1*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2004 Sep 13 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 33Endless loop when "syntax reset" in ~/.vim/after/syntax/syncolor.vim. 34Crash when using ":set background=dark". Solved! 35Limit init_highlight() to five recursive calls? 36 patch for Vim 6.3 for free_oldval and init_highlight()? 37 38Crash with long line. (Walter Briscoe, Sep 13) 39 40Add fix for appending BOM to 6.3? Reported by Alex Jakushev. 41 42Win32 console doesn't compile. Does GetCommandLineW() work for non-GUI? 43(Dave Roberts) If yes, then move the functions to another file. 44link with kernel32.lib? 45 46Aborting at the ATTENTION prompt causes trouble: 47 buffer remains active, nwindows isn't closed (fixed in buffer.c) 48 alternate buffer gets "read error" flag. 49 ":sbuf" and ":ball" leave an empty window behind. 50Change in handle_swap_exists() also in 6.3? 51Add enter_cleanup() and leave_cleanup() also in 6.3? 52 buffer.c 53 ex_eval.c 54 proto/ex_eval.pro 55 structs.h 56 vim.h 57 58Win32: When the path to a file has Russian characters, ":cd %:p:h" doesn't 59work. (Valery Kondakoff) 60Solved in os_mswin.c. Add to 6.3? 61 62Valencia: executable("xxd.exe") returns true while "!xxd" doesn't work. 63 64For version 7.0: 65 66- Include many PATCHES: 67 7 Add 'taglistfiles' option, show file name and type when listing matching 68 tags name with CTRL-D completion. Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan. 69 2004 Jul 11 70 7 For Visual mode: Command to do a search for the string in the marked 71 area. Only when fewer than two lines. Use "g/" and "gb". Patch from 72 Yegappan Lakshmanan. 2004 Jul 11 73 8 Make 'statusline' local, so that each window can have a different 74 value. But should it also be local to a buffer? (Yegappan Lakshmanan 75 has a patch, 2004 Jul 11) 76 8 Add buffer-local autocommands? Reduces overhead for autocommands that 77 trigger often (inserting a character, switching mode). 78 :au Event <buffer> do-something 79 E.g.: 80 :au BufEnter <buffer> menu enable ... 81 :au BufLeave <buffer> menu disable ... 82 Patch from Yakov Lerner, including test (2004 Jan 7). 83 VimResized - When the Vim window has been resized (SIGWINCH) 84 patch from Yakov Lerner, 2003 July 24. 85 Patch for specifying an expression for numbered lists. (Hugo Haas, 86 2004 Aug 7) 87 --- awaiting updated patch --- 88 7 Add patch from Wall for this one ( ~/Mail/oldmail/wall/in.00019 ): 89 'flipcase' variable: upper/lowercase pairs. 90 Insert comma's between pairs and allow a range, make it look like 91 'isfname'. E.g. ":set flipcase=a-zA-Z,xX,23-33:143-153". The colon to 92 separate the from and to part is optional. 93 Resp: no time now. 94 8 Add GTK 2.3 file dialog support. Patch by Grahame Bowland, 2004 Mar 15, 95 but it doesn't use "initdir" or "dflt". (will update patch) 96 8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible. 97 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. 98 He will update the patch for 6.3. 99 Autocommands: 100 7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto. 101 Update 2004 Sep 6. 102 How does this work? Missing comments. 103 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 104 Update 2004 Sep 10 105 More docs. Search in 'runtimepath'? 106 How to get the messages into the .po files? 107 --- did not respond (yet) -- 108 7 Make "5dd" on last-but-one-line not delete anything (Vi compatible). 109 Add flag in 'cpoptions' for this. When not present, "2dd" in the last 110 line should delete the last line. Patch from greenx 2002 Apr 11. 111 8 Accelerators don't work in a dialog. Include patch from Martin Dalecki 112 (Jan 3, tested by David Harrison). Should work with Alt-o then. 113 7 Use accelerators for the Motif file selection dialog. Patch from 114 Martin Dalecki 2002 Jan 11. 115 8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina 116 (28 feb 2002). 117 7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears 118 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3. 119 - Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work 120 for multi-byte characters. 121 - Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind. 122 - Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5) 123 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not 124 been given values. 125 Add section in help files for these highlight groups? 126 8 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm 127 with an ESC sequence. Ideas in: ~/vim/patches/vikas.xtermcolors . 128 7 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Martin 129 Dalecki has a patch for Motif) 130 - Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a 131 line in between columns (e.g. for 'textwidth'). 132 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20. 133 8 Add functions: 134 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical 135 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg) 136 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag 137 (2003 May 13) 138 system({cmd}, {expr}) Filter {expr} through the shell command 139 {cmd} and return the result. 140 (Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan) 141 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for 142 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ ) 143 7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions 144 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10) 145 7 Motif: use the menu font consistently. Patch from Martin Dalecki 2002 146 Jan 11. 147 - Motif: add 3D shading for the menu entries? Patch from Martin Dalecki. 148 7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right 149 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli) 150 8 Lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk (uncrypted). 151 Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. 152 7 Support a stronger encryption. Jason Holt implemented AES (May 6 2003). 153 7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie) 154 8 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's 155 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1. 156 7 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David 157 Kotchan has a patch for it) 158 8 Add term entries for function keys on xterm with alt and ctrl (new in 159 pl 94). E.g., Control adds ";5" in "<Esc>[20;5~". Find a generic way 160 to prepend a modifier in console mode, to avoid having to specify each 161 individual modified key. 162 Steve Wall has a patch (2002 Mar 12) for adding function keys up to 37, 163 with modifiers. 164 8 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See 165 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface. 166 Or use emacs server kind of thing? 167 7 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25. 168 - findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at 169 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram, 170 incomplete patch Mar 18) 171 172 173- In the kvim/KDE source files fix the formatting. 174- KDE version is called "kvim". Make it "gvim", like the others? 175- Better configure check for KDE include files from Dan Sharp. 176- KDE Input method patch. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 177- Change ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be 178 incremented/decremented each time. 179- For string variables, use length instead of NUL termination. 180- new DATA TYPES: lists, dictionaries and function references. 181 Check old patch from Robert Webb for array support. 182 Add type checking? See ~/vim/ideas.txt. 183- Add SPELLCHECKER, with easy to add support for many languages. 184 8 Add spell checking. Use "ispell -a" somehow. 185 ~/vim/patches/wm_vim-5_4d.zip can be used as an example (includes 186 ispell inside Vim). Gautam Iyer has an example with "aspell". 187 "engspchk" from Charles Campbell is a good way. Support for 188 approximate-regexps will help (agrep http://www.tgries.de/agrep/). 189 - Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to 190 existing syntax items (to add @Spell). Add ":syntax contains 191 {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn cluster" but change 192 the contains list directly for matching syntax items. 193 - Keep wordlist in syntax group, load it only once and use it several 194 times later. Sort of global syntax items. 195- REFACTORING: The main() function is very long. Move parts to separate 196 functions, especially loops. Ideas from Walter Briscoe (2003 Apr 3, 2004 197 Feb 9). 198- Improve the interface between the generic GUI code and the system-specific 199 code. Generic code handles text window with scrollbars, system-specific 200 code menu, toolbar, etc. 201- Store messages to allow SCROLLING BACK for all commands. And other "less" 202 like commands. 203- "INTELLISENSE". First cleanup the Insert-mode completion. 204 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747 205 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim 206 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs) 207 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java. 208- PERSISTENT UNDO: store undo in a file. 209 Support multiple threads. Show the list of changes in a window to be able 210 to select a version. 2117 SWAP FILE CHANGE: When a dos format file was edited with ":e ++ff=unix", 212 Vim is killed and trying to recover the file, 'ff' will be dos. Same for 213 non-default fileencoding. (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jul 17) 214 Should store the values in block 0 of the swap file, but that is an 215 incompatible change. 2167 Support WINDOW TABS. Works like several pages, each with their own 217 split windows. Patch for GTK 1.2 from Christian Michon, 2004 Jan 6. 218 Also for the console! 219- EMBEDDING: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program. 220 For Xwindows this can be done with XReparentWindow(). 221 For GTK Neil Bird has a patch to use Vim like a widget. 222- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block 223 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2. 224- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye, 225 assisted by Mikolaj Machowski. Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it 226 generic. Also found here: http://skawina.eu.org/mikolaj/vimgdb 227 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program 228 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the 229 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the 230 other window. 231 Wishes for NetBeans commands: 232 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors. 233 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?) 234 in terminal mode. 235- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is. 236 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command 237 scrolls back to where the cursor is. 2388 Support four composing/combining characters, needed for Hebrew. (Ron Aaron) 239 Add the 'maxcombining' option to set the nr. of composing characters. 240- Add a few more things to 'diffopt': "horizontal", "vertical", 241 "foldcolumn". (Benji Fisher, 2004 Jun 21) 242- FileChangedShellPost autocommand event: after (not) reloading a changed 243 file. Can be used to update statusline oslt. 2448 When a file is change outside of Vim and unmodified in Vim there is no 245 simple way to automatically reload the file. Either add an option for 246 this or make it simple to have the FileChangedShell invoke the normal 247 action, telling it what to do. 248- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display. 249- Mac: Unicode input and display (Eckehard Berns, June 27) 2508 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac? 251 New patch 2004 Jun 16 2529 Add cursor-column highlighting. Enable it with 'cursorcolumn' option, 253 set highlighting with "CursorColumn" group. Useful for aligning text. 254 Also cursor-row highlighting. Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto for 255 underlining the cursor line: 2004 Jun 17. Should use highlight group 256 instead. 257 Alternative: when 'number' is set highlight the number of the current 258 line. 2597 Make ":startinsert" command work directly for functions and scripts? 260 Also make it possible to append (it's difficult at end of line). 261- When using 'incsearch" CTRL-R CTRL-W gets the word under the cursor, but 262 the part that already matched is doubled then. Remove the part of the 263 word that would be doubled. Make it work line CTRL-N in Insert mode. 264- Add Lua interface? (Wolfgang Oertl) 265- "onemore" flag in 'virtualedit': move cursor past end of line. Patch by 266 Mattias Flodin (2004 Jul 30) 267 268Support ":set syntax=cpp.doxygen"? Suggested patch by Michael Geddes (9 Aug 2692004). Should also work for 'filetype'. 270 271Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav 272Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13) 273 274Win32: In 'fileencodings' allow using "acp" for the active codepage. Useful 275value: "ucs-bom,utf-8,acp,latin1" 276 277For manipulating buffers without opening a new window, support Virtual 278windows. Example: 279 :virtwin let l = GetBufLine(4, 10) 280 :fun GetBufLine(bufnr, lnum) 281 : exe "buffer " . a:bufnr 282 : return getline(lnum) 283 :endfun 284The getline() and setline() functions could work for other buffers, using a 285Virtual window. 286A Virtual window only exists for one command. There can be several (for 287nested commands). The window works as if it comes after the last window, size 288is the Vim window size, but it's never displayed. 289 290Win32: In the generated batch files, use $VIMRUNTIME if it's set. Examples by 291Mathias Michaelis (2004 Sep 6) 292Also place vimtutor.bat in %windir%? 293 294 295Vi incompatibility: 2969 In Ex mode, "u" undoes all changes, not just the last one. (John Cowan) 2978 In Ex mode, an empty file doesn't have a first line, "1p" should fail. 2988 In Ex mode, "1,3" should print three lines. 2998 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other 300 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it 301 is deleted or restored. (Webb) 302 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo. 303 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the '' 304 position is one line down. (Veselinovic) 3058 ":change" in a single-line file adds an empty line. When the file used to 306 be longer a "~" line is displayed, but there really is an empty line. 307 (Haakon Riiser, 2003 Dec 3 and Dec 16) 3088 ":append" and ":insert" in an empty file add an extra empty line. (Haakon 309 Riiser, 2003 Dec 3) Test for ML_EMPTY. 3108 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should 311 make Vim exit. 3127 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line 313 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway). 314 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input. 3158 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips 316 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument 317 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded) 3186 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but 319 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag 320 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off. 3218 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another 322 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one. 323 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file 324 names in one buffer??? 325 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and 326 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not 327 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer. 3287 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some 329 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual" 330 command was one command. 3317 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep 332 the ":map" when it's used without arguments? 3337 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option. 3347 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty. 3357 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a 336 flag in 'cpoptions' for this. 3377 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when 338 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing 339 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either 340 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file). 3417 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode). 3427 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines. 3437 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go 344 to the match with the tag? Option? 3457 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option. 3467 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del> 347 (Sayre). 3487 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the 349 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible). 3507 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual". 351 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next 352 match. Nvi can do it too. 3537 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking) 354 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\ 355 line 1\ line 2\\ 356 line 2\ line 3\\ 357 . line4/ 3586 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of 359 the way the shell is started? 3606 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange 361 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line). 362 363 364GTK+ 1 (OK in GTK 2): 3658 When menus are disabled, 'm' removed from 'guioptions', Alt-F still pops 366 up the File menu. Cannot reproduce this: gives a warning for a NULL 367 pointer if the menu was never displayed. 3688 When using "gvim -geom 40x30" or setting 'columns' in .gvimrc or with a 369 GUIEnter autocommand, the width is still set to fit the toolbar. Also 370 happens when changing the font. How to avoid that the toolbar specifies 371 the minimal window width? 3728 When using a theme with different scrollbars (gtkstep), the scrollbars can 373 be too narrow. (Drazen Kacar) 3748 Font "7x14" has a bold version "7x14bold". Try to find the bold font by 375 appending "bold" when there are not 14 dashes. 376 377GTK+ GUI known bugs: 3788 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj 379 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in 380 creating a label? 3819 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim 382 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and 383 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works. 384 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again. 3857 DND doesn't work with KDE (also with GTK 1). 386 387KDE GUI known bugs: 388- The default font is ugly. bold text isn't displayed correctly. 389- Error messages when starting up. The "tip of the day" box is empty. 390- Encoding of menu items needs to be converted. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 391 392Win32 GUI known bugs: 3938 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2 394 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically? 3958 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications. 396 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs. 397 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html 3988 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be 399 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp) 4007 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow 401 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to 402 "lucida_console:h8"). 4036 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":" 404 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis) 4058 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide 406 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both 407 type of characters. 4087 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason 409 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible 410 to use an opaque background in most places? 4118 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that 412 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly. 413 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters. 4148 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font 415 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the 416 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono. 4177 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan, 418 2004 May 9) 4198 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces 420 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim 421 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with 422 MS-Windows 98? 423 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a 424 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed 425 file: Window moves with the cursor! 426 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it? 4278 When activating the Vim window with mouse click, don't move cursor to 428 mouse position. Catch WM_MOUSEACTIVATE. (Luevelsmeyer) 4298 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it 430 appear. (Sami Salonen) 4318 Windows NT: writing to aux.* makes Vim hang. (Acevedo) 4328 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that 433 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win 434 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also 435 doesn't work properly. 4368 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops 437 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it 438 appears in the right position. (Webb) 4399 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse 440 button doesn't give popup menu. 441 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless 442 selection. 443 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button. 444 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the 445 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text. 4468 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the 447 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore) 448 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error 449 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code. 4508 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg. 451 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not 452 be read. 4538 MessageBox used for error messages can be too big. There is no way to 454 scroll it, or even hit the OK button (but you can hit return). 455 Use a scrollable window. 4567 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida 457 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char). 458 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'. 4597 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the 460 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to 461 scroll? Need to be able to get out of hit-enter prompt with the mouse 462 anyway. 4637 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance. 464 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar. 4657 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using 466 "/min" as the command name. (Rogall) 4676 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor). 4688 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work 469 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because 470 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr? 4718 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we 472 know which keyboard is being used? 4737 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern 474 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn 475 area (Koloseike). 4768 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might 477 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first, 478 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in 479 the font name). 480 481 482Athena and Motif: 4839 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is 484 required and it's missing? 4858 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned 486 wrong. 4879 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can 488 be off by default. 4899 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now, 490 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting 491 flag. 4928 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character. 493 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1. 494 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this. 4958 Perhaps use fontsets for everything? 4966 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting 497 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all 498 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of 499 the tooltips work though... 5007 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not 501 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory). 5028 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the 503 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the 504 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'. 505 506 507Athena GUI: 5089 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in 509 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving 510 through files. 5117 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to 512 read long file names. (Schroeder) 5134 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go 514 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the 515 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets" 516 problem during a refresh. 5175 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing 518 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the 519 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors. 520 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes 521 colors as it should. 522 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the 523 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug? 524 525 526Motif GUI: 5278 Popup menu ordering is wrong. 5287 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()? 529 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2). 5308 The texts in the find/replace dialog don't use the right font. 5318 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes 532 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes. 533 (Phillipps) 534 535 536GUI: 5379 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no 538 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy) 5399 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C. 540 e.g. on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on 541 Solaris 2.6. (Marley) 5429 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim 543 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf) 5448 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key 545 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version). 5468 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both 547 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate 548 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed. 5498 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling 550 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state 551 of where it is processing the output. 552 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code. 5538 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font 554 doesn't work. 5558 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS. 5568 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS. 5578 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for 558 browse(). 5598 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this, 560 use that code? Or use console dialog. 5618 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the 562 error message disappears too quick. 5638 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later, 564 to avoid problems. 5658 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there 566 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for 567 input. Or maybe every 100 ms? 5688 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank 569 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0". 570 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works. 5718 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed 572 up. Set erase character somehow? 5738 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character 574 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this. 575 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling. 576 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya) 5778 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11. 5787 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not 579 visible. 5807 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is 581 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey) 5827 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it 583 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw. 5848 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the 585 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek) 5868 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not 587 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32. 588 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the 589 remaining part of the window (Phillipps). 590- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun. 5914 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times 592 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times 593 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486. 594 595 596MSDOS/DJGPP: 5979 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao) 598 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the 599 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem. 6008 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists. 601 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error? 6029 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused 603 code and reduce static data. 6049 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C. 605 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since 606 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting 607 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work. 6089 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work. 609 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67 610 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71 611 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2) 612 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>. 613 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream? 614 Make this work like in Win32 console. 615 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended 616 key code. Use a translation table? 6179 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used. 618 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself. 6198 Use DJGPP 2.03. 6208 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT. 621 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip). 6228 setlocale() is bogus. 6238 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some 624 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched 625 Windows 95 system! 6268 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe) 6277 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g. in keyword completion) on a 8088 628 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin). 6297 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.: 630 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley) 631 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem). 6328 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add 633 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt. 6347 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen. 635 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a 636 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are 637 "[New file]". 6387 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode 639 that is supported? 6408 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them. 6418 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter 642 Briscoe) 643 644 645MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32: 6468 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use 647 gen_expand_wildcards(). 6488 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander 649 Wagner. 6508 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL. 6518 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt, 652 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name. 6538 Should $USERPROFILE be used instead of $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? 6548 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have 655 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key. 6568 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift. 657 Should work like in the GUI version. 6588 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for 659 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names. 6608 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when 661 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command? 6628 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file" 663 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be 664 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc. 6658 ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means directory "#bb" 666 in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth) 6678 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going 668 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to 669 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth) 670 671 672Windows 95: 6738 Editing a file by it's short file name and writing it, makes the long file 674 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps. 675 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly). 6768 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the 677 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32). 678 679 680Win32 console: 6819 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its 682 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister) 683 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor. 684 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable. 685 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1 686 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name. 687 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file. 688 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed 689 and the file is not saved. 690 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its 691 long name. 6928 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at 693 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT. 6947 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals, 695 besides the console. 6968 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes) 6979 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with 698 <C-S-i>? 6999 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on 700 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI? 7018 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__ 702 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around? 7037 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'? 704 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when 705 exiting. 706 707 708Amiga: 7098 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte 710 sequences. 7119 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove 712 backslashes in result. 7138 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do 714 all options, using white space separation. 715 716 717Macintosh: 7187 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard 719 Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff 720 Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it. 7217 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both. 722 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac 723 (Jack) 724 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html 7258 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear 726 to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17) 7278 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI. 7289 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher) 729 - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost. 7308 The Vim/About menu doesn't work. 7318 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV. 7328 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh. 7338 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh. 7349 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be 735 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone) 7369 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when 737 scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher) 7389 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two 739 seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher) 7409 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly. 7418 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige) 7428 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige) 743 744 745"Small" problems: 7468 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used, 747 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited 748 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure 749 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this. 7509 When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with 751 'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though 752 the fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to 753 check for the buffer to be unmodified. 7548 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the 755 error number, it's not a regular error message. 7567 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to 757 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 7588 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and 759 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column 760 for redirection. 7617 There is no way to change directory and go back without changing the local 762 and/or global directory. Add a way to find out if the current window uses 763 a local directory. Add cdcmd() that returns ":cd" or ":lcd"? 7647 After running "make test" the window title is sometimes not restored. 765 Mostly sticks at "test3.in", but not always. Appears to happen more often 766 when compiled with Python (threading). 7677 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use 768 'termencoding'. 7698 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor 770 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor 771 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when 772 using the horizontal scrollbar. 7737 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed 774 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the 775 invocations belong together. 7768 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this 777 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams) 7788 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the 779 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the 780 UnxUtils.zip archive. 781 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter 782 Briscoe says it's not as good. 7838 'fillchars' doesn't work for multi-byte characters. 7849 Editing a XML file with a long line is extremely slow. Example file from 785 Randy Parker (Dec 13). Editing the dictionaries for engspchk plugin with 786 syntax highlighting is also very slow. 787 Limit the searching for items to a few hundred characters? 7888 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing 789 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly) 7907 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names: 791 use "~/" when possible. 7927 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte 793 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail 794 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[] 795 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8). 7968 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when 797 defined. 7987 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an 799 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found. 800 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions. 8017 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode 802 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second 803 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel) 8047 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the 805 bottom window only bigger as much as needed. 8067 "[p" doesn't work in Visual mode. (David Brown) 8077 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere. 808 Remove? (Dan Sharp) 8099 The argument <f-args> of a user command doesn't handle backslashes 810 properly. "Cmd \ e" is one argument, "Cmd \\ e" still is one argument. 811 "Cmd \ e" is two arguments, first one ending in space. (Kontra Gergely) 8129 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This 813 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining 814 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command": 815 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining 816 script can be called. 8178 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po, 818 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still 819 works. 8209 When a syntax region does not use "keepend" and a contained item does use 821 "extend", this makes the outer region stop at the end of the contained 822 region. (Lutz Eymers) Another example Nov 14 2002. 8238 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with 824 CTRL-C. 8257 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X 826 server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp 827 of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK 828 doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it 829 won't work for GTK anyway. 8308 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error 831 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid. 8328 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line() 833 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this 834 configurable? 8358 'hkmap' should probably be global-local. 8369 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes 837 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work 838 then. (Pritesh Mistry) 8398 ":s!from!to!" works, but ":smagic!from!to!" doesn't. It sees the "!" as a 840 flag to to the command. Same for ":snomagic". (Johan Spetz) 8418 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save 842 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()? 8438 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is 844 always written, even when the original file already exists. 8457 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter, 846 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space. 8479 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file 848 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being 849 written. 8509 The "Error detected while processing modelines" message should have an 851 error number. 8527 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer. 8538 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose 854 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when 855 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'. 8568 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global 857 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez) 8589 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing 859 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give 860 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating 861 one. 8627 On MS-DOS or MS-Windows, when editing the same file over a network, the 863 drive letter is different, thus an existing swap file doesn't generate a 864 warning. Use some flag to indicate the swap file is in the same directory 865 as the original file? Could make b0_fname[] start with a special 866 character like ">". 8677 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes. 868 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs. 8697 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that 870 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back. 8717 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed 872 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's 873 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y 874 direction, not horizontally? 8758 When using CTRL-D after ":help", restrict the number of matches to a 876 thousand, otherwise using CTRL-D without an argument takes too long. 8778 ":hardcopy": 878 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16. 879 - Need to handle unprintable characters. 880 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform 881 dithering to make grey text? 882 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total 883 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams) 884 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'? 885 - Should interpreted CTRL-L as a page break. 886 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'. 887 Default to black when no syntax highlighting. 888 - Be able to print a window in diff mode. 889 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate 890 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected). 8918 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the 892 text in following lines where the linebreak changes. 8939 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on 894 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect 895 that Windows NT is being used? 8968 When opening the same file on Unix and on MS-Windows, there is no 897 ATTENTION message, because the path in the swap file is different. Using 898 a relative path name will cause no ATTENTION for Vim 5.8. 899 Somehow add a flag that the swap file is in the same dir as the file? 9008 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a 901 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it. 9028 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert 903 in lines that don't extend into the block? 9048 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O 905 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev) 906 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work. 9078 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from 908 'linebreak'. 9098 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection 910 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab. 911 (Helmut Stiegler) 9128 With 'virtualedit' set, a blockwise Visual selection that starts and ends 913 in a tab, "<" shifts too much. (Helmut Stiegler) 9149 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When 915 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending 916 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of 917 'magic' in history. (Margo) 9189 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for 919 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc". 9209 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern 921 isn't updated). 9229 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga). 9239 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled 924 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which 925 cause another redraw, etc. 9268 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path() 927 must escape special characters in the pattern. 9288 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an 929 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use 930 ":w!!" for that. 931 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and 932 restore file to readonly afterwards. 9337 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get 934 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the 935 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as 936 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from 937 clipboard) 9387 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal 939 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark 940 Waggoner) 9418 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window 942 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no 943 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\". 9448 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a 945 way to avoid using the builtin termcap. 9468 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also 947 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm. 948 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style. 9498 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator 950 (e.g., ":w"). 9518 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for 952 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long. 9538 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column 954 for ">>". 9558 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long 956 script in do_cmdline(). 9578 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the 958 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that 959 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have 960 changes. 9618 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT 962 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim". 9638 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to 964 check for file marks. This can be slow. 9657 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change 966 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's 967 needed. 968 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key. 9698 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option 970 to skip catch_signals()? 9719 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the 972 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert 973 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of 974 text? 9758 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts 976 all the text. Add ":rmenu"? 9778 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of 978 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>. 9799 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are 980 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7, 981 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed. 982 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or 983 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate(). 9847 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/". 985 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and 986 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings 987 in the list? 9888 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking 989 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up, 990 instead of on button down. 9918 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw. 9929 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for 993 reaching the end of the available buffer. 9948 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a 995 character is typed. 9968 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this. 997 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it. 9988 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not 999 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure 10008 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an 1001 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template 1002 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp". 1003 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for 1004 cygwin bash. 10057 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}". 1006 Remember flags for backreferences. 10077 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been 1008 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT? 10097 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names 1010 that contain a '$' after all have been found. 10118 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about 1012 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX. 10137 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting 1014 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name. 10157 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing. 1016 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and 1017 "initdir" is the default path to be used. 10187 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of 1019 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols) 10208 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo 1021 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so 1022 that the user knows he has to delete the files. 10237 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func 1024 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this. 10257 After ":%d" an undo reports the number of lines added as if there still 1026 was one line. 1027 1028 1029I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!): 10309 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file 1031 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three 1032 files. (McCollister) 10338 Motif: Tear-off menu item crashes Vim on some machines. (Netherton) It 1034 works fine for me, maybe it's a Motif problem. 1035 1036 1037Problems that will (probably) not be solved: 1038- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering 1039 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the 1040 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like 1041 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external 1042 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text. 1043- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access 1044 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message. 1045 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it. 1046- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim. 1047 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim. 1048- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will 1049 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which 1050 character gets the highlighting. 1051- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm 1052 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly. 1053- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem. 1054 (Jennings) 1055- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino). 1056- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25 1057 errors. How do we get the rest? 1058- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why? 1059- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The 1060 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong. 1061- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a 1062 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy 1063 first? 1064- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for 1065 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names. 1066- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy 1067 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim, 1068 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK. 1069- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The 1070 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working. 1071 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p". 1072 (Benzinger). 1073- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that 1074 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim 1075 can't get back what the external command didn't use. 1076- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error. 1077 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code. 1078- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being 1079 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar. 1080- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer 1081 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when 1082 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted. 1083 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library. 1084 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn) 1085 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)? 1086- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles 1087 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE. 1088 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134. 1089- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal 1090 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif 1091 libraries, get a patch from Sun. 1092- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X 1093 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash. 1094- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks 1095 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff. 1096- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim 1097 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy) 1098- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive 1099 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used. 1100- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up: 1101 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library 1102 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to 1103 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the 1104 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem. 1105- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the 1106 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line: 1107 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr> 1108- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a 1109 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert 1110 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard) 1111- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar. 1112 This is a GTK 2.4.x bug, fixed in GTK 2.4.2. (Thomas de Grenier de Latour) 1113- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co' 1114 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the 1115 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the 1116 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined 1117 in the vimrc file to be lost. 1118- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and 1119 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars. 1120 1121--------------------- extensions and improvements ---------------------- 1122 *extensions-improvements* 1123 1124Documentation: 11258 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded 1126 or not. 11278 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth) 11287 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual. 11299 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention: 1130 - change to cursor position and curswant 1131 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.) 1132 - how it works for folded lines 1133 - how it works with multi-byte characters 11349 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would 1135 work too. 11368 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag" 1137 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double 1138 text. 11398 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running". 11407 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to 1141 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'. 11427 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and 1143 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag. 1144- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks. 1145 1146 1147Help: 1148- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a 1149 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag. 1150- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go 1151 to the other matches. 1152- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files. 1153- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|. 1154- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always 1155 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file, 1156 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a 1157 default contents. 1158- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal 1159 height for the help window (and other windows). 1160- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute". 1161- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive? 1162- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands. 1163 1164 1165User Friendlier: 11668 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for 1167 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter 1168 Briscoe) 11698 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types? 11708 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that 1171 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if 1172 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf". 11738 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc, 1174 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu. 1175- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file. 1176 ":mkplugin <file>"? 11778 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that 1178 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from 1179 'runtimepath'. 1180 " Vim plugin 1181 <main plugin code> 1182 " >>> plugin help start <<< 1183 <plugin docs> 1184- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."? 11859 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or 1186 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty 1187 item?). 1188 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands. 11898 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems. 11907 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output? 1191 1192 1193Diff mode: 11948 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file). 1195 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing: 1196 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis 11977 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also 1198 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same 1199 location. 1200 1201 1202Folding: 1203 (commands still available: zg zG zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zw zW zy zY; 1204 secondary: zB zS zT zZ) 12058 Add different highlighting for a fold line depending on the fold level. 1206 (Noel Henson) 12078 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the 1208 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the 1209 user aware of this? 12108 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which 1211 commands skip over a closed fold. 12128 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt) 12138 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB. 12147 When using 2html.vim, also reproduce folds as you can see them. When 1215 someone doesn't want the folds he can disable them before converting. 1216 First attempt by Carl Osterwisch, 2004 May 10. 12177 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds. 1218- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. Require showing a character in 1219 'foldcolumn' to avoid the missing line goes unnoticed. 1220- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll 1221 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds 1222 smoother? 1223- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list, 1224 using the wininfo in wi_folds. 1225- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects. 1226- Add 'hidecomment' option: don't display comments in /* */ and after //. 1227- "zu": undo change in manual fold. "zU" redo change in manual fold. How to 1228 implement this? 1229- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the 1230 cursor. 1231- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3": set fold level for a region. 1232- Can set 'foldtext' to empty string: don't display any line. How to 1233 implement this? 1234- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt) 1235- Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like 1236 searches. 1237 1238 1239Multi-byte characters: 12409 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the 1241 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal 1242 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single 1243 byte). 12448 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for 1245 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html. 1246 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like: 1247 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-" 1248 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first 1249 item. 12508 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for 1251 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"? 12528 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an 1253 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for 1254 ":grep". 12558 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search 1256 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka) 12577 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted, 1258 so that the user can fix the problem. 12598 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo 1260 Schweigert) 12619 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El) 12628 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters. 12638 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters. 12648 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes. 12658 "ga" should show all composing characters, also if there are more than 2. 12667 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored? 12678 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing. 12688 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes. 12698 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte 1270 characters. 12718 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters. 12728 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead 1273 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example. 12747 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead. 1275 'display' option to specify this. 12767 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default(): 1277 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c) 1278- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the 1279 fontselector somehow. 1280- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it 1281 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale. 1282- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for 1283 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong. 1284- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset, 1285 depending on the default value of 'encoding'. 1286 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used. 1287 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know 1288 if a font exists? 1289- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with 1290 convert_input() for Mac GUI, RiscOS GUI, BeOS GUI. 1291- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters. 1292 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_ 12937 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of 1294 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky) 1295- Make 'langmap' accept multi-byte characters. 1296- Do we need the reverse of 'keymap', like 'langmap' but with files and 1297 multi-byte characters? E.g., when using a Russian keyboard. 1298- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text 1299 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort 1300 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command? 1301- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into 1302 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it: 1303 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz 1304 But it's very complicated... 1305 1306 1307Printing: 1308- Add "page width" to wrap long lines. 1309- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for 1310 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function. 1311- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'. 1312- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer 1313 name, portrait/landscape, etc). 1314- PostScript: only works for 7-bit ASCII and EBCDIC. Should support 1315 different 'encoding' values somehow. 1316- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same 1317 units as for the margins. 1318- Support right-to-left text? 13198 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the 1320 color. 1321 1322 1323Syntax highlighting: 13248 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson) 1325 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual". 13268 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined 1327 cluster can be added to existing syntax items. 13288 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this: 1329 "({ something })", often used in GCC code. 13308 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing 1331 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for 1332 ":wq file". 13338 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script). 13349 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is 1335 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it... 13367 Make syntax keyword table configurable. Set number of bits used with 1337 ":syn clear [hashbits]", so that we don't need to reallocate the table. 1338 minimal 4 bits, maximal 16. (Campbell) 13397 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and 1340 Search highlighting. 13418 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to 1342 change this for each release. 13438 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end 1344 pattern, but not in the body. 13458 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this 1346 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item, 1347 instead of the containing item. 13488 For keywords, allow to define the size of the hash table with ":syn 1349 clear". Change KHASH_ defines into variables stored in buffer struct. 1350 Use something else than linear linked list from the hash table. (Campbell) 13518 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside (). 13528 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype 1353 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules? 1354 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, 1355 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax. 13568 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a 1357 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained] 13588 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey 1359 background) when on one of the parens or in between them. 1360 Or highlight the matching paren when the cursor is on one. 13618 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error". 13628 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop 1363 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be 1364 used. 13658 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will 1366 allow spell checking. (Fleiner) 13678 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And 1368 re-insert the [] if possible. 13698 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for 1370 the Cursor). 13718 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like 1372 using "\1" in a ":s" command. 13738 Support for deleting syntax items: 1374 :syn keyword cTodo remove this 1375 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern" 1376 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that" 13778 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way 1378 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for 1379 a '<'. (Fleiner) 13807 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification? 1381 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or 1382 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern. 13837 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be 1384 detected. 13858 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original 1386 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this). 13878 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to 1388 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible. 13898 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group. 13908 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values. 13917 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to 1392 ":mkvimrc". 13938 Improve c.vim: 1394 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on: 1395 "c_strict_ansi". 1396 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way... 13978 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the 1398 current line while in Insert mode. 13998 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been 1400 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again? 14018 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current 1402 display position. 14038 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to 1404 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern. 1405 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()". 14068 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until 1407 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when 1408 highlighting starts. 14097 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the 1410 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow. 1411 E.g. for this html: 1412 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I> 14137 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed 1414 (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"): 1415 :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display="" 14167 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is. 14177 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled 1418 words. 14197 Command line completion for ":find" should search in 'path'. 14208 Add more command line completion for :syntax. 14218 Add more command line completion for :highlight. 14228 Add more command line completion for :sign. 14237 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands. 1424 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and 1425 completion? 14268 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their 1427 highlighting. (Salman Halim) 14287 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to 1429 select one of the sets. 14308 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1 1431 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch 1432 2, etc. 14338 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the 1434 highlighting (for "." command). 14358 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /. 1436 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /? 14378 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing. 14387 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs": 1439 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c". 14406 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of 1441 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall) 1442- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful 1443 when extending an already existing syntax file. 1444- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too? 1445- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin 1446 (for comment blocks). 1447- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags: 1448 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor. 1449 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match. 1450 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match. 1451 Also for {}, <>, etc.? 1452 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?) 1453 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the 1454 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it. 1455 (Campbell) 1456 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around 1457 the cursor. (Iain Truskett) 14587 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword. 1459 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow). 14607 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should 1461 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set). 1462 And allows for sections with different highlighting. 14637 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it 1464 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from 1465 messages. And external commands? 14668 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for 1467 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim? 14687 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an 1469 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line. 1470 1471 1472Built-in script language: 14738 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and 1474 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings. 14758 Allow range for ":exec". Pass it on to the executed command. (Webb) 14768 exists("&&option") tests if 'option' is actually implemented. Useful for 1477 'shellslash', for example. 14788 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham) 14798 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When 1480 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an 1481 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same 1482 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle 1483 nested packages? 1484 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}(). 1485 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from 1486 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path). 14877 Make globpath() also work with "**" and upwards search. (Brian Medley) 14887 Add the markclear() function to delete a mark in another buffer. Charles 1489 Campbell (2004 Jan 9) 1490 http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#Patch 1491 Implement setmark(markname, lnum [, col [, filename]]) instead? 1492 When "lnum" is zero delete the mark. 1493 When "filename" has no wildcards and there is no matching buffer, add 1494 the buffer (unlisted). 14957 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode. 1496 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if 1497 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that 1498 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an 1499 autocommand. 1500 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a 1501 .vim file. Problem: distribution. 1502 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached 1503 file belongs to a sourced script? 15047 Add "n" flag to search() function, just like searchpair(). (Alexey 1505 Marinichev) 15067 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn', 1507 signs and/or 'number'. 15088 Add functions: 1509 search() Add optional offset argument. 1510 realname() Get user name (first, last, full) 1511 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov 1512 3 2002 1513 Only add this when also implemented for 1514 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could 1515 be used. 1516 get_user_name() gets login name. 1517 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what}) 1518 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}. 1519 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File". 1520 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu 1521 File.Open..." argument. 1522 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22 1523 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary 1524 with properties instead. 1525 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping. 1526 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4. 1527 Return a list instead. 1528 sprintf(format, arg, ..) How to prevent a crash??? 1529 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx" 1530 mkdir(dir) Create directory 1531 copy(from, to) Copy a file 1532 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string 1533 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace() 1534 input(prompt, complete) like input() but do specified completion 1535 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left 1536 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in 1537 Visual block mode. 1538 tagtype(tag) get type of tag (also checks if it exists) 1539 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard) 1540 getbufline() get line from any buffer 1541 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer 1542 appendbufline() append line in any buffer 1543 sort() Sort a newline-separated string. Also: 1544 ":sort". 1545 libcall() Allow more than one argument. 1546 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function 1547 to allow the library to execute a command or 1548 evaluate an expression. 1549 char2hex() convert char string to hex string. XX 1550 hex2char() convert hex string to char string. XX 15517 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the 1552 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero. 15538 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was 1554 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file. 15558 Pass the executable name to the Vim scripts in some way. As v:argv0? 15568 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts. 15578 When starting to source a vim script, delete all functions that it has 1558 previously defined? Avoids using ":fun!" all the time. 15597 Add optional arguments to user functions: 1560 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17) 15616 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"? 15628 Add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var" just ignore. 15638 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable, 1564 option or environment variable. 15658 ":let &option" should list the value of the option. 15667 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the 1567 stack available (separated with '\n'). 15688 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed: 1569 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands} 15708 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started. 15718 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default), 1572 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0, 1573 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and 1574 charwise({expr}). 15757 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer 1576 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch 1577 buffer for this? 1578 result = scratch(string, command) 1579 result = apply(string, command) 1580 result = execute(string, command) 1581 "command" would use <> notation. 1582 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number? 15837 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds). 15847 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an 1585 option for the search path. (Sekera) 15867 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files. 1587 1588 1589Robustness: 15908 This pattern in syntax/java.vim causes a recursive call of regmatch(): 1591 syn match javaStringError +"\([^"\\]\|\\.\)*$+ 1592 A long line with a " in it can cause a crash when it runs out of stack 1593 space (on systems where this isn't caught). How can we catch this for 1594 more systems? 15956 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or 1596 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing 1597 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking . 1598 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf). 1599 Andy doesn't have time to work on it. 1600 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a 1601 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded? 1602 1603 1604Performance: 16058 Loading plugins takes startup time. Only load the part that is used to 1606 trigger the rest, and load the rest when it's needed? 16078 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags. 16089 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster? 16098 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result? 16107 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when 1611 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start? 16128 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same 1613 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines 1614 when starting up in a color terminal. 16158 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on 1616 Win16. 16179 Setting GUI options in the console (e.g., 'guifont') should not cause a 1618 redraw. 16198 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this 1620 function be improved? 16218 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the 1622 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap 1623 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can 1624 this be improved? 16258 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up 1626 MS-DOS version. (Negri) 16277 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower when adding a region for folding 1628 from { to }. (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman) 16297 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying 1630 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang) 16317 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a 1632 lot of abbreviations). 16337 DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster. 16347 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file 1635 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line 1636 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>. 1637 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat. 1638 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place. 1639 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase. 1640 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc. 16418 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the 1642 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was 1643 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating 1644 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)? 16458 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to 1646 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid 1647 using strcmp() too often? 16487 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file? 1649 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating 1650 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a 1651 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another 1652 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from 1653 the two blocks to the memfile block. 16547 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory 1655 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called 1656 with an argument that can be messed with. 1657 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that 1658 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced. 16597 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)". 1660- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek() 16618 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in 1662 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim. 1663- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of 1664 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation? 1665- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki) 1666- Do profiling on: 1667 - :g/pat/normal cmd 1668 - 1000ii<Esc> 1669 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary) 1670 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan) 1671 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u". 1672 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and 1673 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl". 1674 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary. 1675 - editing a vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim). 16767 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were 1677 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it 1678 changed). 1679 - On each change, remember start and end of the change. 1680 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count. 1681- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest! 1682- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still 1683 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"? 1684- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to 1685 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from 1686 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg(). 1687- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of 1688 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing). 1689- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height. 1690- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if 1691 cursor is right of the screen. 16928 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a 1693 CTRL-C (it's slow). 1694 1695 1696Code size: 16978 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded. 1698- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be 1699 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions. 17008 Make a GUI-only version for Unix? 17018 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using 1702 it. 17037 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be 1704 left out. 17058 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals 1706 can be removed. 17078 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed? 1708 1709 1710Messages: 17118 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the 1712 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!". 17138 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip 1714 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()? 17158 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a 1716 script. 17178 "vim --version" output goes to stderr, should be stdout. Can all output 1718 from messages using printf() go to stdout? 1719- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key. 1720 Perhaps after ten seconds? 1721- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9. 17229 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays: 1723 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop. 1724 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long 1725 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before 1726 redrawing. 17277 Add an option, which is a regexp, that disables warning messages which 1728 match that regexp (Tsirkin). 17298 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more 1730 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text. 17318 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another 1732 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option 1733 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off". 1734 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts 1735 typing, error messages must be switched back on. 1736 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings). 1737- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed? 1738 sleep before second message? 17398 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is 1740 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers", 1741 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the 1742 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall) 1743 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and 1744 error messages, printing text, etc. 17458 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt. 1746 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when 1747 a prompt is present (with a callback function?). 1748 1749 1750Screen updating: 17517 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one 1752 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the 1753 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit). 1754- screen_line(): 1755 - insert/delete character stuff. 1756 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line). 1757- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when 1758 dragging the status line with the mouse). 1759- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when 1760 waiting for a character. 17618 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from 1762 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when 1763 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping. 17647 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together. 1765 1766 1767Scrolling: 17688 Add "zm" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle. 17696 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi) 1770- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc.. 1771 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound 1772 windows. 17737 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next 1774 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it 1775 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer. 1776- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it 1777 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this? 1778 (Goldfarb) 1779- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all 1780 bound windows. 1781- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to 1782 be bound by regexp searches 1783- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell) 1784- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the 1785 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number 1786 of lines but not with a single line). 1787 1788 1789Autoconf: 17908 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader. 17918 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb) 1792 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically? 1793- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the 1794 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner). 1795- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4(). 1796- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it? 1797- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf. 1798 1799 1800Perl interface: 18018 Rename typemap file to something else? 18027 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark) 18037 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C? 18046 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll). 1805 1806 1807Shared libraries: 18086 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it. 1809 :libload internal-name libname 1810 :libunload internal-name 1811 :liblist 1812 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...) 1813 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...) 1814 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment. 18156 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries. 1816 1817 1818Tags: 18198 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify 1820 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m". 18218 Add a function that returns the line in the tags file for a matching tag. 1822 Can be used to extract more info (class name, inheritance, etc.) (Rico 1823 Hendriks) 18247 Count before CTRL-]: jump to N'th match 18258 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis. 18268 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able 1827 to type the tag number directly. 18287 Add a tag-select window. Works like ":cwindow". (Michal Malecki) 18297 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a 1830 window for each tag. 18317 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting? 18327 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit 1833 bottom" search message. 18347 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry, 1835 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were 1836 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb) 18377 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and 1838 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod". 1839 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func" 1840 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx. 18417 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields: 1842 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c 1843 :tagargs clear 1844 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag 1845 matching). 18467 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command? 1847 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi. 1848 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi) 1849 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way. 18507 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With 1851 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again. 18527 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use 1853 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add 1854 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect". 1855 1856 1857Security: 1858- nothing at the moment 1859 1860 1861Win32 GUI: 18628 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for 1863 the message and input? 18647 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at 1865 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 1866 dynamically? 18677 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu. 1868 (Mike McCollister) 18698 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several 1870 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't 1871 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all 1872 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest 1873 common part of the path. 18748 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik) 18758 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that 1876 gettext and menus work. 18778 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit 1878 return in every console. 1879 Also: Look at how Emacs does runs external commands: 1880 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html. 18818 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands: 1882 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text). 18838 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF. 1884 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands? 18857 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme. 1886 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser) 18877 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog). 18887 <Esc> should close a dialog. 18897 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be 1890 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended 1891 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any 1892 prompts. 18937 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that 1894 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have 1895 the file added into an already running Vim. 18967 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide 1897 functions to find the window title. 1898 1899 1900GUI: 19018 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS. 1902- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a 1903 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier. 19047 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows. 19058 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI. 19066 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu. 19078 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When 1908 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position. 19099 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze) 19107 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype? 19118 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the 1912 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide". 19138 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text 1914 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine 1915 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated. 19168 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim) 1917 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front. 19188 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more 1919 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c. 1920 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow 1921 running them in separate processes. 19227 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument. 19238 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask 1924 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code. 19257 Add some code to handle proportional fonts? Need to draw each character 1926 separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font is not exactly 1927 double-width. (Maeda) 19288 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default). 19298 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to 1930 select one. Martin Dalecki has a font selector for Motif, but it needs a 1931 bit more work. 19328 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.). 19338 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all? 19348 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a 1935 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this 1936 portable (X11, Win32, ..)? 19377 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items. 1938 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The 1939 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything. 19407 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back. 1941 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim). 19427 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can 1943 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors. 1944 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For 1945 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs. 19467 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the 1947 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas) 19487 Should support multi-column menus. 1949- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far 1950 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right). 1951- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode". 19528 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus. 19536 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a 1954 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui". 19557 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'? 19567 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos', 1957 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>. 1958 Or add a command, like ":winsize"? 19597 Add toolbar for more GUIs. 19608 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item 1961 name can be chosen free. 19627 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of 1963 the window? Allows for softkey-like use. 19646 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the 1965 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a 1966 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is 1967 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to 1968 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks 1969 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI 1970 things. 19717 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default 1972 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog. 1973- Motif steals <F10> from us, to pop up menus with the keyboard. How do we 1974 get it back if we want it? 1975- Paste in Insert mode should not do autowrap etc. Or maybe this should be 1976 changeable with an option? 1977- Put a nice picture in the icon (but how do we do that?). 19787 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks 1979 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated. 1980- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal 1981 where it was started from? 19827 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument. 1983 1984 1985VMS: 1986- Improvement: rewrite term/TTY handling. 1987- Improvement: create VMS GTK runtime libraries on OpenVMS 7.1-2 (today GTK 1988 works just on 7.3). 1989 1990 1991Autocommands: 19929 Make sure that side effects of autocommands are handled correctly. Don't 1993 execute autocommands when a buffer or window is halfway some changes. 1994 Move all apply_autocmds() calls to a higher level where needed. 19958 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g. 1996 "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc". 19978 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two 1998 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more 1999 difficult). 20008 Also trigger CursorHold in Insert mode? 20017 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that user 2002 can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the kind 2003 of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient? 20048 Can't use ":normal" in CursorHold autocommands. Make the CursorHold event 2005 insert a special key code, and call the autocommand functions from a 2006 higher level, so that vgetc() isn't used recursively. 20078 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist? 2008 And anything else? 20098 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input 2010 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus). 2011 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ... 20128 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc". 20138 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag. 2014 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found. 20156 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be 2016 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron) 20177 Add a way to skip an autocommand if going from one *.c file to another *.c 2018 file. 20197 When trying to open a directory, don't load the file but trigger an 2020 autocommand event OpenDirectory. 20217 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link, 2022 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate 2023 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type 2024 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard) 20255 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the 2026 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will 2027 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas) 20287 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for 2029 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the 2030 file. 20318 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at 2032 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read 2033 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'. 2034- Add events to autocommands: 2035 Error - When an error happens 2036 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode 2037 InsertEnter - Entering Insert mode 2038 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode 2039 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode 2040 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode 2041 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter) 2042 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled 2043 when exiting isn't a good idea. 2044 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands. 2045 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M") 2046 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged 2047 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the 2048 window title) 2049 BufReadAction - replaces reading a file 2050 BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file 2051 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down 2052 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the 2053 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor. 2054 Set v:char to the character, can be changed. 2055 (not triggered when 'paste' is set). 2056 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting 2057 the char. 2058 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for 2059 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the 2060 file from CVS). 2061 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be 2062 used to do a :preserve for remote files. 2063 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate 2064 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so 2065 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add 2066 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah) 2067 WinResized - When a window has been resized 2068- Add autocommand to be executed every so many seconds? For writing the 2069 file now and then ('autosave'). 2070 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'* 2071 'autosave' 'aw' number (default 0) 2072 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the 2073 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set. 2074 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer. 2075 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make 2076 them save the file itself besides the swapfile. 2077 2078 2079Insert mode completion/expansion: 20808 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete 2081 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages. 20829 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with 2083 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended. 2084 (Webb) 20858 The code has become too complex. Redesign it, or at least add proper 2086 comments. 20878 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion: 2088 - ignore/match case 2089 - different characters than 'iskeyword' 20908 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text. 20918 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive 2092 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of 2093 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo. 2094 Should work for C++ and Java. 2095 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc. 20967 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?). 20977 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS 2098 instead of words. 20998 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents. 21008 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does). 2101 Requires remembering a number of insertions. 21028 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names. 2103 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion. 2104- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the 2105 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use 2106 wildcards in the file name)? 2107- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted). 2108- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?). 2109- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could 2110 be in another file). 2111- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches. 2112- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option? 2113- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string 2114 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W) 2115- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions. 2116- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows? 2117- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly) 21188 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that 2119 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb) 2120 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-]. 2121 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'. 2122- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list). 2123 2124 2125Command line editing: 21267 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command 2127 line. 21288 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion 2129 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of 2130 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc. 2131- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of 2132 lines wraps to start of line). 2133- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view 2134 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many 2135 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run 2136 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012). 2137 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history. 2138 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the 2139 cmdwin does now already. 2140 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal 2141 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T? 2142 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the 2143 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid 2144 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines? 2145 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate 2146 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode 2147 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh. 2148 Problems: 2149 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar' 2150 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations 2151 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches 2152 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands 2153 - Normal: no ":" commands? 2154 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line. 2155 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of 2156 character in first column? 2157 - Implementation ideas: 2158 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer. 2159 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum. 2160 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line. 2161 - sync undo after entering a command line? 2162 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line 2163 Mode. 2164 2165 2166Command line completion: 21678 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument. 21688 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate 2169 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h". 21708 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list 2171 them with the optional part inside []. 21727 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be 2173 edited. (Sven Guckes) 21747 Add completion for when entering an expression after CTRL-R= and "=. 2175 (Servatius Brandt) 2176- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible. 2177- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the 2178 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>". 21798 For ":find" and ":sfind" expand files found in 'path'. 21808 Add cmdline completion for the ":debug" command. 21818 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting 2182 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp? 21837 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the 2184 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb) 2185- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching 2186 identifiers (Webb). 21878 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>" 2188 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit. 21897 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion. 2190 Useful for ":s/word/xx/". 2191- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started. 2192 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line. 2193- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for 2194 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut) 2195 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D. 2196- Add completion for Environment variables: ":echo $SH<Tab>" -> "$SHELL". 2197 2198 2199Command line history: 2200- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a 2201 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a 2202 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't 2203 completely resulted from one mapping. 2204- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history, 2205 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel) 2206 2207 2208Insert mode: 22099 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after 2210 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line. 2211 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug. 22128 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command 2213 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink) 2214 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do 2215 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing. 2216 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode. 22177 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a 2218 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y. 22197 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it 2220 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'. 2221- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed 2222 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and 2223 also for characters that wrap to the next line. 2224 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register). 2225 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that 2226 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>. 2227- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in 2228 Normal mode. 2229- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their 2230 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands 2231 are used. 2232- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits. 2233- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b. 2234- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y. 2235 2236 2237'cindent', 'smartindent': 22388 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with line break in arguments: 2239 Foo::Foo (int one, 2240 int two) 2241 : something(4) 2242 {} 22438 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with multiple lines: 2244 Foo::Foo (int one, int two) 2245 : something(4), 2246 somethingelse(3) 2247 {} 22489 Too much indent for "lulu": (Uwe Zeisberger) 2249 int main () 2250 { 2251 if (lala) 2252 do 2253 ++(*lolo); 2254 while (lili 2255 && lele); 2256 lulu; 2257 } 22589 Function gets extra indent: (Jamax) 2259 void function(int param) { 2260 if (false) 2261 return; 2262 } 22639 brace not indented correctly: 2264 case 'c': if (cond) 2265 { 2266 Should align with "if" in case statement. 22677 Allow aligning a closing ")" with the line above, instead of the matching 2268 "(": (Riehm) if (asdfasdf && 2269 asdf 2270 ) 22718 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is 2272 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer) 22738 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna) 2274 func( 2275 new String[] { 2276 "asdf", 2277 "asdf" 2278 } 2279 ); 22807 Separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner): 2281 func( 2282 int x) // indent like "(4" 2283 { 2284 if (a 2285 && b) // indent like "(0" 22868 Strange problem with this code, "hello" is indented wrong: (Gary Holloway) 2287 main() { char foo[] = "/*"; 2288 /* This is a comment; the indentation of C 2289 * source below this comment gets messed up due to the string above. 2290 */ 2291 hello 22929 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler) 2293 if (a) 2294 { 2295 if (b) 2296 { 2297 // { 2298 } 2299 } <-- this is indented incorrect 23009 Wrong indent for cino=(4, removing the (void) fixes it: (Zellner) 2301 (void) MyFancyFunction( 2302 argument); 2303- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the 2304 indent to 0 should be switched on/off. 23057 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line. 2306- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first 2307 line). 2308- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}? 2309- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous 2310 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically? 23117 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines. 2312- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It 2313 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb) 2314- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out 2315 code), unless the line starts with "*". 2316- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"? 2317- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line 2318 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted). 23198 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the 2320 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more 2321 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment. 2322- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'. 2323- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where 2324 lines start with "\item". 2325- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown) 2326 /* here is a comment that 2327 is just autoindented, and 2328 nothing else */ 2329- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi". 23307 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for 2331 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the 2332 indents. 2333 And/or: Add option to copy indent as-is, without changing spaces to tabs. 2334 also for 'autoindent'. 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and 2335 spaces used for indent, when the indent remains the same or increases. 2336 2337 2338Java: 23398 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve 2340 Odendahl? 23418 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for 2342 "[i" commands and friends. 2343- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java. 2344 (Jason) 2345- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be 2346 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy) 2347 2348 2349'comments': 23508 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated 2351 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping. 2352 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader 2353 when it's "#" or "//". 23547 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line. 2355 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed. 23567 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item. 23576 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more 2358 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a 2359 regexp is used. 23608 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line 2361 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'? 2362 2363 2364Virtual edit: 23658 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left. 23667 Add a mode where the cursor is only allowed to go one character after the 2367 end of the line? 23687 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line? 2369 2370 2371Text objects: 23728 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc. 23737 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it 2374 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area. 23758 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single 2376 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at 2377 the end of the line or before a ".". 23787 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs" 2379 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus) 23807 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph 2381 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}"). 23826 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email. 23835 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For 2384 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one. 2385 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the 2386 cursor is on. 2387 2388 2389Select mode: 23908 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block, 2391 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall) 23927 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word. 2393 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743 23947 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line. 2395 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse' 2396 contains 'C' or 'A'. 2397 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in 2398 normal_cmd(). 2399 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info. 2400 - Typing text replaces the selection. 2401 2402 2403Visual mode: 2404- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero, 2405 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer 2406 is in the top line. 24078 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new 2408 text. make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding 2409 where needed. 24107 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width, 2411 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc. 24127 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start 2413 of each selected line. 24148 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode? 24158 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer. 2416 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any 2417 other buffer. (Ron Aaron) 24188 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron, 2419 Ben Godfrey) 24207 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and 2421 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey) 24227 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of 2423 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area. 24247 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David 2425 Young is working on this) 24267 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines. 2427 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with 2428 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line. 24298 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text? 2430 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful. 24317 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should 2432 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an 2433 option! 24347 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position 2435 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select 2436 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen 2437 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap. 2438 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to 2439 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line, 2440 without changing the column. 24416 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode. 24427 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the 2443 current buffer. 24447 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area. 24456 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line, 2446 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1. 24476 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line. 24486 ":'<,'>source" should read the selected lines and ":source" them. 24496 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed 2450 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB 2451 or other special character. 24526 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting. 2453 2454 2455More advanced repeating commands: 2456- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt"). 24577 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember 2458 the command line so that it can be repeated? 2459- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g. 2460 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb). 2461 "y." will repeat last yank. 2462 "c2." will repeat the last but one change? 2463 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history 2464 and/or pick an older command. 2465- History stack for . command? Use "g." command. 2466 2467 2468Mappings and Abbreviations: 24698 Let ":verbose map xx" report where the mapping was set, just like with 2470 ":verbose set". 24718 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be 2472 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell) 2473 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command? 24748 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work? 24757 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte". 2476 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway? 24778 ":verbose map" could show the script where the mapping was defined. 2478 m_script_ID can be used. 24798 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the 2480 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&. 24818 Add ":amap", like ":amenu". 24828 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to 2483 entering search strings. 24848 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the 2485 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and 2486 not the <Space>. 24878 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS). 24888 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never 2489 (?) work. 24907 ":verbose map" should display where a mapping was defined, like ":verbose 2491 set". 24928 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function 2493 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is 2494 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings? 24957 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation? 24967 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q", 2497 that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger' 2498 option. 24997 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try 2500 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy". 25017 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character 2502 (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for 2503 mapping a key to do something and then completion. 25047 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard. 25056 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the 2506 abbreviations are to be used. 2507- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For 2508 example, for a mouse escape sequence: 2509 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l 2510- Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping. 2511- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in 2512 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings 2513 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording? 2514- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a 2515 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r". 2516- Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in 2517 <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this? 2518- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings 2519 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does). 2520- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and 2521 mappings off for :unab and :unmap. 25226 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete 2523 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids 2524 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you 2525 hit another character. 2526- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings: 2527 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G 2528 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l 2529 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g 2530 Or implicit: 2531 :map q <Register>d<Number>$ 2532- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for 2533 non-replace Insert mode? 2534- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode? 25356 Alias for Normal mode commands, works like :substitute? Would allow 2536 mappings with arguments. 2537- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings. 2538- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key 2539 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself. 2540- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as 2541 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command? 2542- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they 2543 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>. 2544- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap. 2545- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping 2546 ":freekeys". 2547- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm). 2548 2549 2550Incsearch: 2551- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'? 2552- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn 2553 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled 2554 up every time. 2555- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the 2556 folds when going to another line. 2557- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many 2558 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?) 2559 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match 2560 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872. 2561- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other 2562 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid). 2563 2564 2565Searching: 25668 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\(([^()]*\@@[^()]*)\)\@r". \@@ stands 2567 for "go recursive here" and \@r marks the recursive atom. 2568item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on 2569 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of 2570 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"? 2571 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)* 25727 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for 2573 search(). (Brett) 25747 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's 2575 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference. 25768 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in 2577 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax? 25788 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current 2579 line. 25807 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an 2581 example. 25828 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in 2583 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif. 2584- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that 2585 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */). 2586 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back. 2587 Alternative: use matchit.vim 25888 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care? 25898 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that 2590 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it. 2591 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$". 25927 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and 2593 "\d". 25947 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be 2595 \%<C-M>. 25968 Flags that apply to the whole pattern. 2597 This works for all places where a regexp is used. 2598 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern? 25998 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example, 2600 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line. 26018 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g" 2602 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command. 2603 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing 2604 search pattern. 2605- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group. 2606 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group. 2607- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade) 2608 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one. 2609 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's 2610 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities. 26117 Add POSIX regexp, like Nvi, with 'extended' option? It's like very-magic. 2612- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it. 2613 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling) 2614- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?): 2615 i ignore case 2616 I use case 2617 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?) 2618 v use Vi regexp syntax 2619 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command 2620 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command 2621 Perl uses these too: 2622 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only) 2623 m multiple line expression (we don't need it) 2624 o compile only once (Perl only) 2625 s single line expression (we don't need it) 2626 x extended regexp (we don't need it) 2627 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the 2628 following command. 2629 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault'). 2630- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used 2631 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/ 2632 for search string)? 26337 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special 2634 characters. See C't article, August 1997. 2635- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are 2636 equivalent (for Unix filenames). 2637- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text 2638 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin) 2639- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this". 2640- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer, 2641 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern: 2642 a for the next file in the argument list 2643 f for file in the buffer list 2644 w for file edited in a window. 2645 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for 2646 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask 2647 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No 2648 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ". 2649- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler) 26507 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search 2651 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark. 26527 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after 2653 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe 2654 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in 2655 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always). 26566 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side 2657 effects. 26587 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete 2659 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc. 2660 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary. 26617 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) 2662 Also ":dselect". 2663 2664 2665Undo: 2666- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not 2667 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a", 2668 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted? 26698 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo 2670 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new 2671 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing. 2672 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things. 26738 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change, 2674 only remember the lines that really changed. 26757 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous 2676 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a 2677 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need 2678 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone. 26797 Add an undo tree: When making a change, instead of clearing any future 2680 undo (thus redo) info, make a new branch. How to navigate through the 2681 undo tree? 2682- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and ']. 2683 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb). 2684- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the 2685 number of undo levels (with confirmation). 2686- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123]. 2687 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number: 2688 [-99]. 2689- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating. 2690- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once. 2691- Store undo info in a file that survives until the next edit. Then it's 2692 possible to undo to before the current editing session. Combined with 2693 viminfo? 2694- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed, 2695 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file?? 2696 2697 2698Buffer list: 26997 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}". 2700 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that 2701 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the 2702 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only". 27038 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files. 2704 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim. 27058 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check 2706 inode too. 27077 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When 2708 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use. (or the highest 2709 number in use plus one?) 27107 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and 2711 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann) 2712- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the 2713 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb) 2714- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the 2715 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"? 27167 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list. 2717 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson) 27187 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer 2719 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc. 27208 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected. 27218 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$' 2722 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel". 27237 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for 2724 internal use and for when executing an external program? 2725 2726 2727Swap (.swp) files: 27288 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another 2729 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when 2730 there are short file name problems. 27318 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap 2732 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions. 27338 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su. 27348 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same 2735 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file 2736 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup 2737 file the same as the actual file? 2738 Use the code for resolve()? 27397 Store the options 'fileencoding', 'fileformat', etc. in the swapfile, 2740 because they change what will be written to the file. Requires adding 2741 another block to the swapfile. 27427 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another 2743 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible. 27447 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere 2745 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'? 2746 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not 2747 enough room. 27487 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp 2749 or /var/preserve. 2750- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to 2751 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only. 2752- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen). 2753 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'? 2754- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the 2755 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do 2756 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a 2757 cached list of which line is where. 2758 2759 2760Viminfo: 27617 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file, 2762 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone 2763 else's viminfo file. 27648 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file 2765 name. (Schild) 27668 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu). 27678 Remember the last used register for "@@". 27688 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the 2769 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so. 2770 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display 2771 this? 27727 Also store the ". register (last inserted text). 27737 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some 2774 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron) 27756 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting 2776 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the 2777 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code? 2778- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of 2779 "last visited files" and select one to jump to. 2780 2781 2782Modelines: 27838 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid 2784 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it. 2785 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ". 2786- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to 2787 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the 2788 modeline setting. 2789- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings, 2790 no function calls, to avoid a security problem. 2791- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for 2792 .cpp files. 2793- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for 2794 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak. 2795- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed 2796 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir. 2797 2798 2799Options: 28008 Make ":mksession" store buffer-specific options for the specific buffer. 28018 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when 2802 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant) 28037 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only 2804 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the 2805 side effect. 28068 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to 2807 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their 2808 default value. 28098 Should ":mksession" restore the current directory when writing the 2810 session, or the directory where the session file is? Probably need a word 2811 in 'sessionoptions' to make a choice: 2812 "curdir" (cd to current directory when session file was generated) 2813 "sessiondir" (cd to directory of session file) 2814 "nodir" (don't cd at all) 28158 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string 2816 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should 2817 also be supported. 28188 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag 2819 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting 2820 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used. 28217 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas) 28227 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the 2823 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway) 28247 Add plugins for formatting. Should be able to make a choice depending on 2825 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.). 2826 2827 2828External commands: 28298 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen 2830 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd". 28314 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls" 2832 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g. 2833 -f). 28344 Allow direct execution, without using a shell. 28354 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI? 2836 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell! 28374 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands. 2838 2839 2840Multiple Windows: 28417 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits. 28428 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window. 2843 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window. 28447 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab> 2845 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to 2846 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer. 28477 Add a 'winfixwidth' option, similar to 'winfixheight'. 28486 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window. 2849 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new 2850 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would 2851 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel) 28527 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows 2853 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with 2854 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE 2855 too. Requires some form of inter process communication. 2856- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer 2857 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command. 2858 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer 2859 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made. 2860 2861 2862Marks: 28638 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this 2864 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-. 28658 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m? 28668 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times. 2867 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file. 28688 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle 2869 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when 2870 the mark was set. 28717 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers, 2872 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands 2873 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with 2874 ":browse marks"? 28756 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige) 28767 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the 2877 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark. 28787 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group). 2879 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does. 28807 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m 2881 command). 28827 Try to keep marks in the same position when: 2883 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the 2884 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo) 2885 - inserting/deleting characters in a line. 28865 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in 2887 mappings. 28886 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and 2889 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines. 2890 Highlight the marked lines somehow. 2891 2892 2893Digraphs: 28947 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists. 2895 Also the keymap? 2896- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line 2897 below/above). 2898- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special 2899 characters? 29008 Add command to remove (all) digraphs. (Brown) 29017 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At 2902 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32). 2903 2904 2905Writing files: 2906- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for 2907 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to 2908 shortname conversion. 29098 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc. 29108 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode' 2911 file. 29128 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some 2913 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another 2914 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'? 29157 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make 2916 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski) 29176 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like 2918 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'. 29196 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory. 2920 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas) 29216 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#". 2922 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name? 29238 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids 2924 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman) 29257 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations 2926 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition). 29277 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more 2928 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is 2929 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before 2930 waiting for a character to be typed). 29318 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status 2932 line of the window, like "[time]". 2933 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes. 2934 Automatic and/or with a command. 2935 2936 2937Substitute: 29388 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.: 2939 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w". 2940- :s///p prints the line after a substitution. 2941- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern. 29428 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective. 2943 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys. 2944- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or: 2945 :s///N substitutes N times. 2946- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.: 2947 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do 2948 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution. 29497 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex 2950 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the 2951 last line column 5. 29525 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks, 2953 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the 2954 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands. 2955 (Stanislav Sitar) 2956 2957 2958Mouse support: 29598 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'? 29607 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu. 29618 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic 2962 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you 2963 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar) 29647 Checkout sysmouse() for FreeBSD console mouse support. 2965- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console. 2966- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to 2967 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners). 2968- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!? 2969- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to. 2970 2971 2972Crypt and security: 29738 Also crypt the swapfile, each block separately. Change mf_write() and 2974 mf_read(). How to get b_p_key to these functions? 2975 2976 2977Argument list: 29786 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list. 2979 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches 2980 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match. 29816 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers? 2982 2983 2984Registers: 29858 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne) 29868 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping 2987 around in windows. 29888 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for 2989 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r" 2990 for every line. 29916 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the 2992 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What 2993 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.? 2994- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of 2995 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more". 2996- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment 2997 leader when line wraps? 2998- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each 2999 line in the range. 3000- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text 3001 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo") 30028 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register. 3003 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)? 3004 3005 3006Debug mode: 30077 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received. 30088 Add breakpoints for setting an option 30098 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable. 30107 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution 3011 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when 3012 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item, 3013 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell) 30147 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo. 30157 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al. 3016 3017 3018Various improvements: 30198 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename 3020 the buffer. Buffer may be modified. 30216 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of 3022 errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c". 30237 Add a ":cstring" command. Works like ":cfile" but reads from a string 3024 variable. Also accept a list variable? 30256 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5) 30267 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>. 3027 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"? 3028 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command. 30297 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a 3030 window as a buffer-tab selection. 30317 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want 3032 to manipulate text without changing the window layout. 30338 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until 3034 all changes are gone. 30357 Add a ":cpfile", go in the other direction as ":cnfile". 30366 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri) 30378 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim. 3038 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim. 3039 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it 3040 in this Vim. 30418 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as 3042 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"? 30438 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes 3044 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and 3045 have it apply to the following command. 30468 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other 3047 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the 3048 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up. 3049 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'? 30507 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a 3051 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files. 30527 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>, 3053 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize 3054 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key 3055 without modifier (unless mapped). 30568 Add ":breakdel *": delete all breakpoints. 30577 Support ":browse edit" in console, using explorer.vim? 30586 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line. 30598 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map". 30609 Support ACLs on more systems. 30617 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be 3062 highlighted differently. 30638 Allow using "**" as a wildcard in commands like ":next" and ":args". 30648 Provide a way to avoid wildcard expansion. Use double quotes, like in the 3065 shell? :edit "my[file].txt" (currently works if there is no "myf.txt") 30667 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above 3067 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message 3068 (truncated to fit in the space). 30697 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner) 30708 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout) 30718 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise 3072 Visual mode. 30737 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use 3074 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV. 30757 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping 3076 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0". 30777 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name. 30787 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently. 30797 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines? 30808 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney) 30818 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in 3082 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for 3083 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef 3084 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do? 30858 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down. 30866 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain 3087 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron) 30888 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists. 30898 Use confirm/dialog stuff to ask the user, when a file has changed outside 3090 of Vim, if he wants to reload it. Triggered when focus gained, after 3091 shell command, when entering another buffer, etc.. 3092 Also do this when editing a new file, and another application creates 3093 the file before doing ":w" in Vim. 3094 Also check if the file protection has changed. When checking a file into 3095 RCS it is made read-only, when checking out it is made read-write. 30968 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file 3097 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would 3098 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist 3099 does something like this. (Shah) 31007 Use growarray for replace stack. 31017 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution 3102 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis). 31033 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"? 31048 Make "more" prompt accept command characters, like "hit-enter" prompt? 3105 Or extend it with more commands, like "less": 'b' for back, 'j' for one 3106 line down, etc. 31078 For the "--more--" prompt, support the 'b'ack command for more commands. 3108 Possible implementation: Do it at a very low level, caching the lines that 3109 are on the screen (with highlight attributes). Avoids that changes have 3110 to be made for all functions that list something. 31117 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same 3112 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers? 3113- Keep a list of most recently used files for each window, use "[o" to go 3114 back (older file) and "]n" to go forward (newer file) (like ^O and ^I for 3115 jumps) (Webb). Use ":files" and ":ls" to list the files in history order. 31167 Add a history of recently accessed buffer. Maybe make "2 CTRL-^" jump to 3117 the 2nd previously visited buffer, "3 CTRL-^" to the third, etc. Or use 3118 "3 g CTRL-^" for this? 3119- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode. 3120- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file. 3121- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c 3122- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window. 31237 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive 3124 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used. 3125- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home 3126 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc. 3127- Remove mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this. 3128- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set, 3129 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert) 3130- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to 3131 call "play newbeep.au"). 3132- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or 3133 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function. 3134 (Bhatt). 3135- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for 3136 blockwise registers). 3137- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the 3138 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt). 3139- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps 3140 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed, 3141 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't 3142 noticeable. 31439 When using ":w <fname>" it's possible that this file is loaded in another 3144 buffer. Give a warning right away, don't wait for a shell command. 3145- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb). 31467 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters. 3147 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code. 3148- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs 3149 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between 3150 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent 3151 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new 3152 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change. 31537 Add a way to define an item list with a pattern in 'formatoptions'. The 3154 'n' flag doesn't work for "6.3" or "6a.". 31558 Add 'formatexpr' option: Used for formatting operator "gq" instead of the 3156 builtin formatting or 'formatprg'. 31578 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the 3158 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for 3159 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a 3160 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line). 3161 ":set autoformat=\\s$". 3162- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern? 31637 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the 3164 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt) 3165- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is 3166 not in column 1. 31676 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a 3168 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext". 31697 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined? 3170- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator? 31718 findmatchlimit() should be able to skip comments. Solves problem of 3172 matching the '{' in /* if (foo) { */ (Fiveash) 3173- Add more redirecting of Ex commands: 3174 :redir @> register (append) 3175 :redir # bufname 3176 :redir #> bufname (append) 3177 :redir = variable 3178 :redir => variable (append) 3179- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with 3180 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set". 3181 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit". 31826 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32 3183 console? (Klaus Hast) 3184- Add :delcr command: 3185 *:delcr* 3186 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines 3187 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is 3188 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range]. 3189 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If 3190 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all 3191 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi} 3192- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat(). 3193- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta 3194 characters from 'isprint'. 3195- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName(). 3196- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area. 3197 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn. 3198- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but 3199 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More 3200 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion. 3201- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()). 3202- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like 3203 Nvi). 3204- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the 3205 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define. 32067 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position. 3207- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that 3208 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'? 32096 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file. 3210- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the 3211 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13 3212 macro). 3213- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files. 3214- Add command like ":ts" that shows the output of "[I" and asks for a match 3215 to jump to. (Zellner) 3216- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also 3217 expanded. Is there a better way to do this? 3218- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source". 32198 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set. 3220- Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null". 3221- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty. 3222- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible! 3223- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down 3224 if it is not the first or last window. 3225- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if 3226 there is one) instead of the file itself. 32277 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example: 3228 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0 3229 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files. 3230- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion. 3231- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as 3232 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so 3233 many percent down the windows). 3234- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the 3235 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the 3236 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'. 3237- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g. 3238 'dictionary' when it is "*.h". 3239- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to 3240 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit). 3241- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent) 3242- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends. 3243- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the 3244 passwd file? (Antwerpen) 3245- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack. 3246- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush". 32478 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw", 3248 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is 3249 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack? 3250 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when 3251 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping? 3252- Use a builtin grep command for ":grep"? Makes it possible to add the 3253 column number. Can use the code of ":helpgrep". 3254 Also support using "**" in filename, so that a directory tree can be 3255 searched. 3256 Also see the "minigrep.vim" script on www.vim.org. 3257- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time 3258 t_bs is set? (Webb) 3259- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also 3260 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert). 3261- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline (Demirel). Store 3262 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window 3263 (Webb). 3264- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the 3265 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al. 3266- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering 3267 hex codes like 0xff). 3268- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command 3269 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo 3270 the last TYPED command. 3271- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf". 3272- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows. 3273- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/" 3274 should also work? 3275- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL? 32768 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file 3277 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine 3278 name. 3279- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a 3280 trailing '.'. 3281- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a 3282 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use 3283 find_file_in_path(). 3284- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between 3285 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon). 3286- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion. 3287- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a 3288 form usable by Vim on the current machine. 3289- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have 3290 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags. 3291- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one 3292 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains 3293 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline. 3294- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine 3295 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz) 3296- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments. 3297- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt) 3298- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back 3299 to the minimal size. 3300- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */). 3301- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline(). 3302- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb). 3303- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file. 3304- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers. 3305- Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw'). 3306- Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line: 3307 "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ??? 3308- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line 3309 entered)? 3310- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible 3311 as an output filter. 3312- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this. 3313- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line. 3314- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file. 3315- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc. 3316- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char. 3317- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long 3318 lines. 3319- Uppercase characters in ex commands can be made lowercase? 33208 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"), 3321 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option 3322 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex 3323 or in octal. 33247 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more 3325 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument? 3326- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source. 3327 After ":w !command" a wait_return? 3328- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()). 3329- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without 3330 insert line command). 3331- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it. 3332- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals. 3333- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000). 3334- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying. 3335- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace 3336 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>. 3337- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work 3338 yet. 3339- Implement 'redraw' option. 3340- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or 3341 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right). 3342- Use pipes for filtering on Unix. Requires using fork() to be able to read 3343 and write at the same time, or some select() mechanism. 33447 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs 3345 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin. 33468 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can 3347 do it. 3348- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to. 3349- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts, 3350 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list. 3351- Add text justification option. 3352- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on". 3353- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is 3354 off". 3355- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR. 3356- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message. 3357- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but 3358 gives read errors. Check protection before opening. 3359- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied". 3360- If file does not exists, check if directory exists. 3361- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor. 3362- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex 3363 commands. 3364- ":set -w all": list one option per line. 3365- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file. 3366- :table command (Webb) 3367- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ". 3368- Make it possible for a user to define a new operator. Implementation with 3369 internal scripting language or Perl? 3370- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?). 3371- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb). 3372- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files. 3373- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel). 3374- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited 3375 (Demirel). 3376- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc. 3377- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore", 3378 for use in macro's and the like. 3379- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while 3380 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window? 3381- Add possibility to put output of ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for 3382 ":set all". ":r :set all"? 3383- 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really 3384 read-only mode). 3385- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not 3386 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in 3387 a window to become smaller (Webb). 3388- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized 3389 proportionally (Webb). 3390- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use 3391 mkopttab to make option table? 3392- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current 3393 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)? 3394- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster 3395 (Haritsis). 3396- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used 3397 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev) 3398- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the 3399 cursor? 3400- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton). 3401- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)? 34025 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names. 3403 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix. 34048 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore 3405 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in 3406 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams: 3407 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another 3408 option name. 34098 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to 3410 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places. 3411 (Netherton) 34126 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a 3413 space after "(", for example. 34145 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs 3415 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit'). 3416 (Servatius Brandt) 3417 3418 3419From Elvis: 3420- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages? 3421- Add ":alias" command. 3422- fontchanges recognized "\\fB" etc. 3423- Search patterns: 3424 \@ match word under cursor. 3425 but do: 3426 \@w match the word under the cursor? 3427 \@W match the WORD under the cursor? 34288 ":window" command: 3429 :win + next window (up) 3430 :win ++ idem, wrapping 3431 :win - previous window (down) 3432 :win -- idem, wrapping 3433 :win nr to window number "nr" 3434 :win name to window editing buffer "name" 34357 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is 3436 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"? 3437 3438 3439From Nvi: 3440- 'searchincr' option, alias for 'incsearch'? 3441- 'leftright' option, alias for 'nowrap'? 3442- Have a look at "vi/doc/vi.chart", for Nvi specialties. 34438 Add 'keytime', time in 1/10 sec for mapping timeout? 3444- Add 'filec' option as an alternative for 'wildchar'. 34456 Support Nvi command names as an alias: 3446 :bg :hide 3447 :fg fname :buf fname (with 'hidden' set?) 3448 :dis b :ls 3449 :Edit fname :split fname 3450 :Fg fname :sbuf fname (with 'hidden' set?) 3451 :Next :snext (can't do this, already use :Next) 3452 :Previous :sprevious 3453 :Tag :stag 3454 3455 3456From xvi: 3457- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character. 3458- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet) 3459 3460 3461From vile: 3462- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window. 3463- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files 3464 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files. 3465 3466 3467Far future and "big" extensions: 3468- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice 3469 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,... 3470- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in 3471 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac). 3472 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the 3473 current layout mirrored. 3474- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer. 3475- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords, 3476 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.). 3477- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent). 3478- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different 3479 font in each top-level window. 3480- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit'). 3481- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them. 3482- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning. 3483- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to. 3484 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim). 3485- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all 3486 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files 3487 mentioned in the tags file. 3488 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???) 3489 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."? 3490- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other 3491 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter). 3492- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five 3493 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc.. 34944 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands: 3495 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format. 3496 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted. 3497 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list, 3498 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags 3499 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples: 3500 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list 3501- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes 3502 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but 3503 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/. 3504 3505 3506vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl: 3507vim: set fo+=n : 3508