1*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2004 Jul 19 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 33Add fix for zh_cn to Vim 6.3? (Liang) 34 35 36For version 7.0: 37- Include many PATCHES: 38 8 Add functions: 39 realname() Get user name (first, last, full) 40 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov 41 3 2002) 42 getfperm() file permissions, in form "rwxrwxrwx" 43 (patch from Nikolai Weibull 2003 Jan 13) 44 getftype() "file", "dir", "link", "other"? 45 (patch from Nikolai Weibull 2003 Jan 13) 46 setbufline() set line in any buffer (patch from Yegappan 47 Lakshmanan, 2003 Jan 21) 48 winnr("$") Get number of windows. (patch from Nikolai 49 Weibull 2003 Jan 13) (another patch from 50 Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2004 Jul 11) 51 search() Add optional offset argument. 52 Add 'n' flag. (patch from Nikolai Weibull 53 2003 Jan 13) 54 filter() Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2004 Jul 11 55 8 Make it possible to delete marks. Charles Campbell has a patch that 56 does this with the markclear() function (2004 Jan 9). 57 And the ":delmark" command (2004 Feb 9) 58 http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#Patch 59 ~/tmp/ptch.delmark.bz2 60 ~/tmp/ptch.markclear 61 Implement setmark(markname, lnum [, col [, filename]]) instead? 62 When "lnum" is zero delete the mark. 63 When "filename" has no wildcards and there is no matching buffer, add 64 the buffer (unlisted). 65 Patch for \xnn (Ciaran McCreesh) 2004 Jul 10 66 7 Add 'taglistfiles' option, show file name and type when listing matching 67 tags name with CTRL-D completion. Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan. 68 2004 Jul 11 69 7 For Visual mode: Command to do a search for the string in the marked 70 area. Only when fewer than two lines. Use "g/" and "gb". Patch from 71 Yegappan Lakshmanan. 2004 Jul 11 72 8 Make 'statusline' local, so that each window can have a different 73 value. But should it also be local to a buffer? (Yegappan Lakshmanan 74 has a patch, 2004 Jul 11) 75 --- awaiting updated patch --- 76 7 Add patch from Wall for this one ( ~/Mail/oldmail/wall/in.00019 ): 77 'flipcase' variable: upper/lowercase pairs. 78 Insert comma's between pairs and allow a range, make it look like 79 'isfname'. E.g. ":set flipcase=a-zA-Z,xX,23-33:143-153". The colon to 80 separate the from and to part is optional. 81 Resp: no time now. 82 8 Add GTK 2.3 file dialog support. Patch by Grahame Bowland, 2004 Mar 15, 83 but it doesn't use "initdir" or "dflt". (will update patch) 84 8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible. 85 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. 86 He will update the patch for 6.3. 87 8 Add buffer-local autocommands? Reduces overhead for autocommands that 88 trigger often (inserting a character, switching mode). 89 :au Event <buffer> do-something 90 E.g.: 91 :au BufEnter <buffer> menu enable ... 92 :au BufLeave <buffer> menu disable ... 93 Patch from Yakov Lerner, including test (2004 Jan 7). 94 He'll send updated patch. 95 Autocommands: 96 VimResized - When the Vim window has been resized (SIGWINCH) 97 patch from Yakov Lerner, 2003 July 24. 98 He'll write documentation and send updated patch. 99 7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto. 100 Update 2004 Jun 17. 101 How does this work? Missing comments. 102 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 103 Update 2004 Jun 17 104 Missing docs. Search in 'runtimepath'? 105 How to get the messages into the .po files? 106 --- did not respond (yet) -- 107 7 Make "5dd" on last-but-one-line not delete anything (Vi compatible). 108 Add flag in 'cpoptions' for this. When not present, "2dd" in the last 109 line should delete the last line. Patch from greenx 2002 Apr 11. 110 8 Accelerators don't work in a dialog. Include patch from Martin Dalecki 111 (Jan 3, tested by David Harrison). Should work with Alt-o then. 112 7 Use accelerators for the Motif file selection dialog. Patch from 113 Martin Dalecki 2002 Jan 11. 114 8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina 115 (28 feb 2002). 116 7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears 117 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3. 118 - Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work 119 for multi-byte characters. 120 - Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind. 121 - Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5) 122 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not 123 been given values. 124 Add section in help files for these highlight groups? 125 8 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm 126 with an ESC sequence. Ideas in: ~/vim/patches/vikas.xtermcolors . 127 7 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Martin 128 Dalecki has a patch for Motif) 129 - Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a 130 line in between columns (e.g. for 'textwidth'). 131 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20. 132 8 Add functions: 133 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical 134 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg) 135 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag 136 (2003 May 13) 137 system({cmd}, {expr}) Filter {expr} through the shell command 138 {cmd} and return the result. 139 (Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan) 140 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for 141 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ ) 142 7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions 143 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10) 144 7 Motif: use the menu font consistently. Patch from Martin Dalecki 2002 145 Jan 11. 146 - Motif: add 3D shading for the menu entries? Patch from Martin Dalecki. 147 7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right 148 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli) 149 8 Lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk (uncrypted). 150 Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. 151 7 Support a stronger encryption. Jason Holt implemented AES (May 6 2003). 152 7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie) 153 8 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's 154 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1. 155 7 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David 156 Kotchan has a patch for it) 157 8 Add term entries for function keys on xterm with alt and ctrl (new in 158 pl 94). E.g., Control adds ";5" in "<Esc>[20;5~". Find a generic way 159 to prepend a modifier in console mode, to avoid having to specify each 160 individual modified key. 161 Steve Wall has a patch (2002 Mar 12) for adding function keys up to 37, 162 with modifiers. 163 8 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See 164 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface. 165 Or use emacs server kind of thing? 166 7 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25. 167 - findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at 168 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram, 169 incomplete patch Mar 18) 170 171 172- In the kvim/KDE source files fix the formatting. 173- KDE version is called "kvim". Make it "gvim", like the others? 174- Better configure check for KDE include files from Dan Sharp. 175- KDE Input method patch. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 176- Change ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be 177 incremented/decremented each time. 178- For string variables, use length instead of NUL termination. 179- new DATA TYPES: lists, dictionaries and function references. 180 Check old patch from Robert Webb for array support. 181 Add type checking? See ~/vim/ideas.txt. 182- Add SPELLCHECKER, with easy to add support for many languages. 183 8 Add spell checking. Use "ispell -a" somehow. 184 ~/vim/patches/wm_vim-5_4d.zip can be used as an example (includes 185 ispell inside Vim). Gautam Iyer has an example with "aspell". 186 "engspchk" from Charles Campbell is a good way. Support for 187 approximate-regexps will help (agrep http://www.tgries.de/agrep/). 188 - Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to 189 existing syntax items (to add @Spell). Add ":syntax contains 190 {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn cluster" but change 191 the contains list directly for matching syntax items. 192 - Keep wordlist in syntax group, load it only once and use it several 193 times later. Sort of global syntax items. 194- REFACTORING: The main() function is very long. Move parts to separate 195 functions, especially loops. Ideas from Walter Briscoe (2003 Apr 3, 2004 196 Feb 9). 197- Improve the interface between the generic GUI code and the system-specific 198 code. Generic code handles text window with scrollbars, system-specific 199 code menu, toolbar, etc. 200- Store messages to allow SCROLLING BACK for all commands. And other "less" 201 like commands. 202- "INTELLISENSE". First cleanup the Insert-mode completion. 203 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747 204 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim 205- PERSISTENT UNDO: store undo in a file. 206 Support multiple threads. Show the list of changes in a window to be able 207 to select a version. 2087 SWAP FILE CHANGE: When a dos format file was edited with ":e ++ff=unix", 209 Vim is killed and trying to recover the file, 'ff' will be dos. Same for 210 non-default fileencoding. (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jul 17) 211 Should store the values in block 0 of the swap file, but that is an 212 incompatible change. 2137 Support WINDOW TABS. Works like several pages, each with their own 214 split windows. Patch for GTK 1.2 from Christian Michon, 2004 Jan 6. 215 Also for the console! 216- EMBEDDING: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program. 217 For Xwindows this can be done with XReparentWindow(). 218 For GTK Neil Bird has a patch to use Vim like a widget. 219- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block 220 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2. 221- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye, 222 assisted by Mikolaj Machowski. Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it 223 generic. Also found here: http://skawina.eu.org/mikolaj/vimgdb 224 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program 225 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the 226 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the 227 other window. 228 Wishes for NetBeans commands: 229 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors. 230 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?) 231 in terminal mode. 232- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is. 233 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command 234 scrolls back to where the cursor is. 2358 Support four composing characters, needed for Hebrew. (Ron Aaron) 236- Add a few more things to 'diffopt': "horizontal", "vertical", 237 "foldcolumn". (Benji Fisher, 2004 Jun 21) 238- FileChangedShellPost autocommand event: after (not) reloading a changed 239 file. Can be used to update statusline oslt. 2408 When a file is change outside of Vim and unmodified in Vim there is no 241 simple way to automatically reload the file. Either add an option for 242 this or make it simple to have the FileChangedShell invoke the normal 243 action, telling it what to do. 244- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display. 245- Mac: Unicode input and display (Eckehard Berns, June 27) 2468 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac? 247 New patch 2004 Jun 16 2489 Add cursor-column highlighting. Enable it with 'cursorcolumn' option, 249 set highlighting with "CursorColumn" group. Useful for aligning text. 250 Also cursor-row highlighting. Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto for 251 underlining the cursor line: 2004 Jun 17. Should use highlight group 252 instead. 253 Alternative: when 'number' is set highlight the number of the current 254 line. 2557 Make ":startinsert" command work directly for functions and scripts? 256 Also make it possible to append (it's difficult at end of line). 257- When using 'incsearch" CTRL-R CTRL-W gets the word under the cursor, but 258 the part that already matched is doubled then. Remove the part of the 259 word that would be doubled. Make it work line CTRL-N in Insert mode. 260- Add Lua interface? (Wolfgang Oertl) 261 262 263Vi incompatibility: 2648 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other 265 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it 266 is deleted or restored. (Webb) 267 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo. 268 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the '' 269 position is one line down. (Veselinovic) 2708 ":change" in a single-line file adds an empty line. When the file used to 271 be longer a "~" line is displayed, but there really is an empty line. 272 (Haakon Riiser, 2003 Dec 3 and Dec 16) 2738 ":append" and ":insert" in an empty file add an extra empty line. (Haakon 274 Riiser, 2003 Dec 3) Test for ML_EMPTY. 2758 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should 276 make Vim exit. 2777 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line 278 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway). 279 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input. 2808 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips 281 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument 282 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded) 2836 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but 284 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag 285 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off. 2868 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another 287 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one. 288 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file 289 names in one buffer??? 290 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and 291 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not 292 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer. 2937 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some 294 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual" 295 command was one command. 2967 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep 297 the ":map" when it's used without arguments? 2987 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option. 2997 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty. 3007 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a 301 flag in 'cpoptions' for this. 3027 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when 303 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing 304 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either 305 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file). 3067 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode). 3077 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines. 3087 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go 309 to the match with the tag? Option? 3107 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option. 3117 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del> 312 (Sayre). 3137 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the 314 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible). 3157 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual". 316 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next 317 match. Nvi can do it too. 3187 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking) 319 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\ 320 line 1\ line 2\\ 321 line 2\ line 3\\ 322 . line4/ 3236 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of 324 the way the shell is started? 3256 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange 326 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line). 327 328 329GTK+ 1 (OK in GTK 2): 3308 When menus are disabled, 'm' removed from 'guioptions', Alt-F still pops 331 up the File menu. Cannot reproduce this: gives a warning for a NULL 332 pointer if the menu was never displayed. 3338 When using "gvim -geom 40x30" or setting 'columns' in .gvimrc or with a 334 GUIEnter autocommand, the width is still set to fit the toolbar. Also 335 happens when changing the font. How to avoid that the toolbar specifies 336 the minimal window width? 3378 When using a theme with different scrollbars (gtkstep), the scrollbars can 338 be too narrow. (Drazen Kacar) 3398 Font "7x14" has a bold version "7x14bold". Try to find the bold font by 340 appending "bold" when there are not 14 dashes. 341 342GTK+ GUI known bugs: 3438 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj 344 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in 345 creating a label? 3469 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim 347 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and 348 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works. 349 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again. 3507 DND doesn't work with KDE (also with GTK 1). 351 352KDE GUI known bugs: 353- The default font is ugly. bold text isn't displayed correctly. 354- Error messages when starting up. The "tip of the day" box is empty. 355- Encoding of menu items needs to be converted. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 356 357Win32 GUI known bugs: 3588 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2 359 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically? 3608 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications. 361 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs. 362 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html 3638 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be 364 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp) 3657 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow 366 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to 367 "lucida_console:h8"). 3686 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":" 369 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis) 3707 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason 371 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible 372 to use an opaque background in most places? 3738 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that 374 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly. 375 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters. 3768 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font 377 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the 378 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono. 3797 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan, 380 2004 May 9) 3818 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces 382 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim 383 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with 384 MS-Windows 98? 385 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a 386 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed 387 file: Window moves with the cursor! 388 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it? 3898 When activating the Vim window with mouse click, don't move cursor to 390 mouse position. Catch WM_MOUSEACTIVATE. (Luevelsmeyer) 3918 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it 392 appear. (Sami Salonen) 3938 Windows NT: writing to aux.* makes Vim hang. (Acevedo) 3948 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that 395 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win 396 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also 397 doesn't work properly. 3988 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops 399 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it 400 appears in the right position. (Webb) 4019 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse 402 button doesn't give popup menu. 403 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless 404 selection. 405 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button. 406 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the 407 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text. 4088 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the 409 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore) 410 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error 411 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code. 4128 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg. 413 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not 414 be read. 4158 MessageBox used for error messages can be too big. There is no way to 416 scroll it, or even hit the OK button (but you can hit return). 417 Use a scrollable window. 4187 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida 419 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char). 420 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'. 4217 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the 422 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to 423 scroll? Need to be able to get out of hit-enter prompt with the mouse 424 anyway. 4257 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance. 426 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar. 4277 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using 428 "/min" as the command name. (Rogall) 4296 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor). 4308 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work 431 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because 432 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr? 4338 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we 434 know which keyboard is being used? 4357 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern 436 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn 437 area (Koloseike). 4388 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might 439 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first, 440 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in 441 the font name). 442 443 444Athena and Motif: 4459 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is 446 required and it's missing? 4478 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned 448 wrong. 4499 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can 450 be off by default. 4519 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now, 452 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting 453 flag. 4548 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character. 455 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1. 456 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this. 4578 Perhaps use fontsets for everything? 4586 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting 459 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all 460 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of 461 the tooltips work though... 4627 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not 463 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory). 4648 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the 465 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the 466 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'. 467 468 469Athena GUI: 4709 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in 471 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving 472 through files. 4737 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to 474 read long file names. (Schroeder) 4754 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go 476 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the 477 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets" 478 problem during a refresh. 4795 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing 480 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the 481 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors. 482 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes 483 colors as it should. 484 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the 485 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug? 486 487 488Motif GUI: 4898 Popup menu ordering is wrong. 4907 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()? 491 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2). 4928 The texts in the find/replace dialog don't use the right font. 4938 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes 494 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes. 495 (Phillipps) 496 497 498GUI: 4999 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no 500 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy) 5019 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C. 502 e.g. on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on 503 Solaris 2.6. (Marley) 5049 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim 505 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf) 5068 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key 507 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version). 5088 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both 509 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate 510 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed. 5118 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling 512 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state 513 of where it is processing the output. 514 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code. 5158 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font 516 doesn't work. 5178 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS. 5188 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS. 5198 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for 520 browse(). 5218 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this, 522 use that code? Or use console dialog. 5238 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the 524 error message disappears too quick. 5258 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later, 526 to avoid problems. 5278 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there 528 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for 529 input. Or maybe every 100 ms? 5308 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank 531 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0". 532 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works. 5338 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed 534 up. Set erase character somehow? 5358 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character 536 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this. 537 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling. 538 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya) 5398 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11. 5407 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not 541 visible. 5427 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is 543 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey) 5447 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it 545 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw. 5468 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the 547 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek) 5488 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not 549 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32. 550 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the 551 remaining part of the window (Phillipps). 552- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun. 5534 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times 554 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times 555 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486. 556 557 558MSDOS/DJGPP: 5599 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao) 560 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the 561 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem. 5628 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists. 563 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error? 5649 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused 565 code and reduce static data. 5669 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C. 567 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since 568 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting 569 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work. 5709 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work. 571 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67 572 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71 573 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2) 574 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>. 575 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream? 576 Make this work like in Win32 console. 577 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended 578 key code. Use a translation table? 5799 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used. 580 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself. 5818 Use DJGPP 2.03. 5828 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT. 583 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip). 5848 setlocale() is bogus. 5858 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some 586 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched 587 Windows 95 system! 5888 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe) 5897 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g. in keyword completion) on a 8088 590 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin). 5917 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.: 592 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley) 593 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem). 5948 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add 595 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt. 5967 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen. 597 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a 598 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are 599 "[New file]". 6007 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode 601 that is supported? 6028 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them. 6038 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter 604 Briscoe) 605 606 607MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32: 6088 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use 609 gen_expand_wildcards(). 6108 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander 611 Wagner. 6128 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL. 6138 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt, 614 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name. 6158 Should $USERPROFILE be used instead of $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? 6168 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have 617 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key. 6188 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift. 619 Should work like in the GUI version. 6208 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for 621 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names. 6228 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when 623 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command? 6248 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file" 625 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be 626 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc. 6278 ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means directory "#bb" 628 in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth) 6298 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going 630 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to 631 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth) 632 633 634Windows 95: 6358 Editing a file by it's short file name and writing it, makes the long file 636 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps. 637 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly). 6388 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the 639 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32). 640 641 642Win32 console: 6439 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its 644 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister) 645 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor. 646 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable. 647 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1 648 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name. 649 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file. 650 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed 651 and the file is not saved. 652 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its 653 long name. 6548 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at 655 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT. 6567 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals, 657 besides the console. 6588 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes) 6599 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with 660 <C-S-i>? 6619 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on 662 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI? 6638 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__ 664 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around? 6657 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'? 666 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when 667 exiting. 668 669 670Amiga: 6718 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte 672 sequences. 6739 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove 674 backslashes in result. 6758 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do 676 all options, using white space separation. 677 678 679Macintosh: 6807 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard 681 Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff 682 Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it. 6837 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both. 684 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac 685 (Jack) 686 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html 6878 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear 688 to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17) 6898 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI. 6909 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher) 691 - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost. 6928 The Vim/About menu doesn't work. 6938 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV. 6948 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh. 6958 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh. 6969 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be 697 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone) 6989 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when 699 scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher) 7009 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two 701 seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher) 7029 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly. 7038 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige) 7048 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige) 705 706 707"Small" problems: 7088 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used, 709 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited 710 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure 711 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this. 7129 When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with 713 'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though 714 the fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to 715 check for the buffer to be unmodified. 7168 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the 717 error number, it's not a regular error message. 7187 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to 719 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 7208 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and 721 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column 722 for redirection. 7237 There is no way to change directory and go back without changing the local 724 and/or global directory. Add a way to find out if the current window uses 725 a local directory. Add cdcmd() that returns ":cd" or ":lcd"? 7267 After running "make test" the window title is sometimes not restored. 727 Mostly sticks at "test3.in", but not always. Appears to happen more often 728 when compiled with Python (threading). 7297 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use 730 'termencoding'. 7318 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor 732 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor 733 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when 734 using the horizontal scrollbar. 7357 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed 736 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the 737 invocations belong together. 7388 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this 739 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams) 7408 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the 741 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the 742 UnxUtils.zip archive. 743 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter 744 Briscoe says it's not as good. 7458 'fillchars' doesn't work for multi-byte characters. 7469 Editing a XML file with a long line is extremely slow. Example file from 747 Randy Parker (Dec 13). Editing the dictionaries for engspchk plugin with 748 syntax highlighting is also very slow. 749 Limit the searching for items to a few hundred characters? 7508 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing 751 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly) 7527 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names: 753 use "~/" when possible. 7547 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte 755 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail 756 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[] 757 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8). 7588 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when 759 defined. 7607 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an 761 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found. 762 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions. 7637 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode 764 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second 765 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel) 7667 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the 767 bottom window only bigger as much as needed. 7687 "[p" doesn't work in Visual mode. (David Brown) 7697 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere. 770 Remove? (Dan Sharp) 7719 The argument <f-args> of a user command doesn't handle backslashes 772 properly. "Cmd \ e" is one argument, "Cmd \\ e" still is one argument. 773 "Cmd \ e" is two arguments, first one ending in space. (Kontra Gergely) 7749 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This 775 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining 776 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command": 777 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining 778 script can be called. 7798 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po, 780 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still 781 works. 7829 When a syntax region does not use "keepend" and a contained item does use 783 "extend", this makes the outer region stop at the end of the contained 784 region. (Lutz Eymers) Another example Nov 14 2002. 7858 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with 786 CTRL-C. 7877 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X 788 server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp 789 of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK 790 doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it 791 won't work for GTK anyway. 7928 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error 793 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid. 7948 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line() 795 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this 796 configurable? 7978 'hkmap' should probably be global-local. 7989 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes 799 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work 800 then. (Pritesh Mistry) 8018 ":s!from!to!" works, but ":smagic!from!to!" doesn't. It sees the "!" as a 802 flag to to the command. Same for ":snomagic". (Johan Spetz) 8038 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save 804 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()? 8058 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is 806 always written, even when the original file already exists. 8077 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter, 808 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space. 8099 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file 810 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being 811 written. 8129 The "Error detected while processing modelines" message should have an 813 error number. 8147 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer. 8158 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose 816 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when 817 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'. 8188 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global 819 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez) 8209 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing 821 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give 822 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating 823 one. 8247 On MS-DOS or MS-Windows, when editing the same file over a network, the 825 drive letter is different, thus an existing swap file doesn't generate a 826 warning. Use some flag to indicate the swap file is in the same directory 827 as the original file? Could make b0_fname[] start with a special 828 character like ">". 8297 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes. 830 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs. 8317 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that 832 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back. 8337 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed 834 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's 835 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y 836 direction, not horizontally? 8378 When using CTRL-D after ":help", restrict the number of matches to a 838 thousand, otherwise using CTRL-D without an argument takes too long. 8398 ":hardcopy": 840 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16. 841 - Need to handle unprintable characters. 842 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform 843 dithering to make grey text? 844 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total 845 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams) 846 - Should interpreted CTRL-L as a page break. 847 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'. 848 Default to black when no syntax highlighting. 849 - Be able to print a window in diff mode. 850 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate 851 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected). 8528 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the 853 text in following lines where the linebreak changes. 8549 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on 855 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect 856 that Windows NT is being used? 8578 When opening the same file on Unix and on MS-Windows, there is no 858 ATTENTION message, because the path in the swap file is different. Using 859 a relative path name will cause no ATTENTION for Vim 5.8. 860 Somehow add a flag that the swap file is in the same dir as the file? 8618 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a 862 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it. 8638 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert 864 in lines that don't extend into the block? 8658 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O 866 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev) 867 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work. 8688 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from 869 'linebreak'. 8708 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection 871 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab. 872 (Helmut Stiegler) 8738 With 'virtualedit' set, a blockwise Visual selection that starts and ends 874 in a tab, "<" shifts too much. (Helmut Stiegler) 8759 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When 876 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending 877 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of 878 'magic' in history. (Margo) 8799 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for 880 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc". 8819 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern 882 isn't updated). 8839 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga). 8849 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled 885 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which 886 cause another redraw, etc. 8878 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path() 888 must escape special characters in the pattern. 8898 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an 890 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use 891 ":w!!" for that. 892 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and 893 restore file to readonly afterwards. 8947 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get 895 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the 896 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as 897 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from 898 clipboard) 8997 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal 900 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark 901 Waggoner) 9028 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window 903 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no 904 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\". 9058 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a 906 way to avoid using the builtin termcap. 9078 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also 908 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm. 909 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style. 9108 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator 911 (e.g., ":w"). 9128 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for 913 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long. 9148 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column 915 for ">>". 9168 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long 917 script in do_cmdline(). 9188 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the 919 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that 920 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have 921 changes. 9228 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT 923 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim". 9248 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to 925 check for file marks. This can be slow. 9267 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change 927 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's 928 needed. 929 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key. 9308 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option 931 to skip catch_signals()? 9329 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the 933 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert 934 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of 935 text? 9368 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts 937 all the text. Add ":rmenu"? 9388 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of 939 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>. 9409 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are 941 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7, 942 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed. 943 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or 944 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate(). 9457 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/". 946 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and 947 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings 948 in the list? 9498 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking 950 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up, 951 instead of on button down. 9528 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw. 9539 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for 954 reaching the end of the available buffer. 9558 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a 956 character is typed. 9578 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this. 958 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it. 9598 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not 960 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure 9618 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an 962 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template 963 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp". 964 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for 965 cygwin bash. 9667 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}". 967 Remember flags for backreferences. 9687 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been 969 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT? 9707 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names 971 that contain a '$' after all have been found. 9728 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about 973 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX. 9747 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting 975 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name. 9767 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing. 977 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and 978 "initdir" is the default path to be used. 9797 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of 980 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols) 9818 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo 982 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so 983 that the user knows he has to delete the files. 9847 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func 985 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this. 9867 After ":%d" an undo reports the number of lines added as if there still 987 was one line. 988 989 990I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!): 9919 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file 992 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three 993 files. (McCollister) 9948 Motif: Tear-off menu item crashes Vim on some machines. (Netherton) It 995 works fine for me, maybe it's a Motif problem. 996 997 998Problems that will (probably) not be solved: 999- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering 1000 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the 1001 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like 1002 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external 1003 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text. 1004- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access 1005 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message. 1006 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it. 1007- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim. 1008 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim. 1009- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will 1010 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which 1011 character gets the highlighting. 1012- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm 1013 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly. 1014- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem. 1015 (Jennings) 1016- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino). 1017- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25 1018 errors. How do we get the rest? 1019- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why? 1020- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The 1021 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong. 1022- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a 1023 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy 1024 first? 1025- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for 1026 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names. 1027- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy 1028 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim, 1029 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK. 1030- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The 1031 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working. 1032 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p". 1033 (Benzinger). 1034- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that 1035 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim 1036 can't get back what the external command didn't use. 1037- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error. 1038 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code. 1039- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being 1040 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar. 1041- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer 1042 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when 1043 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted. 1044 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library. 1045 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn) 1046 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)? 1047- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles 1048 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE. 1049 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134. 1050- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal 1051 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif 1052 libraries, get a patch from Sun. 1053- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X 1054 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash. 1055- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks 1056 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff. 1057- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim 1058 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy) 1059- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive 1060 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used. 1061- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up: 1062 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library 1063 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to 1064 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the 1065 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem. 1066- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the 1067 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line: 1068 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr> 1069- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a 1070 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert 1071 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard) 1072- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar. 1073 This is a GTK 2.4.x bug, fixed in GTK 2.4.2. (Thomas de Grenier de Latour) 1074- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co' 1075 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the 1076 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the 1077 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined 1078 in the vimrc file to be lost. 1079- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and 1080 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars. 1081 1082--------------------- extensions and improvements ---------------------- 1083 *extensions-improvements* 1084 1085Documentation: 10868 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth) 10877 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual. 10889 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention: 1089 - change to cursor position and curswant 1090 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.) 1091 - how it works for folded lines 1092 - how it works with multi-byte characters 10939 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would 1094 work too. 10958 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag" 1096 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double 1097 text. 10988 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running". 10997 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to 1100 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'. 11017 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and 1102 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag. 1103- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks. 1104 1105 1106Help: 1107- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a 1108 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag. 1109- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go 1110 to the other matches. 1111- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files. 1112- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|. 1113- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always 1114 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file, 1115 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a 1116 default contents. 1117- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal 1118 height for the help window (and other windows). 1119- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute". 1120- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive? 1121- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands. 1122 1123 1124User Friendlier: 11258 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for 1126 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter 1127 Briscoe) 11288 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types? 11298 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that 1130 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if 1131 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf". 11328 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc, 1133 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu. 1134- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file. 1135 ":mkplugin <file>"? 11368 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that 1137 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from 1138 'runtimepath'. 1139 " Vim plugin 1140 <main plugin code> 1141 " >>> plugin help start <<< 1142 <plugin docs> 1143- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."? 11449 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or 1145 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty 1146 item?). 1147 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands. 11488 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems. 11497 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output? 1150 1151 1152Diff mode: 11538 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file). 1154 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing: 1155 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis 11567 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also 1157 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same 1158 location. 1159 1160 1161Folding: 1162 (commands still available: zg zG zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zw zW zy zY; 1163 secondary: zB zS zT zZ) 11648 Add different highlighting for a fold line depending on the fold level. 1165 (Noel Henson) 11668 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the 1167 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the 1168 user aware of this? 11698 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which 1170 commands skip over a closed fold. 11718 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt) 11728 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB. 11737 When using 2html.vim, also reproduce folds as you can see them. When 1174 someone doesn't want the folds he can disable them before converting. 1175 First attempt by Carl Osterwisch, 2004 May 10. 11767 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds. 1177- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. Require showing a character in 1178 'foldcolumn' to avoid the missing line goes unnoticed. 1179- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll 1180 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds 1181 smoother? 1182- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list, 1183 using the wininfo in wi_folds. 1184- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects. 1185- Add 'hidecomment' option: don't display comments in /* */ and after //. 1186- "zu": undo change in manual fold. "zU" redo change in manual fold. How to 1187 implement this? 1188- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the 1189 cursor. 1190- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3": set fold level for a region. 1191- Can set 'foldtext' to empty string: don't display any line. How to 1192 implement this? 1193- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt) 1194- Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like 1195 searches. 1196 1197 1198Multi-byte characters: 11999 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the 1200 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal 1201 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single 1202 byte). 12038 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for 1204 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html. 1205 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like: 1206 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-" 1207 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first 1208 item. 12098 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for 1210 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"? 12118 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an 1212 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for 1213 ":grep". 12148 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search 1215 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka) 12167 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted, 1217 so that the user can fix the problem. 12188 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo 1219 Schweigert) 12209 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El) 12218 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters. 12228 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters. 12238 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes. 12248 "ga" should show all composing characters, also if there are more than 2. 12257 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored? 12268 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing. 12278 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes. 12288 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte 1229 characters. 12308 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters. 12318 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead 1232 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example. 12337 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead. 1234 'display' option to specify this. 12357 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default(): 1236 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c) 1237- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the 1238 fontselector somehow. 1239- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it 1240 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale. 1241- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for 1242 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong. 1243- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset, 1244 depending on the default value of 'encoding'. 1245 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used. 1246 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know 1247 if a font exists? 1248- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with 1249 convert_input() for Mac GUI, RiscOS GUI, BeOS GUI. 1250- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters. 1251 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_ 12527 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of 1253 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky) 1254- Make 'langmap' accept multi-byte characters. 1255- Do we need the reverse of 'keymap', like 'langmap' but with files and 1256 multi-byte characters? E.g., when using a Russian keyboard. 1257- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text 1258 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort 1259 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command? 1260- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into 1261 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it: 1262 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz 1263 But it's very complicated... 1264 1265 1266Printing: 1267- Add "page width" to wrap long lines. 1268- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for 1269 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function. 1270- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'. 1271- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer 1272 name, portrait/landscape, etc). 1273- PostScript: only works for 7-bit ASCII and EBCDIC. Should support 1274 different 'encoding' values somehow. 1275- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same 1276 units as for the margins. 1277- Support right-to-left text? 12788 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the 1279 color. 1280 1281 1282Syntax highlighting: 12838 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson) 1284 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual". 12858 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined 1286 cluster can be added to existing syntax items. 12878 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this: 1288 "({ something })", often used in GCC code. 12898 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing 1290 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for 1291 ":wq file". 12928 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script). 12939 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is 1294 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it... 12957 Make syntax keyword table configurable. Set number of bits used with 1296 ":syn clear [hashbits]", so that we don't need to reallocate the table. 1297 minimal 4 bits, maximal 16. (Campbell) 12987 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and 1299 Search highlighting. 13008 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to 1301 change this for each release. 13028 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end 1303 pattern, but not in the body. 13048 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this 1305 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item, 1306 instead of the containing item. 13078 For keywords, allow to define the size of the hash table with ":syn 1308 clear". Change KHASH_ defines into variables stored in buffer struct. 1309 Use something else than linear linked list from the hash table. (Campbell) 13108 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside (). 13118 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype 1312 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules? 1313 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, 1314 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax. 13158 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a 1316 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained] 13178 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey 1318 background) when on one of the parens or in between them. 1319 Or highlight the matching paren when the cursor is on one. 13208 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error". 13218 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop 1322 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be 1323 used. 13248 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will 1325 allow spell checking. (Fleiner) 13268 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And 1327 re-insert the [] if possible. 13288 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for 1329 the Cursor). 13308 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like 1331 using "\1" in a ":s" command. 13328 Support for deleting syntax items: 1333 :syn keyword cTodo remove this 1334 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern" 1335 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that" 13368 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way 1337 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for 1338 a '<'. (Fleiner) 13397 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification? 1340 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or 1341 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern. 13427 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be 1343 detected. 13448 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original 1345 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this). 13468 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to 1347 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible. 13488 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group. 13498 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values. 13507 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to 1351 ":mkvimrc". 13528 Improve c.vim: 1353 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on: 1354 "c_strict_ansi". 1355 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way... 13568 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the 1357 current line while in Insert mode. 13588 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been 1359 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again? 13608 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current 1361 display position. 13628 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to 1363 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern. 1364 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()". 13658 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until 1366 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when 1367 highlighting starts. 13687 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the 1369 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow. 1370 E.g. for this html: 1371 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I> 13727 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed 1373 (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"): 1374 :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display="" 13757 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is. 13767 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled 1377 words. 13787 Command line completion for ":find" should search in 'path'. 13798 Add more command line completion for :syntax. 13808 Add more command line completion for :highlight. 13818 Add more command line completion for :sign. 13827 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands. 1383 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and 1384 completion? 13858 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their 1386 highlighting. (Salman Halim) 13877 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to 1388 select one of the sets. 13898 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1 1390 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch 1391 2, etc. 13928 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the 1393 highlighting (for "." command). 13948 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /. 1395 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /? 13968 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing. 13977 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs": 1398 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c". 13996 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of 1400 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall) 1401- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful 1402 when extending an already existing syntax file. 1403- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too? 1404- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin 1405 (for comment blocks). 1406- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags: 1407 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor. 1408 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match. 1409 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match. 1410 Also for {}, <>, etc.? 1411 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?) 1412 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the 1413 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it. 1414 (Campbell) 1415 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around 1416 the cursor. (Iain Truskett) 14177 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword. 1418 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow). 14197 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should 1420 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set). 1421 And allows for sections with different highlighting. 14227 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it 1423 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from 1424 messages. And external commands? 14258 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for 1426 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim? 14277 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an 1428 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line. 1429 1430 1431Built-in script language: 14328 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and 1433 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings. 14348 Allow range for ":exec". Pass it on to the executed command. (Webb) 14358 exists("&&option") tests if 'option' is actually implemented. Useful for 1436 'shellslash', for example. 14378 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham) 14388 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When 1439 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an 1440 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same 1441 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle 1442 nested packages? 1443 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}(). 1444 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from 1445 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path). 14467 Make globpath() also work with "**" and upwards search. (Brian Medley) 14477 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode. 1448 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if 1449 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that 1450 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an 1451 autocommand. 1452 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a 1453 .vim file. Problem: distribution. 1454 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached 1455 file belongs to a sourced script? 14567 Add "n" flag to search() function, just like searchpair(). (Alexey 1457 Marinichev) 14587 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn', 1459 signs and/or 'number'. 14608 Add functions: 1461 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what}) 1462 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}. 1463 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File". 1464 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu 1465 File.Open..." argument. 1466 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22 1467 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary 1468 with properties instead. 1469 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping. 1470 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4. 1471 Return a list instead. 1472 sprintf(format, arg, ..) How to prevent a crash??? 1473 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx" 1474 mkdir(dir) Create directory 1475 copy(from, to) Copy a file 1476 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string 1477 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace() 1478 input(prompt, complete) like input() but do specified completion 1479 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left 1480 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in 1481 Visual block mode. 1482 tagtype(tag) get type of tag (also checks if it exists) 1483 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard) 1484 getbufline() get line from any buffer 1485 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer 1486 appendbufline() append line in any buffer 1487 sort() Sort a newline-separated string. Also: 1488 ":sort". 1489 libcall() Allow more than one argument. 1490 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function 1491 to allow the library to execute a command or 1492 evaluate an expression. 1493 char2hex() convert char string to hex string. XX 1494 hex2char() convert hex string to char string. XX 14957 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the 1496 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero. 14978 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was 1498 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file. 14998 Pass the executable name to the Vim scripts in some way. As v:argv0? 15008 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts. 15018 When starting to source a vim script, delete all functions that it has 1502 previously defined? Avoids using ":fun!" all the time. 15037 Add optional arguments to user functions: 1504 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17) 15056 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"? 15068 Add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var" just ignore. 15078 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable, 1508 option or environment variable. 15098 ":let &option" should list the value of the option. 15107 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the 1511 stack available (separated with '\n'). 15128 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed: 1513 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands} 15148 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started. 15158 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default), 1516 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0, 1517 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and 1518 charwise({expr}). 15197 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer 1520 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch 1521 buffer for this? 1522 result = scratch(string, command) 1523 result = apply(string, command) 1524 result = execute(string, command) 1525 "command" would use <> notation. 1526 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number? 15277 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds). 15287 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an 1529 option for the search path. (Sekera) 15307 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files. 1531 1532 1533Robustness: 15348 This pattern in syntax/java.vim causes a recursive call of regmatch(): 1535 syn match javaStringError +"\([^"\\]\|\\.\)*$+ 1536 A long line with a " in it can cause a crash when it runs out of stack 1537 space (on systems where this isn't caught). How can we catch this for 1538 more systems? 15396 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or 1540 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing 1541 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking . 1542 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf). 1543 Andy doesn't have time to work on it. 1544 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a 1545 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded? 1546 1547 1548Performance: 15498 Loading plugins takes startup time. Only load the part that is used to 1550 trigger the rest, and load the rest when it's needed? 15518 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags. 15529 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster? 15538 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result? 15547 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when 1555 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start? 15568 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same 1557 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines 1558 when starting up in a color terminal. 15598 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on 1560 Win16. 15619 Setting GUI options in the console (e.g., 'guifont') should not cause a 1562 redraw. 15638 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this 1564 function be improved? 15658 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the 1566 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap 1567 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can 1568 this be improved? 15698 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up 1570 MS-DOS version. (Negri) 15717 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower when adding a region for folding 1572 from { to }. (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman) 15737 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying 1574 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang) 15757 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a 1576 lot of abbreviations). 15777 DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster. 15787 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file 1579 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line 1580 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>. 1581 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat. 1582 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place. 1583 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase. 1584 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc. 15858 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the 1586 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was 1587 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating 1588 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)? 15898 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to 1590 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid 1591 using strcmp() too often? 15927 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file? 1593 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating 1594 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a 1595 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another 1596 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from 1597 the two blocks to the memfile block. 15987 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory 1599 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called 1600 with an argument that can be messed with. 1601 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that 1602 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced. 16037 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)". 1604- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek() 16058 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in 1606 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim. 1607- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of 1608 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation? 1609- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki) 1610- Do profiling on: 1611 - :g/pat/normal cmd 1612 - 1000ii<Esc> 1613 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary) 1614 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan) 1615 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u". 1616 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and 1617 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl". 1618 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary. 1619 - editing a vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim). 16207 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were 1621 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it 1622 changed). 1623 - On each change, remember start and end of the change. 1624 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count. 1625- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest! 1626- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still 1627 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"? 1628- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to 1629 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from 1630 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg(). 1631- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of 1632 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing). 1633- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height. 1634- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if 1635 cursor is right of the screen. 16368 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a 1637 CTRL-C (it's slow). 1638 1639 1640Code size: 16418 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded. 1642- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be 1643 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions. 16448 Make a GUI-only version for Unix? 16458 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using 1646 it. 16477 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be 1648 left out. 16498 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals 1650 can be removed. 16518 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed? 1652 1653 1654Messages: 16558 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the 1656 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!". 16578 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip 1658 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()? 16598 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a 1660 script. 16618 "vim --version" output goes to stderr, should be stdout. Can all output 1662 from messages using printf() go to stdout? 1663- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key. 1664 Perhaps after ten seconds? 1665- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9. 16669 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays: 1667 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop. 1668 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long 1669 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before 1670 redrawing. 16717 Add an option, which is a regexp, that disables warning messages which 1672 match that regexp (Tsirkin). 16738 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more 1674 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text. 16758 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another 1676 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option 1677 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off". 1678 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts 1679 typing, error messages must be switched back on. 1680 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings). 1681- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed? 1682 sleep before second message? 16838 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is 1684 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers", 1685 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the 1686 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall) 1687 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and 1688 error messages, printing text, etc. 16898 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt. 1690 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when 1691 a prompt is present (with a callback function?). 1692 1693 1694Screen updating: 16957 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one 1696 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the 1697 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit). 1698- screen_line(): 1699 - insert/delete character stuff. 1700 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line). 1701- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when 1702 dragging the status line with the mouse). 1703- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when 1704 waiting for a character. 17058 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from 1706 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when 1707 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping. 17087 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together. 1709 1710 1711Scrolling: 17128 Add "zm" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle. 17136 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi) 1714- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc.. 1715 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound 1716 windows. 17177 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next 1718 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it 1719 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer. 1720- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it 1721 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this? 1722 (Goldfarb) 1723- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all 1724 bound windows. 1725- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to 1726 be bound by regexp searches 1727- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell) 1728- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the 1729 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number 1730 of lines but not with a single line). 1731 1732 1733Autoconf: 17348 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader. 17358 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb) 1736 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically? 1737- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the 1738 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner). 1739- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4(). 1740- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it? 1741- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf. 1742 1743 1744Perl interface: 17458 Rename typemap file to something else? 17467 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark) 17477 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C? 17486 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll). 1749 1750 1751Shared libraries: 17526 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it. 1753 :libload internal-name libname 1754 :libunload internal-name 1755 :liblist 1756 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...) 1757 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...) 1758 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment. 17596 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries. 1760 1761 1762Tags: 17638 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify 1764 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m". 17658 Add a function that returns the line in the tags file for a matching tag. 1766 Can be used to extract more info (class name, inheritance, etc.) (Rico 1767 Hendriks) 17687 Count before CTRL-]: jump to N'th match 17698 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis. 17708 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able 1771 to type the tag number directly. 17727 Add a tag-select window. Works like ":cwindow". (Michal Malecki) 17737 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a 1774 window for each tag. 17757 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting? 17767 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit 1777 bottom" search message. 17787 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry, 1779 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were 1780 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb) 17817 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and 1782 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod". 1783 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func" 1784 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx. 17857 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields: 1786 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c 1787 :tagargs clear 1788 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag 1789 matching). 17907 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command? 1791 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi. 1792 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi) 1793 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way. 17947 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With 1795 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again. 17967 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use 1797 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add 1798 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect". 1799 1800 1801Security: 1802- nothing at the moment 1803 1804 1805Win32 GUI: 18068 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for 1807 the message and input? 18087 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at 1809 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 1810 dynamically? 18117 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu. 1812 (Mike McCollister) 18138 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several 1814 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't 1815 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all 1816 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest 1817 common part of the path. 18188 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik) 18198 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that 1820 gettext and menus work. 18218 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit 1822 return in every console. 1823 Also: Look at how Emacs does runs external commands: 1824 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html. 18258 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands: 1826 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text). 18278 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF. 1828 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands? 18297 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme. 1830 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser) 18317 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog). 18327 <Esc> should close a dialog. 18337 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be 1834 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended 1835 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any 1836 prompts. 18377 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that 1838 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have 1839 the file added into an already running Vim. 18407 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide 1841 functions to find the window title. 1842 1843 1844GUI: 18458 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS. 1846- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a 1847 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier. 18487 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows. 18498 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI. 18506 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu. 18518 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When 1852 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position. 18539 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze) 18547 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype? 18558 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the 1856 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide". 18578 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text 1858 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine 1859 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated. 18608 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim) 1861 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front. 18628 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more 1863 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c. 1864 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow 1865 running them in separate processes. 18667 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument. 18678 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask 1868 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code. 18697 Add some code to handle proportional fonts? Need to draw each character 1870 separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font is not exactly 1871 double-width. (Maeda) 18728 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default). 18738 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to 1874 select one. Martin Dalecki has a font selector for Motif, but it needs a 1875 bit more work. 18768 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.). 18778 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all? 18788 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a 1879 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this 1880 portable (X11, Win32, ..)? 18817 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items. 1882 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The 1883 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything. 18847 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back. 1885 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim). 18867 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can 1887 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors. 1888 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For 1889 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs. 18907 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the 1891 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas) 18927 Should support multi-column menus. 1893- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far 1894 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right). 1895- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode". 18968 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus. 18976 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a 1898 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui". 18997 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'? 19007 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos', 1901 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>. 1902 Or add a command, like ":winsize"? 19037 Add toolbar for more GUIs. 19048 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item 1905 name can be chosen free. 19067 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of 1907 the window? Allows for softkey-like use. 19086 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the 1909 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a 1910 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is 1911 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to 1912 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks 1913 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI 1914 things. 19157 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default 1916 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog. 1917- Motif steals <F10> from us, to pop up menus with the keyboard. How do we 1918 get it back if we want it? 1919- Paste in Insert mode should not do autowrap etc. Or maybe this should be 1920 changeable with an option? 1921- Put a nice picture in the icon (but how do we do that?). 19227 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks 1923 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated. 1924- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal 1925 where it was started from? 19267 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument. 1927 1928 1929VMS: 1930- Improvement: rewrite term/TTY handling. 1931- Improvement: create VMS GTK runtime libraries on OpenVMS 7.1-2 (today GTK 1932 works just on 7.3). 1933 1934 1935Autocommands: 19369 Make sure that side effects of autocommands are handled correctly. Don't 1937 execute autocommands when a buffer or window is halfway some changes. 1938 Move all apply_autocmds() calls to a higher level where needed. 19398 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g. 1940 "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc". 19418 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two 1942 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more 1943 difficult). 19448 Also trigger CursorHold in Insert mode? 19457 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that user 1946 can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the kind 1947 of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient? 19488 Can't use ":normal" in CursorHold autocommands. Make the CursorHold event 1949 insert a special key code, and call the autocommand functions from a 1950 higher level, so that vgetc() isn't used recursively. 19518 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist? 1952 And anything else? 19538 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input 1954 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus). 1955 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ... 19568 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc". 19578 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag. 1958 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found. 19596 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be 1960 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron) 19617 Add a way to skip an autocommand if going from one *.c file to another *.c 1962 file. 19637 When trying to open a directory, don't load the file but trigger an 1964 autocommand event OpenDirectory. 19657 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link, 1966 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate 1967 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type 1968 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard) 19695 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the 1970 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will 1971 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas) 19727 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for 1973 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the 1974 file. 19758 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at 1976 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read 1977 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'. 1978- Add events to autocommands: 1979 Error - When an error happens 1980 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode 1981 InsertEnter - Entering Insert mode 1982 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode 1983 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode 1984 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode 1985 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter) 1986 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled 1987 when exiting isn't a good idea. 1988 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands. 1989 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M") 1990 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged 1991 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the 1992 window title) 1993 BufReadAction - replaces reading a file 1994 BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file 1995 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down 1996 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the 1997 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor. 1998 Set v:char to the character, can be changed. 1999 (not triggered when 'paste' is set). 2000 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting 2001 the char. 2002 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for 2003 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the 2004 file from CVS). 2005 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be 2006 used to do a :preserve for remote files. 2007 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate 2008 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so 2009 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add 2010 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah) 2011 WinResized - When a window has been resized 2012- Add autocommand to be executed every so many seconds? For writing the 2013 file now and then ('autosave'). 2014 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'* 2015 'autosave' 'aw' number (default 0) 2016 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the 2017 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set. 2018 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer. 2019 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make 2020 them save the file itself besides the swapfile. 2021 2022 2023Insert mode completion/expansion: 20248 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete 2025 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages. 20269 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with 2027 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended. 2028 (Webb) 20298 The code has become too complex. Redesign it, or at least add proper 2030 comments. 20318 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion: 2032 - ignore/match case 2033 - different characters than 'iskeyword' 20348 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text. 20358 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive 2036 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of 2037 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo. 2038 Should work for C++ and Java. 2039 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc. 20407 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?). 20417 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS 2042 instead of words. 20438 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents. 20448 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does). 2045 Requires remembering a number of insertions. 20468 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names. 2047 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion. 2048- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the 2049 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use 2050 wildcards in the file name)? 2051- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted). 2052- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?). 2053- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could 2054 be in another file). 2055- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches. 2056- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option? 2057- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string 2058 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W) 2059- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions. 2060- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows? 2061- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly) 20628 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that 2063 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb) 2064 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-]. 2065 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'. 2066- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list). 2067 2068 2069Command line editing: 20707 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command 2071 line. 20728 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion 2073 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of 2074 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc. 2075- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of 2076 lines wraps to start of line). 2077- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view 2078 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many 2079 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run 2080 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012). 2081 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history. 2082 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the 2083 cmdwin does now already. 2084 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal 2085 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T? 2086 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the 2087 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid 2088 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines? 2089 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate 2090 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode 2091 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh. 2092 Problems: 2093 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar' 2094 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations 2095 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches 2096 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands 2097 - Normal: no ":" commands? 2098 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line. 2099 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of 2100 character in first column? 2101 - Implementation ideas: 2102 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer. 2103 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum. 2104 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line. 2105 - sync undo after entering a command line? 2106 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line 2107 Mode. 2108 2109 2110Command line completion: 21118 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument. 21128 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate 2113 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h". 21148 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list 2115 them with the optional part inside []. 21167 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be 2117 edited. (Sven Guckes) 21187 Add completion for when entering an expression after CTRL-R= and "=. 2119 (Servatius Brandt) 2120- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible. 2121- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the 2122 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>". 21238 For ":find" and ":sfind" expand files found in 'path'. 21248 Add cmdline completion for the ":debug" command. 21258 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting 2126 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp? 21277 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the 2128 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb) 2129- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching 2130 identifiers (Webb). 21318 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>" 2132 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit. 21337 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion. 2134 Useful for ":s/word/xx/". 2135- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started. 2136 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line. 2137- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for 2138 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut) 2139 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D. 2140- Add completion for Environment variables: ":echo $SH<Tab>" -> "$SHELL". 2141 2142 2143Command line history: 2144- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a 2145 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a 2146 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't 2147 completely resulted from one mapping. 2148- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history, 2149 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel) 2150 2151 2152Insert mode: 21539 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after 2154 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line. 2155 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug. 21568 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command 2157 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink) 2158 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do 2159 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing. 2160 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode. 21617 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a 2162 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y. 21637 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it 2164 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'. 2165- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed 2166 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and 2167 also for characters that wrap to the next line. 2168 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register). 2169 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that 2170 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>. 2171- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in 2172 Normal mode. 2173- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their 2174 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands 2175 are used. 2176- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits. 2177- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b. 2178- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y. 2179 2180 2181'cindent', 'smartindent': 21828 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with line break in arguments: 2183 Foo::Foo (int one, 2184 int two) 2185 : something(4) 2186 {} 21878 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with multiple lines: 2188 Foo::Foo (int one, int two) 2189 : something(4), 2190 somethingelse(3) 2191 {} 21929 Too much indent for "lulu": (Uwe Zeisberger) 2193 int main () 2194 { 2195 if (lala) 2196 do 2197 ++(*lolo); 2198 while (lili 2199 && lele); 2200 lulu; 2201 } 22029 Function gets extra indent: (Jamax) 2203 void function(int param) { 2204 if (false) 2205 return; 2206 } 22079 brace not indented correctly: 2208 case 'c': if (cond) 2209 { 2210 Should align with "if" in case statement. 22117 Allow aligning a closing ")" with the line above, instead of the matching 2212 "(": (Riehm) if (asdfasdf && 2213 asdf 2214 ) 22158 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is 2216 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer) 22178 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna) 2218 func( 2219 new String[] { 2220 "asdf", 2221 "asdf" 2222 } 2223 ); 22247 Separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner): 2225 func( 2226 int x) // indent like "(4" 2227 { 2228 if (a 2229 && b) // indent like "(0" 22308 Strange problem with this code, "hello" is indented wrong: (Gary Holloway) 2231 main() { char foo[] = "/*"; 2232 /* This is a comment; the indentation of C 2233 * source below this comment gets messed up due to the string above. 2234 */ 2235 hello 22369 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler) 2237 if (a) 2238 { 2239 if (b) 2240 { 2241 // { 2242 } 2243 } <-- this is indented incorrect 22449 Wrong indent for cino=(4, removing the (void) fixes it: (Zellner) 2245 (void) MyFancyFunction( 2246 argument); 2247- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the 2248 indent to 0 should be switched on/off. 22497 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line. 2250- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first 2251 line). 2252- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}? 2253- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous 2254 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically? 22557 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines. 2256- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It 2257 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb) 2258- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out 2259 code), unless the line starts with "*". 2260- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"? 2261- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line 2262 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted). 22638 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the 2264 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more 2265 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment. 2266- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'. 2267- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where 2268 lines start with "\item". 2269- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown) 2270 /* here is a comment that 2271 is just autoindented, and 2272 nothing else */ 2273- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi". 22747 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for 2275 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the 2276 indents. 2277 And/or: Add option to copy indent as-is, without changing spaces to tabs. 2278 also for 'autoindent'. 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and 2279 spaces used for indent, when the indent remains the same or increases. 2280 2281 2282Java: 22838 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve 2284 Odendahl? 22858 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for 2286 "[i" commands and friends. 2287- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java. 2288 (Jason) 2289- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be 2290 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy) 2291 2292 2293'comments': 22948 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated 2295 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping. 2296 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader 2297 when it's "#" or "//". 22987 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line. 2299 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed. 23007 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item. 23016 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more 2302 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a 2303 regexp is used. 23048 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line 2305 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'? 2306 2307 2308Virtual edit: 23098 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left. 23107 Add a mode where the cursor is only allowed to go one character after the 2311 end of the line? 23127 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line? 2313 2314 2315Text objects: 23168 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc. 23177 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it 2318 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area. 23198 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single 2320 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at 2321 the end of the line or before a ".". 23227 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs" 2323 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus) 23247 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph 2325 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}"). 23266 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email. 23275 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For 2328 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one. 2329 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the 2330 cursor is on. 2331 2332 2333Select mode: 23348 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block, 2335 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall) 23367 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word. 2337 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743 23387 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line. 2339 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse' 2340 contains 'C' or 'A'. 2341 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in 2342 normal_cmd(). 2343 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info. 2344 - Typing text replaces the selection. 2345 2346 2347Visual mode: 2348- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero, 2349 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer 2350 is in the top line. 23518 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new 2352 text. make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding 2353 where needed. 23547 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width, 2355 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc. 23567 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start 2357 of each selected line. 23588 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode? 23598 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer. 2360 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any 2361 other buffer. (Ron Aaron) 23628 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron, 2363 Ben Godfrey) 23647 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and 2365 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey) 23667 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of 2367 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area. 23687 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David 2369 Young is working on this) 23707 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines. 2371 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with 2372 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line. 23738 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text? 2374 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful. 23757 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should 2376 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an 2377 option! 23787 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position 2379 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select 2380 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen 2381 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap. 2382 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to 2383 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line, 2384 without changing the column. 23856 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode. 23867 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the 2387 current buffer. 23887 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area. 23896 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line, 2390 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1. 23916 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line. 23926 ":'<,'>source" should read the selected lines and ":source" them. 23936 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed 2394 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB 2395 or other special character. 23966 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting. 2397 2398 2399More advanced repeating commands: 2400- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt"). 24017 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember 2402 the command line so that it can be repeated? 2403- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g. 2404 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb). 2405 "y." will repeat last yank. 2406 "c2." will repeat the last but one change? 2407 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history 2408 and/or pick an older command. 2409- History stack for . command? Use "g." command. 2410 2411 2412Mappings and Abbreviations: 24138 Let ":verbose map xx" report where the mapping was set, just like with 2414 ":verbose set". 24158 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be 2416 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell) 2417 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command? 24188 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work? 24197 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte". 2420 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway? 24218 ":verbose map" could show the script where the mapping was defined. 2422 m_script_ID can be used. 24238 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the 2424 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&. 24258 Add ":amap", like ":amenu". 24268 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to 2427 entering search strings. 24288 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the 2429 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and 2430 not the <Space>. 24318 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS). 24328 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never 2433 (?) work. 24347 ":verbose map" should display where a mapping was defined, like ":verbose 2435 set". 24368 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function 2437 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is 2438 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings? 24397 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation? 24407 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q", 2441 that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger' 2442 option. 24437 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try 2444 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy". 24457 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character 2446 (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for 2447 mapping a key to do something and then completion. 24487 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard. 24496 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the 2450 abbreviations are to be used. 2451- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For 2452 example, for a mouse escape sequence: 2453 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l 2454- Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping. 2455- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in 2456 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings 2457 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording? 2458- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a 2459 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r". 2460- Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in 2461 <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this? 2462- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings 2463 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does). 2464- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and 2465 mappings off for :unab and :unmap. 24666 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete 2467 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids 2468 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you 2469 hit another character. 2470- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings: 2471 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G 2472 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l 2473 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g 2474 Or implicit: 2475 :map q <Register>d<Number>$ 2476- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for 2477 non-replace Insert mode? 2478- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode? 24796 Alias for Normal mode commands, works like :substitute? Would allow 2480 mappings with arguments. 2481- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings. 2482- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key 2483 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself. 2484- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as 2485 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command? 2486- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they 2487 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>. 2488- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap. 2489- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping 2490 ":freekeys". 2491- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm). 2492 2493 2494Incsearch: 2495- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'? 2496- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn 2497 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled 2498 up every time. 2499- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the 2500 folds when going to another line. 2501- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many 2502 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?) 2503 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match 2504 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872. 2505- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other 2506 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid). 2507 2508 2509Searching: 25108 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\(([^()]*\@@[^()]*)\)\@r". \@@ stands 2511 for "go recursive here" and \@r marks the recursive atom. 2512item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on 2513 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of 2514 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"? 2515 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)* 25167 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for 2517 search(). (Brett) 25187 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's 2519 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference. 25208 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in 2521 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax? 25228 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current 2523 line. 25247 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an 2525 example. 25268 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in 2527 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif. 2528- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that 2529 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */). 2530 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back. 2531 Alternative: use matchit.vim 25328 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care? 25338 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that 2534 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it. 2535 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$". 25367 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and 2537 "\d". 25387 Add a way to specify characters as hex, octal or <C-M> form. Could be 2539 \%1ax, \%200o and \%<C-M>. Also \%1234u for multi-byte chars. 25408 Flags that apply to the whole pattern. 2541 This works for all places where a regexp is used. 2542 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern? 25438 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example, 2544 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line. 25458 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g" 2546 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command. 2547 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing 2548 search pattern. 2549- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group. 2550 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group. 2551- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade) 2552 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one. 2553 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's 2554 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities. 25557 Add POSIX regexp, like Nvi, with 'extended' option? It's like very-magic. 2556- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it. 2557 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling) 2558- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?): 2559 i ignore case 2560 I use case 2561 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?) 2562 v use Vi regexp syntax 2563 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command 2564 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command 2565 Perl uses these too: 2566 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only) 2567 m multiple line expression (we don't need it) 2568 o compile only once (Perl only) 2569 s single line expression (we don't need it) 2570 x extended regexp (we don't need it) 2571 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the 2572 following command. 2573 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault'). 2574- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used 2575 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/ 2576 for search string)? 25777 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special 2578 characters. See C't article, August 1997. 2579- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are 2580 equivalent (for Unix filenames). 2581- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text 2582 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin) 2583- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this". 2584- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer, 2585 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern: 2586 a for the next file in the argument list 2587 f for file in the buffer list 2588 w for file edited in a window. 2589 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for 2590 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask 2591 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No 2592 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ". 2593- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler) 2594- Special characters in patterns: 2595 Inside []: 2596 \012 octal character 2597 \0x1a hex character 2598 \0<BS> \0<Esc>: special character 25997 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search 2600 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark. 26017 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after 2602 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe 2603 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in 2604 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always). 26056 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side 2606 effects. 26077 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete 2608 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc. 2609 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary. 26107 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) 2611 Also ":dselect". 2612 2613 2614Undo: 2615- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not 2616 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a", 2617 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted? 26188 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo 2619 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new 2620 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing. 2621 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things. 26228 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change, 2623 only remember the lines that really changed. 26247 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous 2625 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a 2626 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need 2627 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone. 26287 Add an undo tree: When making a change, instead of clearing any future 2629 undo (thus redo) info, make a new branch. How to navigate through the 2630 undo tree? 2631- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and ']. 2632 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb). 2633- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the 2634 number of undo levels (with confirmation). 2635- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123]. 2636 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number: 2637 [-99]. 2638- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating. 2639- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once. 2640- Store undo info in a file that survives until the next edit. Then it's 2641 possible to undo to before the current editing session. Combined with 2642 viminfo? 2643- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed, 2644 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file?? 2645 2646 2647Buffer list: 26487 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}". 2649 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that 2650 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the 2651 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only". 26528 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files. 2653 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim. 26548 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check 2655 inode too. 26567 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When 2657 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use. (or the highest 2658 number in use plus one?) 26597 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and 2660 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann) 2661- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the 2662 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb) 2663- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the 2664 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"? 26657 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list. 2666 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson) 26677 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer 2668 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc. 26698 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected. 26708 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$' 2671 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel". 26727 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for 2673 internal use and for when executing an external program? 2674 2675 2676Swap (.swp) files: 26778 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another 2678 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when 2679 there are short file name problems. 26808 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap 2681 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions. 26828 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su. 26838 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same 2684 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file 2685 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup 2686 file the same as the actual file? 2687 Use the code for resolve()? 26887 Store the options 'fileencoding', 'fileformat', etc. in the swapfile, 2689 because they change what will be written to the file. Requires adding 2690 another block to the swapfile. 26917 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another 2692 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible. 26937 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere 2694 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'? 2695 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not 2696 enough room. 26977 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp 2698 or /var/preserve. 2699- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to 2700 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only. 2701- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen). 2702 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'? 2703- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the 2704 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do 2705 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a 2706 cached list of which line is where. 2707 2708 2709Viminfo: 27107 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file, 2711 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone 2712 else's viminfo file. 27138 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file 2714 name. (Schild) 27158 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu). 27168 Remember the last used register for "@@". 27178 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the 2718 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so. 2719 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display 2720 this? 27217 Also store the ". register (last inserted text). 27227 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some 2723 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron) 27246 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting 2725 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the 2726 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code? 2727- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of 2728 "last visited files" and select one to jump to. 2729 2730 2731Modelines: 27328 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid 2733 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it. 2734 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ". 2735- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to 2736 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the 2737 modeline setting. 2738- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings, 2739 no function calls, to avoid a security problem. 2740- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for 2741 .cpp files. 2742- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for 2743 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak. 2744- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed 2745 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir. 2746 2747 2748Options: 27498 Make ":mksession" store buffer-specific options for the specific buffer. 27508 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when 2751 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant) 27527 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only 2753 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the 2754 side effect. 27558 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to 2756 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their 2757 default value. 27588 Should ":mksession" restore the current directory when writing the 2759 session, or the directory where the session file is? Probably need a word 2760 in 'sessionoptions' to make a choice: 2761 "curdir" (cd to current directory when session file was generated) 2762 "sessiondir" (cd to directory of session file) 2763 "nodir" (don't cd at all) 27648 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string 2765 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should 2766 also be supported. 27678 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag 2768 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting 2769 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used. 27707 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas) 27717 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the 2772 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway) 27737 Add plugins for formatting. Should be able to make a choice depending on 2774 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.). 2775 2776 2777External commands: 27788 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen 2779 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd". 27804 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls" 2781 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g. 2782 -f). 27834 Allow direct execution, without using a shell. 27844 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI? 2785 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell! 27864 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands. 2787 2788 2789Multiple Windows: 27907 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits. 27918 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window. 2792 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window. 27937 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab> 2794 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to 2795 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer. 27967 Add a 'winfixwidth' option, similar to 'winfixheight'. 27976 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window. 2798 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new 2799 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would 2800 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel) 28017 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows 2802 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with 2803 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE 2804 too. Requires some form of inter process communication. 2805- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer 2806 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command. 2807 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer 2808 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made. 2809 2810 2811Marks: 28128 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this 2813 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-. 28148 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m? 28158 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times. 2816 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file. 28178 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle 2818 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when 2819 the mark was set. 28207 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers, 2821 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands 2822 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with 2823 ":browse marks"? 28246 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige) 28257 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the 2826 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark. 28277 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group). 2828 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does. 28297 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m 2830 command). 28317 Try to keep marks in the same position when: 2832 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the 2833 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo) 2834 - inserting/deleting characters in a line. 28355 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in 2836 mappings. 28376 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and 2838 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines. 2839 Highlight the marked lines somehow. 2840 2841 2842Digraphs: 28437 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists. 2844 Also the keymap? 2845- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line 2846 below/above). 2847- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special 2848 characters? 28498 Add command to remove (all) digraphs. (Brown) 28507 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At 2851 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32). 2852 2853 2854Writing files: 2855- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for 2856 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to 2857 shortname conversion. 28588 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc. 28598 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode' 2860 file. 28618 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some 2862 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another 2863 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'? 28647 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make 2865 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski) 28666 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like 2867 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'. 28686 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory. 2869 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas) 28706 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#". 2871 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name? 28728 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids 2873 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman) 28747 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations 2875 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition). 28767 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more 2877 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is 2878 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before 2879 waiting for a character to be typed). 28808 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status 2881 line of the window, like "[time]". 2882 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes. 2883 Automatic and/or with a command. 2884 2885 2886Substitute: 28878 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.: 2888 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w". 2889- :s///p prints the line after a substitution. 2890- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern. 28918 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective. 2892 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys. 2893- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or: 2894 :s///N substitutes N times. 2895- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.: 2896 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do 2897 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution. 28987 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex 2899 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the 2900 last line column 5. 29015 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks, 2902 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the 2903 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands. 2904 (Stanislav Sitar) 2905 2906 2907Mouse support: 29088 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'? 29097 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu. 29108 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic 2911 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you 2912 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar) 29137 Checkout sysmouse() for FreeBSD console mouse support. 2914- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console. 2915- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to 2916 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners). 2917- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!? 2918- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to. 2919 2920 2921Crypt and security: 29228 Also crypt the swapfile, each block separately. Change mf_write() and 2923 mf_read(). How to get b_p_key to these functions? 2924 2925 2926Argument list: 29276 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list. 2928 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches 2929 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match. 29306 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers? 2931 2932 2933Registers: 29348 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne) 29358 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping 2936 around in windows. 29378 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for 2938 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r" 2939 for every line. 29406 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the 2941 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What 2942 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.? 2943- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of 2944 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more". 2945- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment 2946 leader when line wraps? 2947- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each 2948 line in the range. 2949- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text 2950 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo") 29518 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register. 2952 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)? 2953 2954 2955Debug mode: 29567 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received. 29578 Add breakpoints for setting an option 29588 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable. 29597 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution 2960 when evaluating to non-zero. 29617 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo. 29627 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al. 2963 2964 2965Various improvements: 29668 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename 2967 the buffer. Buffer may be modified. 29686 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of 2969 errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c". 29706 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5) 29717 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>. 2972 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"? 2973 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command. 29747 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a 2975 window as a buffer-tab selection. 29767 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want 2977 to manipulate text without changing the window layout. 29788 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until 2979 all changes are gone. 29807 Add a ":cpfile", go in the other direction as ":cnfile". 29816 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri) 29828 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim. 2983 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim. 2984 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it 2985 in this Vim. 29868 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as 2987 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"? 29888 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes 2989 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and 2990 have it apply to the following command. 29918 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other 2992 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the 2993 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up. 2994 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'? 29957 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a 2996 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files. 29977 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>, 2998 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize 2999 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key 3000 without modifier (unless mapped). 30018 Add ":breakdel *": delete all breakpoints. 30027 Support ":browse edit" in console, using explorer.vim? 30036 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line. 30048 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map". 30059 Support ACLs on more systems. 30067 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be 3007 highlighted differently. 30088 Allow using "**" as a wildcard in commands like ":next" and ":args". 30098 Provide a way to avoid wildcard expansion. Use double quotes, like in the 3010 shell? :edit "my[file].txt" (currently works if there is no "myf.txt") 30117 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above 3012 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message 3013 (truncated to fit in the space). 30147 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner) 30158 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout) 30168 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise 3017 Visual mode. 30187 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use 3019 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV. 30207 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping 3021 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0". 30227 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name. 30237 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently. 30247 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines? 30258 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney) 30268 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in 3027 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for 3028 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef 3029 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do? 30308 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down. 30316 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain 3032 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron) 30338 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists. 30348 Use confirm/dialog stuff to ask the user, when a file has changed outside 3035 of Vim, if he wants to reload it. Triggered when focus gained, after 3036 shell command, when entering another buffer, etc.. 3037 Also do this when editing a new file, and another application creates 3038 the file before doing ":w" in Vim. 3039 Also check if the file protection has changed. When checking a file into 3040 RCS it is made read-only, when checking out it is made read-write. 30418 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file 3042 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would 3043 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist 3044 does something like this. (Shah) 30457 Use growarray for replace stack. 30467 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution 3047 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis). 30483 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"? 30498 Make "more" prompt accept command characters, like "hit-enter" prompt? 3050 Or extend it with more commands, like "less": 'b' for back, 'j' for one 3051 line down, etc. 30528 For the "--more--" prompt, support the 'b'ack command for more commands. 3053 Possible implementation: Do it at a very low level, caching the lines that 3054 are on the screen (with highlight attributes). Avoids that changes have 3055 to be made for all functions that list something. 30567 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same 3057 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers? 3058- Keep a list of most recently used files for each window, use "[o" to go 3059 back (older file) and "]n" to go forward (newer file) (like ^O and ^I for 3060 jumps) (Webb). Use ":files" and ":ls" to list the files in history order. 30617 Add a history of recently accessed buffer. Maybe make "2 CTRL-^" jump to 3062 the 2nd previously visited buffer, "3 CTRL-^" to the third, etc. Or use 3063 "3 g CTRL-^" for this? 3064- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode. 3065- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file. 3066- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c 3067- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window. 30687 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive 3069 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used. 3070- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home 3071 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc. 3072- Remove mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this. 3073- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set, 3074 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert) 3075- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to 3076 call "play newbeep.au"). 3077- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or 3078 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function. 3079 (Bhatt). 3080- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for 3081 blockwise registers). 3082- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the 3083 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt). 3084- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps 3085 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed, 3086 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't 3087 noticeable. 30889 When using ":w <fname>" it's possible that this file is loaded in another 3089 buffer. Give a warning right away, don't wait for a shell command. 3090- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb). 30917 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters. 3092 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code. 3093- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs 3094 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between 3095 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent 3096 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new 3097 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change. 30988 Add 'formatexpr' option: Used for formatting operator "gq" instead of the 3099 builtin formatting or 'formatprg'. 31008 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the 3101 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for 3102 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a 3103 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line). 3104 ":set autoformat=\\s$". 3105- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern? 31067 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the 3107 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt) 3108- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is 3109 not in column 1. 31106 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a 3111 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext". 31127 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined? 3113- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator? 31148 findmatchlimit() should be able to skip comments. Solves problem of 3115 matching the '{' in /* if (foo) { */ (Fiveash) 3116- Add more redirecting of Ex commands: 3117 :redir @> register (append) 3118 :redir # bufname 3119 :redir #> bufname (append) 3120 :redir = variable 3121 :redir => variable (append) 3122- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with 3123 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set". 3124 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit". 31256 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32 3126 console? (Klaus Hast) 3127- Add :delcr command: 3128 *:delcr* 3129 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines 3130 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is 3131 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range]. 3132 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If 3133 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all 3134 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi} 3135- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat(). 3136- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta 3137 characters from 'isprint'. 3138- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName(). 3139- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area. 3140 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn. 3141- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but 3142 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More 3143 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion. 3144- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()). 3145- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like 3146 Nvi). 3147- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the 3148 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define. 31497 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position. 3150- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that 3151 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'? 31526 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file. 3153- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the 3154 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13 3155 macro). 3156- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files. 3157- Add command like ":ts" that shows the output of "[I" and asks for a match 3158 to jump to. (Zellner) 3159- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also 3160 expanded. Is there a better way to do this? 3161- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source". 31628 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set. 3163- Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null". 3164- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty. 3165- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible! 3166- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down 3167 if it is not the first or last window. 3168- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if 3169 there is one) instead of the file itself. 31707 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example: 3171 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0 3172 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files. 3173- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion. 3174- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as 3175 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so 3176 many percent down the windows). 3177- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the 3178 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the 3179 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'. 3180- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g. 3181 'dictionary' when it is "*.h". 3182- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to 3183 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit). 3184- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent) 3185- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends. 3186- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the 3187 passwd file? (Antwerpen) 3188- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack. 3189- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush". 31908 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw", 3191 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is 3192 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack? 3193 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when 3194 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping? 3195- Use a builtin grep command for ":grep"? Makes it possible to add the 3196 column number. Can use the code of ":helpgrep". 3197 Also support using "**" in filename, so that a directory tree can be 3198 searched. 3199- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time 3200 t_bs is set? (Webb) 3201- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also 3202 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert). 3203- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline (Demirel). Store 3204 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window 3205 (Webb). 3206- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the 3207 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al. 3208- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering 3209 hex codes like 0xff). 3210- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command 3211 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo 3212 the last TYPED command. 3213- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf". 3214- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows. 3215- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/" 3216 should also work? 3217- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL? 32188 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file 3219 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine 3220 name. 3221- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a 3222 trailing '.'. 3223- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a 3224 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use 3225 find_file_in_path(). 3226- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between 3227 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon). 3228- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion. 3229- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a 3230 form usable by Vim on the current machine. 3231- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have 3232 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags. 3233- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one 3234 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains 3235 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline. 3236- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine 3237 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz) 3238- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments. 3239- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt) 3240- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back 3241 to the minimal size. 3242- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */). 3243- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline(). 3244- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb). 3245- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file. 3246- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers. 3247- Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw'). 3248- Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line: 3249 "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ??? 3250- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line 3251 entered)? 3252- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible 3253 as an output filter. 3254- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this. 3255- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line. 3256- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file. 3257- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc. 3258- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char. 3259- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long 3260 lines. 3261- Uppercase characters in ex commands can be made lowercase? 32628 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"), 3263 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option 3264 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex 3265 or in octal. 32667 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more 3267 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument? 3268- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source. 3269 After ":w !command" a wait_return? 3270- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()). 3271- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without 3272 insert line command). 3273- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it. 3274- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals. 3275- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000). 3276- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying. 3277- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace 3278 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>. 3279- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work 3280 yet. 3281- Implement 'redraw' option. 3282- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or 3283 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right). 3284- Use pipes for filtering on Unix. Requires using fork() to be able to read 3285 and write at the same time, or some select() mechanism. 32867 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs 3287 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin. 32888 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can 3289 do it. 3290- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to. 3291- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts, 3292 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list. 3293- Add text justification option. 3294- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on". 3295- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is 3296 off". 3297- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR. 3298- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message. 3299- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but 3300 gives read errors. Check protection before opening. 3301- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied". 3302- If file does not exists, check if directory exists. 3303- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor. 3304- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex 3305 commands. 3306- ":set -w all": list one option per line. 3307- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file. 3308- :table command (Webb) 3309- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ". 3310- Make it possible for a user to define a new operator. Implementation with 3311 internal scripting language or Perl? 3312- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?). 3313- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb). 3314- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files. 3315- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel). 3316- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited 3317 (Demirel). 3318- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc. 3319- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore", 3320 for use in macro's and the like. 3321- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while 3322 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window? 3323- Add possibility to put output of ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for 3324 ":set all". ":r :set all"? 3325- 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really 3326 read-only mode). 3327- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not 3328 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in 3329 a window to become smaller (Webb). 3330- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized 3331 proportionally (Webb). 3332- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use 3333 mkopttab to make option table? 3334- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current 3335 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)? 3336- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster 3337 (Haritsis). 3338- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used 3339 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev) 3340- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the 3341 cursor? 3342- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton). 3343- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)? 33445 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names. 3345 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix. 33468 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore 3347 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in 3348 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams: 3349 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another 3350 option name. 33518 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to 3352 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places. 3353 (Netherton) 33546 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a 3355 space after "(", for example. 33565 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs 3357 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit'). 3358 (Servatius Brandt) 3359 3360 3361From Elvis: 3362- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages? 3363- Add ":alias" command. 3364- fontchanges recognized "\\fB" etc. 3365- Search patterns: 3366 \@ match word under cursor. 3367 but do: 3368 \@w match the word under the cursor? 3369 \@W match the WORD under the cursor? 33708 ":window" command: 3371 :win + next window (up) 3372 :win ++ idem, wrapping 3373 :win - previous window (down) 3374 :win -- idem, wrapping 3375 :win nr to window number "nr" 3376 :win name to window editing buffer "name" 33777 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is 3378 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"? 3379 3380 3381From Nvi: 3382- 'searchincr' option, alias for 'incsearch'? 3383- 'leftright' option, alias for 'nowrap'? 3384- Have a look at "vi/doc/vi.chart", for Nvi specialties. 33858 Add 'keytime', time in 1/10 sec for mapping timeout? 3386- Add 'filec' option as an alternative for 'wildchar'. 33876 Support Nvi command names as an alias: 3388 :bg :hide 3389 :fg fname :buf fname (with 'hidden' set?) 3390 :dis b :ls 3391 :Edit fname :split fname 3392 :Fg fname :sbuf fname (with 'hidden' set?) 3393 :Next :snext (can't do this, already use :Next) 3394 :Previous :sprevious 3395 :Tag :stag 3396 3397 3398From xvi: 3399- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character. 3400- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet) 3401 3402 3403From vile: 3404- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window. 3405- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files 3406 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files. 3407 3408 3409Far future and "big" extensions: 3410- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice 3411 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,... 3412- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in 3413 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac). 3414 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the 3415 current layout mirrored. 3416- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer. 3417- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords, 3418 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.). 3419- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent). 3420- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different 3421 font in each top-level window. 3422- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit'). 3423- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them. 3424- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning. 3425- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to. 3426 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim). 3427- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all 3428 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files 3429 mentioned in the tags file. 3430 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???) 3431 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."? 3432- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other 3433 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter). 3434- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five 3435 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc.. 34364 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands: 3437 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format. 3438 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted. 3439 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list, 3440 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags 3441 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples: 3442 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list 3443- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes 3444 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but 3445 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/. 3446 3447 3448vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl: 3449vim: set fo+=n : 3450