1*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2004 Jun 30 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 33For version 7.0: 34- Include many PATCHES: 35 - Include the kvim patch. http://freenux.org/vim/ (Mickael Marchand) 36 Do not add Qtopia yet, it doesn't work very well. 37 update from Mickael 2004 Jun 20. 38 8 Unix: When libcall() fails there is no clear error message. Johannes 39 Zellner has a patch for this. 40 updated patch 2004 June 16. 41 7 Add the MzScheme interface. Patch on http://iamphet.nm.ru/scheme/ 42 (Sergey Khorev) 43 Alt URL: http://cyber.miem.edu.ru/~iamphet/scheme/mzvim-0.560.tar.gz 44 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac? 45 New patch 2004 Jun 16 46 8 Add expression-expansion, so that the user can define his own kind of 47 completion. Patch from Taro Muraoka, 2003 Aug 26. 48 New patch 2004 Jun 16 49 8 Text objects: Add "a'" and 'a"': a single or double quoted string. 50 (Tim Chase) Patch from Taro Muraoka (2003 Dec 16). 51 New patch 2004 Jun 16 52 7 Add "nbsp" in 'listchars'? Patch from David Blanchet, 2003 Jul 28. 53 again 2004 Jun 16 54 8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible. 55 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. 56 He will update the patch for 6.3. 57 9 Add cursor-column highlighting. Enable it with 'cursorcolumn' option, 58 set highlighting with "CursorColumn" group. Useful for aligning text. 59 Also cursor-row highlighting. Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto for 60 underlining the cursor line, 2004 Mar 24. Update 2004 Jun 17 61 Alternatie: when 'number' is set highlight the number of the current 62 line. 63 7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto. 64 Update 2004 Jun 17. 65 8 Patches from Peter "Rain Dog" Cucka: 66 - guifont selector (2002 Dec 15) 67 update 2004 Jun 20 68 7 Add an option to set the width of the 'number' column. Eight 69 positions is often more than needed. Or adjust the width to the 70 length of the file? 71 Add patch that adds 'numberlen' option. (James Harvey) 72 Other patch with min and max from Emmanuel Renieris (2002 Jul 24) 73 Other patch without an option by Gilles Roy (2002 Jul 25) 74 New patch from Emmanuel Renieris, 2004 Jun 17 75 Needs more work: use one option with one or two numbers 76 7 Be able to call a function while passing on a variable number of 77 arguments: 78 :function Foo(abc, ...) 79 : call Bar(a:abc, a:*) 80 Charles Campbell has a patch for this 81 He lost the patch himself. 82 7 Make ":startinsert" command work directly for functions and scripts? 83 Also make it possible to append (it's difficult at end of line). 84 And add ":startreplace" (patch by Charles Campbell, 2004 Jan 9, 85 http://www.erols.com/astronaut/vim/index.html#Patch) 86 Update 2004 June 18 87 8 Add patch from Charles Campbell to have ":0file!" remove the name of 88 the current buffer. (2003 June 17) 89 Lost the patch himself. 90 8 Make it possible to delete marks. Charles Campbell has a patch that 91 does this with the markclear() function (2004 Jan 9). And the 92 ":delmark" command (2004 Feb 9) 93 Update 2004 June 18 94 8 ":hardcopy": 95 - Patch to append CTRL-D to PostScript output (Mike Williams, 2004 Jun 96 14) 97 - support printing multi-byte characters. Patch from Motonobu 98 Ichimura. New (better) patch from Mike Williams (2004 Jan 20) 99 Updated patch: http://www.eandem.co.uk/mrw/vim/special/index.html 100 7 Add patch from Wall for this one ( ~/Mail/oldmail/wall/in.00019 ): 101 'flipcase' variable: upper/lowercase pairs. 102 Insert comma's between pairs and allow a range, make it look like 103 'isfname'. E.g. ":set flipcase=a-zA-Z,xX,23-33:143-153". The colon to 104 separate the from and to part is optional. 105 Resp: no time now. 106 8 Add GTK 2.3 file dialog support. Patch by Grahame Bowland, 2004 Mar 15, 107 but it doesn't use "initdir" or "dflt". (will update patch) 108 8 Add buffer-local autocommands? Reduces overhead for autocommands that 109 trigger often (inserting a character, switching mode). 110 :au Event <buffer> do-something 111 E.g.: 112 :au BufEnter <buffer> menu enable ... 113 :au BufLeave <buffer> menu disable ... 114 Patch from Yakov Lerner, including test (2004 Jan 7). 115 He'll send updated patch. 116 Autocommands: 117 VimResized - When the Vim window has been resized (SIGWINCH) 118 patch from Yakov Lerner, 2003 July 24. 119 He'll write documentation and send updated patch. 120 --- responses above -- 121 7 Make "5dd" on last-but-one-line not delete anything (Vi compatible). 122 Add flag in 'cpoptions' for this. When not present, "2dd" in the last 123 line should delete the last line. Patch from greenx 2002 Apr 11. 124 8 Accelerators don't work in a dialog. Include patch from Martin Dalecki 125 (Jan 3, tested by David Harrison). Should work with Alt-o then. 126 7 Use accelerators for the Motif file selection dialog. Patch from 127 Martin Dalecki 2002 Jan 11. 128 8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina 129 (28 feb 2002). 130 7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears 131 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3. 132 - Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work 133 for multi-byte characters. 134 - Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind. 135 - Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5) 136 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not 137 been given values. 138 Add section in help files for these highlight groups? 139 8 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm 140 with an ESC sequence. Ideas in: ~/vim/patches/vikas.xtermcolors . 141 7 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Martin 142 Dalecki has a patch for Motif) 143 - Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a 144 line in between columns (e.g. for 'textwidth'). 145 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20. 146 8 Add functions: 147 tr(expr, from, to) translate chars (Patch from Ron Aaron, Apr 8 148 2004) 149 strrep() Repeat a string (patch from Christophe Poucet, 150 2003 Sep 12, also contains XX) 151 Alt: repeat(expr, count) werkt ook voor lists. 152 mousex() mousey() get position of mouse pointer (patch by Ross 153 Presser) 154 He will send a new patch. 155 Is this really useful? 156 multibyteidx(string, idx) Byte index in multi-byte character. 157 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Feb 25 158 Update June 18 (third one). 159 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what}) 160 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}. 161 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File". 162 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu 163 File.Open..." argument. 164 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22 165 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping. 166 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4. 167 match({pat}, {string} [,start] [,count]) get index of count'th match 168 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Jun 19 169 find() find file in 'path' (patch from Johannes 170 Zellner 2001 Dec 20) 171 Update 2004 Jun 16. 172 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro 173 Matsumoto) How to get the messages into the 174 .po files? 175 Update 2004 Jun 17 176 --- 177 realname() Get user name (first, last, full) 178 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov 179 3 2002) 180 getfperm() file permissions, in form "rwxrwxrwx" 181 (patch from Nikolai Weibull 2003 Jan 13) 182 getftype() "file", "dir", "link", "other"? 183 (patch from Nikolai Weibull 2003 Jan 13) 184 setbufline() set line in any buffer (patch from Yegappan 185 Lakshmanan, 2003 Jan 21) 186 winnr("$") Get number of windows. (patch from Nikolai 187 Weibull 2003 Jan 13) (another patch from 188 Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2003 Aug 31) 189 search() Add optional offset argument. 190 Add 'n' flag. (patch from Nikolai Weibull 191 2003 Jan 13) 192 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical 193 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg) 194 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag 195 (2003 May 13) 196 system({cmd}, {expr}) Filter {expr} through the shell command 197 {cmd} and return the result. 198 (Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan) 199 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for 200 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ ) 201 7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions 202 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10) 203 7 Add 'taglistfiles' option, show file name and type when listing matching 204 tags name with CTRL-D completion. Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan. 205 7 Motif: use the menu font consistently. Patch from Martin Dalecki 2002 206 Jan 11. 207 - Motif: add 3D shading for the menu entries? Patch from Martin Dalecki. 208 7 For Visual mode: Command to do a search for the string in the marked 209 area. Only when fewer than two lines. Use "g/" and "gb". Patch from 210 Yegappan Lakshmanan. 211 7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right 212 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli) 213 8 Lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk (uncrypted). 214 Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. 215 7 Support a stronger encryption. Jason Holt implemented AES (May 6 2003). 216 7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie) 217 8 Make 'statusline' local, so that each window can have a different 218 value. But should it also be local to a buffer? (Yegappan Lakshmanan 219 has a patch, 2002 feb 15) 220 8 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's 221 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1. 222 7 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David 223 Kotchan has a patch for it) 224 8 Add term entries for function keys on xterm with alt and ctrl (new in 225 pl 94). E.g., Control adds ";5" in "<Esc>[20;5~". Find a generic way 226 to prepend a modifier in console mode, to avoid having to specify each 227 individual modified key. 228 Steve Wall has a patch (2002 Mar 12) for adding function keys up to 37, 229 with modifiers. 230 8 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See 231 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface. 232 Or use emacs server kind of thing? 233 7 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25. 234 - findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at 235 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram, 236 incomplete patch Mar 18) 237 238 239- Change ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be 240 incremented/decremented each time. 241- For string variables, use length instead of NUL termination. 242- new DATA TYPES: lists, dictionaries and function references. 243 Check old patch from Robert Webb for array support. 244 Add type checking? See ~/vim/ideas.txt. 245- Add SPELLCHECKER, with easy to add support for many languages. 246 8 Add spell checking. Use "ispell -a" somehow. 247 ~/vim/patches/wm_vim-5_4d.zip can be used as an example (includes 248 ispell inside Vim). Gautam Iyer has an example with "aspell". 249 "engspchk" from Charles Campbell is a good way. Support for 250 approximate-regexps will help (agrep http://www.tgries.de/agrep/). 251 - Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to 252 existing syntax items (to add @Spell). Add ":syntax contains 253 {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn cluster" but change 254 the contains list directly for matching syntax items. 255 - Keep wordlist in syntax group, load it only once and use it several 256 times later. Sort of global syntax items. 257- REFACTORING: The main() function is very long. Move parts to separate 258 functions, especially loops. Ideas from Walter Briscoe (2003 Apr 3, 2004 259 Feb 9). 260- Improve the interface between the generic GUI code and the system-specific 261 code. Generic code handles text window with scrollbars, system-specific 262 code menu, toolbar, etc. 263- Store messages to allow SCROLLING BACK for all commands. And other "less" 264 like commands. 265- "INTELLISENSE". First cleanup the Insert-mode completion. 266 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747 267 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim 268- PERSISTENT UNDO: store undo in a file. 269 Support multiple threads. Show the list of changes in a window to be able 270 to select a version. 2717 SWAP FILE CHANGE: When a dos format file was edited with ":e ++ff=unix", 272 Vim is killed and trying to recover the file, 'ff' will be dos. Same for 273 non-default fileencoding. (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jul 17) 274 Should store the values in block 0 of the swap file, but that is an 275 incompatible change. 2767 Support WINDOW TABS. Works like several pages, each with their own 277 split windows. Patch for GTK 1.2 from Christian Michon, 2004 Jan 6. 278 Also for the console! 279- EMBEDDING: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program. 280 For Xwindows this can be done with XReparentWindow(). 281 For GTK Neil Bird has a patch to use Vim like a widget. 282- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block 283 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2. 284- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye, 285 assisted by Mikolaj Machowski. Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it 286 generic. Also found here: http://skawina.eu.org/mikolaj/vimgdb 287 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program 288 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the 289 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the 290 other window. 291 Wishes for NetBeans commands: 292 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors. 293 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?) 294 in terminal mode. 295- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is. 296 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command 297 scrolls back to where the cursor is. 2988 Support four composing characters, needed for Hebrew. (Ron Aaron) 299- Add a few more things to 'diffopt': "horizontal", "vertical", 300 "foldcolumn". (Benji Fisher, 2004 Jun 21) 301- FileChangedShellPost autocommand event: after (not) reloading a changed 302 file. Can be used to update statusline oslt. 303- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display. 304- Mac: Unicode input and display (Eckehard Berns, June 27) 305 306 307Vi incompatibility: 3088 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other 309 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it 310 is deleted or restored. (Webb) 311 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo. 312 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the '' 313 position is one line down. (Veselinovic) 3148 ":change" in a single-line file adds an empty line. When the file used to 315 be longer a "~" line is displayed, but there really is an empty line. 316 (Haakon Riiser, 2003 Dec 3 and Dec 16) 3178 ":append" and ":insert" in an empty file add an extra empty line. (Haakon 318 Riiser, 2003 Dec 3) Test for ML_EMPTY. 3198 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should 320 make Vim exit. 3217 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line 322 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway). 323 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input. 3248 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips 325 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument 326 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded) 3276 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but 328 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag 329 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off. 3308 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another 331 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one. 332 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file 333 names in one buffer??? 334 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and 335 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not 336 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer. 3377 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some 338 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual" 339 command was one command. 3407 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep 341 the ":map" when it's used without arguments? 3427 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option. 3437 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty. 3447 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a 345 flag in 'cpoptions' for this. 3467 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when 347 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing 348 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either 349 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file). 3507 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode). 3517 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines. 3527 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go 353 to the match with the tag? Option? 3547 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option. 3557 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del> 356 (Sayre). 3577 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the 358 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible). 3597 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual". 360 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next 361 match. Nvi can do it too. 3627 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking) 363 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\ 364 line 1\ line 2\\ 365 line 2\ line 3\\ 366 . line4/ 3676 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of 368 the way the shell is started? 3696 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange 370 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line). 371 372 373GTK+ 1 (OK in GTK 2): 3748 When menus are disabled, 'm' removed from 'guioptions', Alt-F still pops 375 up the File menu. Cannot reproduce this: gives a warning for a NULL 376 pointer if the menu was never displayed. 3778 When using "gvim -geom 40x30" or setting 'columns' in .gvimrc or with a 378 GUIEnter autocommand, the width is still set to fit the toolbar. Also 379 happens when changing the font. How to avoid that the toolbar specifies 380 the minimal window width? 3818 When using a theme with different scrollbars (gtkstep), the scrollbars can 382 be too narrow. (Drazen Kacar) 3838 Font "7x14" has a bold version "7x14bold". Try to find the bold font by 384 appending "bold" when there are not 14 dashes. 385 386GTK+ GUI known bugs: 3878 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj 388 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in 389 creating a label? 3909 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim 391 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and 392 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works. 393 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again. 3947 DND doesn't work with KDE (also with GTK 1). 395 396 397Win32 GUI known bugs: 3988 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2 399 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically? 4008 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications. 401 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs. 402 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html 4038 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be 404 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp) 4057 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow 406 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to 407 "lucida_console:h8"). 4086 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":" 409 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis) 4107 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason 411 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible 412 to use an opaque background in most places? 4138 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that 414 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly. 415 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters. 4168 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font 417 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the 418 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono. 4197 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan, 420 2004 May 9) 4218 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces 422 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim 423 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with 424 MS-Windows 98? 425 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a 426 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed 427 file: Window moves with the cursor! 428 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it? 4298 When activating the Vim window with mouse click, don't move cursor to 430 mouse position. Catch WM_MOUSEACTIVATE. (Luevelsmeyer) 4318 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it 432 appear. (Sami Salonen) 4338 Windows NT: writing to aux.* makes Vim hang. (Acevedo) 4348 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that 435 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win 436 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also 437 doesn't work properly. 4388 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops 439 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it 440 appears in the right position. (Webb) 4419 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse 442 button doesn't give popup menu. 443 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless 444 selection. 445 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button. 446 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the 447 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text. 4488 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the 449 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore) 450 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error 451 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code. 4528 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg. 453 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not 454 be read. 4558 MessageBox used for error messages can be too big. There is no way to 456 scroll it, or even hit the OK button (but you can hit return). 457 Use a scrollable window. 4587 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida 459 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char). 460 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'. 4617 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the 462 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to 463 scroll? Need to be able to get out of hit-enter prompt with the mouse 464 anyway. 4657 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance. 466 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar. 4677 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using 468 "/min" as the command name. (Rogall) 4696 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor). 4708 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work 471 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because 472 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr? 4738 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we 474 know which keyboard is being used? 4757 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern 476 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn 477 area (Koloseike). 4788 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might 479 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first, 480 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in 481 the font name). 482 483 484Athena and Motif: 4859 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is 486 required and it's missing? 4878 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned 488 wrong. 4899 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can 490 be off by default. 4919 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now, 492 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting 493 flag. 4948 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character. 495 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1. 496 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this. 4978 Perhaps use fontsets for everything? 4986 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting 499 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all 500 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of 501 the tooltips work though... 5027 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not 503 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory). 5048 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the 505 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the 506 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'. 507 508 509Athena GUI: 5109 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in 511 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving 512 through files. 5137 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to 514 read long file names. (Schroeder) 5154 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go 516 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the 517 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets" 518 problem during a refresh. 5195 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing 520 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the 521 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors. 522 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes 523 colors as it should. 524 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the 525 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug? 526 527 528Motif GUI: 5298 Popup menu ordering is wrong. 5307 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()? 531 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2). 5328 The texts in the find/replace dialog don't use the right font. 5338 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes 534 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes. 535 (Phillipps) 536 537 538GUI: 5399 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no 540 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy) 5419 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C. 542 e.g. on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on 543 Solaris 2.6. (Marley) 5449 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim 545 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf) 5468 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key 547 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version). 5488 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both 549 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate 550 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed. 5518 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling 552 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state 553 of where it is processing the output. 554 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code. 5558 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font 556 doesn't work. 5578 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS. 5588 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS. 5598 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for 560 browse(). 5618 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this, 562 use that code? Or use console dialog. 5638 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the 564 error message disappears too quick. 5658 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later, 566 to avoid problems. 5678 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there 568 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for 569 input. Or maybe every 100 ms? 5708 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank 571 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0". 572 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works. 5738 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed 574 up. Set erase character somehow? 5758 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character 576 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this. 577 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling. 578 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya) 5798 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11. 5807 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not 581 visible. 5827 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is 583 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey) 5847 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it 585 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw. 5868 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the 587 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek) 5888 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not 589 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32. 590 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the 591 remaining part of the window (Phillipps). 592- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun. 5934 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times 594 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times 595 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486. 596 597 598MSDOS/DJGPP: 5999 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao) 600 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the 601 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem. 6028 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists. 603 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error? 6049 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused 605 code and reduce static data. 6069 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C. 607 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since 608 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting 609 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work. 6109 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work. 611 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67 612 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71 613 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2) 614 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>. 615 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream? 616 Make this work like in Win32 console. 617 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended 618 key code. Use a translation table? 6199 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used. 620 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself. 6218 Use DJGPP 2.03. 6228 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT. 623 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip). 6248 setlocale() is bogus. 6258 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some 626 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched 627 Windows 95 system! 6288 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe) 6297 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g. in keyword completion) on a 8088 630 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin). 6317 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.: 632 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley) 633 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem). 6348 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add 635 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt. 6367 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen. 637 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a 638 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are 639 "[New file]". 6407 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode 641 that is supported? 6428 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them. 6438 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter 644 Briscoe) 645 646 647MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32: 6488 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use 649 gen_expand_wildcards(). 6508 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander 651 Wagner. 6528 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL. 6538 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt, 654 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name. 6558 Should $USERPROFILE be used instead of $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? 6568 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have 657 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key. 6588 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift. 659 Should work like in the GUI version. 6608 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for 661 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names. 6628 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when 663 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command? 6648 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file" 665 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be 666 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc. 6678 ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means directory "#bb" 668 in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth) 6698 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going 670 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to 671 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth) 672 673 674Windows 95: 6758 Editing a file by it's short file name and writing it, makes the long file 676 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps. 677 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly). 6788 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the 679 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32). 680 681 682Win32 console: 6839 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its 684 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister) 685 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor. 686 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable. 687 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1 688 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name. 689 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file. 690 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed 691 and the file is not saved. 692 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its 693 long name. 6948 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at 695 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT. 6967 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals, 697 besides the console. 6988 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes) 6999 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with 700 <C-S-i>? 7019 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on 702 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI? 7038 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__ 704 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around? 7057 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'? 706 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when 707 exiting. 708 709 710Amiga: 7118 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte 712 sequences. 7139 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove 714 backslashes in result. 7158 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do 716 all options, using white space separation. 717 718 719Macintosh: 7207 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard 721 Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff 722 Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it. 7237 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both. 724 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac 725 (Jack) 726 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html 7278 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear 728 to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17) 7298 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI. 7309 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher) 731 - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost. 7328 The Vim/About menu doesn't work. 7338 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV. 7348 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh. 7358 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh. 7369 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be 737 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone) 7389 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when 739 scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher) 7409 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two 741 seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher) 7429 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly. 7438 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige) 7448 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige) 745 746 747"Small" problems: 7488 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used, 749 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited 750 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure 751 the ATTENTION message shows up. 7529 When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with 753 'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though 754 the fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to 755 check for the buffer to be unmodified. 7568 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the 757 error number, it's not a regular error message. 7587 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to 759 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 7608 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and 761 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column 762 for redirection. 7637 There is no way to change directory and go back without changing the local 764 and/or global directory. Add a way to find out if the current window uses 765 a local directory. Add cdcmd() that returns ":cd" or ":lcd"? 7667 After running "make test" the window title is sometimes not restored. 767 Mostly sticks at "test3.in", but not always. Appears to happen more often 768 when compiled with Python (threading). 7697 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use 770 'termencoding'. 7718 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor 772 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor 773 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when 774 using the horizontal scrollbar. 7757 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed 776 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the 777 invocations belong together. 7788 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this 779 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams) 7808 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the 781 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the 782 UnxUtils.zip archive. 783 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter 784 Briscoe says it's not as good. 7858 'fillchars' doesn't work for multi-byte characters. 7869 Editing a XML file with a long line is extremely slow. Example file from 787 Randy Parker (Dec 13). Editing the dictionaries for engspchk plugin with 788 syntax highlighting is also very slow. 789 Limit the searching for items to a few hundred characters? 7908 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing 791 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly) 7927 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names: 793 use "~/" when possible. 7948 After using diff mode, ":set nodiff" doesn't restore the old foldmethod. 795 (Thomas S. Urban) 7967 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte 797 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail 798 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[] 799 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8). 8008 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when 801 defined. 8027 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an 803 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found. 804 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions. 8057 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode 806 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second 807 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel) 8087 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the 809 bottom window only bigger as much as needed. 8107 "[p" doesn't work in Visual mode. (David Brown) 8117 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere. 812 Remove? (Dan Sharp) 8139 The argument <f-args> of a user command doesn't handle backslashes 814 properly. "Cmd \ e" is one argument, "Cmd \\ e" still is one argument. 815 "Cmd \ e" is two arguments, first one ending in space. (Kontra Gergely) 8169 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This 817 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining 818 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command": 819 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining 820 script can be called. 8218 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po, 822 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still 823 works. 8249 When a syntax region does not use "keepend" and a contained item does use 825 "extend", this makes the outer region stop at the end of the contained 826 region. (Lutz Eymers) Another example Nov 14 2002. 8278 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with 828 CTRL-C. 8297 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X 830 server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp 831 of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK 832 doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it 833 won't work for GTK anyway. 8348 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error 835 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid. 8368 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line() 837 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this 838 configurable? 8398 'hkmap' should probably be global-local. 8409 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes 841 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work 842 then. (Pritesh Mistry) 8438 ":s!from!to!" works, but ":smagic!from!to!" doesn't. It sees the "!" as a 844 flag to to the command. Same for ":snomagic". (Johan Spetz) 8458 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save 846 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()? 8478 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is 848 always written, even when the original file already exists. 8497 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter, 850 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space. 8519 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file 852 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being 853 written. 8549 The "Error detected while processing modelines" message should have an 855 error number. 8567 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer. 8578 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose 858 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when 859 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'. 8608 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global 861 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez) 8629 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing 863 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give 864 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating 865 one. 8667 On MS-DOS or MS-Windows, when editing the same file over a network, the 867 drive letter is different, thus an existing swap file doesn't generate a 868 warning. Use some flag to indicate the swap file is in the same directory 869 as the original file? Could make b0_fname[] start with a special 870 character like ">". 8717 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes. 872 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs. 8737 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that 874 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back. 8757 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed 876 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's 877 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y 878 direction, not horizontally? 8798 When using CTRL-D after ":help", restrict the number of matches to a 880 thousand, otherwise using CTRL-D without an argument takes too long. 8818 ":hardcopy": 882 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16. 883 - Need to handle unprintable characters. 884 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform 885 dithering to make grey text? 886 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total 887 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams) 888 - Should interpreted CTRL-L as a page break. 889 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'. 890 Default to black when no syntax highlighting. 891 - Be able to print a window in diff mode. 892 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate 893 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected). 8948 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the 895 text in following lines where the linebreak changes. 8969 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on 897 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect 898 that Windows NT is being used? 8998 When opening the same file on Unix and on MS-Windows, there is no 900 ATTENTION message, because the path in the swap file is different. Using 901 a relative path name will cause no ATTENTION for Vim 5.8. 902 Somehow add a flag that the swap file is in the same dir as the file? 9038 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a 904 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it. 9058 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert 906 in lines that don't extend into the block? 9078 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O 908 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev) 909 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work. 9108 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from 911 'linebreak'. 9128 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection 913 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab. 914 (Helmut Stiegler) 9158 With 'virtualedit' set, a blockwise Visual selection that starts and ends 916 in a tab, "<" shifts too much. (Helmut Stiegler) 9179 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When 918 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending 919 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of 920 'magic' in history. (Margo) 9219 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for 922 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc". 9239 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern 924 isn't updated). 9259 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga). 9269 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled 927 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which 928 cause another redraw, etc. 9298 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path() 930 must escape special characters in the pattern. 9318 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an 932 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use 933 ":w!!" for that. 934 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and 935 restore file to readonly afterwards. 9367 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get 937 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the 938 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as 939 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from 940 clipboard) 9417 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal 942 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark 943 Waggoner) 9448 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window 945 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no 946 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\". 9478 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a 948 way to avoid using the builtin termcap. 9498 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also 950 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm. 951 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style. 9528 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator 953 (e.g., ":w"). 9548 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for 955 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long. 9568 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column 957 for ">>". 9588 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long 959 script in do_cmdline(). 9608 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the 961 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that 962 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have 963 changes. 9648 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT 965 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim". 9668 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to 967 check for file marks. This can be slow. 9687 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change 969 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's 970 needed. 971 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key. 9728 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option 973 to skip catch_signals()? 9749 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the 975 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert 976 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of 977 text? 9788 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts 979 all the text. Add ":rmenu"? 9808 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of 981 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>. 9829 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are 983 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7, 984 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed. 985 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or 986 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate(). 9877 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/". 988 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and 989 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings 990 in the list? 9918 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking 992 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up, 993 instead of on button down. 9948 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw. 9959 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for 996 reaching the end of the available buffer. 9978 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a 998 character is typed. 9998 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this. 1000 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it. 10018 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not 1002 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure 10038 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an 1004 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template 1005 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp". 1006 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for 1007 cygwin bash. 10087 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}". 1009 Remember flags for backreferences. 10107 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been 1011 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT? 10127 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names 1013 that contain a '$' after all have been found. 10148 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about 1015 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX. 10167 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting 1017 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name. 10187 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing. 1019 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and 1020 "initdir" is the default path to be used. 10217 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of 1022 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols) 10238 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo 1024 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so 1025 that the user knows he has to delete the files. 10267 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func 1027 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this. 10287 After ":%d" an undo reports the number of lines added as if there still 1029 was one line. 1030 1031 1032I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!): 10339 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file 1034 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three 1035 files. (McCollister) 10368 Motif: Tear-off menu item crashes Vim on some machines. (Netherton) It 1037 works fine for me, maybe it's a Motif problem. 1038 1039 1040Problems that will (probably) not be solved: 1041- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering 1042 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the 1043 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like 1044 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external 1045 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text. 1046- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access 1047 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message. 1048 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it. 1049- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim. 1050 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim. 1051- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will 1052 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which 1053 character gets the highlighting. 1054- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm 1055 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly. 1056- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem. 1057 (Jennings) 1058- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino). 1059- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25 1060 errors. How do we get the rest? 1061- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why? 1062- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The 1063 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong. 1064- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a 1065 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy 1066 first? 1067- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for 1068 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names. 1069- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy 1070 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim, 1071 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK. 1072- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The 1073 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working. 1074 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p". 1075 (Benzinger). 1076- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that 1077 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim 1078 can't get back what the external command didn't use. 1079- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error. 1080 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code. 1081- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being 1082 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar. 1083- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer 1084 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when 1085 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted. 1086 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library. 1087 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn) 1088 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)? 1089- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles 1090 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE. 1091 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134. 1092- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal 1093 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif 1094 libraries, get a patch from Sun. 1095- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X 1096 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash. 1097- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks 1098 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff. 1099- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim 1100 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy) 1101- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive 1102 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used. 1103- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up: 1104 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library 1105 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to 1106 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the 1107 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem. 1108- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the 1109 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line: 1110 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr> 1111- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a 1112 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert 1113 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard) 1114- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar. 1115 This is a GTK 2.4.x bug, fixed in GTK 2.4.2. (Thomas de Grenier de Latour) 1116- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co' 1117 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the 1118 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the 1119 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined 1120 in the vimrc file to be lost. 1121- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and 1122 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars. 1123 1124--------------------- extensions and improvements ---------------------- 1125 *extensions-improvements* 1126 1127Documentation: 11288 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth) 11297 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual. 11309 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention: 1131 - change to cursor position and curswant 1132 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.) 1133 - how it works for folded lines 1134 - how it works with multi-byte characters 11359 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would 1136 work too. 11378 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag" 1138 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double 1139 text. 11408 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running". 11417 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to 1142 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'. 11437 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and 1144 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag. 1145- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks. 1146 1147 1148Help: 1149- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a 1150 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag. 1151- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go 1152 to the other matches. 1153- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files. 1154- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|. 1155- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always 1156 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file, 1157 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a 1158 default contents. 1159- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal 1160 height for the help window (and other windows). 1161- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute". 1162- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive? 1163- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands. 1164 1165 1166User Friendlier: 11678 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for 1168 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter 1169 Briscoe) 11708 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types? 11718 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that 1172 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if 1173 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf". 11748 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc, 1175 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu. 1176- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file. 1177 ":mkplugin <file>"? 11788 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that 1179 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from 1180 'runtimepath'. 1181 " Vim plugin 1182 <main plugin code> 1183 " >>> plugin help start <<< 1184 <plugin docs> 1185- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."? 11869 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or 1187 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty 1188 item?). 1189 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands. 11908 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems. 11917 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output? 1192 1193 1194Diff mode: 11958 Add a command to stop diff mode: ":set nodiff fdc = 0 noscrollbind" 11968 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file). 1197 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing: 1198 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis 11997 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also 1200 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same 1201 location. 1202 1203 1204Folding: 1205 (commands still available: zg zG zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zw zW zy zY; 1206 secondary: zB zS zT zZ) 12078 Add different highlighting for a fold line depending on the fold level. 1208 (Noel Henson) 12098 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the 1210 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the 1211 user aware of this? 12128 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which 1213 commands skip over a closed fold. 12148 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt) 12158 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB. 12167 When using 2html.vim, also reproduce folds as you can see them. When 1217 someone doesn't want the folds he can disable them before converting. 1218 First attempt by Carl Osterwisch, 2004 May 10. 12197 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds. 1220- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. Require showing a character in 1221 'foldcolumn' to avoid the missing line goes unnoticed. 1222- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll 1223 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds 1224 smoother? 1225- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list, 1226 using the wininfo in wi_folds. 1227- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects. 1228- Add 'hidecomment' option: don't display comments in /* */ and after //. 1229- "zu": undo change in manual fold. "zU" redo change in manual fold. How to 1230 implement this? 1231- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the 1232 cursor. 1233- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3": set fold level for a region. 1234- Can set 'foldtext' to empty string: don't display any line. How to 1235 implement this? 1236- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt) 1237- Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like 1238 searches. 1239 1240 1241Multi-byte characters: 12429 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the 1243 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal 1244 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single 1245 byte). 12468 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for 1247 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html. 1248 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like: 1249 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-" 1250 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first 1251 item. 12528 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for 1253 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"? 12548 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an 1255 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for 1256 ":grep". 12578 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search 1258 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka) 12597 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted, 1260 so that the user can fix the problem. 12618 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo 1262 Schweigert) 12639 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El) 12648 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters. 12658 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters. 12668 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes. 12678 "ga" should show all composing characters, also if there are more than 2. 12687 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored? 12698 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing. 12708 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes. 12718 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte 1272 characters. 12738 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters. 12748 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead 1275 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example. 12767 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead. 1277 'display' option to specify this. 12787 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default(): 1279 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c) 1280- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the 1281 fontselector somehow. 1282- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it 1283 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale. 1284- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for 1285 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong. 1286- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset, 1287 depending on the default value of 'encoding'. 1288 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used. 1289 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know 1290 if a font exists? 1291- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with 1292 convert_input() for Mac GUI, RiscOS GUI, BeOS GUI. 1293- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters. 1294 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_ 12957 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of 1296 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky) 1297- Make 'langmap' accept multi-byte characters. 1298- Do we need the reverse of 'keymap', like 'langmap' but with files and 1299 multi-byte characters? E.g., when using a Russian keyboard. 1300- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text 1301 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort 1302 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command? 1303- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into 1304 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it: 1305 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz 1306 But it's very complicated... 1307 1308 1309Printing: 1310- Add "page width" to wrap long lines. 1311- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for 1312 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function. 1313- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'. 1314- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer 1315 name, portrait/landscape, etc). 1316- PostScript: only works for 7-bit ASCII and EBCDIC. Should support 1317 different 'encoding' values somehow. 1318- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same 1319 units as for the margins. 1320- Support right-to-left text? 13218 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the 1322 color. 1323 1324 1325Syntax highlighting: 13268 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson) 1327 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual". 13288 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined 1329 cluster can be added to existing syntax items. 13308 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this: 1331 "({ something })", often used in GCC code. 13328 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing 1333 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for 1334 ":wq file". 13358 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script). 13369 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is 1337 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it... 13387 Make syntax keyword table configurable. Set number of bits used with 1339 ":syn clear [hashbits]", so that we don't need to reallocate the table. 1340 minimal 4 bits, maximal 16. (Campbell) 13417 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and 1342 Search highlighting. 13438 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to 1344 change this for each release. 13458 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end 1346 pattern, but not in the body. 13478 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this 1348 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item, 1349 instead of the containing item. 13508 For keywords, allow to define the size of the hash table with ":syn 1351 clear". Change KHASH_ defines into variables stored in buffer struct. 1352 Use something else than linear linked list from the hash table. (Campbell) 13538 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside (). 13548 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype 1355 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules? 1356 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, 1357 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax. 13588 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a 1359 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained] 13608 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey 1361 background) when on one of the parens or in between them. 1362 Or highlight the matching paren when the cursor is on one. 13638 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error". 13648 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop 1365 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be 1366 used. 13678 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will 1368 allow spell checking. (Fleiner) 13698 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And 1370 re-insert the [] if possible. 13718 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for 1372 the Cursor). 13738 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like 1374 using "\1" in a ":s" command. 13758 Support for deleting syntax items: 1376 :syn keyword cTodo remove this 1377 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern" 1378 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that" 13798 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way 1380 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for 1381 a '<'. (Fleiner) 13827 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification? 1383 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or 1384 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern. 13857 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be 1386 detected. 13878 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original 1388 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this). 13898 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to 1390 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible. 13918 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group. 13928 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values. 13937 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to 1394 ":mkvimrc". 13958 Improve c.vim: 1396 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on: 1397 "c_strict_ansi". 1398 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way... 13998 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the 1400 current line while in Insert mode. 14018 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been 1402 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again? 14038 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current 1404 display position. 14058 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to 1406 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern. 1407 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()". 14088 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until 1409 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when 1410 highlighting starts. 14117 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the 1412 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow. 1413 E.g. for this html: 1414 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I> 14157 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed 1416 (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"): 1417 :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display="" 14187 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is. 14197 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled 1420 words. 14217 Command line completion for ":find" should search in 'path'. 14228 Add more command line completion for :syntax. 14238 Add more command line completion for :highlight. 14248 Add more command line completion for :sign. 14257 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands. 1426 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and 1427 completion? 14288 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their 1429 highlighting. (Salman Halim) 14307 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to 1431 select one of the sets. 14328 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1 1433 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch 1434 2, etc. 14358 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the 1436 highlighting (for "." command). 14378 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /. 1438 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /? 14398 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing. 14407 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs": 1441 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c". 14426 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of 1443 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall) 1444- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful 1445 when extending an already existing syntax file. 1446- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too? 1447- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin 1448 (for comment blocks). 1449- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags: 1450 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor. 1451 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match. 1452 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match. 1453 Also for {}, <>, etc.? 1454 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?) 1455 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the 1456 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it. 1457 (Campbell) 1458 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around 1459 the cursor. (Iain Truskett) 14607 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword. 1461 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow). 14627 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should 1463 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set). 1464 And allows for sections with different highlighting. 14657 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it 1466 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from 1467 messages. And external commands? 14688 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for 1469 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim? 14707 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an 1471 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line. 1472 1473 1474Built-in script language: 14758 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and 1476 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings. 14778 Allow range for ":exec". Pass it on to the executed command. (Webb) 14788 exists("&&option") tests if 'option' is actually implemented. Useful for 1479 'shellslash', for example. 14808 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham) 14818 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When 1482 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an 1483 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same 1484 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle 1485 nested packages? 1486 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}(). 1487 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from 1488 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path). 14897 Make globpath() also work with "**" and upwards search. (Brian Medley) 14907 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode. 1491 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if 1492 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that 1493 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an 1494 autocommand. 1495 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a 1496 .vim file. Problem: distribution. 1497 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached 1498 file belongs to a sourced script? 14997 Add "n" flag to search() function, just like searchpair(). (Alexey 1500 Marinichev) 15017 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn', 1502 signs and/or 'number'. 15038 Add functions: 1504 sprintf(format, arg, ..) How to prevent a crash??? 1505 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx" 1506 mkdir(dir) Create directory 1507 copy(from, to) Copy a file 1508 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string 1509 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace() 1510 input(prompt, complete) like input() but do specified completion 1511 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left 1512 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in 1513 Visual block mode. 1514 tagtype(tag) get type of tag (also checks if it exists) 1515 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard) 1516 getbufline() get line from any buffer 1517 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer 1518 appendbufline() append line in any buffer 1519 sort() Sort a newline-separated string. Also: 1520 ":sort". 1521 libcall() Allow more than one argument. 1522 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function 1523 to allow the library to execute a command or 1524 evaluate an expression. 1525 char2hex() convert char string to hex string. XX 1526 hex2char() convert hex string to char string. XX 15277 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the 1528 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero. 15298 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was 1530 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file. 15318 Pass the executable name to the Vim scripts in some way. As v:argv0? 15328 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts. 15338 When starting to source a vim script, delete all functions that it has 1534 previously defined? Avoids using ":fun!" all the time. 15357 Add optional arguments to user functions: 1536 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17) 15376 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"? 15388 Add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var" just ignore. 15398 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable, 1540 option or environment variable. 15418 ":let &option" should list the value of the option. 15427 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the 1543 stack available (separated with '\n'). 15448 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed: 1545 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands} 15468 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started. 15478 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default), 1548 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0, 1549 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and 1550 charwise({expr}). 15517 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer 1552 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch 1553 buffer for this? 1554 result = scratch(string, command) 1555 result = apply(string, command) 1556 result = execute(string, command) 1557 "command" would use <> notation. 1558 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number? 15597 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds). 15607 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an 1561 option for the search path. (Sekera) 15627 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files. 1563 1564 1565Robustness: 15668 This pattern in syntax/java.vim causes a recursive call of regmatch(): 1567 syn match javaStringError +"\([^"\\]\|\\.\)*$+ 1568 A long line with a " in it can cause a crash when it runs out of stack 1569 space (on systems where this isn't caught). How can we catch this for 1570 more systems? 15716 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or 1572 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing 1573 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking . 1574 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf). 1575 Andy doesn't have time to work on it. 1576 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a 1577 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded? 1578 1579 1580Performance: 15818 Loading plugins takes startup time. Only load the part that is used to 1582 trigger the rest, and load the rest when it's needed? 15838 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags. 15849 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster? 15858 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result? 15867 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when 1587 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start? 15888 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same 1589 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines 1590 when starting up in a color terminal. 15918 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on 1592 Win16. 15939 Setting GUI options in the console (e.g., 'guifont') should not cause a 1594 redraw. 15958 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this 1596 function be improved? 15978 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the 1598 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap 1599 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can 1600 this be improved? 16018 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up 1602 MS-DOS version. (Negri) 16037 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower when adding a region for folding 1604 from { to }. (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman) 16057 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying 1606 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang) 16077 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a 1608 lot of abbreviations). 16097 DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster. 16107 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file 1611 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line 1612 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>. 1613 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat. 1614 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place. 1615 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase. 1616 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc. 16178 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the 1618 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was 1619 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating 1620 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)? 16218 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to 1622 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid 1623 using strcmp() too often? 16247 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file? 1625 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating 1626 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a 1627 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another 1628 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from 1629 the two blocks to the memfile block. 16307 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory 1631 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called 1632 with an argument that can be messed with. 1633 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that 1634 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced. 16357 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)". 1636- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek() 16378 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in 1638 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim. 1639- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of 1640 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation? 1641- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki) 1642- Do profiling on: 1643 - :g/pat/normal cmd 1644 - 1000ii<Esc> 1645 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary) 1646 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan) 1647 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u". 1648 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and 1649 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl". 1650 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary. 1651 - editing a vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim). 16527 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were 1653 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it 1654 changed). 1655 - On each change, remember start and end of the change. 1656 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count. 1657- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest! 1658- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still 1659 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"? 1660- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to 1661 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from 1662 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg(). 1663- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of 1664 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing). 1665- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height. 1666- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if 1667 cursor is right of the screen. 16688 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a 1669 CTRL-C (it's slow). 1670 1671 1672Code size: 16738 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded. 1674- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be 1675 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions. 16768 Make a GUI-only version for Unix? 16778 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using 1678 it. 16797 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be 1680 left out. 16818 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals 1682 can be removed. 16838 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed? 1684 1685 1686Messages: 16878 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the 1688 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!". 16898 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip 1690 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()? 16918 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a 1692 script. 16938 "vim --version" output goes to stderr, should be stdout. Can all output 1694 from messages using printf() go to stdout? 1695- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key. 1696 Perhaps after ten seconds? 1697- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9. 16989 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays: 1699 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop. 1700 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long 1701 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before 1702 redrawing. 17037 Add an option, which is a regexp, that disables warning messages which 1704 match that regexp (Tsirkin). 17058 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more 1706 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text. 17078 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another 1708 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option 1709 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off". 1710 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts 1711 typing, error messages must be switched back on. 1712 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings). 1713- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed? 1714 sleep before second message? 17158 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is 1716 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers", 1717 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the 1718 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall) 1719 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and 1720 error messages, printing text, etc. 17218 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt. 1722 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when 1723 a prompt is present (with a callback function?). 1724 1725 1726Screen updating: 17277 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one 1728 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the 1729 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit). 1730- screen_line(): 1731 - insert/delete character stuff. 1732 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line). 1733- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when 1734 dragging the status line with the mouse). 1735- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when 1736 waiting for a character. 17378 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from 1738 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when 1739 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping. 17407 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together. 1741 1742 1743Scrolling: 17448 Add "zm" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle. 17456 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi) 1746- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc.. 1747 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound 1748 windows. 17497 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next 1750 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it 1751 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer. 1752- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it 1753 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this? 1754 (Goldfarb) 1755- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all 1756 bound windows. 1757- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to 1758 be bound by regexp searches 1759- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell) 1760- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the 1761 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number 1762 of lines but not with a single line). 1763 1764 1765Autoconf: 17668 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader. 17678 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb) 1768 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically? 1769- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the 1770 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner). 1771- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4(). 1772- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it? 1773- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf. 1774 1775 1776Perl interface: 17778 Rename typemap file to something else? 17787 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark) 17797 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C? 17806 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll). 1781 1782 1783Shared libraries: 17846 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it. 1785 :libload internal-name libname 1786 :libunload internal-name 1787 :liblist 1788 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...) 1789 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...) 1790 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment. 17916 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries. 1792 1793 1794Tags: 17958 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify 1796 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m". 17978 Add a function that returns the line in the tags file for a matching tag. 1798 Can be used to extract more info (class name, inheritance, etc.) (Rico 1799 Hendriks) 18007 Count before CTRL-]: jump to N'th match 18018 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis. 18028 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able 1803 to type the tag number directly. 18047 Add a tag-select window. Works like ":cwindow". (Michal Malecki) 18057 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a 1806 window for each tag. 18077 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting? 18087 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit 1809 bottom" search message. 18107 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry, 1811 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were 1812 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb) 18137 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and 1814 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod". 1815 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func" 1816 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx. 18177 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields: 1818 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c 1819 :tagargs clear 1820 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag 1821 matching). 18227 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command? 1823 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi. 1824 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi) 1825 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way. 18267 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With 1827 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again. 18287 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use 1829 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add 1830 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect". 1831 1832 1833Security: 1834- nothing at the moment 1835 1836 1837Win32 GUI: 18388 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for 1839 the message and input? 18407 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at 1841 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 1842 dynamically? 18437 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu. 1844 (Mike McCollister) 18458 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several 1846 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't 1847 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all 1848 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest 1849 common part of the path. 18508 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik) 18518 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that 1852 gettext and menus work. 18538 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit 1854 return in every console. 1855 Also: Look at how Emacs does runs external commands: 1856 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html. 18578 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands: 1858 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text). 18598 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF. 1860 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands? 18617 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme. 1862 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser) 18637 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog). 18647 <Esc> should close a dialog. 18657 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be 1866 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended 1867 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any 1868 prompts. 18697 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that 1870 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have 1871 the file added into an already running Vim. 18727 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide 1873 functions to find the window title. 1874 1875 1876GUI: 18778 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS. 1878- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a 1879 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier. 18807 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows. 18818 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI. 18826 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu. 18838 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When 1884 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position. 18859 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze) 18867 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype? 18878 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the 1888 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide". 18898 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text 1890 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine 1891 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated. 18928 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim) 1893 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front. 18948 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more 1895 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c. 1896 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow 1897 running them in separate processes. 18987 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument. 18998 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask 1900 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code. 19017 Add some code to handle proportional fonts? Need to draw each character 1902 separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font is not exactly 1903 double-width. (Maeda) 19048 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default). 19058 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to 1906 select one. Martin Dalecki has a font selector for Motif, but it needs a 1907 bit more work. 19088 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.). 19098 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all? 19108 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a 1911 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this 1912 portable (X11, Win32, ..)? 19137 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items. 1914 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The 1915 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything. 19167 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back. 1917 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim). 19187 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can 1919 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors. 1920 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For 1921 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs. 19227 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the 1923 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas) 19247 Should support multi-column menus. 1925- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far 1926 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right). 1927- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode". 19288 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus. 19296 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a 1930 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui". 19317 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'? 19327 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos', 1933 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>. 1934 Or add a command, like ":winsize"? 19357 Add toolbar for more GUIs. 19368 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item 1937 name can be chosen free. 19387 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of 1939 the window? Allows for softkey-like use. 19406 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the 1941 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a 1942 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is 1943 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to 1944 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks 1945 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI 1946 things. 19477 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default 1948 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog. 1949- Motif steals <F10> from us, to pop up menus with the keyboard. How do we 1950 get it back if we want it? 1951- Paste in Insert mode should not do autowrap etc. Or maybe this should be 1952 changeable with an option? 1953- Put a nice picture in the icon (but how do we do that?). 19547 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks 1955 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated. 1956- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal 1957 where it was started from? 19587 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument. 1959 1960 1961VMS: 1962- Improvement: rewrite term/TTY handling. 1963- Improvement: create VMS GTK runtime libraries on OpenVMS 7.1-2 (today GTK 1964 works just on 7.3). 1965 1966 1967Autocommands: 19689 Make sure that side effects of autocommands are handled correctly. Don't 1969 execute autocommands when a buffer or window is halfway some changes. 1970 Move all apply_autocmds() calls to a higher level where needed. 19718 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g. 1972 "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc". 19738 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two 1974 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more 1975 difficult). 19768 Also trigger CursorHold in Insert mode? 19777 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that user 1978 can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the kind 1979 of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient? 19808 Can't use ":normal" in CursorHold autocommands. Make the CursorHold event 1981 insert a special key code, and call the autocommand functions from a 1982 higher level, so that vgetc() isn't used recursively. 19838 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist? 1984 And anything else? 19858 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input 1986 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus). 1987 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ... 19888 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc". 19898 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag. 1990 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found. 19916 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be 1992 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron) 19937 Add a way to skip an autocommand if going from one *.c file to another *.c 1994 file. 19957 When trying to open a directory, don't load the file but trigger an 1996 autocommand event OpenDirectory. 19977 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link, 1998 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate 1999 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type 2000 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard) 20015 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the 2002 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will 2003 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas) 20047 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for 2005 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the 2006 file. 20078 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at 2008 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read 2009 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'. 2010- Add events to autocommands: 2011 Error - When an error happens 2012 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode 2013 InsertEnter - Entering Insert mode 2014 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode 2015 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode 2016 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode 2017 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter) 2018 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands. 2019 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M") 2020 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged 2021 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the 2022 window title) 2023 BufReadAction - replaces reading a file 2024 BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file 2025 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down 2026 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the 2027 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor. 2028 Set v:char to the character, can be changed. 2029 (not triggered when 'paste' is set). 2030 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting 2031 the char. 2032 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for 2033 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the 2034 file from CVS). 2035 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be 2036 used to do a :preserve for remote files. 2037 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate 2038 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so 2039 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add 2040 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah) 2041 WinResized - When a window has been resized 2042- Add autocommand to be executed every so many seconds? For writing the 2043 file now and then ('autosave'). 2044 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'* 2045 'autosave' 'aw' number (default 0) 2046 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the 2047 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set. 2048 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer. 2049 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make 2050 them save the file itself besides the swapfile. 2051 2052 2053Insert mode completion/expansion: 20548 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete 2055 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages. 20569 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with 2057 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended. 2058 (Webb) 20598 The code has become too complex. Redesign it, or at least add proper 2060 comments. 20618 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion: 2062 - ignore/match case 2063 - different characters than 'iskeyword' 20648 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text. 20658 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive 2066 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of 2067 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo. 2068 Should work for C++ and Java. 2069 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc. 20707 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?). 20717 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS 2072 instead of words. 20738 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents. 20748 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does). 2075 Requires remembering a number of insertions. 20768 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names. 2077 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion. 2078- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the 2079 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use 2080 wildcards in the file name)? 2081- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted). 2082- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?). 2083- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could 2084 be in another file). 2085- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches. 2086- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option? 2087- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string 2088 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W) 2089- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions. 2090- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows? 2091- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly) 20928 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that 2093 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb) 2094 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-]. 2095 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'. 2096- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list). 2097 2098 2099Command line editing: 21007 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command 2101 line. 21028 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion 2103 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of 2104 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc. 2105- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of 2106 lines wraps to start of line). 2107- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view 2108 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many 2109 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run 2110 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012). 2111 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history. 2112 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the 2113 cmdwin does now already. 2114 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal 2115 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T? 2116 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the 2117 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid 2118 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines? 2119 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate 2120 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode 2121 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh. 2122 Problems: 2123 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar' 2124 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations 2125 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches 2126 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands 2127 - Normal: no ":" commands? 2128 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line. 2129 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of 2130 character in first column? 2131 - Implementation ideas: 2132 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer. 2133 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum. 2134 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line. 2135 - sync undo after entering a command line? 2136 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line 2137 Mode. 2138 2139 2140Command line completion: 21418 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument. 21428 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate 2143 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h". 21448 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list 2145 them with the optional part inside []. 21467 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be 2147 edited. (Sven Guckes) 21487 Add completion for when entering an expression after CTRL-R= and "=. 2149 (Servatius Brandt) 2150- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible. 2151- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the 2152 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>". 21538 For ":find" and ":sfind" expand files found in 'path'. 21548 Add cmdline completion for the ":debug" command. 21558 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting 2156 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp? 21577 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the 2158 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb) 2159- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching 2160 identifiers (Webb). 21618 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>" 2162 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit. 21637 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion. 2164 Useful for ":s/word/xx/". 2165- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started. 2166 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line. 2167- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for 2168 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut) 2169 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D. 2170- Add completion for Environment variables: ":echo $SH<Tab>" -> "$SHELL". 2171 2172 2173Command line history: 2174- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a 2175 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a 2176 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't 2177 completely resulted from one mapping. 2178- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history, 2179 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel) 2180 2181 2182Insert mode: 21839 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after 2184 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line. 2185 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug. 21868 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command 2187 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink) 2188 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do 2189 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing. 2190 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode. 21917 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a 2192 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y. 21937 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it 2194 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'. 2195- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed 2196 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and 2197 also for characters that wrap to the next line. 2198 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register). 2199 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that 2200 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>. 2201- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in 2202 Normal mode. 2203- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their 2204 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands 2205 are used. 2206- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits. 2207- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b. 2208- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y. 2209 2210 2211'cindent', 'smartindent': 22128 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with line break in arguments: 2213 Foo::Foo (int one, 2214 int two) 2215 : something(4) 2216 {} 22178 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with multiple lines: 2218 Foo::Foo (int one, int two) 2219 : something(4), 2220 somethingelse(3) 2221 {} 22229 Too much indent for "lulu": (Uwe Zeisberger) 2223 int main () 2224 { 2225 if (lala) 2226 do 2227 ++(*lolo); 2228 while (lili 2229 && lele); 2230 lulu; 2231 } 22329 Function gets extra indent: (Jamax) 2233 void function(int param) { 2234 if (false) 2235 return; 2236 } 22379 brace not indented correctly: 2238 case 'c': if (cond) 2239 { 2240 Should align with "if" in case statement. 22417 Allow aligning a closing ")" with the line above, instead of the matching 2242 "(": (Riehm) if (asdfasdf && 2243 asdf 2244 ) 22458 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is 2246 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer) 22478 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna) 2248 func( 2249 new String[] { 2250 "asdf", 2251 "asdf" 2252 } 2253 ); 22547 Separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner): 2255 func( 2256 int x) // indent like "(4" 2257 { 2258 if (a 2259 && b) // indent like "(0" 22608 Strange problem with this code, "hello" is indented wrong: (Gary Holloway) 2261 main() { char foo[] = "/*"; 2262 /* This is a comment; the indentation of C 2263 * source below this comment gets messed up due to the string above. 2264 */ 2265 hello 22669 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler) 2267 if (a) 2268 { 2269 if (b) 2270 { 2271 // { 2272 } 2273 } <-- this is indented incorrect 22749 Wrong indent for cino=(4, removing the (void) fixes it: (Zellner) 2275 (void) MyFancyFunction( 2276 argument); 2277- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the 2278 indent to 0 should be switched on/off. 22797 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line. 2280- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first 2281 line). 2282- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}? 2283- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous 2284 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically? 22857 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines. 2286- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It 2287 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb) 2288- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out 2289 code), unless the line starts with "*". 2290- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"? 2291- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line 2292 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted). 22938 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the 2294 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more 2295 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment. 2296- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'. 2297- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where 2298 lines start with "\item". 2299- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown) 2300 /* here is a comment that 2301 is just autoindented, and 2302 nothing else */ 2303- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi". 23047 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for 2305 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the 2306 indents. 2307 And/or: Add option to copy indent as-is, without changing spaces to tabs. 2308 also for 'autoindent'. 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and 2309 spaces used for indent, when the indent remains the same or increases. 2310 2311 2312Java: 23138 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve 2314 Odendahl? 23158 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for 2316 "[i" commands and friends. 2317- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java. 2318 (Jason) 2319- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be 2320 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy) 2321 2322 2323'comments': 23248 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated 2325 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping. 2326 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader 2327 when it's "#" or "//". 23287 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line. 2329 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed. 23307 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item. 23316 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more 2332 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a 2333 regexp is used. 23348 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line 2335 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'? 2336 2337 2338Virtual edit: 23398 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left. 23407 Add a mode where the cursor is only allowed to go one character after the 2341 end of the line? 23427 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line? 2343 2344 2345Text objects: 23468 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc. 23477 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it 2348 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area. 23498 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single 2350 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at 2351 the end of the line or before a ".". 23527 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs" 2353 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus) 23547 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph 2355 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}"). 23566 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email. 23575 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For 2358 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one. 2359 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the 2360 cursor is on. 2361 2362 2363Select mode: 23648 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block, 2365 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall) 23667 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word. 2367 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743 23687 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line. 2369 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse' 2370 contains 'C' or 'A'. 2371 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in 2372 normal_cmd(). 2373 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info. 2374 - Typing text replaces the selection. 2375 2376 2377Visual mode: 2378- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero, 2379 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer 2380 is in the top line. 23818 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new 2382 text. make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding 2383 where needed. 23847 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width, 2385 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc. 23867 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start 2387 of each selected line. 23888 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode? 23898 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer. 2390 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any 2391 other buffer. (Ron Aaron) 23928 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron, 2393 Ben Godfrey) 23947 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and 2395 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey) 23967 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of 2397 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area. 23987 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David 2399 Young is working on this) 24007 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines. 2401 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with 2402 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line. 24038 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text? 2404 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful. 24057 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should 2406 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an 2407 option! 24087 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position 2409 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select 2410 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen 2411 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap. 2412 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to 2413 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line, 2414 without changing the column. 24156 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode. 24167 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the 2417 current buffer. 24187 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area. 24196 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line, 2420 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1. 24216 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line. 24226 ":'<,'>source" should read the selected lines and ":source" them. 24236 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed 2424 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB 2425 or other special character. 24266 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting. 2427 2428 2429More advanced repeating commands: 2430- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt"). 24317 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember 2432 the command line so that it can be repeated? 2433- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g. 2434 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb). 2435 "y." will repeat last yank. 2436 "c2." will repeat the last but one change? 2437 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history 2438 and/or pick an older command. 2439- History stack for . command? Use "g." command. 2440 2441 2442Mappings and Abbreviations: 24438 Let ":verbose map xx" report where the mapping was set, just like with 2444 ":verbose set". 24458 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be 2446 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell) 2447 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command? 24488 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work? 24497 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte". 2450 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway? 24518 ":verbose map" could show the script where the mapping was defined. 2452 m_script_ID can be used. 24538 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the 2454 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&. 24558 Add ":amap", like ":amenu". 24568 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to 2457 entering search strings. 24588 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the 2459 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and 2460 not the <Space>. 24618 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS). 24628 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never 2463 (?) work. 24647 ":verbose map" should display where a mapping was defined, like ":verbose 2465 set". 24668 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function 2467 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is 2468 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings? 24697 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation? 24707 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q", 2471 that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger' 2472 option. 24737 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try 2474 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy". 24757 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character 2476 (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for 2477 mapping a key to do something and then completion. 24787 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard. 24796 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the 2480 abbreviations are to be used. 2481- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For 2482 example, for a mouse escape sequence: 2483 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l 2484- Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping. 2485- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in 2486 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings 2487 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording? 2488- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a 2489 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r". 2490- Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in 2491 <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this? 2492- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings 2493 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does). 2494- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and 2495 mappings off for :unab and :unmap. 24966 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete 2497 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids 2498 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you 2499 hit another character. 2500- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings: 2501 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G 2502 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l 2503 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g 2504 Or implicit: 2505 :map q <Register>d<Number>$ 2506- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for 2507 non-replace Insert mode? 2508- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode? 25096 Alias for Normal mode commands, works like :substitute? Would allow 2510 mappings with arguments. 2511- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings. 2512- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key 2513 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself. 2514- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as 2515 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command? 2516- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they 2517 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>. 2518- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap. 2519- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping 2520 ":freekeys". 2521- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm). 2522 2523 2524Incsearch: 2525- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'? 2526- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn 2527 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled 2528 up every time. 2529- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the 2530 folds when going to another line. 2531- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many 2532 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?) 2533 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match 2534 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872. 2535- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other 2536 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid). 2537 2538 2539Searching: 25408 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\(([^()]*\@@[^()]*)\)\@r". \@@ stands 2541 for "go recursive here" and \@r marks the recursive atom. 2542item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on 2543 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of 2544 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"? 2545 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)* 25467 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for 2547 search(). (Brett) 25487 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's 2549 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference. 25508 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in 2551 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax? 25528 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current 2553 line. 25547 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an 2555 example. 25568 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in 2557 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif. 2558- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that 2559 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */). 2560 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back. 2561 Alternative: use matchit.vim 25628 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care? 25638 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that 2564 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it. 2565 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$". 25667 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and 2567 "\d". 25687 Add a way to specify characters as hex, octal or <C-M> form. Could be 2569 \%1ax, \%200o and \%<C-M>. Also \%1234u for multi-byte chars. 25708 Flags that apply to the whole pattern. 2571 This works for all places where a regexp is used. 2572 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern? 25738 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example, 2574 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line. 25758 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g" 2576 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command. 2577 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing 2578 search pattern. 2579- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group. 2580 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group. 2581- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade) 2582 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one. 2583 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's 2584 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities. 25857 Add POSIX regexp, like Nvi, with 'extended' option? It's like very-magic. 2586- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it. 2587 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling) 2588- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?): 2589 i ignore case 2590 I use case 2591 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?) 2592 v use Vi regexp syntax 2593 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command 2594 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command 2595 Perl uses these too: 2596 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only) 2597 m multiple line expression (we don't need it) 2598 o compile only once (Perl only) 2599 s single line expression (we don't need it) 2600 x extended regexp (we don't need it) 2601 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the 2602 following command. 2603 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault'). 2604- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used 2605 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/ 2606 for search string)? 26077 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special 2608 characters. See C't article, August 1997. 2609- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are 2610 equivalent (for Unix filenames). 2611- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text 2612 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin) 2613- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this". 2614- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer, 2615 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern: 2616 a for the next file in the argument list 2617 f for file in the buffer list 2618 w for file edited in a window. 2619 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for 2620 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask 2621 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No 2622 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ". 2623- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler) 2624- Special characters in patterns: 2625 Inside []: 2626 \012 octal character 2627 \0x1a hex character 2628 \0<BS> \0<Esc>: special character 26297 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search 2630 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark. 26317 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after 2632 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe 2633 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in 2634 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always). 26356 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side 2636 effects. 26377 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete 2638 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc. 2639 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary. 26407 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) 2641 Also ":dselect". 2642 2643 2644Undo: 2645- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not 2646 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a", 2647 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted? 26488 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo 2649 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new 2650 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing. 2651 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things. 26528 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change, 2653 only remember the lines that really changed. 26547 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous 2655 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a 2656 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need 2657 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone. 26587 Add an undo tree: When making a change, instead of clearing any future 2659 undo (thus redo) info, make a new branch. How to navigate through the 2660 undo tree? 2661- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and ']. 2662 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb). 2663- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the 2664 number of undo levels (with confirmation). 2665- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123]. 2666 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number: 2667 [-99]. 2668- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating. 2669- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once. 2670- Store undo info in a file that survives until the next edit. Then it's 2671 possible to undo to before the current editing session. Combined with 2672 viminfo? 2673- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed, 2674 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file?? 2675 2676 2677Buffer list: 26787 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}". 2679 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that 2680 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the 2681 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only". 26828 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files. 2683 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim. 26848 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check 2685 inode too. 26867 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When 2687 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use. (or the highest 2688 number in use plus one?) 26897 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and 2690 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann) 2691- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the 2692 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb) 2693- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the 2694 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"? 26957 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list. 2696 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson) 26977 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer 2698 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc. 26998 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected. 27008 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$' 2701 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel". 27027 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for 2703 internal use and for when executing an external program? 2704 2705 2706Swap (.swp) files: 27078 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another 2708 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when 2709 there are short file name problems. 27108 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap 2711 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions. 27128 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su. 27138 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same 2714 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file 2715 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup 2716 file the same as the actual file? 2717 Use the code for resolve()? 27187 Store the options 'fileencoding', 'fileformat', etc. in the swapfile, 2719 because they change what will be written to the file. Requires adding 2720 another block to the swapfile. 27217 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another 2722 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible. 27237 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere 2724 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'? 2725 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not 2726 enough room. 27277 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp 2728 or /var/preserve. 2729- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to 2730 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only. 2731- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen). 2732 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'? 2733- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the 2734 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do 2735 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a 2736 cached list of which line is where. 2737 2738 2739Viminfo: 27407 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file, 2741 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone 2742 else's viminfo file. 27438 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file 2744 name. (Schild) 27458 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu). 27468 Remember the last used register for "@@". 27478 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the 2748 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so. 2749 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display 2750 this? 27517 Also store the ". register (last inserted text). 27527 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some 2753 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron) 27546 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting 2755 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the 2756 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code? 2757- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of 2758 "last visited files" and select one to jump to. 2759 2760 2761Modelines: 27628 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid 2763 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it. 2764 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ". 2765- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to 2766 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the 2767 modeline setting. 2768- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings, 2769 no function calls, to avoid a security problem. 2770- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for 2771 .cpp files. 2772- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for 2773 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak. 2774- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed 2775 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir. 2776 2777 2778Options: 27798 Make ":mksession" store buffer-specific options for the specific buffer. 27808 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when 2781 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant) 27827 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only 2783 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the 2784 side effect. 27858 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to 2786 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their 2787 default value. 27888 Should ":mksession" restore the current directory when writing the 2789 session, or the directory where the session file is? Probably need a word 2790 in 'sessionoptions' to make a choice: 2791 "curdir" (cd to current directory when session file was generated) 2792 "sessiondir" (cd to directory of session file) 2793 "nodir" (don't cd at all) 27948 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string 2795 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should 2796 also be supported. 27978 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag 2798 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting 2799 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used. 28007 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas) 28017 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the 2802 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway) 28037 Add plugins for formatting. Should be able to make a choice depending on 2804 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.). 2805 2806 2807External commands: 28088 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen 2809 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd". 28104 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls" 2811 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g. 2812 -f). 28134 Allow direct execution, without using a shell. 28144 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI? 2815 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell! 28164 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands. 2817 2818 2819Multiple Windows: 28207 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits. 28218 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window. 2822 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window. 28237 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab> 2824 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to 2825 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer. 28267 Add a 'winfixwidth' option, similar to 'winfixheight'. 28276 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window. 2828 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new 2829 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would 2830 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel) 28317 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows 2832 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with 2833 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE 2834 too. Requires some form of inter process communication. 2835- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer 2836 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command. 2837 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer 2838 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made. 2839 2840 2841Marks: 28428 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this 2843 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-. 28448 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m? 28458 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times. 2846 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file. 28478 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle 2848 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when 2849 the mark was set. 28507 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers, 2851 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands 2852 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with 2853 ":browse marks"? 28546 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige) 28557 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the 2856 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark. 28577 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group). 2858 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does. 28597 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m 2860 command). 28617 Try to keep marks in the same position when: 2862 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the 2863 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo) 2864 - inserting/deleting characters in a line. 28655 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in 2866 mappings. 28676 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and 2868 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines. 2869 Highlight the marked lines somehow. 2870 2871 2872Digraphs: 28737 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists. 2874 Also the keymap? 2875- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line 2876 below/above). 2877- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special 2878 characters? 28798 Add command to remove (all) digraphs. (Brown) 28807 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At 2881 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32). 2882 2883 2884Writing files: 2885- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for 2886 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to 2887 shortname conversion. 28888 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc. 28898 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode' 2890 file. 28918 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some 2892 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another 2893 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'? 28947 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make 2895 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski) 28966 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like 2897 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'. 28986 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory. 2899 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas) 29006 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#". 2901 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name? 29028 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids 2903 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman) 29047 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations 2905 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition). 29067 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more 2907 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is 2908 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before 2909 waiting for a character to be typed). 29108 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status 2911 line of the window, like "[time]". 2912 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes. 2913 Automatic and/or with a command. 2914 2915 2916Substitute: 29178 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.: 2918 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w". 2919- :s///p prints the line after a substitution. 2920- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern. 29218 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective. 2922 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys. 2923- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or: 2924 :s///N substitutes N times. 2925- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.: 2926 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do 2927 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution. 29287 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex 2929 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the 2930 last line column 5. 29315 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks, 2932 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the 2933 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands. 2934 (Stanislav Sitar) 2935 2936 2937Mouse support: 29388 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'? 29397 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu. 29408 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic 2941 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you 2942 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar) 29437 Checkout sysmouse() for FreeBSD console mouse support. 2944- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console. 2945- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to 2946 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners). 2947- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!? 2948- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to. 2949 2950 2951Crypt and security: 29528 Also crypt the swapfile, each block separately. Change mf_write() and 2953 mf_read(). How to get b_p_key to these functions? 2954 2955 2956Argument list: 29576 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list. 2958 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches 2959 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match. 29606 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers? 2961 2962 2963Registers: 29648 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne) 29658 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping 2966 around in windows. 29678 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for 2968 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r" 2969 for every line. 29706 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the 2971 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What 2972 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.? 2973- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of 2974 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more". 2975- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment 2976 leader when line wraps? 2977- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each 2978 line in the range. 2979- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text 2980 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo") 29818 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register. 2982 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)? 2983 2984 2985Debug mode: 29867 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received. 29878 Add breakpoints for setting an option 29888 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable. 29897 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution 2990 when evaluating to non-zero. 29917 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo. 29927 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al. 2993 2994 2995Various improvements: 29968 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename 2997 the buffer. Buffer may be modified. 29986 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of 2999 errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c". 30006 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5) 30017 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>. 3002 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"? 3003 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command. 30047 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a 3005 window as a buffer-tab selection. 30067 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want 3007 to manipulate text without changing the window layout. 30088 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until 3009 all changes are gone. 30107 Add a ":cpfile", go in the other direction as ":cnfile". 30116 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri) 30128 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim. 3013 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim. 3014 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it 3015 in this Vim. 30168 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as 3017 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"? 30188 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes 3019 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and 3020 have it apply to the following command. 30218 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other 3022 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the 3023 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up. 3024 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'? 30257 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a 3026 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files. 30277 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>, 3028 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize 3029 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key 3030 without modifier (unless mapped). 30318 Add ":breakdel *": delete all breakpoints. 30327 Support ":browse edit" in console, using explorer.vim? 30336 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line. 30348 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map". 30359 Support ACLs on more systems. 30367 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be 3037 highlighted differently. 30388 Allow using "**" as a wildcard in commands like ":next" and ":args". 30398 Provide a way to avoid wildcard expansion. Use double quotes, like in the 3040 shell? :edit "my[file].txt" (currently works if there is no "myf.txt") 30417 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above 3042 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message 3043 (truncated to fit in the space). 30447 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner) 30458 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout) 30468 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise 3047 Visual mode. 30487 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use 3049 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV. 30507 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping 3051 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0". 30527 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name. 30537 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently. 30547 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines? 30558 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney) 30568 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in 3057 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for 3058 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef 3059 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do? 30608 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down. 30616 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain 3062 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron) 30638 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists. 30648 Use confirm/dialog stuff to ask the user, when a file has changed outside 3065 of Vim, if he wants to reload it. Triggered when focus gained, after 3066 shell command, when entering another buffer, etc.. 3067 Also do this when editing a new file, and another application creates 3068 the file before doing ":w" in Vim. 3069 Also check if the file protection has changed. When checking a file into 3070 RCS it is made read-only, when checking out it is made read-write. 30718 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file 3072 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would 3073 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist 3074 does something like this. (Shah) 30757 Use growarray for replace stack. 30767 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution 3077 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis). 30783 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"? 30798 Make "more" prompt accept command characters, like "hit-enter" prompt? 3080 Or extend it with more commands, like "less": 'b' for back, 'j' for one 3081 line down, etc. 30828 For the "--more--" prompt, support the 'b'ack command for more commands. 3083 Possible implementation: Do it at a very low level, caching the lines that 3084 are on the screen (with highlight attributes). Avoids that changes have 3085 to be made for all functions that list something. 30867 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same 3087 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers? 3088- Keep a list of most recently used files for each window, use "[o" to go 3089 back (older file) and "]n" to go forward (newer file) (like ^O and ^I for 3090 jumps) (Webb). Use ":files" and ":ls" to list the files in history order. 30917 Add a history of recently accessed buffer. Maybe make "2 CTRL-^" jump to 3092 the 2nd previously visited buffer, "3 CTRL-^" to the third, etc. Or use 3093 "3 g CTRL-^" for this? 3094- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode. 3095- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file. 3096- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c 3097- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window. 30987 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive 3099 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used. 3100- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home 3101 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc. 3102- Remove mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this. 3103- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set, 3104 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert) 3105- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to 3106 call "play newbeep.au"). 3107- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or 3108 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function. 3109 (Bhatt). 3110- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for 3111 blockwise registers). 3112- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the 3113 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt). 3114- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps 3115 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed, 3116 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't 3117 noticeable. 31189 When using ":w <fname>" it's possible that this file is loaded in another 3119 buffer. Give a warning right away, don't wait for a shell command. 3120- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb). 31217 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters. 3122 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code. 3123- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs 3124 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between 3125 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent 3126 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new 3127 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change. 31288 Add 'formatexpr' option: Used for formatting operator "gq" instead of the 3129 builtin formatting or 'formatprg'. 31308 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the 3131 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for 3132 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a 3133 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line). 3134 ":set autoformat=\\s$". 3135- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern? 31367 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the 3137 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt) 3138- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is 3139 not in column 1. 31406 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a 3141 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext". 31427 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined? 3143- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator? 31448 findmatchlimit() should be able to skip comments. Solves problem of 3145 matching the '{' in /* if (foo) { */ (Fiveash) 3146- Add more redirecting of Ex commands: 3147 :redir @> register (append) 3148 :redir # bufname 3149 :redir #> bufname (append) 3150 :redir = variable 3151 :redir => variable (append) 3152- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with 3153 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set". 3154 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit". 31556 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32 3156 console? (Klaus Hast) 3157- Add :delcr command: 3158 *:delcr* 3159 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines 3160 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is 3161 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range]. 3162 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If 3163 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all 3164 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi} 3165- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat(). 3166- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta 3167 characters from 'isprint'. 3168- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName(). 3169- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area. 3170 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn. 3171- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but 3172 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More 3173 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion. 3174- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()). 3175- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like 3176 Nvi). 3177- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the 3178 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define. 31797 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position. 3180- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that 3181 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'? 31826 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file. 3183- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the 3184 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13 3185 macro). 3186- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files. 3187- Add command like ":ts" that shows the output of "[I" and asks for a match 3188 to jump to. (Zellner) 3189- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also 3190 expanded. Is there a better way to do this? 3191- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source". 31928 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set. 3193- Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null". 3194- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty. 3195- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible! 3196- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down 3197 if it is not the first or last window. 3198- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if 3199 there is one) instead of the file itself. 32007 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example: 3201 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0 3202 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files. 3203- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion. 3204- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as 3205 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so 3206 many percent down the windows). 3207- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the 3208 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the 3209 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'. 3210- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g. 3211 'dictionary' when it is "*.h". 3212- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to 3213 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit). 3214- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent) 3215- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends. 3216- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the 3217 passwd file? (Antwerpen) 3218- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack. 3219- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush". 32208 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw", 3221 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is 3222 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack? 3223 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when 3224 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping? 3225- Use a builtin grep command for ":grep"? Makes it possible to add the 3226 column number. Can use the code of ":helpgrep". 3227 Also support using "**" in filename, so that a directory tree can be 3228 searched. 3229- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time 3230 t_bs is set? (Webb) 3231- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also 3232 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert). 3233- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline (Demirel). Store 3234 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window 3235 (Webb). 3236- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the 3237 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al. 3238- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering 3239 hex codes like 0xff). 3240- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command 3241 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo 3242 the last TYPED command. 3243- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf". 3244- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows. 3245- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/" 3246 should also work? 3247- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL? 32488 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file 3249 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine 3250 name. 3251- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a 3252 trailing '.'. 3253- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a 3254 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use 3255 find_file_in_path(). 3256- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between 3257 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon). 3258- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion. 3259- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a 3260 form usable by Vim on the current machine. 3261- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have 3262 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags. 3263- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one 3264 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains 3265 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline. 3266- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine 3267 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz) 3268- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments. 3269- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt) 3270- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back 3271 to the minimal size. 3272- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */). 3273- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline(). 3274- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb). 3275- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file. 3276- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers. 3277- Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw'). 3278- Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line: 3279 "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ??? 3280- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line 3281 entered)? 3282- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible 3283 as an output filter. 3284- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this. 3285- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line. 3286- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file. 3287- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc. 3288- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char. 3289- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long 3290 lines. 3291- Uppercase characters in ex commands can be made lowercase? 32928 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"), 3293 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option 3294 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex 3295 or in octal. 32967 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more 3297 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument? 3298- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source. 3299 After ":w !command" a wait_return? 3300- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()). 3301- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without 3302 insert line command). 3303- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it. 3304- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals. 3305- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000). 3306- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying. 3307- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace 3308 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>. 3309- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work 3310 yet. 3311- Implement 'redraw' option. 3312- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or 3313 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right). 3314- Use pipes for filtering on Unix. Requires using fork() to be able to read 3315 and write at the same time, or some select() mechanism. 33167 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs 3317 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin. 33188 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can 3319 do it. 3320- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to. 3321- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts, 3322 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list. 3323- Add text justification option. 3324- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on". 3325- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is 3326 off". 3327- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR. 3328- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message. 3329- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but 3330 gives read errors. Check protection before opening. 3331- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied". 3332- If file does not exists, check if directory exists. 3333- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor. 3334- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex 3335 commands. 3336- ":set -w all": list one option per line. 3337- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file. 3338- :table command (Webb) 3339- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ". 3340- Make it possible for a user to define a new operator. Implementation with 3341 internal scripting language or Perl? 3342- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?). 3343- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb). 3344- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files. 3345- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel). 3346- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited 3347 (Demirel). 3348- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc. 3349- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore", 3350 for use in macro's and the like. 3351- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while 3352 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window? 3353- Add possibility to put output of ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for 3354 ":set all". ":r :set all"? 3355- 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really 3356 read-only mode). 3357- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not 3358 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in 3359 a window to become smaller (Webb). 3360- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized 3361 proportionally (Webb). 3362- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use 3363 mkopttab to make option table? 3364- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current 3365 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)? 3366- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster 3367 (Haritsis). 3368- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used 3369 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev) 3370- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the 3371 cursor? 3372- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton). 3373- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)? 33745 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names. 3375 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix. 33768 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore 3377 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in 3378 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams: 3379 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another 3380 option name. 33818 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to 3382 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places. 3383 (Netherton) 33846 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a 3385 space after "(", for example. 33865 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs 3387 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit'). 3388 (Servatius Brandt) 3389 3390 3391From Elvis: 3392- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages? 3393- Add ":alias" command. 3394- fontchanges recognized "\\fB" etc. 3395- Search patterns: 3396 \@ match word under cursor. 3397 but do: 3398 \@w match the word under the cursor? 3399 \@W match the WORD under the cursor? 34008 ":window" command: 3401 :win + next window (up) 3402 :win ++ idem, wrapping 3403 :win - previous window (down) 3404 :win -- idem, wrapping 3405 :win nr to window number "nr" 3406 :win name to window editing buffer "name" 34077 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is 3408 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"? 3409 3410 3411From Nvi: 3412- 'searchincr' option, alias for 'incsearch'? 3413- 'leftright' option, alias for 'nowrap'? 3414- Have a look at "vi/doc/vi.chart", for Nvi specialties. 34158 Add 'keytime', time in 1/10 sec for mapping timeout? 3416- Add 'filec' option as an alternative for 'wildchar'. 34176 Support Nvi command names as an alias: 3418 :bg :hide 3419 :fg fname :buf fname (with 'hidden' set?) 3420 :dis b :ls 3421 :Edit fname :split fname 3422 :Fg fname :sbuf fname (with 'hidden' set?) 3423 :Next :snext (can't do this, already use :Next) 3424 :Previous :sprevious 3425 :Tag :stag 3426 3427 3428From xvi: 3429- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character. 3430- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet) 3431 3432 3433From vile: 3434- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window. 3435- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files 3436 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files. 3437 3438 3439Far future and "big" extensions: 3440- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice 3441 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,... 3442- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in 3443 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac). 3444 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the 3445 current layout mirrored. 3446- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer. 3447- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords, 3448 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.). 3449- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent). 3450- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different 3451 font in each top-level window. 3452- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit'). 3453- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them. 3454- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning. 3455- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to. 3456 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim). 3457- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all 3458 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files 3459 mentioned in the tags file. 3460 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???) 3461 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."? 3462- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other 3463 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter). 3464- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five 3465 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc.. 34664 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands: 3467 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format. 3468 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted. 3469 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list, 3470 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags 3471 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples: 3472 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list 3473- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes 3474 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but 3475 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/. 3476 3477 3478vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl: 3479vim: set fo+=n : 3480