1*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2004 Jul 02 2 3 4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar 5 6 7 TODO list for Vim *todo* 8 9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired 10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by 11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able 12to look for "the next thing to do": 13 14Priority classification: 159 next point release 168 next release 177 as soon as possible 186 soon 195 should be included 204 nice to have 213 consider including 222 maybe not 231 probably not 24- unclassified 25 26 *votes-for-changes* 27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should 28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|. 29 30 *known-bugs* 31-------------------- Known bugs and current work ----------------------- 32 33For version 7.0: 34- Include many PATCHES: 35 7 Add "nbsp" in 'listchars'? Patch from David Blanchet, 2003 Jul 28. 36 again 2004 Jun 16 37 8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible. 38 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. 39 He will update the patch for 6.3. 40 9 Add cursor-column highlighting. Enable it with 'cursorcolumn' option, 41 set highlighting with "CursorColumn" group. Useful for aligning text. 42 Also cursor-row highlighting. Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto for 43 underlining the cursor line, 2004 Mar 24. Update 2004 Jun 17 44 Alternatie: when 'number' is set highlight the number of the current 45 line. 46 7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto. 47 Update 2004 Jun 17. 48 8 Patches from Peter "Rain Dog" Cucka: 49 - guifont selector (2002 Dec 15) 50 update 2004 Jun 20 51 7 Add an option to set the width of the 'number' column. Eight 52 positions is often more than needed. Or adjust the width to the 53 length of the file? 54 Add patch that adds 'numberlen' option. (James Harvey) 55 Other patch with min and max from Emmanuel Renieris (2002 Jul 24) 56 Other patch without an option by Gilles Roy (2002 Jul 25) 57 New patch from Emmanuel Renieris, 2004 Jun 17 58 Needs more work: use one option with one or two numbers 59 7 Be able to call a function while passing on a variable number of 60 arguments: 61 :function Foo(abc, ...) 62 : call Bar(a:abc, a:*) 63 Charles Campbell has a patch for this 64 He lost the patch himself. 65 7 Make ":startinsert" command work directly for functions and scripts? 66 Also make it possible to append (it's difficult at end of line). 67 And add ":startreplace" (patch by Charles Campbell, 2004 Jan 9, 68 http://www.erols.com/astronaut/vim/index.html#Patch) 69 Update 2004 June 18 70 8 Add patch from Charles Campbell to have ":0file!" remove the name of 71 the current buffer. (2003 June 17) 72 Lost the patch himself. 73 8 Make it possible to delete marks. Charles Campbell has a patch that 74 does this with the markclear() function (2004 Jan 9). And the 75 ":delmark" command (2004 Feb 9) 76 Update 2004 June 18 77 8 ":hardcopy": 78 - Patch to append CTRL-D to PostScript output (Mike Williams, 2004 Jun 79 14) 80 - support printing multi-byte characters. Patch from Motonobu 81 Ichimura. New (better) patch from Mike Williams (2004 Jan 20) 82 Updated patch: http://www.eandem.co.uk/mrw/vim/special/index.html 83 7 Add patch from Wall for this one ( ~/Mail/oldmail/wall/in.00019 ): 84 'flipcase' variable: upper/lowercase pairs. 85 Insert comma's between pairs and allow a range, make it look like 86 'isfname'. E.g. ":set flipcase=a-zA-Z,xX,23-33:143-153". The colon to 87 separate the from and to part is optional. 88 Resp: no time now. 89 8 Add GTK 2.3 file dialog support. Patch by Grahame Bowland, 2004 Mar 15, 90 but it doesn't use "initdir" or "dflt". (will update patch) 91 8 Add buffer-local autocommands? Reduces overhead for autocommands that 92 trigger often (inserting a character, switching mode). 93 :au Event <buffer> do-something 94 E.g.: 95 :au BufEnter <buffer> menu enable ... 96 :au BufLeave <buffer> menu disable ... 97 Patch from Yakov Lerner, including test (2004 Jan 7). 98 He'll send updated patch. 99 Autocommands: 100 VimResized - When the Vim window has been resized (SIGWINCH) 101 patch from Yakov Lerner, 2003 July 24. 102 He'll write documentation and send updated patch. 103 --- responses above -- 104 7 Make "5dd" on last-but-one-line not delete anything (Vi compatible). 105 Add flag in 'cpoptions' for this. When not present, "2dd" in the last 106 line should delete the last line. Patch from greenx 2002 Apr 11. 107 8 Accelerators don't work in a dialog. Include patch from Martin Dalecki 108 (Jan 3, tested by David Harrison). Should work with Alt-o then. 109 7 Use accelerators for the Motif file selection dialog. Patch from 110 Martin Dalecki 2002 Jan 11. 111 8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina 112 (28 feb 2002). 113 7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears 114 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3. 115 - Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work 116 for multi-byte characters. 117 - Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind. 118 - Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5) 119 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not 120 been given values. 121 Add section in help files for these highlight groups? 122 8 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm 123 with an ESC sequence. Ideas in: ~/vim/patches/vikas.xtermcolors . 124 7 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Martin 125 Dalecki has a patch for Motif) 126 - Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a 127 line in between columns (e.g. for 'textwidth'). 128 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20. 129 8 Add functions: 130 tr(expr, from, to) translate chars (Patch from Ron Aaron, Apr 8 131 2004) 132 strrep() Repeat a string (patch from Christophe Poucet, 133 2003 Sep 12, also contains XX) 134 Alt: repeat(expr, count) werkt ook voor lists. 135 mousex() mousey() get position of mouse pointer (patch by Ross 136 Presser) 137 He will send a new patch. 138 Is this really useful? 139 multibyteidx(string, idx) Byte index in multi-byte character. 140 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Feb 25 141 Update June 18 (third one). 142 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what}) 143 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}. 144 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File". 145 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu 146 File.Open..." argument. 147 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22 148 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping. 149 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4. 150 match({pat}, {string} [,start] [,count]) get index of count'th match 151 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Jun 19 152 find() find file in 'path' (patch from Johannes 153 Zellner 2001 Dec 20) 154 Update 2004 Jun 16. 155 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro 156 Matsumoto) How to get the messages into the 157 .po files? 158 Update 2004 Jun 17 159 realname() Get user name (first, last, full) 160 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov 161 3 2002) 162 getfperm() file permissions, in form "rwxrwxrwx" 163 (patch from Nikolai Weibull 2003 Jan 13) 164 getftype() "file", "dir", "link", "other"? 165 (patch from Nikolai Weibull 2003 Jan 13) 166 setbufline() set line in any buffer (patch from Yegappan 167 Lakshmanan, 2003 Jan 21) 168 winnr("$") Get number of windows. (patch from Nikolai 169 Weibull 2003 Jan 13) (another patch from 170 Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2003 Aug 31) 171 search() Add optional offset argument. 172 Add 'n' flag. (patch from Nikolai Weibull 173 2003 Jan 13) 174 --- 175 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical 176 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg) 177 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag 178 (2003 May 13) 179 system({cmd}, {expr}) Filter {expr} through the shell command 180 {cmd} and return the result. 181 (Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan) 182 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for 183 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ ) 184 7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions 185 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10) 186 7 Add 'taglistfiles' option, show file name and type when listing matching 187 tags name with CTRL-D completion. Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan. 188 7 Motif: use the menu font consistently. Patch from Martin Dalecki 2002 189 Jan 11. 190 - Motif: add 3D shading for the menu entries? Patch from Martin Dalecki. 191 7 For Visual mode: Command to do a search for the string in the marked 192 area. Only when fewer than two lines. Use "g/" and "gb". Patch from 193 Yegappan Lakshmanan. 194 7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right 195 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli) 196 8 Lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk (uncrypted). 197 Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. 198 7 Support a stronger encryption. Jason Holt implemented AES (May 6 2003). 199 7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie) 200 8 Make 'statusline' local, so that each window can have a different 201 value. But should it also be local to a buffer? (Yegappan Lakshmanan 202 has a patch, 2002 feb 15) 203 8 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's 204 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1. 205 7 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David 206 Kotchan has a patch for it) 207 8 Add term entries for function keys on xterm with alt and ctrl (new in 208 pl 94). E.g., Control adds ";5" in "<Esc>[20;5~". Find a generic way 209 to prepend a modifier in console mode, to avoid having to specify each 210 individual modified key. 211 Steve Wall has a patch (2002 Mar 12) for adding function keys up to 37, 212 with modifiers. 213 8 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See 214 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface. 215 Or use emacs server kind of thing? 216 7 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25. 217 - findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at 218 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram, 219 incomplete patch Mar 18) 220 221 222- In the kvim/KDE source files fix the formatting. 223- KDE version is called "kvim". Make it "gvim", like the others? 224- Change ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be 225 incremented/decremented each time. 226- For string variables, use length instead of NUL termination. 227- new DATA TYPES: lists, dictionaries and function references. 228 Check old patch from Robert Webb for array support. 229 Add type checking? See ~/vim/ideas.txt. 230- Add SPELLCHECKER, with easy to add support for many languages. 231 8 Add spell checking. Use "ispell -a" somehow. 232 ~/vim/patches/wm_vim-5_4d.zip can be used as an example (includes 233 ispell inside Vim). Gautam Iyer has an example with "aspell". 234 "engspchk" from Charles Campbell is a good way. Support for 235 approximate-regexps will help (agrep http://www.tgries.de/agrep/). 236 - Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to 237 existing syntax items (to add @Spell). Add ":syntax contains 238 {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn cluster" but change 239 the contains list directly for matching syntax items. 240 - Keep wordlist in syntax group, load it only once and use it several 241 times later. Sort of global syntax items. 242- REFACTORING: The main() function is very long. Move parts to separate 243 functions, especially loops. Ideas from Walter Briscoe (2003 Apr 3, 2004 244 Feb 9). 245- Improve the interface between the generic GUI code and the system-specific 246 code. Generic code handles text window with scrollbars, system-specific 247 code menu, toolbar, etc. 248- Store messages to allow SCROLLING BACK for all commands. And other "less" 249 like commands. 250- "INTELLISENSE". First cleanup the Insert-mode completion. 251 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747 252 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim 253- PERSISTENT UNDO: store undo in a file. 254 Support multiple threads. Show the list of changes in a window to be able 255 to select a version. 2567 SWAP FILE CHANGE: When a dos format file was edited with ":e ++ff=unix", 257 Vim is killed and trying to recover the file, 'ff' will be dos. Same for 258 non-default fileencoding. (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jul 17) 259 Should store the values in block 0 of the swap file, but that is an 260 incompatible change. 2617 Support WINDOW TABS. Works like several pages, each with their own 262 split windows. Patch for GTK 1.2 from Christian Michon, 2004 Jan 6. 263 Also for the console! 264- EMBEDDING: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program. 265 For Xwindows this can be done with XReparentWindow(). 266 For GTK Neil Bird has a patch to use Vim like a widget. 267- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block 268 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2. 269- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye, 270 assisted by Mikolaj Machowski. Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it 271 generic. Also found here: http://skawina.eu.org/mikolaj/vimgdb 272 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program 273 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the 274 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the 275 other window. 276 Wishes for NetBeans commands: 277 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors. 278 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?) 279 in terminal mode. 280- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is. 281 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command 282 scrolls back to where the cursor is. 2838 Support four composing characters, needed for Hebrew. (Ron Aaron) 284- Add a few more things to 'diffopt': "horizontal", "vertical", 285 "foldcolumn". (Benji Fisher, 2004 Jun 21) 286- FileChangedShellPost autocommand event: after (not) reloading a changed 287 file. Can be used to update statusline oslt. 288- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display. 289- Mac: Unicode input and display (Eckehard Berns, June 27) 2908 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac? 291 New patch 2004 Jun 16 2927 Add the MzScheme interface? 293 NO: it changes too much of the code, while hardly anybody will use it. 294 Patch on http://iamphet.nm.ru/scheme/ (Sergey Khorev) 295 Alt URL: http://cyber.miem.edu.ru/~iamphet/scheme/mzvim-0.560.tar.gz 296 297Vi incompatibility: 2988 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other 299 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it 300 is deleted or restored. (Webb) 301 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo. 302 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the '' 303 position is one line down. (Veselinovic) 3048 ":change" in a single-line file adds an empty line. When the file used to 305 be longer a "~" line is displayed, but there really is an empty line. 306 (Haakon Riiser, 2003 Dec 3 and Dec 16) 3078 ":append" and ":insert" in an empty file add an extra empty line. (Haakon 308 Riiser, 2003 Dec 3) Test for ML_EMPTY. 3098 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should 310 make Vim exit. 3117 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line 312 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway). 313 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input. 3148 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips 315 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument 316 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded) 3176 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but 318 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag 319 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off. 3208 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another 321 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one. 322 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file 323 names in one buffer??? 324 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and 325 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not 326 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer. 3277 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some 328 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual" 329 command was one command. 3307 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep 331 the ":map" when it's used without arguments? 3327 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option. 3337 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty. 3347 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a 335 flag in 'cpoptions' for this. 3367 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when 337 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing 338 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either 339 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file). 3407 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode). 3417 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines. 3427 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go 343 to the match with the tag? Option? 3447 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option. 3457 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del> 346 (Sayre). 3477 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the 348 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible). 3497 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual". 350 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next 351 match. Nvi can do it too. 3527 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking) 353 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\ 354 line 1\ line 2\\ 355 line 2\ line 3\\ 356 . line4/ 3576 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of 358 the way the shell is started? 3596 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange 360 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line). 361 362 363GTK+ 1 (OK in GTK 2): 3648 When menus are disabled, 'm' removed from 'guioptions', Alt-F still pops 365 up the File menu. Cannot reproduce this: gives a warning for a NULL 366 pointer if the menu was never displayed. 3678 When using "gvim -geom 40x30" or setting 'columns' in .gvimrc or with a 368 GUIEnter autocommand, the width is still set to fit the toolbar. Also 369 happens when changing the font. How to avoid that the toolbar specifies 370 the minimal window width? 3718 When using a theme with different scrollbars (gtkstep), the scrollbars can 372 be too narrow. (Drazen Kacar) 3738 Font "7x14" has a bold version "7x14bold". Try to find the bold font by 374 appending "bold" when there are not 14 dashes. 375 376GTK+ GUI known bugs: 3778 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj 378 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in 379 creating a label? 3809 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim 381 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and 382 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works. 383 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again. 3847 DND doesn't work with KDE (also with GTK 1). 385 386KDE GUI known bugs: 387- The default font is ugly. bold text isn't displayed correctly. 388- Error messages when starting up. The "tip of the day" box is empty. 389- Encoding of menu items needs to be converted. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 390 391Win32 GUI known bugs: 3928 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2 393 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically? 3948 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications. 395 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs. 396 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html 3978 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be 398 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp) 3997 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow 400 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to 401 "lucida_console:h8"). 4026 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":" 403 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis) 4047 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason 405 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible 406 to use an opaque background in most places? 4078 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that 408 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly. 409 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters. 4108 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font 411 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the 412 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono. 4137 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan, 414 2004 May 9) 4158 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces 416 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim 417 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with 418 MS-Windows 98? 419 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a 420 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed 421 file: Window moves with the cursor! 422 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it? 4238 When activating the Vim window with mouse click, don't move cursor to 424 mouse position. Catch WM_MOUSEACTIVATE. (Luevelsmeyer) 4258 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it 426 appear. (Sami Salonen) 4278 Windows NT: writing to aux.* makes Vim hang. (Acevedo) 4288 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that 429 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win 430 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also 431 doesn't work properly. 4328 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops 433 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it 434 appears in the right position. (Webb) 4359 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse 436 button doesn't give popup menu. 437 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless 438 selection. 439 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button. 440 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the 441 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text. 4428 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the 443 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore) 444 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error 445 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code. 4468 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg. 447 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not 448 be read. 4498 MessageBox used for error messages can be too big. There is no way to 450 scroll it, or even hit the OK button (but you can hit return). 451 Use a scrollable window. 4527 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida 453 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char). 454 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'. 4557 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the 456 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to 457 scroll? Need to be able to get out of hit-enter prompt with the mouse 458 anyway. 4597 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance. 460 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar. 4617 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using 462 "/min" as the command name. (Rogall) 4636 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor). 4648 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work 465 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because 466 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr? 4678 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we 468 know which keyboard is being used? 4697 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern 470 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn 471 area (Koloseike). 4728 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might 473 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first, 474 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in 475 the font name). 476 477 478Athena and Motif: 4799 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is 480 required and it's missing? 4818 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned 482 wrong. 4839 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can 484 be off by default. 4859 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now, 486 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting 487 flag. 4888 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character. 489 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1. 490 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this. 4918 Perhaps use fontsets for everything? 4926 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting 493 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all 494 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of 495 the tooltips work though... 4967 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not 497 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory). 4988 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the 499 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the 500 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'. 501 502 503Athena GUI: 5049 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in 505 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving 506 through files. 5077 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to 508 read long file names. (Schroeder) 5094 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go 510 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the 511 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets" 512 problem during a refresh. 5135 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing 514 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the 515 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors. 516 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes 517 colors as it should. 518 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the 519 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug? 520 521 522Motif GUI: 5238 Popup menu ordering is wrong. 5247 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()? 525 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2). 5268 The texts in the find/replace dialog don't use the right font. 5278 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes 528 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes. 529 (Phillipps) 530 531 532GUI: 5339 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no 534 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy) 5359 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C. 536 e.g. on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on 537 Solaris 2.6. (Marley) 5389 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim 539 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf) 5408 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key 541 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version). 5428 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both 543 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate 544 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed. 5458 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling 546 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state 547 of where it is processing the output. 548 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code. 5498 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font 550 doesn't work. 5518 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS. 5528 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS. 5538 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for 554 browse(). 5558 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this, 556 use that code? Or use console dialog. 5578 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the 558 error message disappears too quick. 5598 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later, 560 to avoid problems. 5618 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there 562 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for 563 input. Or maybe every 100 ms? 5648 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank 565 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0". 566 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works. 5678 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed 568 up. Set erase character somehow? 5698 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character 570 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this. 571 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling. 572 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya) 5738 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11. 5747 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not 575 visible. 5767 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is 577 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey) 5787 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it 579 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw. 5808 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the 581 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek) 5828 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not 583 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32. 584 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the 585 remaining part of the window (Phillipps). 586- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun. 5874 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times 588 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times 589 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486. 590 591 592MSDOS/DJGPP: 5939 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao) 594 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the 595 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem. 5968 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists. 597 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error? 5989 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused 599 code and reduce static data. 6009 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C. 601 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since 602 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting 603 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work. 6049 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work. 605 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67 606 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71 607 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2) 608 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>. 609 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream? 610 Make this work like in Win32 console. 611 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended 612 key code. Use a translation table? 6139 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used. 614 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself. 6158 Use DJGPP 2.03. 6168 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT. 617 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip). 6188 setlocale() is bogus. 6198 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some 620 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched 621 Windows 95 system! 6228 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe) 6237 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g. in keyword completion) on a 8088 624 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin). 6257 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.: 626 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley) 627 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem). 6288 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add 629 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt. 6307 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen. 631 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a 632 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are 633 "[New file]". 6347 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode 635 that is supported? 6368 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them. 6378 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter 638 Briscoe) 639 640 641MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32: 6428 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use 643 gen_expand_wildcards(). 6448 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander 645 Wagner. 6468 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL. 6478 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt, 648 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name. 6498 Should $USERPROFILE be used instead of $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? 6508 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have 651 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key. 6528 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift. 653 Should work like in the GUI version. 6548 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for 655 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names. 6568 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when 657 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command? 6588 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file" 659 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be 660 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc. 6618 ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means directory "#bb" 662 in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth) 6638 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going 664 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to 665 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth) 666 667 668Windows 95: 6698 Editing a file by it's short file name and writing it, makes the long file 670 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps. 671 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly). 6728 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the 673 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32). 674 675 676Win32 console: 6779 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its 678 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister) 679 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor. 680 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable. 681 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1 682 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name. 683 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file. 684 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed 685 and the file is not saved. 686 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its 687 long name. 6888 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at 689 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT. 6907 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals, 691 besides the console. 6928 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes) 6939 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with 694 <C-S-i>? 6959 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on 696 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI? 6978 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__ 698 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around? 6997 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'? 700 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when 701 exiting. 702 703 704Amiga: 7058 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte 706 sequences. 7079 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove 708 backslashes in result. 7098 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do 710 all options, using white space separation. 711 712 713Macintosh: 7147 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard 715 Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff 716 Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it. 7177 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both. 718 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac 719 (Jack) 720 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html 7218 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear 722 to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17) 7238 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI. 7249 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher) 725 - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost. 7268 The Vim/About menu doesn't work. 7278 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV. 7288 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh. 7298 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh. 7309 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be 731 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone) 7329 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when 733 scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher) 7349 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two 735 seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher) 7369 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly. 7378 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige) 7388 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige) 739 740 741"Small" problems: 7428 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used, 743 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited 744 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure 745 the ATTENTION message shows up. 7469 When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with 747 'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though 748 the fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to 749 check for the buffer to be unmodified. 7508 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the 751 error number, it's not a regular error message. 7527 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to 753 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 7548 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and 755 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column 756 for redirection. 7577 There is no way to change directory and go back without changing the local 758 and/or global directory. Add a way to find out if the current window uses 759 a local directory. Add cdcmd() that returns ":cd" or ":lcd"? 7607 After running "make test" the window title is sometimes not restored. 761 Mostly sticks at "test3.in", but not always. Appears to happen more often 762 when compiled with Python (threading). 7637 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use 764 'termencoding'. 7658 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor 766 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor 767 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when 768 using the horizontal scrollbar. 7697 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed 770 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the 771 invocations belong together. 7728 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this 773 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams) 7748 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the 775 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the 776 UnxUtils.zip archive. 777 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter 778 Briscoe says it's not as good. 7798 'fillchars' doesn't work for multi-byte characters. 7809 Editing a XML file with a long line is extremely slow. Example file from 781 Randy Parker (Dec 13). Editing the dictionaries for engspchk plugin with 782 syntax highlighting is also very slow. 783 Limit the searching for items to a few hundred characters? 7848 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing 785 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly) 7867 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names: 787 use "~/" when possible. 7888 After using diff mode, ":set nodiff" doesn't restore the old foldmethod. 789 (Thomas S. Urban) 7907 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte 791 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail 792 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[] 793 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8). 7948 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when 795 defined. 7967 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an 797 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found. 798 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions. 7997 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode 800 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second 801 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel) 8027 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the 803 bottom window only bigger as much as needed. 8047 "[p" doesn't work in Visual mode. (David Brown) 8057 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere. 806 Remove? (Dan Sharp) 8079 The argument <f-args> of a user command doesn't handle backslashes 808 properly. "Cmd \ e" is one argument, "Cmd \\ e" still is one argument. 809 "Cmd \ e" is two arguments, first one ending in space. (Kontra Gergely) 8109 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This 811 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining 812 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command": 813 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining 814 script can be called. 8158 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po, 816 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still 817 works. 8189 When a syntax region does not use "keepend" and a contained item does use 819 "extend", this makes the outer region stop at the end of the contained 820 region. (Lutz Eymers) Another example Nov 14 2002. 8218 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with 822 CTRL-C. 8237 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X 824 server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp 825 of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK 826 doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it 827 won't work for GTK anyway. 8288 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error 829 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid. 8308 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line() 831 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this 832 configurable? 8338 'hkmap' should probably be global-local. 8349 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes 835 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work 836 then. (Pritesh Mistry) 8378 ":s!from!to!" works, but ":smagic!from!to!" doesn't. It sees the "!" as a 838 flag to to the command. Same for ":snomagic". (Johan Spetz) 8398 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save 840 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()? 8418 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is 842 always written, even when the original file already exists. 8437 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter, 844 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space. 8459 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file 846 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being 847 written. 8489 The "Error detected while processing modelines" message should have an 849 error number. 8507 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer. 8518 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose 852 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when 853 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'. 8548 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global 855 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez) 8569 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing 857 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give 858 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating 859 one. 8607 On MS-DOS or MS-Windows, when editing the same file over a network, the 861 drive letter is different, thus an existing swap file doesn't generate a 862 warning. Use some flag to indicate the swap file is in the same directory 863 as the original file? Could make b0_fname[] start with a special 864 character like ">". 8657 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes. 866 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs. 8677 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that 868 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back. 8697 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed 870 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's 871 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y 872 direction, not horizontally? 8738 When using CTRL-D after ":help", restrict the number of matches to a 874 thousand, otherwise using CTRL-D without an argument takes too long. 8758 ":hardcopy": 876 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16. 877 - Need to handle unprintable characters. 878 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform 879 dithering to make grey text? 880 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total 881 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams) 882 - Should interpreted CTRL-L as a page break. 883 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'. 884 Default to black when no syntax highlighting. 885 - Be able to print a window in diff mode. 886 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate 887 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected). 8888 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the 889 text in following lines where the linebreak changes. 8909 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on 891 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect 892 that Windows NT is being used? 8938 When opening the same file on Unix and on MS-Windows, there is no 894 ATTENTION message, because the path in the swap file is different. Using 895 a relative path name will cause no ATTENTION for Vim 5.8. 896 Somehow add a flag that the swap file is in the same dir as the file? 8978 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a 898 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it. 8998 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert 900 in lines that don't extend into the block? 9018 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O 902 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev) 903 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work. 9048 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from 905 'linebreak'. 9068 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection 907 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab. 908 (Helmut Stiegler) 9098 With 'virtualedit' set, a blockwise Visual selection that starts and ends 910 in a tab, "<" shifts too much. (Helmut Stiegler) 9119 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When 912 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending 913 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of 914 'magic' in history. (Margo) 9159 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for 916 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc". 9179 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern 918 isn't updated). 9199 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga). 9209 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled 921 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which 922 cause another redraw, etc. 9238 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path() 924 must escape special characters in the pattern. 9258 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an 926 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use 927 ":w!!" for that. 928 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and 929 restore file to readonly afterwards. 9307 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get 931 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the 932 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as 933 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from 934 clipboard) 9357 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal 936 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark 937 Waggoner) 9388 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window 939 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no 940 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\". 9418 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a 942 way to avoid using the builtin termcap. 9438 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also 944 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm. 945 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style. 9468 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator 947 (e.g., ":w"). 9488 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for 949 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long. 9508 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column 951 for ">>". 9528 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long 953 script in do_cmdline(). 9548 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the 955 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that 956 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have 957 changes. 9588 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT 959 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim". 9608 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to 961 check for file marks. This can be slow. 9627 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change 963 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's 964 needed. 965 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key. 9668 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option 967 to skip catch_signals()? 9689 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the 969 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert 970 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of 971 text? 9728 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts 973 all the text. Add ":rmenu"? 9748 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of 975 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>. 9769 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are 977 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7, 978 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed. 979 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or 980 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate(). 9817 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/". 982 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and 983 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings 984 in the list? 9858 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking 986 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up, 987 instead of on button down. 9888 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw. 9899 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for 990 reaching the end of the available buffer. 9918 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a 992 character is typed. 9938 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this. 994 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it. 9958 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not 996 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure 9978 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an 998 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template 999 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp". 1000 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for 1001 cygwin bash. 10027 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}". 1003 Remember flags for backreferences. 10047 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been 1005 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT? 10067 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names 1007 that contain a '$' after all have been found. 10088 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about 1009 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX. 10107 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting 1011 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name. 10127 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing. 1013 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and 1014 "initdir" is the default path to be used. 10157 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of 1016 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols) 10178 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo 1018 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so 1019 that the user knows he has to delete the files. 10207 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func 1021 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this. 10227 After ":%d" an undo reports the number of lines added as if there still 1023 was one line. 1024 1025 1026I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!): 10279 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file 1028 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three 1029 files. (McCollister) 10308 Motif: Tear-off menu item crashes Vim on some machines. (Netherton) It 1031 works fine for me, maybe it's a Motif problem. 1032 1033 1034Problems that will (probably) not be solved: 1035- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering 1036 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the 1037 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like 1038 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external 1039 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text. 1040- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access 1041 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message. 1042 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it. 1043- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim. 1044 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim. 1045- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will 1046 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which 1047 character gets the highlighting. 1048- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm 1049 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly. 1050- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem. 1051 (Jennings) 1052- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino). 1053- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25 1054 errors. How do we get the rest? 1055- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why? 1056- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The 1057 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong. 1058- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a 1059 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy 1060 first? 1061- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for 1062 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names. 1063- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy 1064 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim, 1065 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK. 1066- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The 1067 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working. 1068 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p". 1069 (Benzinger). 1070- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that 1071 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim 1072 can't get back what the external command didn't use. 1073- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error. 1074 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code. 1075- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being 1076 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar. 1077- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer 1078 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when 1079 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted. 1080 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library. 1081 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn) 1082 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)? 1083- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles 1084 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE. 1085 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134. 1086- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal 1087 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif 1088 libraries, get a patch from Sun. 1089- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X 1090 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash. 1091- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks 1092 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff. 1093- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim 1094 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy) 1095- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive 1096 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used. 1097- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up: 1098 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library 1099 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to 1100 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the 1101 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem. 1102- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the 1103 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line: 1104 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr> 1105- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a 1106 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert 1107 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard) 1108- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar. 1109 This is a GTK 2.4.x bug, fixed in GTK 2.4.2. (Thomas de Grenier de Latour) 1110- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co' 1111 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the 1112 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the 1113 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined 1114 in the vimrc file to be lost. 1115- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and 1116 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars. 1117 1118--------------------- extensions and improvements ---------------------- 1119 *extensions-improvements* 1120 1121Documentation: 11228 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth) 11237 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual. 11249 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention: 1125 - change to cursor position and curswant 1126 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.) 1127 - how it works for folded lines 1128 - how it works with multi-byte characters 11299 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would 1130 work too. 11318 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag" 1132 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double 1133 text. 11348 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running". 11357 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to 1136 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'. 11377 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and 1138 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag. 1139- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks. 1140 1141 1142Help: 1143- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a 1144 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag. 1145- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go 1146 to the other matches. 1147- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files. 1148- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|. 1149- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always 1150 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file, 1151 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a 1152 default contents. 1153- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal 1154 height for the help window (and other windows). 1155- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute". 1156- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive? 1157- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands. 1158 1159 1160User Friendlier: 11618 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for 1162 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter 1163 Briscoe) 11648 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types? 11658 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that 1166 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if 1167 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf". 11688 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc, 1169 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu. 1170- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file. 1171 ":mkplugin <file>"? 11728 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that 1173 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from 1174 'runtimepath'. 1175 " Vim plugin 1176 <main plugin code> 1177 " >>> plugin help start <<< 1178 <plugin docs> 1179- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."? 11809 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or 1181 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty 1182 item?). 1183 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands. 11848 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems. 11857 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output? 1186 1187 1188Diff mode: 11898 Add a command to stop diff mode: ":set nodiff fdc = 0 noscrollbind" 11908 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file). 1191 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing: 1192 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis 11937 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also 1194 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same 1195 location. 1196 1197 1198Folding: 1199 (commands still available: zg zG zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zw zW zy zY; 1200 secondary: zB zS zT zZ) 12018 Add different highlighting for a fold line depending on the fold level. 1202 (Noel Henson) 12038 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the 1204 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the 1205 user aware of this? 12068 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which 1207 commands skip over a closed fold. 12088 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt) 12098 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB. 12107 When using 2html.vim, also reproduce folds as you can see them. When 1211 someone doesn't want the folds he can disable them before converting. 1212 First attempt by Carl Osterwisch, 2004 May 10. 12137 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds. 1214- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. Require showing a character in 1215 'foldcolumn' to avoid the missing line goes unnoticed. 1216- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll 1217 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds 1218 smoother? 1219- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list, 1220 using the wininfo in wi_folds. 1221- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects. 1222- Add 'hidecomment' option: don't display comments in /* */ and after //. 1223- "zu": undo change in manual fold. "zU" redo change in manual fold. How to 1224 implement this? 1225- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the 1226 cursor. 1227- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3": set fold level for a region. 1228- Can set 'foldtext' to empty string: don't display any line. How to 1229 implement this? 1230- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt) 1231- Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like 1232 searches. 1233 1234 1235Multi-byte characters: 12369 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the 1237 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal 1238 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single 1239 byte). 12408 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for 1241 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html. 1242 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like: 1243 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-" 1244 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first 1245 item. 12468 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for 1247 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"? 12488 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an 1249 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for 1250 ":grep". 12518 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search 1252 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka) 12537 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted, 1254 so that the user can fix the problem. 12558 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo 1256 Schweigert) 12579 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El) 12588 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters. 12598 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters. 12608 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes. 12618 "ga" should show all composing characters, also if there are more than 2. 12627 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored? 12638 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing. 12648 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes. 12658 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte 1266 characters. 12678 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters. 12688 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead 1269 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example. 12707 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead. 1271 'display' option to specify this. 12727 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default(): 1273 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c) 1274- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the 1275 fontselector somehow. 1276- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it 1277 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale. 1278- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for 1279 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong. 1280- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset, 1281 depending on the default value of 'encoding'. 1282 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used. 1283 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know 1284 if a font exists? 1285- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with 1286 convert_input() for Mac GUI, RiscOS GUI, BeOS GUI. 1287- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters. 1288 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_ 12897 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of 1290 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky) 1291- Make 'langmap' accept multi-byte characters. 1292- Do we need the reverse of 'keymap', like 'langmap' but with files and 1293 multi-byte characters? E.g., when using a Russian keyboard. 1294- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text 1295 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort 1296 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command? 1297- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into 1298 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it: 1299 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz 1300 But it's very complicated... 1301 1302 1303Printing: 1304- Add "page width" to wrap long lines. 1305- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for 1306 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function. 1307- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'. 1308- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer 1309 name, portrait/landscape, etc). 1310- PostScript: only works for 7-bit ASCII and EBCDIC. Should support 1311 different 'encoding' values somehow. 1312- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same 1313 units as for the margins. 1314- Support right-to-left text? 13158 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the 1316 color. 1317 1318 1319Syntax highlighting: 13208 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson) 1321 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual". 13228 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined 1323 cluster can be added to existing syntax items. 13248 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this: 1325 "({ something })", often used in GCC code. 13268 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing 1327 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for 1328 ":wq file". 13298 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script). 13309 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is 1331 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it... 13327 Make syntax keyword table configurable. Set number of bits used with 1333 ":syn clear [hashbits]", so that we don't need to reallocate the table. 1334 minimal 4 bits, maximal 16. (Campbell) 13357 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and 1336 Search highlighting. 13378 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to 1338 change this for each release. 13398 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end 1340 pattern, but not in the body. 13418 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this 1342 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item, 1343 instead of the containing item. 13448 For keywords, allow to define the size of the hash table with ":syn 1345 clear". Change KHASH_ defines into variables stored in buffer struct. 1346 Use something else than linear linked list from the hash table. (Campbell) 13478 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside (). 13488 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype 1349 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules? 1350 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, 1351 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax. 13528 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a 1353 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained] 13548 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey 1355 background) when on one of the parens or in between them. 1356 Or highlight the matching paren when the cursor is on one. 13578 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error". 13588 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop 1359 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be 1360 used. 13618 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will 1362 allow spell checking. (Fleiner) 13638 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And 1364 re-insert the [] if possible. 13658 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for 1366 the Cursor). 13678 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like 1368 using "\1" in a ":s" command. 13698 Support for deleting syntax items: 1370 :syn keyword cTodo remove this 1371 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern" 1372 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that" 13738 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way 1374 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for 1375 a '<'. (Fleiner) 13767 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification? 1377 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or 1378 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern. 13797 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be 1380 detected. 13818 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original 1382 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this). 13838 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to 1384 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible. 13858 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group. 13868 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values. 13877 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to 1388 ":mkvimrc". 13898 Improve c.vim: 1390 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on: 1391 "c_strict_ansi". 1392 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way... 13938 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the 1394 current line while in Insert mode. 13958 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been 1396 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again? 13978 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current 1398 display position. 13998 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to 1400 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern. 1401 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()". 14028 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until 1403 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when 1404 highlighting starts. 14057 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the 1406 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow. 1407 E.g. for this html: 1408 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I> 14097 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed 1410 (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"): 1411 :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display="" 14127 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is. 14137 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled 1414 words. 14157 Command line completion for ":find" should search in 'path'. 14168 Add more command line completion for :syntax. 14178 Add more command line completion for :highlight. 14188 Add more command line completion for :sign. 14197 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands. 1420 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and 1421 completion? 14228 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their 1423 highlighting. (Salman Halim) 14247 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to 1425 select one of the sets. 14268 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1 1427 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch 1428 2, etc. 14298 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the 1430 highlighting (for "." command). 14318 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /. 1432 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /? 14338 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing. 14347 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs": 1435 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c". 14366 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of 1437 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall) 1438- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful 1439 when extending an already existing syntax file. 1440- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too? 1441- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin 1442 (for comment blocks). 1443- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags: 1444 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor. 1445 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match. 1446 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match. 1447 Also for {}, <>, etc.? 1448 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?) 1449 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the 1450 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it. 1451 (Campbell) 1452 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around 1453 the cursor. (Iain Truskett) 14547 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword. 1455 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow). 14567 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should 1457 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set). 1458 And allows for sections with different highlighting. 14597 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it 1460 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from 1461 messages. And external commands? 14628 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for 1463 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim? 14647 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an 1465 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line. 1466 1467 1468Built-in script language: 14698 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and 1470 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings. 14718 Allow range for ":exec". Pass it on to the executed command. (Webb) 14728 exists("&&option") tests if 'option' is actually implemented. Useful for 1473 'shellslash', for example. 14748 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham) 14758 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When 1476 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an 1477 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same 1478 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle 1479 nested packages? 1480 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}(). 1481 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from 1482 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path). 14837 Make globpath() also work with "**" and upwards search. (Brian Medley) 14847 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode. 1485 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if 1486 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that 1487 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an 1488 autocommand. 1489 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a 1490 .vim file. Problem: distribution. 1491 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached 1492 file belongs to a sourced script? 14937 Add "n" flag to search() function, just like searchpair(). (Alexey 1494 Marinichev) 14957 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn', 1496 signs and/or 'number'. 14978 Add functions: 1498 sprintf(format, arg, ..) How to prevent a crash??? 1499 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx" 1500 mkdir(dir) Create directory 1501 copy(from, to) Copy a file 1502 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string 1503 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace() 1504 input(prompt, complete) like input() but do specified completion 1505 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left 1506 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in 1507 Visual block mode. 1508 tagtype(tag) get type of tag (also checks if it exists) 1509 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard) 1510 getbufline() get line from any buffer 1511 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer 1512 appendbufline() append line in any buffer 1513 sort() Sort a newline-separated string. Also: 1514 ":sort". 1515 libcall() Allow more than one argument. 1516 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function 1517 to allow the library to execute a command or 1518 evaluate an expression. 1519 char2hex() convert char string to hex string. XX 1520 hex2char() convert hex string to char string. XX 15217 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the 1522 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero. 15238 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was 1524 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file. 15258 Pass the executable name to the Vim scripts in some way. As v:argv0? 15268 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts. 15278 When starting to source a vim script, delete all functions that it has 1528 previously defined? Avoids using ":fun!" all the time. 15297 Add optional arguments to user functions: 1530 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17) 15316 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"? 15328 Add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var" just ignore. 15338 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable, 1534 option or environment variable. 15358 ":let &option" should list the value of the option. 15367 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the 1537 stack available (separated with '\n'). 15388 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed: 1539 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands} 15408 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started. 15418 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default), 1542 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0, 1543 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and 1544 charwise({expr}). 15457 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer 1546 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch 1547 buffer for this? 1548 result = scratch(string, command) 1549 result = apply(string, command) 1550 result = execute(string, command) 1551 "command" would use <> notation. 1552 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number? 15537 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds). 15547 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an 1555 option for the search path. (Sekera) 15567 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files. 1557 1558 1559Robustness: 15608 This pattern in syntax/java.vim causes a recursive call of regmatch(): 1561 syn match javaStringError +"\([^"\\]\|\\.\)*$+ 1562 A long line with a " in it can cause a crash when it runs out of stack 1563 space (on systems where this isn't caught). How can we catch this for 1564 more systems? 15656 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or 1566 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing 1567 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking . 1568 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf). 1569 Andy doesn't have time to work on it. 1570 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a 1571 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded? 1572 1573 1574Performance: 15758 Loading plugins takes startup time. Only load the part that is used to 1576 trigger the rest, and load the rest when it's needed? 15778 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags. 15789 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster? 15798 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result? 15807 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when 1581 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start? 15828 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same 1583 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines 1584 when starting up in a color terminal. 15858 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on 1586 Win16. 15879 Setting GUI options in the console (e.g., 'guifont') should not cause a 1588 redraw. 15898 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this 1590 function be improved? 15918 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the 1592 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap 1593 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can 1594 this be improved? 15958 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up 1596 MS-DOS version. (Negri) 15977 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower when adding a region for folding 1598 from { to }. (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman) 15997 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying 1600 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang) 16017 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a 1602 lot of abbreviations). 16037 DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster. 16047 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file 1605 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line 1606 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>. 1607 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat. 1608 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place. 1609 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase. 1610 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc. 16118 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the 1612 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was 1613 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating 1614 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)? 16158 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to 1616 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid 1617 using strcmp() too often? 16187 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file? 1619 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating 1620 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a 1621 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another 1622 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from 1623 the two blocks to the memfile block. 16247 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory 1625 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called 1626 with an argument that can be messed with. 1627 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that 1628 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced. 16297 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)". 1630- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek() 16318 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in 1632 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim. 1633- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of 1634 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation? 1635- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki) 1636- Do profiling on: 1637 - :g/pat/normal cmd 1638 - 1000ii<Esc> 1639 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary) 1640 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan) 1641 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u". 1642 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and 1643 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl". 1644 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary. 1645 - editing a vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim). 16467 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were 1647 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it 1648 changed). 1649 - On each change, remember start and end of the change. 1650 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count. 1651- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest! 1652- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still 1653 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"? 1654- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to 1655 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from 1656 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg(). 1657- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of 1658 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing). 1659- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height. 1660- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if 1661 cursor is right of the screen. 16628 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a 1663 CTRL-C (it's slow). 1664 1665 1666Code size: 16678 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded. 1668- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be 1669 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions. 16708 Make a GUI-only version for Unix? 16718 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using 1672 it. 16737 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be 1674 left out. 16758 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals 1676 can be removed. 16778 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed? 1678 1679 1680Messages: 16818 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the 1682 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!". 16838 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip 1684 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()? 16858 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a 1686 script. 16878 "vim --version" output goes to stderr, should be stdout. Can all output 1688 from messages using printf() go to stdout? 1689- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key. 1690 Perhaps after ten seconds? 1691- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9. 16929 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays: 1693 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop. 1694 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long 1695 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before 1696 redrawing. 16977 Add an option, which is a regexp, that disables warning messages which 1698 match that regexp (Tsirkin). 16998 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more 1700 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text. 17018 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another 1702 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option 1703 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off". 1704 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts 1705 typing, error messages must be switched back on. 1706 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings). 1707- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed? 1708 sleep before second message? 17098 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is 1710 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers", 1711 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the 1712 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall) 1713 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and 1714 error messages, printing text, etc. 17158 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt. 1716 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when 1717 a prompt is present (with a callback function?). 1718 1719 1720Screen updating: 17217 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one 1722 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the 1723 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit). 1724- screen_line(): 1725 - insert/delete character stuff. 1726 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line). 1727- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when 1728 dragging the status line with the mouse). 1729- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when 1730 waiting for a character. 17318 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from 1732 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when 1733 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping. 17347 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together. 1735 1736 1737Scrolling: 17388 Add "zm" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle. 17396 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi) 1740- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc.. 1741 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound 1742 windows. 17437 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next 1744 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it 1745 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer. 1746- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it 1747 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this? 1748 (Goldfarb) 1749- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all 1750 bound windows. 1751- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to 1752 be bound by regexp searches 1753- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell) 1754- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the 1755 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number 1756 of lines but not with a single line). 1757 1758 1759Autoconf: 17608 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader. 17618 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb) 1762 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically? 1763- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the 1764 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner). 1765- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4(). 1766- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it? 1767- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf. 1768 1769 1770Perl interface: 17718 Rename typemap file to something else? 17727 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark) 17737 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C? 17746 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll). 1775 1776 1777Shared libraries: 17786 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it. 1779 :libload internal-name libname 1780 :libunload internal-name 1781 :liblist 1782 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...) 1783 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...) 1784 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment. 17856 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries. 1786 1787 1788Tags: 17898 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify 1790 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m". 17918 Add a function that returns the line in the tags file for a matching tag. 1792 Can be used to extract more info (class name, inheritance, etc.) (Rico 1793 Hendriks) 17947 Count before CTRL-]: jump to N'th match 17958 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis. 17968 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able 1797 to type the tag number directly. 17987 Add a tag-select window. Works like ":cwindow". (Michal Malecki) 17997 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a 1800 window for each tag. 18017 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting? 18027 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit 1803 bottom" search message. 18047 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry, 1805 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were 1806 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb) 18077 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and 1808 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod". 1809 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func" 1810 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx. 18117 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields: 1812 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c 1813 :tagargs clear 1814 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag 1815 matching). 18167 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command? 1817 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi. 1818 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi) 1819 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way. 18207 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With 1821 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again. 18227 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use 1823 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add 1824 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect". 1825 1826 1827Security: 1828- nothing at the moment 1829 1830 1831Win32 GUI: 18328 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for 1833 the message and input? 18347 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at 1835 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 1836 dynamically? 18377 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu. 1838 (Mike McCollister) 18398 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several 1840 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't 1841 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all 1842 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest 1843 common part of the path. 18448 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik) 18458 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that 1846 gettext and menus work. 18478 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit 1848 return in every console. 1849 Also: Look at how Emacs does runs external commands: 1850 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html. 18518 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands: 1852 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text). 18538 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF. 1854 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands? 18557 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme. 1856 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser) 18577 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog). 18587 <Esc> should close a dialog. 18597 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be 1860 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended 1861 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any 1862 prompts. 18637 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that 1864 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have 1865 the file added into an already running Vim. 18667 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide 1867 functions to find the window title. 1868 1869 1870GUI: 18718 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS. 1872- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a 1873 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier. 18747 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows. 18758 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI. 18766 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu. 18778 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When 1878 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position. 18799 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze) 18807 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype? 18818 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the 1882 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide". 18838 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text 1884 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine 1885 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated. 18868 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim) 1887 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front. 18888 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more 1889 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c. 1890 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow 1891 running them in separate processes. 18927 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument. 18938 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask 1894 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code. 18957 Add some code to handle proportional fonts? Need to draw each character 1896 separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font is not exactly 1897 double-width. (Maeda) 18988 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default). 18998 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to 1900 select one. Martin Dalecki has a font selector for Motif, but it needs a 1901 bit more work. 19028 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.). 19038 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all? 19048 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a 1905 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this 1906 portable (X11, Win32, ..)? 19077 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items. 1908 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The 1909 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything. 19107 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back. 1911 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim). 19127 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can 1913 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors. 1914 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For 1915 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs. 19167 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the 1917 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas) 19187 Should support multi-column menus. 1919- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far 1920 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right). 1921- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode". 19228 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus. 19236 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a 1924 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui". 19257 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'? 19267 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos', 1927 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>. 1928 Or add a command, like ":winsize"? 19297 Add toolbar for more GUIs. 19308 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item 1931 name can be chosen free. 19327 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of 1933 the window? Allows for softkey-like use. 19346 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the 1935 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a 1936 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is 1937 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to 1938 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks 1939 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI 1940 things. 19417 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default 1942 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog. 1943- Motif steals <F10> from us, to pop up menus with the keyboard. How do we 1944 get it back if we want it? 1945- Paste in Insert mode should not do autowrap etc. Or maybe this should be 1946 changeable with an option? 1947- Put a nice picture in the icon (but how do we do that?). 19487 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks 1949 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated. 1950- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal 1951 where it was started from? 19527 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument. 1953 1954 1955VMS: 1956- Improvement: rewrite term/TTY handling. 1957- Improvement: create VMS GTK runtime libraries on OpenVMS 7.1-2 (today GTK 1958 works just on 7.3). 1959 1960 1961Autocommands: 19629 Make sure that side effects of autocommands are handled correctly. Don't 1963 execute autocommands when a buffer or window is halfway some changes. 1964 Move all apply_autocmds() calls to a higher level where needed. 19658 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g. 1966 "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc". 19678 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two 1968 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more 1969 difficult). 19708 Also trigger CursorHold in Insert mode? 19717 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that user 1972 can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the kind 1973 of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient? 19748 Can't use ":normal" in CursorHold autocommands. Make the CursorHold event 1975 insert a special key code, and call the autocommand functions from a 1976 higher level, so that vgetc() isn't used recursively. 19778 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist? 1978 And anything else? 19798 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input 1980 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus). 1981 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ... 19828 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc". 19838 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag. 1984 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found. 19856 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be 1986 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron) 19877 Add a way to skip an autocommand if going from one *.c file to another *.c 1988 file. 19897 When trying to open a directory, don't load the file but trigger an 1990 autocommand event OpenDirectory. 19917 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link, 1992 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate 1993 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type 1994 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard) 19955 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the 1996 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will 1997 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas) 19987 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for 1999 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the 2000 file. 20018 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at 2002 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read 2003 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'. 2004- Add events to autocommands: 2005 Error - When an error happens 2006 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode 2007 InsertEnter - Entering Insert mode 2008 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode 2009 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode 2010 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode 2011 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter) 2012 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands. 2013 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M") 2014 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged 2015 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the 2016 window title) 2017 BufReadAction - replaces reading a file 2018 BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file 2019 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down 2020 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the 2021 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor. 2022 Set v:char to the character, can be changed. 2023 (not triggered when 'paste' is set). 2024 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting 2025 the char. 2026 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for 2027 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the 2028 file from CVS). 2029 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be 2030 used to do a :preserve for remote files. 2031 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate 2032 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so 2033 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add 2034 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah) 2035 WinResized - When a window has been resized 2036- Add autocommand to be executed every so many seconds? For writing the 2037 file now and then ('autosave'). 2038 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'* 2039 'autosave' 'aw' number (default 0) 2040 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the 2041 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set. 2042 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer. 2043 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make 2044 them save the file itself besides the swapfile. 2045 2046 2047Insert mode completion/expansion: 20488 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete 2049 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages. 20509 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with 2051 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended. 2052 (Webb) 20538 The code has become too complex. Redesign it, or at least add proper 2054 comments. 20558 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion: 2056 - ignore/match case 2057 - different characters than 'iskeyword' 20588 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text. 20598 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive 2060 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of 2061 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo. 2062 Should work for C++ and Java. 2063 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc. 20647 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?). 20657 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS 2066 instead of words. 20678 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents. 20688 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does). 2069 Requires remembering a number of insertions. 20708 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names. 2071 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion. 2072- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the 2073 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use 2074 wildcards in the file name)? 2075- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted). 2076- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?). 2077- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could 2078 be in another file). 2079- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches. 2080- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option? 2081- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string 2082 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W) 2083- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions. 2084- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows? 2085- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly) 20868 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that 2087 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb) 2088 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-]. 2089 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'. 2090- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list). 2091 2092 2093Command line editing: 20947 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command 2095 line. 20968 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion 2097 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of 2098 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc. 2099- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of 2100 lines wraps to start of line). 2101- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view 2102 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many 2103 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run 2104 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012). 2105 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history. 2106 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the 2107 cmdwin does now already. 2108 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal 2109 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T? 2110 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the 2111 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid 2112 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines? 2113 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate 2114 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode 2115 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh. 2116 Problems: 2117 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar' 2118 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations 2119 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches 2120 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands 2121 - Normal: no ":" commands? 2122 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line. 2123 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of 2124 character in first column? 2125 - Implementation ideas: 2126 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer. 2127 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum. 2128 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line. 2129 - sync undo after entering a command line? 2130 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line 2131 Mode. 2132 2133 2134Command line completion: 21358 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument. 21368 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate 2137 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h". 21388 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list 2139 them with the optional part inside []. 21407 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be 2141 edited. (Sven Guckes) 21427 Add completion for when entering an expression after CTRL-R= and "=. 2143 (Servatius Brandt) 2144- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible. 2145- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the 2146 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>". 21478 For ":find" and ":sfind" expand files found in 'path'. 21488 Add cmdline completion for the ":debug" command. 21498 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting 2150 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp? 21517 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the 2152 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb) 2153- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching 2154 identifiers (Webb). 21558 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>" 2156 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit. 21577 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion. 2158 Useful for ":s/word/xx/". 2159- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started. 2160 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line. 2161- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for 2162 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut) 2163 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D. 2164- Add completion for Environment variables: ":echo $SH<Tab>" -> "$SHELL". 2165 2166 2167Command line history: 2168- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a 2169 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a 2170 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't 2171 completely resulted from one mapping. 2172- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history, 2173 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel) 2174 2175 2176Insert mode: 21779 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after 2178 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line. 2179 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug. 21808 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command 2181 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink) 2182 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do 2183 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing. 2184 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode. 21857 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a 2186 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y. 21877 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it 2188 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'. 2189- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed 2190 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and 2191 also for characters that wrap to the next line. 2192 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register). 2193 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that 2194 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>. 2195- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in 2196 Normal mode. 2197- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their 2198 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands 2199 are used. 2200- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits. 2201- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b. 2202- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y. 2203 2204 2205'cindent', 'smartindent': 22068 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with line break in arguments: 2207 Foo::Foo (int one, 2208 int two) 2209 : something(4) 2210 {} 22118 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with multiple lines: 2212 Foo::Foo (int one, int two) 2213 : something(4), 2214 somethingelse(3) 2215 {} 22169 Too much indent for "lulu": (Uwe Zeisberger) 2217 int main () 2218 { 2219 if (lala) 2220 do 2221 ++(*lolo); 2222 while (lili 2223 && lele); 2224 lulu; 2225 } 22269 Function gets extra indent: (Jamax) 2227 void function(int param) { 2228 if (false) 2229 return; 2230 } 22319 brace not indented correctly: 2232 case 'c': if (cond) 2233 { 2234 Should align with "if" in case statement. 22357 Allow aligning a closing ")" with the line above, instead of the matching 2236 "(": (Riehm) if (asdfasdf && 2237 asdf 2238 ) 22398 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is 2240 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer) 22418 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna) 2242 func( 2243 new String[] { 2244 "asdf", 2245 "asdf" 2246 } 2247 ); 22487 Separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner): 2249 func( 2250 int x) // indent like "(4" 2251 { 2252 if (a 2253 && b) // indent like "(0" 22548 Strange problem with this code, "hello" is indented wrong: (Gary Holloway) 2255 main() { char foo[] = "/*"; 2256 /* This is a comment; the indentation of C 2257 * source below this comment gets messed up due to the string above. 2258 */ 2259 hello 22609 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler) 2261 if (a) 2262 { 2263 if (b) 2264 { 2265 // { 2266 } 2267 } <-- this is indented incorrect 22689 Wrong indent for cino=(4, removing the (void) fixes it: (Zellner) 2269 (void) MyFancyFunction( 2270 argument); 2271- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the 2272 indent to 0 should be switched on/off. 22737 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line. 2274- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first 2275 line). 2276- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}? 2277- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous 2278 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically? 22797 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines. 2280- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It 2281 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb) 2282- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out 2283 code), unless the line starts with "*". 2284- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"? 2285- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line 2286 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted). 22878 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the 2288 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more 2289 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment. 2290- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'. 2291- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where 2292 lines start with "\item". 2293- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown) 2294 /* here is a comment that 2295 is just autoindented, and 2296 nothing else */ 2297- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi". 22987 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for 2299 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the 2300 indents. 2301 And/or: Add option to copy indent as-is, without changing spaces to tabs. 2302 also for 'autoindent'. 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and 2303 spaces used for indent, when the indent remains the same or increases. 2304 2305 2306Java: 23078 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve 2308 Odendahl? 23098 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for 2310 "[i" commands and friends. 2311- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java. 2312 (Jason) 2313- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be 2314 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy) 2315 2316 2317'comments': 23188 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated 2319 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping. 2320 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader 2321 when it's "#" or "//". 23227 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line. 2323 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed. 23247 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item. 23256 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more 2326 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a 2327 regexp is used. 23288 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line 2329 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'? 2330 2331 2332Virtual edit: 23338 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left. 23347 Add a mode where the cursor is only allowed to go one character after the 2335 end of the line? 23367 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line? 2337 2338 2339Text objects: 23408 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc. 23417 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it 2342 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area. 23438 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single 2344 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at 2345 the end of the line or before a ".". 23467 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs" 2347 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus) 23487 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph 2349 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}"). 23506 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email. 23515 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For 2352 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one. 2353 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the 2354 cursor is on. 2355 2356 2357Select mode: 23588 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block, 2359 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall) 23607 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word. 2361 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743 23627 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line. 2363 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse' 2364 contains 'C' or 'A'. 2365 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in 2366 normal_cmd(). 2367 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info. 2368 - Typing text replaces the selection. 2369 2370 2371Visual mode: 2372- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero, 2373 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer 2374 is in the top line. 23758 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new 2376 text. make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding 2377 where needed. 23787 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width, 2379 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc. 23807 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start 2381 of each selected line. 23828 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode? 23838 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer. 2384 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any 2385 other buffer. (Ron Aaron) 23868 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron, 2387 Ben Godfrey) 23887 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and 2389 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey) 23907 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of 2391 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area. 23927 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David 2393 Young is working on this) 23947 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines. 2395 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with 2396 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line. 23978 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text? 2398 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful. 23997 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should 2400 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an 2401 option! 24027 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position 2403 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select 2404 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen 2405 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap. 2406 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to 2407 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line, 2408 without changing the column. 24096 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode. 24107 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the 2411 current buffer. 24127 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area. 24136 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line, 2414 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1. 24156 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line. 24166 ":'<,'>source" should read the selected lines and ":source" them. 24176 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed 2418 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB 2419 or other special character. 24206 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting. 2421 2422 2423More advanced repeating commands: 2424- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt"). 24257 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember 2426 the command line so that it can be repeated? 2427- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g. 2428 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb). 2429 "y." will repeat last yank. 2430 "c2." will repeat the last but one change? 2431 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history 2432 and/or pick an older command. 2433- History stack for . command? Use "g." command. 2434 2435 2436Mappings and Abbreviations: 24378 Let ":verbose map xx" report where the mapping was set, just like with 2438 ":verbose set". 24398 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be 2440 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell) 2441 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command? 24428 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work? 24437 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte". 2444 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway? 24458 ":verbose map" could show the script where the mapping was defined. 2446 m_script_ID can be used. 24478 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the 2448 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&. 24498 Add ":amap", like ":amenu". 24508 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to 2451 entering search strings. 24528 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the 2453 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and 2454 not the <Space>. 24558 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS). 24568 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never 2457 (?) work. 24587 ":verbose map" should display where a mapping was defined, like ":verbose 2459 set". 24608 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function 2461 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is 2462 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings? 24637 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation? 24647 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q", 2465 that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger' 2466 option. 24677 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try 2468 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy". 24697 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character 2470 (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for 2471 mapping a key to do something and then completion. 24727 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard. 24736 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the 2474 abbreviations are to be used. 2475- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For 2476 example, for a mouse escape sequence: 2477 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l 2478- Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping. 2479- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in 2480 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings 2481 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording? 2482- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a 2483 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r". 2484- Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in 2485 <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this? 2486- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings 2487 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does). 2488- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and 2489 mappings off for :unab and :unmap. 24906 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete 2491 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids 2492 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you 2493 hit another character. 2494- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings: 2495 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G 2496 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l 2497 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g 2498 Or implicit: 2499 :map q <Register>d<Number>$ 2500- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for 2501 non-replace Insert mode? 2502- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode? 25036 Alias for Normal mode commands, works like :substitute? Would allow 2504 mappings with arguments. 2505- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings. 2506- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key 2507 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself. 2508- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as 2509 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command? 2510- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they 2511 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>. 2512- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap. 2513- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping 2514 ":freekeys". 2515- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm). 2516 2517 2518Incsearch: 2519- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'? 2520- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn 2521 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled 2522 up every time. 2523- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the 2524 folds when going to another line. 2525- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many 2526 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?) 2527 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match 2528 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872. 2529- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other 2530 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid). 2531 2532 2533Searching: 25348 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\(([^()]*\@@[^()]*)\)\@r". \@@ stands 2535 for "go recursive here" and \@r marks the recursive atom. 2536item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on 2537 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of 2538 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"? 2539 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)* 25407 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for 2541 search(). (Brett) 25427 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's 2543 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference. 25448 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in 2545 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax? 25468 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current 2547 line. 25487 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an 2549 example. 25508 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in 2551 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif. 2552- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that 2553 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */). 2554 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back. 2555 Alternative: use matchit.vim 25568 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care? 25578 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that 2558 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it. 2559 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$". 25607 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and 2561 "\d". 25627 Add a way to specify characters as hex, octal or <C-M> form. Could be 2563 \%1ax, \%200o and \%<C-M>. Also \%1234u for multi-byte chars. 25648 Flags that apply to the whole pattern. 2565 This works for all places where a regexp is used. 2566 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern? 25678 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example, 2568 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line. 25698 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g" 2570 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command. 2571 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing 2572 search pattern. 2573- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group. 2574 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group. 2575- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade) 2576 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one. 2577 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's 2578 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities. 25797 Add POSIX regexp, like Nvi, with 'extended' option? It's like very-magic. 2580- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it. 2581 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling) 2582- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?): 2583 i ignore case 2584 I use case 2585 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?) 2586 v use Vi regexp syntax 2587 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command 2588 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command 2589 Perl uses these too: 2590 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only) 2591 m multiple line expression (we don't need it) 2592 o compile only once (Perl only) 2593 s single line expression (we don't need it) 2594 x extended regexp (we don't need it) 2595 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the 2596 following command. 2597 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault'). 2598- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used 2599 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/ 2600 for search string)? 26017 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special 2602 characters. See C't article, August 1997. 2603- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are 2604 equivalent (for Unix filenames). 2605- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text 2606 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin) 2607- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this". 2608- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer, 2609 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern: 2610 a for the next file in the argument list 2611 f for file in the buffer list 2612 w for file edited in a window. 2613 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for 2614 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask 2615 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No 2616 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ". 2617- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler) 2618- Special characters in patterns: 2619 Inside []: 2620 \012 octal character 2621 \0x1a hex character 2622 \0<BS> \0<Esc>: special character 26237 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search 2624 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark. 26257 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after 2626 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe 2627 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in 2628 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always). 26296 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side 2630 effects. 26317 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete 2632 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc. 2633 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary. 26347 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) 2635 Also ":dselect". 2636 2637 2638Undo: 2639- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not 2640 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a", 2641 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted? 26428 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo 2643 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new 2644 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing. 2645 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things. 26468 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change, 2647 only remember the lines that really changed. 26487 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous 2649 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a 2650 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need 2651 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone. 26527 Add an undo tree: When making a change, instead of clearing any future 2653 undo (thus redo) info, make a new branch. How to navigate through the 2654 undo tree? 2655- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and ']. 2656 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb). 2657- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the 2658 number of undo levels (with confirmation). 2659- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123]. 2660 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number: 2661 [-99]. 2662- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating. 2663- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once. 2664- Store undo info in a file that survives until the next edit. Then it's 2665 possible to undo to before the current editing session. Combined with 2666 viminfo? 2667- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed, 2668 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file?? 2669 2670 2671Buffer list: 26727 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}". 2673 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that 2674 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the 2675 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only". 26768 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files. 2677 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim. 26788 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check 2679 inode too. 26807 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When 2681 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use. (or the highest 2682 number in use plus one?) 26837 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and 2684 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann) 2685- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the 2686 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb) 2687- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the 2688 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"? 26897 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list. 2690 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson) 26917 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer 2692 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc. 26938 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected. 26948 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$' 2695 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel". 26967 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for 2697 internal use and for when executing an external program? 2698 2699 2700Swap (.swp) files: 27018 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another 2702 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when 2703 there are short file name problems. 27048 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap 2705 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions. 27068 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su. 27078 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same 2708 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file 2709 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup 2710 file the same as the actual file? 2711 Use the code for resolve()? 27127 Store the options 'fileencoding', 'fileformat', etc. in the swapfile, 2713 because they change what will be written to the file. Requires adding 2714 another block to the swapfile. 27157 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another 2716 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible. 27177 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere 2718 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'? 2719 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not 2720 enough room. 27217 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp 2722 or /var/preserve. 2723- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to 2724 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only. 2725- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen). 2726 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'? 2727- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the 2728 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do 2729 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a 2730 cached list of which line is where. 2731 2732 2733Viminfo: 27347 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file, 2735 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone 2736 else's viminfo file. 27378 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file 2738 name. (Schild) 27398 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu). 27408 Remember the last used register for "@@". 27418 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the 2742 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so. 2743 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display 2744 this? 27457 Also store the ". register (last inserted text). 27467 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some 2747 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron) 27486 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting 2749 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the 2750 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code? 2751- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of 2752 "last visited files" and select one to jump to. 2753 2754 2755Modelines: 27568 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid 2757 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it. 2758 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ". 2759- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to 2760 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the 2761 modeline setting. 2762- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings, 2763 no function calls, to avoid a security problem. 2764- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for 2765 .cpp files. 2766- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for 2767 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak. 2768- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed 2769 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir. 2770 2771 2772Options: 27738 Make ":mksession" store buffer-specific options for the specific buffer. 27748 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when 2775 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant) 27767 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only 2777 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the 2778 side effect. 27798 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to 2780 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their 2781 default value. 27828 Should ":mksession" restore the current directory when writing the 2783 session, or the directory where the session file is? Probably need a word 2784 in 'sessionoptions' to make a choice: 2785 "curdir" (cd to current directory when session file was generated) 2786 "sessiondir" (cd to directory of session file) 2787 "nodir" (don't cd at all) 27888 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string 2789 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should 2790 also be supported. 27918 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag 2792 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting 2793 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used. 27947 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas) 27957 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the 2796 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway) 27977 Add plugins for formatting. Should be able to make a choice depending on 2798 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.). 2799 2800 2801External commands: 28028 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen 2803 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd". 28044 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls" 2805 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g. 2806 -f). 28074 Allow direct execution, without using a shell. 28084 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI? 2809 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell! 28104 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands. 2811 2812 2813Multiple Windows: 28147 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits. 28158 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window. 2816 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window. 28177 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab> 2818 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to 2819 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer. 28207 Add a 'winfixwidth' option, similar to 'winfixheight'. 28216 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window. 2822 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new 2823 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would 2824 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel) 28257 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows 2826 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with 2827 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE 2828 too. Requires some form of inter process communication. 2829- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer 2830 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command. 2831 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer 2832 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made. 2833 2834 2835Marks: 28368 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this 2837 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-. 28388 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m? 28398 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times. 2840 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file. 28418 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle 2842 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when 2843 the mark was set. 28447 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers, 2845 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands 2846 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with 2847 ":browse marks"? 28486 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige) 28497 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the 2850 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark. 28517 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group). 2852 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does. 28537 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m 2854 command). 28557 Try to keep marks in the same position when: 2856 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the 2857 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo) 2858 - inserting/deleting characters in a line. 28595 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in 2860 mappings. 28616 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and 2862 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines. 2863 Highlight the marked lines somehow. 2864 2865 2866Digraphs: 28677 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists. 2868 Also the keymap? 2869- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line 2870 below/above). 2871- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special 2872 characters? 28738 Add command to remove (all) digraphs. (Brown) 28747 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At 2875 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32). 2876 2877 2878Writing files: 2879- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for 2880 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to 2881 shortname conversion. 28828 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc. 28838 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode' 2884 file. 28858 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some 2886 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another 2887 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'? 28887 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make 2889 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski) 28906 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like 2891 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'. 28926 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory. 2893 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas) 28946 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#". 2895 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name? 28968 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids 2897 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman) 28987 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations 2899 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition). 29007 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more 2901 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is 2902 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before 2903 waiting for a character to be typed). 29048 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status 2905 line of the window, like "[time]". 2906 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes. 2907 Automatic and/or with a command. 2908 2909 2910Substitute: 29118 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.: 2912 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w". 2913- :s///p prints the line after a substitution. 2914- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern. 29158 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective. 2916 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys. 2917- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or: 2918 :s///N substitutes N times. 2919- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.: 2920 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do 2921 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution. 29227 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex 2923 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the 2924 last line column 5. 29255 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks, 2926 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the 2927 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands. 2928 (Stanislav Sitar) 2929 2930 2931Mouse support: 29328 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'? 29337 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu. 29348 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic 2935 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you 2936 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar) 29377 Checkout sysmouse() for FreeBSD console mouse support. 2938- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console. 2939- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to 2940 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners). 2941- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!? 2942- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to. 2943 2944 2945Crypt and security: 29468 Also crypt the swapfile, each block separately. Change mf_write() and 2947 mf_read(). How to get b_p_key to these functions? 2948 2949 2950Argument list: 29516 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list. 2952 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches 2953 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match. 29546 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers? 2955 2956 2957Registers: 29588 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne) 29598 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping 2960 around in windows. 29618 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for 2962 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r" 2963 for every line. 29646 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the 2965 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What 2966 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.? 2967- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of 2968 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more". 2969- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment 2970 leader when line wraps? 2971- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each 2972 line in the range. 2973- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text 2974 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo") 29758 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register. 2976 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)? 2977 2978 2979Debug mode: 29807 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received. 29818 Add breakpoints for setting an option 29828 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable. 29837 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution 2984 when evaluating to non-zero. 29857 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo. 29867 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al. 2987 2988 2989Various improvements: 29908 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename 2991 the buffer. Buffer may be modified. 29926 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of 2993 errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c". 29946 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5) 29957 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>. 2996 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"? 2997 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command. 29987 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a 2999 window as a buffer-tab selection. 30007 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want 3001 to manipulate text without changing the window layout. 30028 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until 3003 all changes are gone. 30047 Add a ":cpfile", go in the other direction as ":cnfile". 30056 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri) 30068 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim. 3007 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim. 3008 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it 3009 in this Vim. 30108 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as 3011 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"? 30128 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes 3013 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and 3014 have it apply to the following command. 30158 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other 3016 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the 3017 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up. 3018 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'? 30197 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a 3020 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files. 30217 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>, 3022 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize 3023 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key 3024 without modifier (unless mapped). 30258 Add ":breakdel *": delete all breakpoints. 30267 Support ":browse edit" in console, using explorer.vim? 30276 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line. 30288 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map". 30299 Support ACLs on more systems. 30307 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be 3031 highlighted differently. 30328 Allow using "**" as a wildcard in commands like ":next" and ":args". 30338 Provide a way to avoid wildcard expansion. Use double quotes, like in the 3034 shell? :edit "my[file].txt" (currently works if there is no "myf.txt") 30357 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above 3036 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message 3037 (truncated to fit in the space). 30387 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner) 30398 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout) 30408 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise 3041 Visual mode. 30427 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use 3043 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV. 30447 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping 3045 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0". 30467 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name. 30477 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently. 30487 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines? 30498 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney) 30508 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in 3051 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for 3052 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef 3053 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do? 30548 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down. 30556 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain 3056 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron) 30578 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists. 30588 Use confirm/dialog stuff to ask the user, when a file has changed outside 3059 of Vim, if he wants to reload it. Triggered when focus gained, after 3060 shell command, when entering another buffer, etc.. 3061 Also do this when editing a new file, and another application creates 3062 the file before doing ":w" in Vim. 3063 Also check if the file protection has changed. When checking a file into 3064 RCS it is made read-only, when checking out it is made read-write. 30658 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file 3066 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would 3067 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist 3068 does something like this. (Shah) 30697 Use growarray for replace stack. 30707 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution 3071 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis). 30723 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"? 30738 Make "more" prompt accept command characters, like "hit-enter" prompt? 3074 Or extend it with more commands, like "less": 'b' for back, 'j' for one 3075 line down, etc. 30768 For the "--more--" prompt, support the 'b'ack command for more commands. 3077 Possible implementation: Do it at a very low level, caching the lines that 3078 are on the screen (with highlight attributes). Avoids that changes have 3079 to be made for all functions that list something. 30807 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same 3081 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers? 3082- Keep a list of most recently used files for each window, use "[o" to go 3083 back (older file) and "]n" to go forward (newer file) (like ^O and ^I for 3084 jumps) (Webb). Use ":files" and ":ls" to list the files in history order. 30857 Add a history of recently accessed buffer. Maybe make "2 CTRL-^" jump to 3086 the 2nd previously visited buffer, "3 CTRL-^" to the third, etc. Or use 3087 "3 g CTRL-^" for this? 3088- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode. 3089- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file. 3090- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c 3091- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window. 30927 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive 3093 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used. 3094- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home 3095 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc. 3096- Remove mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this. 3097- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set, 3098 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert) 3099- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to 3100 call "play newbeep.au"). 3101- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or 3102 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function. 3103 (Bhatt). 3104- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for 3105 blockwise registers). 3106- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the 3107 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt). 3108- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps 3109 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed, 3110 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't 3111 noticeable. 31129 When using ":w <fname>" it's possible that this file is loaded in another 3113 buffer. Give a warning right away, don't wait for a shell command. 3114- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb). 31157 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters. 3116 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code. 3117- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs 3118 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between 3119 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent 3120 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new 3121 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change. 31228 Add 'formatexpr' option: Used for formatting operator "gq" instead of the 3123 builtin formatting or 'formatprg'. 31248 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the 3125 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for 3126 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a 3127 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line). 3128 ":set autoformat=\\s$". 3129- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern? 31307 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the 3131 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt) 3132- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is 3133 not in column 1. 31346 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a 3135 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext". 31367 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined? 3137- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator? 31388 findmatchlimit() should be able to skip comments. Solves problem of 3139 matching the '{' in /* if (foo) { */ (Fiveash) 3140- Add more redirecting of Ex commands: 3141 :redir @> register (append) 3142 :redir # bufname 3143 :redir #> bufname (append) 3144 :redir = variable 3145 :redir => variable (append) 3146- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with 3147 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set". 3148 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit". 31496 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32 3150 console? (Klaus Hast) 3151- Add :delcr command: 3152 *:delcr* 3153 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines 3154 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is 3155 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range]. 3156 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If 3157 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all 3158 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi} 3159- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat(). 3160- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta 3161 characters from 'isprint'. 3162- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName(). 3163- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area. 3164 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn. 3165- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but 3166 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More 3167 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion. 3168- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()). 3169- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like 3170 Nvi). 3171- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the 3172 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define. 31737 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position. 3174- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that 3175 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'? 31766 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file. 3177- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the 3178 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13 3179 macro). 3180- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files. 3181- Add command like ":ts" that shows the output of "[I" and asks for a match 3182 to jump to. (Zellner) 3183- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also 3184 expanded. Is there a better way to do this? 3185- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source". 31868 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set. 3187- Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null". 3188- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty. 3189- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible! 3190- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down 3191 if it is not the first or last window. 3192- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if 3193 there is one) instead of the file itself. 31947 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example: 3195 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0 3196 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files. 3197- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion. 3198- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as 3199 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so 3200 many percent down the windows). 3201- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the 3202 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the 3203 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'. 3204- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g. 3205 'dictionary' when it is "*.h". 3206- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to 3207 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit). 3208- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent) 3209- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends. 3210- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the 3211 passwd file? (Antwerpen) 3212- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack. 3213- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush". 32148 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw", 3215 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is 3216 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack? 3217 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when 3218 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping? 3219- Use a builtin grep command for ":grep"? Makes it possible to add the 3220 column number. Can use the code of ":helpgrep". 3221 Also support using "**" in filename, so that a directory tree can be 3222 searched. 3223- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time 3224 t_bs is set? (Webb) 3225- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also 3226 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert). 3227- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline (Demirel). Store 3228 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window 3229 (Webb). 3230- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the 3231 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al. 3232- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering 3233 hex codes like 0xff). 3234- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command 3235 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo 3236 the last TYPED command. 3237- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf". 3238- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows. 3239- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/" 3240 should also work? 3241- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL? 32428 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file 3243 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine 3244 name. 3245- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a 3246 trailing '.'. 3247- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a 3248 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use 3249 find_file_in_path(). 3250- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between 3251 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon). 3252- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion. 3253- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a 3254 form usable by Vim on the current machine. 3255- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have 3256 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags. 3257- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one 3258 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains 3259 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline. 3260- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine 3261 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz) 3262- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments. 3263- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt) 3264- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back 3265 to the minimal size. 3266- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */). 3267- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline(). 3268- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb). 3269- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file. 3270- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers. 3271- Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw'). 3272- Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line: 3273 "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ??? 3274- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line 3275 entered)? 3276- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible 3277 as an output filter. 3278- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this. 3279- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line. 3280- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file. 3281- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc. 3282- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char. 3283- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long 3284 lines. 3285- Uppercase characters in ex commands can be made lowercase? 32868 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"), 3287 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option 3288 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex 3289 or in octal. 32907 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more 3291 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument? 3292- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source. 3293 After ":w !command" a wait_return? 3294- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()). 3295- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without 3296 insert line command). 3297- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it. 3298- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals. 3299- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000). 3300- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying. 3301- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace 3302 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>. 3303- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work 3304 yet. 3305- Implement 'redraw' option. 3306- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or 3307 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right). 3308- Use pipes for filtering on Unix. Requires using fork() to be able to read 3309 and write at the same time, or some select() mechanism. 33107 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs 3311 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin. 33128 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can 3313 do it. 3314- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to. 3315- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts, 3316 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list. 3317- Add text justification option. 3318- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on". 3319- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is 3320 off". 3321- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR. 3322- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message. 3323- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but 3324 gives read errors. Check protection before opening. 3325- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied". 3326- If file does not exists, check if directory exists. 3327- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor. 3328- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex 3329 commands. 3330- ":set -w all": list one option per line. 3331- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file. 3332- :table command (Webb) 3333- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ". 3334- Make it possible for a user to define a new operator. Implementation with 3335 internal scripting language or Perl? 3336- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?). 3337- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb). 3338- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files. 3339- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel). 3340- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited 3341 (Demirel). 3342- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc. 3343- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore", 3344 for use in macro's and the like. 3345- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while 3346 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window? 3347- Add possibility to put output of ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for 3348 ":set all". ":r :set all"? 3349- 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really 3350 read-only mode). 3351- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not 3352 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in 3353 a window to become smaller (Webb). 3354- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized 3355 proportionally (Webb). 3356- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use 3357 mkopttab to make option table? 3358- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current 3359 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)? 3360- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster 3361 (Haritsis). 3362- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used 3363 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev) 3364- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the 3365 cursor? 3366- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton). 3367- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)? 33685 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names. 3369 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix. 33708 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore 3371 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in 3372 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams: 3373 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another 3374 option name. 33758 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to 3376 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places. 3377 (Netherton) 33786 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a 3379 space after "(", for example. 33805 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs 3381 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit'). 3382 (Servatius Brandt) 3383 3384 3385From Elvis: 3386- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages? 3387- Add ":alias" command. 3388- fontchanges recognized "\\fB" etc. 3389- Search patterns: 3390 \@ match word under cursor. 3391 but do: 3392 \@w match the word under the cursor? 3393 \@W match the WORD under the cursor? 33948 ":window" command: 3395 :win + next window (up) 3396 :win ++ idem, wrapping 3397 :win - previous window (down) 3398 :win -- idem, wrapping 3399 :win nr to window number "nr" 3400 :win name to window editing buffer "name" 34017 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is 3402 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"? 3403 3404 3405From Nvi: 3406- 'searchincr' option, alias for 'incsearch'? 3407- 'leftright' option, alias for 'nowrap'? 3408- Have a look at "vi/doc/vi.chart", for Nvi specialties. 34098 Add 'keytime', time in 1/10 sec for mapping timeout? 3410- Add 'filec' option as an alternative for 'wildchar'. 34116 Support Nvi command names as an alias: 3412 :bg :hide 3413 :fg fname :buf fname (with 'hidden' set?) 3414 :dis b :ls 3415 :Edit fname :split fname 3416 :Fg fname :sbuf fname (with 'hidden' set?) 3417 :Next :snext (can't do this, already use :Next) 3418 :Previous :sprevious 3419 :Tag :stag 3420 3421 3422From xvi: 3423- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character. 3424- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet) 3425 3426 3427From vile: 3428- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window. 3429- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files 3430 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files. 3431 3432 3433Far future and "big" extensions: 3434- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice 3435 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,... 3436- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in 3437 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac). 3438 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the 3439 current layout mirrored. 3440- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer. 3441- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords, 3442 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.). 3443- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent). 3444- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different 3445 font in each top-level window. 3446- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit'). 3447- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them. 3448- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning. 3449- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to. 3450 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim). 3451- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all 3452 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files 3453 mentioned in the tags file. 3454 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???) 3455 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."? 3456- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other 3457 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter). 3458- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five 3459 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc.. 34604 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands: 3461 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format. 3462 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted. 3463 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list, 3464 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags 3465 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples: 3466 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list 3467- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes 3468 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but 3469 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/. 3470 3471 3472vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl: 3473vim: set fo+=n : 3474