jason Holt implemented AES (May 6 2003). 174 7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie) 175 8 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's 176 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1. 177 7 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David 178 Kotchan has a patch for it) 179 8 Add term entries for function keys on xterm with alt and ctrl (new in 180 pl 94). E.g., Control adds ";5" in "<Esc>[20;5~". Find a generic way 181 to prepend a modifier in console mode, to avoid having to specify each 182 individual modified key. 183 Steve Wall has a patch (2002 Mar 12) for adding function keys up to 37, 184 with modifiers. 185 8 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See 186 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface. 187 Or use emacs server kind of thing? 188 7 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25. 189 - findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at 190 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram, 191 incomplete patch Mar 18) 192 - Set user variables to the names of the actually used user vimrc file, 193 the first directory looked for user plugins/syntax files. 194 $MYVIMRC for .vimrc, $MYGVIMRC for .gvimrc, $MYRUNTIME/plugin for 195 runtime files? 196 Also: when the environment variable exists, use it. If it doesn't 197 exist, set it. Requires good names: $VIM_USER_VIMRC $VIM_USER_DIR 198 199 200- In the kvim/KDE source files fix the formatting. 201- KDE version is called "kvim". Make it "gvim", like the others? 202- Better configure check for KDE include files from Dan Sharp. 203- KDE Input method patch. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 204- Change ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be 205 incremented/decremented each time. 206- For string variables, use length instead of NUL termination. 207- new DATA TYPES: lists, dictionaries and function references. 208 Check old patch from Robert Webb for array support. 209 Add type checking? See ~/vim/ideas.txt. 210- Add SPELLCHECKER, with easy to add support for many languages. 211 8 Add spell checking. Use "ispell -a" somehow. 212 ~/vim/patches/wm_vim-5_4d.zip can be used as an example (includes 213 ispell inside Vim). Gautam Iyer has an example with "aspell". 214 "engspchk" from Charles Campbell is a good way. Support for 215 approximate-regexps will help (agrep http://www.tgries.de/agrep/). 216 - Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to 217 existing syntax items (to add @Spell). Add ":syntax contains 218 {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn cluster" but change 219 the contains list directly for matching syntax items. 220 - Keep wordlist in syntax group, load it only once and use it several 221 times later. Sort of global syntax items. 222 - Use wordlists from openoffice (myspell). Work together with them to 223 update the wordlist. (Adri Verhoef, Aad Nales) 224- REFACTORING: The main() function is very long. Move parts to separate 225 functions, especially loops. Ideas from Walter Briscoe (2003 Apr 3, 2004 226 Feb 9). 227- Improve the interface between the generic GUI code and the system-specific 228 code. Generic code handles text window with scrollbars, system-specific 229 code menu, toolbar, etc. 230- Store messages to allow SCROLLING BACK for all commands. And other "less" 231 like commands. 232- "INTELLISENSE". First cleanup the Insert-mode completion. 233 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747 234 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim 235 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs) 236 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java. 237 Can't call it Intellisense, it is a trademark by Microsoft. 238 Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE: 239 - It's not possible to have one solution for all languages. Design an 240 interface for completion plugins. The matches can be done in a 241 Vim-script list. 242 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information. 243 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc. 244 - Check Readline for its completion interface. 245 - Use ctags for other languages. Writing a file could trigger running 246 ctags, merging the tags of the changed file. 247- UNDO TREE: keep all states of the text, don't delete undo info. 248 When making a change, instead of clearing any future undo (thus redo) 249 info, make a new branch. 250 To navigate through the undo tree number the states of the text 251 sequentially and make it possible to go through the tree in that order. 252 Could also use timestamps (to show the time and/or jump to a state five 253 minutes ago). (David Schweikert) 254 To go from one state to another: backtrack to a common state, then forward 255 again. 256 Only difficult thing: When going back in time, how to find the previous 257 text state in the tree? 258 Show the list of changes in a window to be able to select a version? 259- PERSISTENT UNDO: store undo in a file. 260 Use timestamps, so that a version a certain time ago can be found and info 261 before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum time to 262 keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc. For the file use dot and 263 extension: ".filename.un~" (like swapfile but "un~" instead of "swp"). 2647 SWAP FILE CHANGE: When a dos format file was edited with ":e ++ff=unix", 265 Vim is killed and trying to recover the file, 'ff' will be dos. Same for 266 non-default fileencoding. (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jul 17) 267 Should store the values in block 0 of the swap file, but that is an 268 incompatible change. 2697 Support WINDOW TABS. Works like several pages, each with their own 270 split windows. Patch for GTK 1.2 from Christian Michon, 2004 Jan 6. 271 Also for the console! 272- EMBEDDING: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program. 273 For Xwindows this can be done with XReparentWindow(). 274 For GTK Neil Bird has a patch to use Vim like a widget. 275- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block 276 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2. 277- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye, 278 assisted by Mikolaj Machowski. Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it 279 generic. Also found here: http://skawina.eu.org/mikolaj/vimgdb 280 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program 281 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the 282 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the 283 other window. 284 Wishes for NetBeans commands: 285 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors. 286 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?) 287 in terminal mode. 288- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is. 289 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command 290 scrolls back to where the cursor is. 291- Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and 292 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how 293 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)? 2948 Support four composing/combining characters, needed for Hebrew. (Ron Aaron) 295 Add the 'maxcombining' option to set the nr. of composing characters. 296 At the same time support more colors (use two bytes when necessary). 297- Add a few more things to 'diffopt': "horizontal", "vertical", 298 "foldcolumn". (Benji Fisher, 2004 Jun 21) 299- FileChangedShellPost autocommand event: after (not) reloading a changed 300 file. Can be used to update statusline oslt. 3018 When a file is change outside of Vim and unmodified in Vim there is no 302 simple way to automatically reload the file. Either add an option for 303 this or make it simple to have the FileChangedShell invoke the normal 304 action, telling it what to do. 305- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display. 306- Mac: Unicode input and display (Eckehard Berns, June 27) 3078 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac? 308 New patch 2004 Jun 16 3099 Add cursor-column highlighting. Enable it with 'cursorcolumn' option, 310 set highlighting with "CursorColumn" group. Useful for aligning text. 311 Also cursor-row highlighting. Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto for 312 underlining the cursor line: 2004 Jun 17. Should use highlight group 313 instead. 314 Alternative: when 'number' is set highlight the number of the current 315 line. 3167 Make ":startinsert" command work directly for functions and scripts? 317 Also make it possible to append (it's difficult at end of line). 318- When using 'incsearch" CTRL-R CTRL-W gets the word under the cursor, but 319 the part that already matched is doubled then. Remove the part of the 320 word that would be doubled. Make it work line CTRL-N in Insert mode. 321- Add Lua interface? (Wolfgang Oertl) 322- "onemore" flag in 'virtualedit': move cursor past end of line. Patch by 323 Mattias Flodin (2004 Jul 30) 324 325The fsync() in buf_write() causes laptop harddisk spinup. Add an option to 326avoid it? 327 328Support ":set syntax=cpp.doxygen"? Suggested patch by Michael Geddes (9 Aug 3292004). Should also work for 'filetype'. 330 331Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav 332Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13) 333 334Win32: In 'fileencodings' allow using "acp" for the active codepage. Useful 335value: "ucs-bom,utf-8,acp,latin1" 336 337Win32: Cannot edit a file starting with # with --remote. (Giuseppe Bilotta, 338Oct 6 2004) 339 340For manipulating buffers without opening a new window, support Virtual 341windows. Example: 342 :virtwin let l = GetBufLine(4, 10) 343 :fun GetBufLine(bufnr, lnum) 344 : exe "buffer " . a:bufnr 345 : return getline(lnum) 346 :endfun 347The getline() and setline() functions could work for other buffers, using a 348Virtual window. 349A Virtual window only exists for one command. There can be several (for 350nested commands). The window works as if it comes after the last window, size 351is the Vim window size, but it's never displayed. 352 353Win32: In the generated batch files, use $VIMRUNTIME if it's set. Examples by 354Mathias Michaelis (2004 Sep 6) 355Also place vimtutor.bat in %windir%? 356 357Support ":enew filename" to edit a new buffer with a name. It's like "enew | 358file filename" but without setting the alternate file to a buffer without a 359name. (Charles Campbell) 360 361Add gui_mch_browsedir() for Motif, KDE and Mac OS/X. 362 363 364Vi incompatibility: 3659 In Ex mode, "u" undoes all changes, not just the last one. (John Cowan) 3668 In Ex mode, an empty file doesn't have a first line, "1p" should fail. 3678 In Ex mode, "1,3" should print three lines. 3688 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other 369 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it 370 is deleted or restored. (Webb) 371 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo. 372 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the '' 373 position is one line down. (Veselinovic) 3748 ":change" in a single-line file adds an empty line. When the file used to 375 be longer a "~" line is displayed, but there really is an empty line. 376 (Haakon Riiser, 2003 Dec 3 and Dec 16) 3778 ":append" and ":insert" in an empty file add an extra empty line. (Haakon 378 Riiser, 2003 Dec 3) Test for ML_EMPTY. 3798 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should 380 make Vim exit. 3817 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line 382 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway). 383 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input. 3848 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips 385 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument 386 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded) 3876 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but 388 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag 389 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off. 3908 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another 391 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one. 392 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file 393 names in one buffer??? 394 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and 395 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not 396 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer. 3977 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some 398 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual" 399 command was one command. 4007 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep 401 the ":map" when it's used without arguments? 4027 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option. 4037 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty. 4047 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a 405 flag in 'cpoptions' for this. 4067 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when 407 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing 408 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either 409 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file). 4107 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode). 4117 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines. 4127 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go 413 to the match with the tag? Option? 4147 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option. 4157 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del> 416 (Sayre). 4177 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the 418 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible). 4197 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual". 420 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next 421 match. Nvi can do it too. 4227 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking) 423 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\ 424 line 1\ line 2\\ 425 line 2\ line 3\\ 426 . line4/ 4276 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of 428 the way the shell is started? 4296 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange 430 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line). 431 432 433GTK+ 1 (OK in GTK 2): 4348 When menus are disabled, 'm' removed from 'guioptions', Alt-F still pops 435 up the File menu. Cannot reproduce this: gives a warning for a NULL 436 pointer if the menu was never displayed. 4378 When using "gvim -geom 40x30" or setting 'columns' in .gvimrc or with a 438 GUIEnter autocommand, the width is still set to fit the toolbar. Also 439 happens when changing the font. How to avoid that the toolbar specifies 440 the minimal window width? 4418 When using a theme with different scrollbars (gtkstep), the scrollbars can 442 be too narrow. (Drazen Kacar) 4438 Font "7x14" has a bold version "7x14bold". Try to find the bold font by 444 appending "bold" when there are not 14 dashes. 445 446GTK+ GUI known bugs: 4478 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj 448 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in 449 creating a label? 4509 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim 451 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and 452 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works. 453 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again. 4547 DND doesn't work with KDE (also with GTK 1). 455 456KDE GUI known bugs: 457- The default font is ugly. bold text isn't displayed correctly. 458 (bold characters are half the width of normal characters) 459- Error messages when starting up. The "tip of the day" box is empty. 460- Encoding of menu items needs to be converted. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 461 462Win32 GUI known bugs: 4638 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2 464 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically? 4658 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications. 466 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs. 467 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html 4688 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be 469 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp) 4707 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow 471 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to 472 "lucida_console:h8"). 4736 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":" 474 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis) 4758 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide 476 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both 477 type of characters. 4787 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason 479 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible 480 to use an opaque background in most places? 4818 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that 482 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly. 483 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters. 4848 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font 485 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the 486 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono. 4877 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan, 488 2004 May 9) 4898 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces 490 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim 491 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with 492 MS-Windows 98? 493 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a 494 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed 495 file: Window moves with the cursor! 496 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it? 4978 When activating the Vim window with mouse click, don't move cursor to 498 mouse position. Catch WM_MOUSEACTIVATE. (Luevelsmeyer) 4998 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it 500 appear. (Sami Salonen) 5018 Windows NT: writing to aux.* makes Vim hang. (Acevedo) 5028 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that 503 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win 504 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also 505 doesn't work properly. 5068 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops 507 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it 508 appears in the right position. (Webb) 5099 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse 510 button doesn't give popup menu. 511 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless 512 selection. 513 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button. 514 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the 515 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text. 5168 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the 517 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore) 518 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error 519 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code. 5208 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg. 521 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not 522 be read. 5238 MessageBox used for error messages can be too big. There is no way to 524 scroll it, or even hit the OK button (but you can hit return). 525 Use a scrollable window. 5267 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida 527 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char). 528 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'. 5297 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the 530 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to 531 scroll? Need to be able to get out of hit-enter prompt with the mouse 532 anyway. 5337 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance. 534 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar. 5357 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using 536 "/min" as the command name. (Rogall) 5376 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor). 5388 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work 539 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because 540 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr? 5418 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we 542 know which keyboard is being used? 5437 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern 544 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn 545 area (Koloseike). 5468 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might 547 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first, 548 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in 549 the font name). 550 551 552Athena and Motif: 5539 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is 554 required and it's missing? 5558 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned 556 wrong. 5579 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can 558 be off by default. 5599 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now, 560 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting 561 flag. 5628 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character. 563 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1. 564 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this. 5658 Perhaps use fontsets for everything? 5666 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting 567 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all 568 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of 569 the tooltips work though... 5707 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not 571 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory). 5728 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the 573 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the 574 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'. 575 576 577Athena GUI: 5789 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in 579 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving 580 through files. 5817 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to 582 read long file names. (Schroeder) 5834 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go 584 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the 585 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets" 586 problem during a refresh. 5875 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing 588 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the 589 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors. 590 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes 591 colors as it should. 592 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the 593 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug? 594 595 596Motif GUI: 5978 Popup menu ordering is wrong. 5987 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()? 599 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2). 6008 The texts in the find/replace dialog don't use the right font. 6018 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes 602 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes. 603 (Phillipps) 604 605 606GUI: 6079 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no 608 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy) 6099 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C. 610 e.g. on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on 611 Solaris 2.6. (Marley) 6129 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim 613 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf) 6148 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key 615 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version). 6168 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both 617 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate 618 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed. 6198 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling 620 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state 621 of where it is processing the output. 622 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code. 6238 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font 624 doesn't work. 6258 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS. 6268 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS. 6278 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for 628 browse(). 6298 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this, 630 use that code? Or use console dialog. 6318 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the 632 error message disappears too quick. 6338 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later, 634 to avoid problems. 6358 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there 636 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for 637 input. Or maybe every 100 ms? 6388 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank 639 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0". 640 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works. 6418 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed 642 up. Set erase character somehow? 6438 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character 644 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this. 645 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling. 646 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya) 6478 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11. 6487 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not 649 visible. 6507 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is 651 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey) 6527 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it 653 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw. 6548 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the 655 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek) 6568 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not 657 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32. 658 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the 659 remaining part of the window (Phillipps). 660- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun. 6614 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times 662 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times 663 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486. 664 665 666MSDOS/DJGPP: 6679 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao) 668 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the 669 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem. 6708 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists. 671 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error? 6729 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused 673 code and reduce static data. 6749 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C. 675 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since 676 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting 677 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work. 6789 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work. 679 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67 680 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71 681 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2) 682 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>. 683 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream? 684 Make this work like in Win32 console. 685 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended 686 key code. Use a translation table? 6879 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used. 688 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself. 6898 Use DJGPP 2.03. 6908 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT. 691 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip). 6928 setlocale() is bogus. 6938 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some 694 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched 695 Windows 95 system! 6968 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe) 6977 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g. in keyword completion) on a 8088 698 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin). 6997 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.: 700 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley) 701 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem). 7028 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add 703 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt. 7047 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen. 705 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a 706 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are 707 "[New file]". 7087 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode 709 that is supported? 7108 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them. 7118 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter 712 Briscoe) 713 714 715MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32: 7168 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use 717 gen_expand_wildcards(). 7188 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander 719 Wagner. 7208 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL. 7218 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt, 722 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name. 7238 Should $USERPROFILE be used instead of $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? 7248 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have 725 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key. 7268 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift. 727 Should work like in the GUI version. 7288 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for 729 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names. 7308 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when 731 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command? 7328 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file" 733 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be 734 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc. 7358 ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means directory "#bb" 736 in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth) 7378 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going 738 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to 739 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth) 740 741 742Windows 95: 7438 Editing a file by it's short file name and writing it, makes the long file 744 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps. 745 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly). 7468 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the 747 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32). 748 749 750Win32 console: 7519 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its 752 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister) 753 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor. 754 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable. 755 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1 756 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name. 757 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file. 758 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed 759 and the file is not saved. 760 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its 761 long name. 7628 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at 763 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT. 7647 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals, 765 besides the console. 7668 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes) 7679 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with 768 <C-S-i>? 7699 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on 770 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI? 7718 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__ 772 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around? 7737 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'? 774 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when 775 exiting. 776 777 778Amiga: 7798 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte 780 sequences. 7819 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove 782 backslashes in result. 7838 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do 784 all options, using white space separation. 785 786 787Macintosh: 7887 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard 789 Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff 790 Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it. 7917 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both. 792 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac 793 (Jack) 794 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html 7958 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear 796 to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17) 7978 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI. 7989 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher) 799 - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost. 8008 The Vim/About menu doesn't work. 8018 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV. 8028 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh. 8038 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh. 8049 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be 805 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone) 8069 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when 807 scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher) 8089 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two 809 seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher) 8109 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly. 8118 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige) 8128 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige) 813 814 815"Small" problems: 8168 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used, 817 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited 818 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure 819 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this. 8209 When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with 821 'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though 822 the fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to 823 check for the buffer to be unmodified. 8248 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the 825 error number, it's not a regular error message. 8267 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to 827 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 8288 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and 829 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column 830 for redirection. 8317 There is no way to change directory and go back without changing the local 832 and/or global directory. Add a way to find out if the current window uses 833 a local directory. Add cdcmd() that returns ":cd" or ":lcd"? 8347 After running "make test" the window title is sometimes not restored. 835 Mostly sticks at "test3.in", but not always. Appears to happen more often 836 when compiled with Python (threading). 8377 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use 838 'termencoding'. 8398 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor 840 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor 841 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when 842 using the horizontal scrollbar. 8437 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed 844 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the 845 invocations belong together. 8468 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this 847 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams) 8488 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the 849 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the 850 UnxUtils.zip archive. 851 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter 852 Briscoe says it's not as good. 8538 'fillchars' doesn't work for multi-byte characters. 8549 Editing a XML file with a long line is extremely slow. Example file from 855 Randy Parker (Dec 13). Editing the dictionaries for engspchk plugin with 856 syntax highlighting is also very slow. 857 Limit the searching for items to a few hundred characters? 8588 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing 859 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly) 8607 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names: 861 use "~/" when possible. 8627 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte 863 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail 864 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[] 865 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8). 8668 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when 867 defined. 8687 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an 869 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found. 870 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions. 8717 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode 872 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second 873 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel) 8747 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the 875 bottom window only bigger as much as needed. 8767 "[p" doesn't work in Visual mode. (David Brown) 8777 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere. 878 Remove? (Dan Sharp) 8799 The argument <f-args> of a user command doesn't handle backslashes 880 properly. "Cmd \ e" is one argument, "Cmd \\ e" still is one argument. 881 "Cmd \ e" is two arguments, first one ending in space. (Kontra Gergely) 8829 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This 883 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining 884 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command": 885 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining 886 script can be called. 8878 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po, 888 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still 889 works. 8909 When a syntax region does not use "keepend" and a contained item does use 891 "extend", this makes the outer region stop at the end of the contained 892 region. (Lutz Eymers) Another example Nov 14 2002. 8938 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with 894 CTRL-C. 8957 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X 896 server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp 897 of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK 898 doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it 899 won't work for GTK anyway. 9008 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error 901 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid. 9028 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line() 903 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this 904 configurable? 9058 'hkmap' should probably be global-local. 9069 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes 907 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work 908 then. (Pritesh Mistry) 9098 ":s!from!to!" works, but ":smagic!from!to!" doesn't. It sees the "!" as a 910 flag to to the command. Same for ":snomagic". (Johan Spetz) 9118 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save 912 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()? 9138 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is 914 always written, even when the original file already exists. 9157 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter, 916 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space. 9179 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file 918 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being 919 written. 9209 The "Error detected while processing modelines" message should have an 921 error number. 9227 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer. 9238 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose 924 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when 925 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'. 9268 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global 927 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez) 9289 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing 929 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give 930 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating 931 one. 9327 On MS-DOS or MS-Windows, when editing the same file over a network, the 933 drive letter is different, thus an existing swap file doesn't generate a 934 warning. Use some flag to indicate the swap file is in the same directory 935 as the original file? Could make b0_fname[] start with a special 936 character like ">". 9377 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes. 938 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs. 9397 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that 940 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back. 9417 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed 942 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's 943 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y 944 direction, not horizontally? 9458 When using CTRL-D after ":help", restrict the number of matches to a 946 thousand, otherwise using CTRL-D without an argument takes too long. 9478 ":hardcopy": 948 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16. 949 - Need to handle unprintable characters. 950 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform 951 dithering to make grey text? 952 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total 953 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams) 954 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'? 955 - Should interpreted CTRL-L as a page break. 956 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'. 957 Default to black when no syntax highlighting. 958 - Be able to print a window in diff mode. 959 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate 960 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected). 9618 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the 962 text in following lines where the linebreak changes. 9639 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on 964 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect 965 that Windows NT is being used? 9668 When opening the same file on Unix and on MS-Windows, there is no 967 ATTENTION message, because the path in the swap file is different. Using 968 a relative path name will cause no ATTENTION for Vim 5.8. 969 Somehow add a flag that the swap file is in the same dir as the file? 9708 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a 971 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it. 9728 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert 973 in lines that don't extend into the block? 9748 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O 975 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev) 976 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work. 9778 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from 978 'linebreak'. 9798 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection 980 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab. 981 (Helmut Stiegler) 9828 With 'virtualedit' set, a blockwise Visual selection that starts and ends 983 in a tab, "<" shifts too much. (Helmut Stiegler) 9849 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When 985 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending 986 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of 987 'magic' in history. (Margo) 9889 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for 989 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc". 9909 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern 991 isn't updated). 9929 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga). 9939 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled 994 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which 995 cause another redraw, etc. 9968 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path() 997 must escape special characters in the pattern. 9988 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an 999 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use 1000 ":w!!" for that. 1001 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and 1002 restore file to readonly afterwards. 10037 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get 1004 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the 1005 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as 1006 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from 1007 clipboard) 10087 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal 1009 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark 1010 Waggoner) 10118 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window 1012 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no 1013 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\". 10148 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a 1015 way to avoid using the builtin termcap. 10168 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also 1017 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm. 1018 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style. 10198 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator 1020 (e.g., ":w"). 10218 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for 1022 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long. 10238 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column 1024 for ">>". 10258 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long 1026 script in do_cmdline(). 10278 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the 1028 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that 1029 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have 1030 changes. 10318 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT 1032 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim". 10338 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to 1034 check for file marks. This can be slow. 10357 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change 1036 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's 1037 needed. 1038 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key. 10398 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option 1040 to skip catch_signals()? 10419 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the 1042 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert 1043 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of 1044 text? 10458 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts 1046 all the text. Add ":rmenu"? 10478 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of 1048 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>. 10499 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are 1050 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7, 1051 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed. 1052 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or 1053 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate(). 10547 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/". 1055 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and 1056 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings 1057 in the list? 10588 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking 1059 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up, 1060 instead of on button down. 10618 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw. 10629 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for 1063 reaching the end of the available buffer. 10648 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a 1065 character is typed. 10668 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this. 1067 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it. 10688 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not 1069 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure 10708 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an 1071 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template 1072 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp". 1073 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for 1074 cygwin bash. 10757 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}". 1076 Remember flags for backreferences. 10777 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been 1078 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT? 10797 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names 1080 that contain a '$' after all have been found. 10818 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about 1082 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX. 10837 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting 1084 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name. 10857 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing. 1086 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and 1087 "initdir" is the default path to be used. 10887 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of 1089 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols) 10908 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo 1091 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so 1092 that the user knows he has to delete the files. 10937 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func 1094 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this. 10957 After ":%d" an undo reports the number of lines added as if there still 1096 was one line. 1097 1098 1099I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!): 11009 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file 1101 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three 1102 files. (McCollister) 11038 Motif: Tear-off menu item crashes Vim on some machines. (Netherton) It 1104 works fine for me, maybe it's a Motif problem. 1105 1106 1107Problems that will (probably) not be solved: 1108- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering 1109 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the 1110 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like 1111 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external 1112 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text. 1113- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access 1114 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message. 1115 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it. 1116- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim. 1117 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim. 1118- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will 1119 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which 1120 character gets the highlighting. 1121- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm 1122 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly. 1123- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem. 1124 (Jennings) 1125- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino). 1126- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25 1127 errors. How do we get the rest? 1128- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why? 1129- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The 1130 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong. 1131- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a 1132 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy 1133 first? 1134- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for 1135 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names. 1136- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy 1137 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim, 1138 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK. 1139- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The 1140 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working. 1141 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p". 1142 (Benzinger). 1143- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that 1144 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim 1145 can't get back what the external command didn't use. 1146- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error. 1147 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code. 1148- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being 1149 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar. 1150- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer 1151 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when 1152 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted. 1153 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library. 1154 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn) 1155 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)? 1156- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles 1157 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE. 1158 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134. 1159- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal 1160 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif 1161 libraries, get a patch from Sun. 1162- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X 1163 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash. 1164- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks 1165 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff. 1166- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim 1167 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy) 1168- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive 1169 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used. 1170- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up: 1171 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library 1172 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to 1173 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the 1174 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem. 1175- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the 1176 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line: 1177 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr> 1178- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a 1179 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert 1180 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard) 1181- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar. 1182 This is a GTK 2.4.x bug, fixed in GTK 2.4.2. (Thomas de Grenier de Latour) 1183- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co' 1184 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the 1185 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the 1186 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined 1187 in the vimrc file to be lost. 1188- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and 1189 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars. 1190 1191--------------------- extensions and improvements ---------------------- 1192 *extensions-improvements* 1193 1194Documentation: 11958 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded 1196 or not. 11978 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth) 11987 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual. 11999 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention: 1200 - change to cursor position and curswant 1201 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.) 1202 - how it works for folded lines 1203 - how it works with multi-byte characters 12049 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would 1205 work too. 12068 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag" 1207 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double 1208 text. 12098 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running". 12107 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to 1211 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'. 12127 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and 1213 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag. 1214- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks. 1215 1216 1217Help: 1218- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a 1219 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag. 1220- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go 1221 to the other matches. 1222- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files. 1223- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|. 1224- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always 1225 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file, 1226 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a 1227 default contents. 1228- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal 1229 height for the help window (and other windows). 1230- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute". 1231- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive? 1232- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands. 1233 1234 1235User Friendlier: 12368 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for 1237 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter 1238 Briscoe) 12398 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types? 12408 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that 1241 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if 1242 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf". 12438 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc, 1244 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu. 1245- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file. 1246 ":mkplugin <file>"? 12478 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that 1248 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from 1249 'runtimepath'. 1250 " Vim plugin 1251 <main plugin code> 1252 " >>> plugin help start <<< 1253 <plugin docs> 1254- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."? 12559 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or 1256 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty 1257 item?). 1258 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands. 12598 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems. 12607 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output? 1261 1262 1263Diff mode: 12648 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file). 1265 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing: 1266 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis 12677 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also 1268 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same 1269 location. 1270 1271 1272Folding: 1273 (commands still available: zg zG zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zw zW zy zY; 1274 secondary: zB zS zT zZ) 12758 Add different highlighting for a fold line depending on the fold level. 1276 (Noel Henson) 12778 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the 1278 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the 1279 user aware of this? 12808 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which 1281 commands skip over a closed fold. 12828 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt) 12838 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB. 12847 When using 2html.vim, also reproduce folds as you can see them. When 1285 someone doesn't want the folds he can disable them before converting. 1286 First attempt by Carl Osterwisch, 2004 May 10. 12877 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds. 1288- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. Require showing a character in 1289 'foldcolumn' to avoid the missing line goes unnoticed. 1290- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll 1291 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds 1292 smoother? 1293- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list, 1294 using the wininfo in wi_folds. 1295- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects. 1296- Add 'hidecomment' option: don't display comments in /* */ and after //. 1297- "zu": undo change in manual fold. "zU" redo change in manual fold. How to 1298 implement this? 1299- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the 1300 cursor. 1301- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3": set fold level for a region. 1302- Can set 'foldtext' to empty string: don't display any line. How to 1303 implement this? 1304- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt) 1305- Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like 1306 searches. 1307 1308 1309Multi-byte characters: 13109 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the 1311 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal 1312 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single 1313 byte). 13148 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for 1315 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html. 1316 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like: 1317 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-" 1318 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first 1319 item. 13208 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for 1321 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"? 13228 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an 1323 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for 1324 ":grep". 13258 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search 1326 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka) 13277 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted, 1328 so that the user can fix the problem. 13298 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo 1330 Schweigert) 13319 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El) 13328 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters. 13338 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters. 13348 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes. 13358 "ga" should show all composing characters, also if there are more than 2. 13367 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored? 13378 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing. 13388 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes. 13398 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte 1340 characters. 13418 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters. 13428 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead 1343 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example. 13447 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead. 1345 'display' option to specify this. 13467 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default(): 1347 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c) 1348- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the 1349 fontselector somehow. 1350- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it 1351 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale. 1352- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for 1353 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong. 1354- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset, 1355 depending on the default value of 'encoding'. 1356 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used. 1357 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know 1358 if a font exists? 1359- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with 1360 convert_input() for Mac GUI, RiscOS GUI, BeOS GUI. 1361- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters. 1362 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_ 13637 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of 1364 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky) 1365- Make 'langmap' accept multi-byte characters. 1366- Do we need the reverse of 'keymap', like 'langmap' but with files and 1367 multi-byte characters? E.g., when using a Russian keyboard. 1368- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text 1369 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort 1370 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command? 1371- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into 1372 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it: 1373 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz 1374 But it's very complicated... 1375 1376 1377Printing: 1378- Add "page width" to wrap long lines. 1379- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for 1380 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function. 1381- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'. 1382- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer 1383 name, portrait/landscape, etc). 1384- PostScript: only works for 7-bit ASCII and EBCDIC. Should support 1385 different 'encoding' values somehow. 1386- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same 1387 units as for the margins. 1388- Support right-to-left text? 13898 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the 1390 color. 1391 1392 1393Syntax highlighting: 13948 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson) 1395 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual". 13968 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined 1397 cluster can be added to existing syntax items. 13988 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this: 1399 "({ something })", often used in GCC code. 14008 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing 1401 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for 1402 ":wq file". 14038 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script). 14049 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is 1405 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it... 14067 Make syntax keyword table configurable. Set number of bits used with 1407 ":syn clear [hashbits]", so that we don't need to reallocate the table. 1408 minimal 4 bits, maximal 16. (Campbell) 14097 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and 1410 Search highlighting. 14118 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to 1412 change this for each release. 14138 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end 1414 pattern, but not in the body. 14158 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this 1416 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item, 1417 instead of the containing item. 14188 For keywords, allow to define the size of the hash table with ":syn 1419 clear". Change KHASH_ defines into variables stored in buffer struct. 1420 Use something else than linear linked list from the hash table. (Campbell) 14218 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside (). 14228 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype 1423 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules? 1424 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, 1425 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax. 14268 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a 1427 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained] 14288 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey 1429 background) when on one of the parens or in between them. 1430 Or highlight the matching paren when the cursor is on one. 14318 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error". 14328 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop 1433 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be 1434 used. 14358 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will 1436 allow spell checking. (Fleiner) 14378 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And 1438 re-insert the [] if possible. 14398 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for 1440 the Cursor). 14418 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like 1442 using "\1" in a ":s" command. 14438 Support for deleting syntax items: 1444 :syn keyword cTodo remove this 1445 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern" 1446 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that" 14478 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way 1448 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for 1449 a '<'. (Fleiner) 14507 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification? 1451 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or 1452 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern. 14537 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be 1454 detected. 14558 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original 1456 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this). 14578 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to 1458 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible. 14598 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group. 14608 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values. 14617 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to 1462 ":mkvimrc". 14638 Improve c.vim: 1464 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on: 1465 "c_strict_ansi". 1466 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way... 14678 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the 1468 current line while in Insert mode. 14698 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been 1470 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again? 14718 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current 1472 display position. 14738 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to 1474 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern. 1475 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()". 14768 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until 1477 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when 1478 highlighting starts. 14797 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the 1480 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow. 1481 E.g. for this html: 1482 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I> 14837 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed 1484 (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"): 1485 :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display="" 14867 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is. 14877 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled 1488 words. 14897 Command line completion for ":find" should search in 'path'. 14908 Add more command line completion for :syntax. 14918 Add more command line completion for :highlight. 14928 Add more command line completion for :sign. 14937 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands. 1494 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and 1495 completion? 14968 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their 1497 highlighting. (Salman Halim) 14987 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to 1499 select one of the sets. 15008 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1 1501 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch 1502 2, etc. 15038 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the 1504 highlighting (for "." command). 15058 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /. 1506 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /? 15078 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing. 15087 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs": 1509 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c". 15106 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of 1511 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall) 1512- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful 1513 when extending an already existing syntax file. 1514- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too? 1515- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin 1516 (for comment blocks). 1517- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags: 1518 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor. 1519 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match. 1520 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match. 1521 Also for {}, <>, etc.? 1522 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?) 1523 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the 1524 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it. 1525 (Campbell) 1526 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around 1527 the cursor. (Iain Truskett) 15287 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword. 1529 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow). 15307 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should 1531 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set). 1532 And allows for sections with different highlighting. 15337 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it 1534 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from 1535 messages. And external commands? 15368 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for 1537 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim? 15387 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an 1539 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line. 1540 1541 1542Built-in script language: 15438 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and 1544 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings. 15458 Allow range for ":exec". Pass it on to the executed command. (Webb) 15468 exists("&&option") tests if 'option' is actually implemented. Useful for 1547 'shellslash', for example. 15488 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham) 15498 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When 1550 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an 1551 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same 1552 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle 1553 nested packages? 1554 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}(). 1555 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from 1556 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path). 15577 Make globpath() also work with "**" and upwards search. (Brian Medley) 15587 Add the markclear() function to delete a mark in another buffer. Charles 1559 Campbell (2004 Jan 9) 1560 http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#Patch 1561 Implement setmark(markname, lnum [, col [, filename]]) instead? 1562 When "lnum" is zero delete the mark. 1563 When "filename" has no wildcards and there is no matching buffer, add 1564 the buffer (unlisted). 15657 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode. 1566 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if 1567 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that 1568 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an 1569 autocommand. 1570 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a 1571 .vim file. Problem: distribution. 1572 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached 1573 file belongs to a sourced script? 15747 Add "n" flag to search() function, just like searchpair(). (Alexey 1575 Marinichev) 15767 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn', 1577 signs and/or 'number'. 15788 Add functions: 1579 search() Add optional offset argument. 1580 realname() Get user name (first, last, full) 1581 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov 1582 3 2002 1583 Only add this when also implemented for 1584 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could 1585 be used. 1586 get_user_name() gets login name. 1587 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what}) 1588 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}. 1589 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File". 1590 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu 1591 File.Open..." argument. 1592 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22 1593 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary 1594 with properties instead. 1595 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping. 1596 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4. 1597 Return a list instead. 1598 sprintf(format, arg, ..) How to prevent a crash??? 1599 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx" 1600 mkdir(dir) Create directory 1601 copy(from, to) Copy a file 1602 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string 1603 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace() 1604 input(prompt, complete) like input() but do specified completion 1605 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left 1606 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in 1607 Visual block mode. 1608 tagtype(tag) get type of tag (also checks if it exists) 1609 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard) 1610 getbufline() get line from any buffer 1611 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer 1612 appendbufline() append line in any buffer 1613 sort() Sort a newline-separated string. Also: 1614 ":sort". 1615 libcall() Allow more than one argument. 1616 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function 1617 to allow the library to execute a command or 1618 evaluate an expression. 1619 char2hex() convert char string to hex string. XX 1620 hex2char() convert hex string to char string. XX 16217 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the 1622 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero. 16238 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was 1624 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file. 16258 Pass the executable name to the Vim scripts in some way. As v:argv0? 16268 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts. 16278 When starting to source a vim script, delete all functions that it has 1628 previously defined? Avoids using ":fun!" all the time. 16297 Add optional arguments to user functions: 1630 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17) 16316 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"? 16328 Add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var" just ignore. 16338 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable, 1634 option or environment variable. 16358 ":let &option" should list the value of the option. 16367 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the 1637 stack available (separated with '\n'). 16388 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed: 1639 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands} 16408 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started. 16418 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default), 1642 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0, 1643 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and 1644 charwise({expr}). 16457 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer 1646 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch 1647 buffer for this? 1648 result = scratch(string, command) 1649 result = apply(string, command) 1650 result = execute(string, command) 1651 "command" would use <> notation. 1652 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number? 16537 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds). 16547 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an 1655 option for the search path. (Sekera) 16567 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files. 1657 1658 1659Robustness: 16608 This pattern in syntax/java.vim causes a recursive call of regmatch(): 1661 syn match javaStringError +"\([^"\\]\|\\.\)*$+ 1662 A long line with a " in it can cause a crash when it runs out of stack 1663 space (on systems where this isn't caught). How can we catch this for 1664 more systems? 16656 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or 1666 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing 1667 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking . 1668 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf). 1669 Andy doesn't have time to work on it. 1670 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a 1671 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded? 1672 1673 1674Performance: 16758 Loading plugins takes startup time. Only load the part that is used to 1676 trigger the rest, and load the rest when it's needed? 16778 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags. 16789 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster? 16798 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result? 16807 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when 1681 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start? 16828 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same 1683 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines 1684 when starting up in a color terminal. 16858 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on 1686 Win16. 16879 Setting GUI options in the console (e.g., 'guifont') should not cause a 1688 redraw. 16898 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this 1690 function be improved? 16918 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the 1692 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap 1693 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can 1694 this be improved? 16958 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up 1696 MS-DOS version. (Negri) 16977 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower when adding a region for folding 1698 from { to }. (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman) 16997 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying 1700 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang) 17017 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a 1702 lot of abbreviations). 17037 DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster. 17047 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file 1705 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line 1706 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>. 1707 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat. 1708 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place. 1709 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase. 1710 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc. 17118 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the 1712 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was 1713 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating 1714 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)? 17158 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to 1716 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid 1717 using strcmp() too often? 17187 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file? 1719 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating 1720 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a 1721 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another 1722 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from 1723 the two blocks to the memfile block. 17247 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory 1725 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called 1726 with an argument that can be messed with. 1727 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that 1728 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced. 17297 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)". 1730- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek() 17318 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in 1732 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim. 1733- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of 1734 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation? 1735- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki) 1736- Do profiling on: 1737 - :g/pat/normal cmd 1738 - 1000ii<Esc> 1739 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary) 1740 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan) 1741 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u". 1742 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and 1743 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl". 1744 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary. 1745 - editing a vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim). 17467 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were 1747 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it 1748 changed). 1749 - On each change, remember start and end of the change. 1750 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count. 1751- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest! 1752- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still 1753 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"? 1754- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to 1755 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from 1756 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg(). 1757- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of 1758 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing). 1759- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height. 1760- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if 1761 cursor is right of the screen. 17628 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a 1763 CTRL-C (it's slow). 1764 1765 1766Code size: 17678 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded. 1768- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be 1769 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions. 17708 Make a GUI-only version for Unix? 17718 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using 1772 it. 17737 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be 1774 left out. 17758 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals 1776 can be removed. 17778 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed? 1778 1779 1780Messages: 17818 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the 1782 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!". 17838 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip 1784 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()? 17858 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a 1786 script. 17878 "vim --version" output goes to stderr, should be stdout. Can all output 1788 from messages using printf() go to stdout? 1789- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key. 1790 Perhaps after ten seconds? 1791- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9. 17929 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays: 1793 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop. 1794 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long 1795 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before 1796 redrawing. 17977 Add an option, which is a regexp, that disables warning messages which 1798 match that regexp (Tsirkin). 17998 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more 1800 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text. 18018 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another 1802 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option 1803 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off". 1804 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts 1805 typing, error messages must be switched back on. 1806 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings). 1807- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed? 1808 sleep before second message? 18098 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is 1810 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers", 1811 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the 1812 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall) 1813 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and 1814 error messages, printing text, etc. 18158 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt. 1816 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when 1817 a prompt is present (with a callback function?). 1818 1819 1820Screen updating: 18217 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one 1822 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the 1823 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit). 1824- screen_line(): 1825 - insert/delete character stuff. 1826 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line). 1827- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when 1828 dragging the status line with the mouse). 1829- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when 1830 waiting for a character. 18318 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from 1832 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when 1833 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping. 18347 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together. 1835 1836 1837Scrolling: 18388 Add "zm" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle. 18396 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi) 1840- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc.. 1841 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound 1842 windows. 18437 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next 1844 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it 1845 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer. 1846- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it 1847 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this? 1848 (Goldfarb) 1849- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all 1850 bound windows. 1851- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to 1852 be bound by regexp searches 1853- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell) 1854- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the 1855 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number 1856 of lines but not with a single line). 1857 1858 1859Autoconf: 18608 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader. 18618 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb) 1862 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically? 1863- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the 1864 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner). 1865- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4(). 1866- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it? 1867- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf. 1868 1869 1870Perl interface: 18718 Rename typemap file to something else? 18727 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark) 18737 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C? 18746 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll). 1875 1876 1877Shared libraries: 18786 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it. 1879 :libload internal-name libname 1880 :libunload internal-name 1881 :liblist 1882 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...) 1883 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...) 1884 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment. 18856 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries. 1886 1887 1888Tags: 18898 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify 1890 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m". 18918 Add a function that returns the line in the tags file for a matching tag. 1892 Can be used to extract more info (class name, inheritance, etc.) (Rico 1893 Hendriks) 18947 Count before CTRL-]: jump to N'th match 18958 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis. 18968 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able 1897 to type the tag number directly. 18987 Add a tag-select window. Works like ":cwindow". (Michal Malecki) 18997 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a 1900 window for each tag. 19017 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting? 19027 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit 1903 bottom" search message. 19047 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry, 1905 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were 1906 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb) 19077 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and 1908 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod". 1909 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func" 1910 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx. 19117 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields: 1912 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c 1913 :tagargs clear 1914 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag 1915 matching). 19167 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command? 1917 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi. 1918 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi) 1919 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way. 19207 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With 1921 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again. 19227 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use 1923 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add 1924 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect". 1925 1926 1927Security: 1928- nothing at the moment 1929 1930 1931Win32 GUI: 19328 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for 1933 the message and input? 19347 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at 1935 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 1936 dynamically? 19377 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu. 1938 (Mike McCollister) 19398 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several 1940 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't 1941 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all 1942 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest 1943 common part of the path. 19448 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik) 19458 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that 1946 gettext and menus work. 19478 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit 1948 return in every console. 1949 Also: Look at how Emacs does runs external commands: 1950 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html. 19518 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands: 1952 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text). 19538 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF. 1954 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands? 19557 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme. 1956 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser) 19577 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog). 19587 <Esc> should close a dialog. 19597 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be 1960 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended 1961 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any 1962 prompts. 19637 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that 1964 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have 1965 the file added into an already running Vim. 19667 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide 1967 functions to find the window title. 1968 1969 1970GUI: 19718 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS. 1972- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a 1973 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier. 19747 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows. 19758 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI. 19766 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu. 19778 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When 1978 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position. 19799 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze) 19807 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype? 19818 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the 1982 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide". 19838 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text 1984 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine 1985 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated. 19868 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim) 1987 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front. 19888 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more 1989 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c. 1990 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow 1991 running them in separate processes. 19927 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument. 19938 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask 1994 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code. 19957 Add some code to handle proportional fonts? Need to draw each character 1996 separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font is not exactly 1997 double-width. (Maeda) 19988 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default). 19998 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to 2000 select one. Martin Dalecki has a font selector for Motif, but it needs a 2001 bit more work. 20028 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.). 20038 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all? 20048 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a 2005 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this 2006 portable (X11, Win32, ..)? 20077 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items. 2008 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The 2009 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything. 20107 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back. 2011 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim). 20127 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can 2013 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors. 2014 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For 2015 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs. 20167 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the 2017 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas) 20187 Should support multi-column menus. 2019- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far 2020 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right). 2021- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode". 20228 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus. 20236 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a 2024 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui". 20257 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'? 20267 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos', 2027 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>. 2028 Or add a command, like ":winsize"? 20297 Add toolbar for more GUIs. 20308 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item 2031 name can be chosen free. 20327 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of 2033 the window? Allows for softkey-like use. 20346 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the 2035 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a 2036 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is 2037 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to 2038 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks 2039 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI 2040 things. 20417 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default 2042 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog. 2043- Motif steals <F10> from us, to pop up menus with the keyboard. How do we 2044 get it back if we want it? 2045- Paste in Insert mode should not do autowrap etc. Or maybe this should be 2046 changeable with an option? 2047- Put a nice picture in the icon (but how do we do that?). 20487 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks 2049 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated. 2050- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal 2051 where it was started from? 20527 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument. 2053 2054 2055VMS: 2056- Improvement: rewrite term/TTY handling. 2057- Improvement: create VMS GTK runtime libraries on OpenVMS 7.1-2 (today GTK 2058 works just on 7.3). 2059 2060 2061Autocommands: 20629 Make sure that side effects of autocommands are handled correctly. Don't 2063 execute autocommands when a buffer or window is halfway some changes. 2064 Move all apply_autocmds() calls to a higher level where needed. 20658 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g. 2066 "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc". 20678 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two 2068 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more 2069 difficult). 20708 Also trigger CursorHold in Insert mode? 20717 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that user 2072 can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the kind 2073 of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient? 20748 Can't use ":normal" in CursorHold autocommands. Make the CursorHold event 2075 insert a special key code, and call the autocommand functions from a 2076 higher level, so that vgetc() isn't used recursively. 20778 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist? 2078 And anything else? 20798 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input 2080 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus). 2081 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ... 20828 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc". 20838 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag. 2084 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found. 20856 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be 2086 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron) 20877 Add a way to skip an autocommand if going from one *.c file to another *.c 2088 file. 20897 When trying to open a directory, don't load the file but trigger an 2090 autocommand event OpenDirectory. 20917 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link, 2092 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate 2093 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type 2094 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard) 20955 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the 2096 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will 2097 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas) 20987 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for 2099 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the 2100 file. 21018 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at 2102 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read 2103 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'. 2104- Add events to autocommands: 2105 Error - When an error happens 2106 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode 2107 InsertEnter - Entering Insert mode 2108 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode 2109 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode 2110 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode 2111 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter) 2112 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled 2113 when exiting isn't a good idea. 2114 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J" 2115 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands. 2116 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M") 2117 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged 2118 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the 2119 window title) 2120 BufReadAction - replaces reading a file 2121 BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file 2122 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down 2123 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the 2124 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor. 2125 Set v:char to the character, can be changed. 2126 (not triggered when 'paste' is set). 2127 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting 2128 the char. 2129 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for 2130 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the 2131 file from CVS). 2132 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be 2133 used to do a :preserve for remote files. 2134 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate 2135 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so 2136 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add 2137 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah) 2138 WinResized - When a window has been resized 2139- Add autocommand to be executed every so many seconds? For writing the 2140 file now and then ('autosave'). 2141 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'* 2142 'autosave' 'aw' number (default 0) 2143 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the 2144 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set. 2145 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer. 2146 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make 2147 them save the file itself besides the swapfile. 2148 2149 2150Insert mode completion/expansion: 21518 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete 2152 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages. 21539 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with 2154 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended. 2155 (Webb) 21568 The code has become too complex. Redesign it, or at least add proper 2157 comments. 21588 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion: 2159 - ignore/match case 2160 - different characters than 'iskeyword' 21618 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text. 21628 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive 2163 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of 2164 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo. 2165 Should work for C++ and Java. 2166 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc. 21677 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?). 21687 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS 2169 instead of words. 21708 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents. 21718 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does). 2172 Requires remembering a number of insertions. 21738 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names. 2174 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion. 2175- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the 2176 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use 2177 wildcards in the file name)? 2178- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted). 2179- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?). 2180- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could 2181 be in another file). 2182- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches. 2183- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option? 2184- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string 2185 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W) 2186- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions. 2187- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows? 2188- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly) 21898 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that 2190 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb) 2191 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-]. 2192 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'. 2193- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list). 2194 2195 2196Command line editing: 21977 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command 2198 line. 21998 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion 2200 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of 2201 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc. 2202- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of 2203 lines wraps to start of line). 2204- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view 2205 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many 2206 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run 2207 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012). 2208 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history. 2209 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the 2210 cmdwin does now already. 2211 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal 2212 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T? 2213 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the 2214 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid 2215 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines? 2216 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate 2217 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode 2218 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh. 2219 Problems: 2220 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar' 2221 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations 2222 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches 2223 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands 2224 - Normal: no ":" commands? 2225 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line. 2226 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of 2227 character in first column? 2228 - Implementation ideas: 2229 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer. 2230 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum. 2231 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line. 2232 - sync undo after entering a command line? 2233 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line 2234 Mode. 2235 2236 2237Command line completion: 22388 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument. 22398 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate 2240 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h". 22418 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list 2242 them with the optional part inside []. 22437 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be 2244 edited. (Sven Guckes) 22457 Add completion for when entering an expression after CTRL-R= and "=. 2246 (Servatius Brandt) 2247- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible. 2248- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the 2249 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>". 22508 For ":find" and ":sfind" expand files found in 'path'. 22518 Add cmdline completion for the ":debug" command. 22528 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting 2253 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp? 22547 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the 2255 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb) 2256- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching 2257 identifiers (Webb). 22588 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>" 2259 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit. 22607 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion. 2261 Useful for ":s/word/xx/". 2262- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started. 2263 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line. 2264- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for 2265 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut) 2266 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D. 2267- Add completion for Environment variables: ":echo $SH<Tab>" -> "$SHELL". 2268 2269 2270Command line history: 2271- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a 2272 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a 2273 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't 2274 completely resulted from one mapping. 2275- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history, 2276 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel) 2277 2278 2279Insert mode: 22809 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after 2281 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line. 2282 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug. 22838 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command 2284 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink) 2285 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do 2286 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing. 2287 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode. 22887 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a 2289 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y. 22907 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it 2291 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'. 2292- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed 2293 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and 2294 also for characters that wrap to the next line. 2295 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register). 2296 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that 2297 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>. 2298- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in 2299 Normal mode. 2300- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their 2301 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands 2302 are used. 2303- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits. 2304- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b. 2305- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y. 2306 2307 2308'cindent', 'smartindent': 23098 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with line break in arguments: 2310 Foo::Foo (int one, 2311 int two) 2312 : something(4) 2313 {} 23148 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with multiple lines: 2315 Foo::Foo (int one, int two) 2316 : something(4), 2317 somethingelse(3) 2318 {} 23199 Too much indent for "lulu": (Uwe Zeisberger) 2320 int main () 2321 { 2322 if (lala) 2323 do 2324 ++(*lolo); 2325 while (lili 2326 && lele); 2327 lulu; 2328 } 23299 Function gets extra indent: (Jamax) 2330 void function(int param) { 2331 if (false) 2332 return; 2333 } 23349 brace not indented correctly: 2335 case 'c': if (cond) 2336 { 2337 Should align with "if" in case statement. 23387 Allow aligning a closing ")" with the line above, instead of the matching 2339 "(": (Riehm) if (asdfasdf && 2340 asdf 2341 ) 23428 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is 2343 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer) 23448 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna) 2345 func( 2346 new String[] { 2347 "asdf", 2348 "asdf" 2349 } 2350 ); 23517 Separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner): 2352 func( 2353 int x) // indent like "(4" 2354 { 2355 if (a 2356 && b) // indent like "(0" 23578 Strange problem with this code, "hello" is indented wrong: (Gary Holloway) 2358 main() { char foo[] = "/*"; 2359 /* This is a comment; the indentation of C 2360 * source below this comment gets messed up due to the string above. 2361 */ 2362 hello 23639 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler) 2364 if (a) 2365 { 2366 if (b) 2367 { 2368 // { 2369 } 2370 } <-- this is indented incorrect 23719 Wrong indent for cino=(4, removing the (void) fixes it: (Zellner) 2372 (void) MyFancyFunction( 2373 argument); 2374- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the 2375 indent to 0 should be switched on/off. 23767 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line. 2377- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first 2378 line). 2379- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}? 2380- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous 2381 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically? 23827 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines. 2383- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It 2384 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb) 2385- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out 2386 code), unless the line starts with "*". 2387- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"? 2388- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line 2389 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted). 23908 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the 2391 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more 2392 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment. 2393- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'. 2394- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where 2395 lines start with "\item". 2396- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown) 2397 /* here is a comment that 2398 is just autoindented, and 2399 nothing else */ 2400- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi". 24017 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for 2402 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the 2403 indents. 2404 And/or: Add option to copy indent as-is, without changing spaces to tabs. 2405 also for 'autoindent'. 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and 2406 spaces used for indent, when the indent remains the same or increases. 2407 2408 2409Java: 24108 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve 2411 Odendahl? 24128 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for 2413 "[i" commands and friends. 2414- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java. 2415 (Jason) 2416- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be 2417 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy) 2418 2419 2420'comments': 24218 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated 2422 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping. 2423 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader 2424 when it's "#" or "//". 24257 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line. 2426 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed. 24277 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item. 24286 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more 2429 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a 2430 regexp is used. 24318 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line 2432 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'? 2433 2434 2435Virtual edit: 24368 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left. 24377 Add a mode where the cursor is only allowed to go one character after the 2438 end of the line? 24397 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line? 2440 2441 2442Text objects: 24438 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc. 24447 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it 2445 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area. 24468 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single 2447 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at 2448 the end of the line or before a ".". 24497 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs" 2450 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus) 24517 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph 2452 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}"). 24536 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email. 24545 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For 2455 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one. 2456 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the 2457 cursor is on. 2458 2459 2460Select mode: 24618 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block, 2462 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall) 24637 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word. 2464 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743 24657 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line. 2466 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse' 2467 contains 'C' or 'A'. 2468 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in 2469 normal_cmd(). 2470 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info. 2471 - Typing text replaces the selection. 2472 2473 2474Visual mode: 2475- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero, 2476 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer 2477 is in the top line. 24788 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new 2479 text. make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding 2480 where needed. 24817 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width, 2482 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc. 24837 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start 2484 of each selected line. 24858 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode? 24868 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer. 2487 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any 2488 other buffer. (Ron Aaron) 24898 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron, 2490 Ben Godfrey) 24917 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and 2492 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey) 24937 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of 2494 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area. 24957 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David 2496 Young is working on this) 24977 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines. 2498 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with 2499 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line. 25008 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text? 2501 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful. 25027 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should 2503 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an 2504 option! 25057 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position 2506 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select 2507 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen 2508 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap. 2509 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to 2510 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line, 2511 without changing the column. 25126 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode. 25137 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the 2514 current buffer. 25157 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area. 25166 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line, 2517 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1. 25186 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line. 25196 ":'<,'>source" should read the selected lines and ":source" them. 25206 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed 2521 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB 2522 or other special character. 25236 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting. 2524 2525 2526More advanced repeating commands: 2527- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt"). 25287 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember 2529 the command line so that it can be repeated? 2530- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g. 2531 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb). 2532 "y." will repeat last yank. 2533 "c2." will repeat the last but one change? 2534 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history 2535 and/or pick an older command. 2536- History stack for . command? Use "g." command. 2537 2538 2539Mappings and Abbreviations: 25408 Let ":verbose map xx" report where the mapping was set, just like with 2541 ":verbose set". 25428 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be 2543 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell) 2544 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command? 25458 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work? 25467 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte". 2547 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway? 25488 ":verbose map" could show the script where the mapping was defined. 2549 m_script_ID can be used. 25508 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the 2551 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&. 25528 Add ":amap", like ":amenu". 25538 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to 2554 entering search strings. 25558 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the 2556 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and 2557 not the <Space>. 25588 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS). 25598 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never 2560 (?) work. 25617 ":verbose map" should display where a mapping was defined, like ":verbose 2562 set". 25638 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function 2564 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is 2565 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings? 25667 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation? 25677 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q", 2568 that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger' 2569 option. 25707 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try 2571 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy". 25727 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character 2573 (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for 2574 mapping a key to do something and then completion. 25757 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard. 25766 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the 2577 abbreviations are to be used. 2578- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For 2579 example, for a mouse escape sequence: 2580 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l 2581- Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping. 2582- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in 2583 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings 2584 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording? 2585- Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in 2586 <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this? 2587- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings 2588 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does). 2589- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and 2590 mappings off for :unab and :unmap. 25916 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete 2592 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids 2593 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you 2594 hit another character. 2595- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings: 2596 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G 2597 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l 2598 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g 2599 Or implicit: 2600 :map q <Register>d<Number>$ 2601- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for 2602 non-replace Insert mode? 2603- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode? 26046 Alias for Normal mode commands, works like :substitute? Would allow 2605 mappings with arguments. 2606- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings. 2607- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key 2608 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself. 2609- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as 2610 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command? 2611- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they 2612 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>. 2613- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap. 2614- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping 2615 ":freekeys". 2616- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm). 2617 2618 2619Incsearch: 2620- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'? 2621- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn 2622 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled 2623 up every time. 2624- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the 2625 folds when going to another line. 2626- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many 2627 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?) 2628 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match 2629 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872. 2630- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other 2631 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid). 2632 2633 2634Searching: 26358 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\(([^()]*\@@[^()]*)\)\@r". \@@ stands 2636 for "go recursive here" and \@r marks the recursive atom. 2637item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on 2638 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of 2639 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"? 2640 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)* 26417 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for 2642 search(). (Brett) 26437 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's 2644 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference. 26458 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in 2646 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax? 26478 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current 2648 line. 26497 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an 2650 example. 26518 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in 2652 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif. 2653- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that 2654 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */). 2655 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back. 2656 Alternative: use matchit.vim 26578 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care? 26588 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that 2659 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it. 2660 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$". 26617 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and 2662 "\d". 26637 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be 2664 \%<C-M>. 26658 Flags that apply to the whole pattern. 2666 This works for all places where a regexp is used. 2667 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern? 26688 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example, 2669 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line. 26708 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g" 2671 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command. 2672 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing 2673 search pattern. 2674- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group. 2675 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group. 2676- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade) 2677 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one. 2678 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's 2679 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities. 26807 Add POSIX regexp, like Nvi, with 'extended' option? It's like very-magic. 2681- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it. 2682 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling) 2683- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?): 2684 i ignore case 2685 I use case 2686 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?) 2687 v use Vi regexp syntax 2688 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command 2689 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command 2690 Perl uses these too: 2691 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only) 2692 m multiple line expression (we don't need it) 2693 o compile only once (Perl only) 2694 s single line expression (we don't need it) 2695 x extended regexp (we don't need it) 2696 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the 2697 following command. 2698 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault'). 2699- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used 2700 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/ 2701 for search string)? 27027 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special 2703 characters. See C't article, August 1997. 2704- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are 2705 equivalent (for Unix filenames). 2706- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text 2707 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin) 2708- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this". 2709- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer, 2710 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern: 2711 a for the next file in the argument list 2712 f for file in the buffer list 2713 w for file edited in a window. 2714 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for 2715 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask 2716 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No 2717 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ". 2718- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler) 27197 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search 2720 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark. 27217 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after 2722 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe 2723 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in 2724 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always). 27256 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side 2726 effects. 27277 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete 2728 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc. 2729 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary. 27307 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) 2731 Also ":dselect". 2732 2733 2734Undo: 2735- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a 2736 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r". 2737- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not 2738 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a", 2739 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted? 27408 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo 2741 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new 2742 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing. 2743 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things. 27448 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change, 2745 only remember the lines that really changed. 27467 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous 2747 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a 2748 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need 2749 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone. 2750- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and ']. 2751 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb). 2752- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the 2753 number of undo levels (with confirmation). 2754- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123]. 2755 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number: 2756 [-99]. 2757- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating. 2758- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once. 2759- Store undo info in a file that survives until the next edit. Then it's 2760 possible to undo to before the current editing session. Combined with 2761 viminfo? 2762- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed, 2763 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file?? 2764 2765 2766Buffer list: 27677 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}". 2768 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that 2769 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the 2770 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only". 27718 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files. 2772 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim. 27738 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check 2774 inode too. 27757 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When 2776 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use. (or the highest 2777 number in use plus one?) 27787 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and 2779 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann) 2780- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the 2781 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb) 2782- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the 2783 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"? 27847 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list. 2785 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson) 27867 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer 2787 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc. 27888 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected. 27898 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$' 2790 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel". 27917 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for 2792 internal use and for when executing an external program? 2793 2794 2795Swap (.swp) files: 27968 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another 2797 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when 2798 there are short file name problems. 27998 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap 2800 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions. 28018 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su. 28028 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same 2803 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file 2804 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup 2805 file the same as the actual file? 2806 Use the code for resolve()? 28077 Store the options 'fileencoding', 'fileformat', etc. in the swapfile, 2808 because they change what will be written to the file. Requires adding 2809 another block to the swapfile. 28107 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another 2811 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible. 28127 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere 2813 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'? 2814 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not 2815 enough room. 28167 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp 2817 or /var/preserve. 2818- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to 2819 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only. 2820- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen). 2821 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'? 2822- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the 2823 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do 2824 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a 2825 cached list of which line is where. 2826 2827 2828Viminfo: 28297 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file, 2830 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone 2831 else's viminfo file. 28328 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file 2833 name. (Schild) 28348 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu). 28358 Remember the last used register for "@@". 28368 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the 2837 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so. 2838 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display 2839 this? 28407 Also store the ". register (last inserted text). 28417 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some 2842 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron) 28436 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting 2844 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the 2845 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code? 2846- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of 2847 "last visited files" and select one to jump to. 2848 2849 2850Modelines: 28518 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid 2852 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it. 2853 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ". 2854- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to 2855 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the 2856 modeline setting. 2857- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings, 2858 no function calls, to avoid a security problem. 2859- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for 2860 .cpp files. 2861- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for 2862 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak. 2863- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed 2864 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir. 2865 2866 2867Options: 28688 Make ":mksession" store buffer-specific options for the specific buffer. 28698 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when 2870 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant) 28717 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only 2872 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the 2873 side effect. 28748 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to 2875 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their 2876 default value. 28778 Should ":mksession" restore the current directory when writing the 2878 session, or the directory where the session file is? Probably need a word 2879 in 'sessionoptions' to make a choice: 2880 "curdir" (cd to current directory when session file was generated) 2881 "sessiondir" (cd to directory of session file) 2882 "nodir" (don't cd at all) 28838 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string 2884 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should 2885 also be supported. 28868 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag 2887 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting 2888 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used. 28897 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas) 28907 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the 2891 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway) 28927 Add plugins for formatting. Should be able to make a choice depending on 2893 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.). 2894 2895 2896External commands: 28978 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen 2898 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd". 28994 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls" 2900 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g. 2901 -f). 29024 Allow direct execution, without using a shell. 29034 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI? 2904 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell! 29054 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands. 2906 2907 2908Multiple Windows: 29097 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits. 29108 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window. 2911 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window. 29127 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab> 2913 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to 2914 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer. 29157 Add a 'winfixwidth' option, similar to 'winfixheight'. 29166 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window. 2917 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new 2918 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would 2919 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel) 29207 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows 2921 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with 2922 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE 2923 too. Requires some form of inter process communication. 2924- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer 2925 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command. 2926 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer 2927 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made. 2928 2929 2930Marks: 29318 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this 2932 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-. 29338 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m? 29348 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times. 2935 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file. 29368 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle 2937 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when 2938 the mark was set. 29397 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers, 2940 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands 2941 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with 2942 ":browse marks"? 29436 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige) 29447 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the 2945 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark. 29467 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group). 2947 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does. 29487 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m 2949 command). 29507 Try to keep marks in the same position when: 2951 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the 2952 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo) 2953 - inserting/deleting characters in a line. 29545 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in 2955 mappings. 29566 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and 2957 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines. 2958 Highlight the marked lines somehow. 2959 2960 2961Digraphs: 29627 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists. 2963 Also the keymap? 2964- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line 2965 below/above). 2966- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special 2967 characters? 29688 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown) 29697 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At 2970 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32). 2971 2972 2973Writing files: 2974- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for 2975 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to 2976 shortname conversion. 29778 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc. 29788 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode' 2979 file. 29808 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some 2981 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another 2982 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'? 29837 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make 2984 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski) 29856 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like 2986 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'. 29876 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory. 2988 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas) 29896 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#". 2990 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name? 29918 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids 2992 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman) 29937 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations 2994 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition). 29957 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more 2996 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is 2997 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before 2998 waiting for a character to be typed). 29998 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status 3000 line of the window, like "[time]". 3001 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes. 3002 Automatic and/or with a command. 3003 3004 3005Substitute: 30068 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.: 3007 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w". 3008- :s///p prints the line after a substitution. 3009- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern. 30108 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective. 3011 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys. 3012- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or: 3013 :s///N substitutes N times. 3014- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.: 3015 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do 3016 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution. 30177 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex 3018 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the 3019 last line column 5. 30205 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks, 3021 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the 3022 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands. 3023 (Stanislav Sitar) 3024 3025 3026Mouse support: 30278 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'? 30287 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu. 30298 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic 3030 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you 3031 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar) 30327 Checkout sysmouse() for FreeBSD console mouse support. 3033- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console. 3034- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to 3035 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners). 3036- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!? 3037- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to. 3038 3039 3040Crypt and security: 30418 Also crypt the swapfile, each block separately. Change mf_write() and 3042 mf_read(). How to get b_p_key to these functions? 3043 3044 3045Argument list: 30466 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list. 3047 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches 3048 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match. 30496 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers? 3050 3051 3052Registers: 30538 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne) 30548 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping 3055 around in windows. 30568 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for 3057 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r" 3058 for every line. 30596 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the 3060 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What 3061 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.? 3062- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of 3063 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more". 3064- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment 3065 leader when line wraps? 3066- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each 3067 line in the range. 3068- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text 3069 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo") 30708 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register. 3071 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)? 3072 3073 3074Debug mode: 30757 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received. 30768 Add breakpoints for setting an option 30778 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable. 30787 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution 3079 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when 3080 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item, 3081 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell) 30827 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo. 30837 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al. 3084 3085 3086Various improvements: 30878 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename 3088 the buffer. Buffer may be modified. 30896 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of 3090 errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c". 30917 Add a ":cstring" command. Works like ":cfile" but reads from a string 3092 variable. Also accept a list variable? 30936 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5) 30947 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>. 3095 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"? 3096 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command. 30977 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a 3098 window as a buffer-tab selection. 30997 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want 3100 to manipulate text without changing the window layout. 31018 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until 3102 all changes are gone. 31037 Add a ":cpfile", go in the other direction as ":cnfile". 31046 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri) 31058 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim. 3106 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim. 3107 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it 3108 in this Vim. 31098 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as 3110 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"? 31118 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes 3112 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and 3113 have it apply to the following command. 31148 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other 3115 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the 3116 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up. 3117 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'? 31187 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a 3119 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files. 31207 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>, 3121 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize 3122 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key 3123 without modifier (unless mapped). 31248 Add ":breakdel *": delete all breakpoints. 31257 Support ":browse edit" in console, using explorer.vim? 31266 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line. 31278 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map". 31289 Support ACLs on more systems. 31297 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be 3130 highlighted differently. 31318 Allow using "**" as a wildcard in commands like ":next" and ":args". 31328 Provide a way to avoid wildcard expansion. Use double quotes, like in the 3133 shell? :edit "my[file].txt" (currently works if there is no "myf.txt") 31347 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above 3135 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message 3136 (truncated to fit in the space). 31377 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner) 31388 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout) 31398 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise 3140 Visual mode. 31417 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use 3142 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV. 31437 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping 3144 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0". 31457 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name. 31467 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently. 31477 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines? 31488 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney) 31498 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in 3150 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for 3151 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef 3152 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do? 31538 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down. 31546 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain 3155 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron) 31568 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists. 31578 Use confirm/dialog stuff to ask the user, when a file has changed outside 3158 of Vim, if he wants to reload it. Triggered when focus gained, after 3159 shell command, when entering another buffer, etc.. 3160 Also do this when editing a new file, and another application creates 3161 the file before doing ":w" in Vim. 3162 Also check if the file protection has changed. When checking a file into 3163 RCS it is made read-only, when checking out it is made read-write. 31648 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file 3165 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would 3166 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist 3167 does something like this. (Shah) 31687 Use growarray for replace stack. 31697 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution 3170 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis). 31713 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"? 31728 Make "more" prompt accept command characters, like "hit-enter" prompt? 3173 Or extend it with more commands, like "less": 'b' for back, 'j' for one 3174 line down, etc. 31758 For the "--more--" prompt, support the 'b'ack command for more commands. 3176 Possible implementation: Do it at a very low level, caching the lines that 3177 are on the screen (with highlight attributes). Avoids that changes have 3178 to be made for all functions that list something. 31797 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same 3180 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers? 3181- Keep a list of most recently used files for each window, use "[o" to go 3182 back (older file) and "]n" to go forward (newer file) (like ^O and ^I for 3183 jumps) (Webb). Use ":files" and ":ls" to list the files in history order. 31847 Add a history of recently accessed buffer. Maybe make "2 CTRL-^" jump to 3185 the 2nd previously visited buffer, "3 CTRL-^" to the third, etc. Or use 3186 "3 g CTRL-^" for this? 3187- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode. 3188- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file. 3189- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c 3190- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window. 31917 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive 3192 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used. 3193- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home 3194 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc. 3195- Remove mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this. 3196- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set, 3197 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert) 3198- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to 3199 call "play newbeep.au"). 3200- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or 3201 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function. 3202 (Bhatt). 3203- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for 3204 blockwise registers). 3205- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the 3206 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt). 3207- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps 3208 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed, 3209 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't 3210 noticeable. 32119 When using ":w <fname>" it's possible that this file is loaded in another 3212 buffer. Give a warning right away, don't wait for a shell command. 3213- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb). 32147 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters. 3215 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code. 3216- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs 3217 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between 3218 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent 3219 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new 3220 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change. 32217 Add a way to define an item list with a pattern in 'formatoptions'. The 3222 'n' flag doesn't work for "6.3" or "6a.". 32238 Add 'formatexpr' option: Used for formatting operator "gq" instead of the 3224 builtin formatting or 'formatprg'. 32258 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the 3226 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for 3227 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a 3228 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line). 3229 ":set autoformat=\\s$". 3230- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern? 32317 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the 3232 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt) 3233- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is 3234 not in column 1. 32356 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a 3236 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext". 32377 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined? 3238- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator? 32398 findmatchlimit() should be able to skip comments. Solves problem of 3240 matching the '{' in /* if (foo) { */ (Fiveash) 3241- Add more redirecting of Ex commands: 3242 :redir @> register (append) 3243 :redir # bufname 3244 :redir #> bufname (append) 3245 :redir = variable 3246 :redir => variable (append) 3247- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with 3248 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set". 3249 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit". 32506 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32 3251 console? (Klaus Hast) 3252- Add :delcr command: 3253 *:delcr* 3254 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines 3255 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is 3256 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range]. 3257 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If 3258 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all 3259 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi} 3260- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat(). 3261- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta 3262 characters from 'isprint'. 3263- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName(). 3264- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area. 3265 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn. 3266- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but 3267 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More 3268 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion. 3269- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()). 3270- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like 3271 Nvi). 3272- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the 3273 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define. 32747 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position. 3275- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that 3276 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'? 32776 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file. 3278- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the 3279 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13 3280 macro). 3281- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files. 3282- Add command like ":ts" that shows the output of "[I" and asks for a match 3283 to jump to. (Zellner) 3284- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also 3285 expanded. Is there a better way to do this? 3286- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source". 32878 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set. 3288- Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null". 3289- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty. 3290- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible! 3291- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down 3292 if it is not the first or last window. 3293- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if 3294 there is one) instead of the file itself. 32957 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example: 3296 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0 3297 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files. 3298- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion. 3299- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as 3300 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so 3301 many percent down the windows). 3302- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the 3303 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the 3304 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'. 3305- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g. 3306 'dictionary' when it is "*.h". 3307- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to 3308 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit). 3309- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent) 3310- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends. 3311- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the 3312 passwd file? (Antwerpen) 3313- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack. 3314- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush". 33158 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw", 3316 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is 3317 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack? 3318 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when 3319 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping? 3320- Use a builtin grep command for ":grep"? Makes it possible to add the 3321 column number. Can use the code of ":helpgrep". 3322 Also support using "**" in filename, so that a directory tree can be 3323 searched. 3324 Also see the "minigrep.vim" script on www.vim.org. 3325- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time 3326 t_bs is set? (Webb) 3327- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also 3328 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert). 3329- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline (Demirel). Store 3330 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window 3331 (Webb). 3332- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the 3333 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al. 3334- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering 3335 hex codes like 0xff). 3336- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command 3337 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo 3338 the last TYPED command. 3339- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf". 3340- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows. 3341- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/" 3342 should also work? 3343- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL? 33448 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file 3345 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine 3346 name. 3347- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a 3348 trailing '.'. 3349- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a 3350 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use 3351 find_file_in_path(). 3352- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between 3353 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon). 3354- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion. 3355- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a 3356 form usable by Vim on the current machine. 3357- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have 3358 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags. 3359- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one 3360 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains 3361 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline. 3362- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine 3363 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz) 3364- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments. 3365- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt) 3366- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back 3367 to the minimal size. 3368- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */). 3369- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline(). 3370- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb). 3371- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file. 3372- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers. 3373- Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw'). 3374- Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line: 3375 "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ??? 3376- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line 3377 entered)? 3378- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible 3379 as an output filter. 3380- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this. 3381- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line. 3382- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file. 3383- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc. 3384- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char. 3385- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long 3386 lines. 3387- Uppercase characters in ex commands can be made lowercase? 33888 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"), 3389 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option 3390 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex 3391 or in octal. 33927 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more 3393 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument? 3394- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source. 3395 After ":w !command" a wait_return? 3396- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()). 3397- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without 3398 insert line command). 3399- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it. 3400- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals. 3401- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000). 3402- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying. 3403- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace 3404 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>. 3405- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work 3406 yet. 3407- Implement 'redraw' option. 3408- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or 3409 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right). 3410- Use pipes for filtering on Unix. Requires using fork() to be able to read 3411 and write at the same time, or some select() mechanism. 34127 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs 3413 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin. 34148 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can 3415 do it. 3416- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to. 3417- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts, 3418 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list. 3419- Add text justification option. 3420- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on". 3421- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is 3422 off". 3423- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR. 3424- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message. 3425- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but 3426 gives read errors. Check protection before opening. 3427- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied". 3428- If file does not exists, check if directory exists. 3429- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor. 3430- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex 3431 commands. 3432- ":set -w all": list one option per line. 3433- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file. 3434- :table command (Webb) 3435- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ". 3436- Make it possible for a user to define a new operator. Implementation with 3437 internal scripting language or Perl? 3438- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?). 3439- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb). 3440- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files. 3441- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel). 3442- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited 3443 (Demirel). 3444- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc. 3445- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore", 3446 for use in macro's and the like. 3447- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while 3448 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window? 3449- Add possibility to put output of ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for 3450 ":set all". ":r :set all"? 3451- 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really 3452 read-only mode). 3453- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not 3454 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in 3455 a window to become smaller (Webb). 3456- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized 3457 proportionally (Webb). 3458- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use 3459 mkopttab to make option table? 3460- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current 3461 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)? 3462- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster 3463 (Haritsis). 3464- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used 3465 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev) 3466- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the 3467 cursor? 3468- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton). 3469- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)? 34705 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names. 3471 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix. 34728 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore 3473 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in 3474 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams: 3475 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another 3476 option name. 34778 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to 3478 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places. 3479 (Netherton) 34806 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a 3481 space after "(", for example. 34825 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs 3483 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit'). 3484 (Servatius Brandt) 3485 3486 3487From Elvis: 3488- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages? 3489- Add ":alias" command. 3490- fontchanges recognized "\\fB" etc. 3491- Search patterns: 3492 \@ match word under cursor. 3493 but do: 3494 \@w match the word under the cursor? 3495 \@W match the WORD under the cursor? 34968 ":window" command: 3497 :win + next window (up) 3498 :win ++ idem, wrapping 3499 :win - previous window (down) 3500 :win -- idem, wrapping 3501 :win nr to window number "nr" 3502 :win name to window editing buffer "name" 35037 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is 3504 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"? 3505 3506 3507From Nvi: 3508- 'searchincr' option, alias for 'incsearch'? 3509- 'leftright' option, alias for 'nowrap'? 3510- Have a look at "vi/doc/vi.chart", for Nvi specialties. 35118 Add 'keytime', time in 1/10 sec for mapping timeout? 3512- Add 'filec' option as an alternative for 'wildchar'. 35136 Support Nvi command names as an alias: 3514 :bg :hide 3515 :fg fname :buf fname (with 'hidden' set?) 3516 :dis b :ls 3517 :Edit fname :split fname 3518 :Fg fname :sbuf fname (with 'hidden' set?) 3519 :Next :snext (can't do this, already use :Next) 3520 :Previous :sprevious 3521 :Tag :stag 3522 3523 3524From xvi: 3525- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character. 3526- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet) 3527 3528 3529From vile: 3530- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window. 3531- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files 3532 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files. 3533 3534 3535Far future and "big" extensions: 3536- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice 3537 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,... 3538- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in 3539 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac). 3540 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the 3541 current layout mirrored. 3542- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer. 3543- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords, 3544 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.). 3545- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent). 3546- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different 3547 font in each top-level window. 3548- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit'). 3549- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them. 3550- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning. 3551- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to. 3552 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim). 3553- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all 3554 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files 3555 mentioned in the tags file. 3556 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???) 3557 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."? 3558- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other 3559 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter). 3560- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five 3561 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc.. 35624 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands: 3563 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format. 3564 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted. 3565 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list, 3566 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags 3567 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples: 3568 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list 3569- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes 3570 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but 3571 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/. 3572 3573 3574vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl: 3575vim: set fo+=n : 3576