1*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2004 Aug 31 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 33Multi-byte char in file name causes trouble for opening, "send to" menu and 34writing. Patches from Taro Muraoka: 35 ~/Mail/oldmail/muraoka/in.00575 36 ~/Mail/oldmail/muraoka/in.00577 37 38Is there a limit on the buffer list in the viminfo file? 39":n ~/.trashcan/bogus*" fills it. 40 41When gvim is started from the context menu the xxd menu entries don't work 42(Valencia). xxd.exe is not in $VIMRUNTIME. 43 44Aborting at the ATTENTION prompt causes trouble: 45 buffer remains active, nwindows isn't closed (fixed in buffer.c) 46 alternate buffer gets "read error" flag. 47 ":sbuf" and ":ball" leave an empty window behind. 48Change in handle_swap_exists() also in 6.3? 49 50Add remap-abbreviation solution to Vim 6.3? It's about adding REMAP_SKIP and 51RM_ABBR in getchar.c. 52 53Added ga_append() here: (also to 6.3?) 54 script_get(eap, cmd) 55 gui_do_findrepl(flags, find_text, repl_text, down) 56 serverGetVimNames(dpy) if_xcmdsrv.c, os_mswin.c 57 58Win32: When the path to a file has Russian characters, ":cd %:p:h" doesn't 59work. (Valery Kondakoff) 60 61Win32: When an argument is typed in a console in the active codepage, and 62'encoding' is "utf-8", detect this from illegal characters. Convert from 63console or active codepage to utf-8 then. 64 65For version 7.0: 66- Include many PATCHES: 67 8 Add functions: 68 setbufline() set line in any buffer (patch from Yegappan 69 Lakshmanan, 2003 Jan 21) 70 filter() Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2004 Jul 11 71 8 Make it possible to delete marks. Charles Campbell has a patch that 72 does this with the markclear() function (2004 Jan 9). 73 And the ":delmark" command (2004 Feb 9) 74 http://mysite.verizon.net/astronaut/vim/index.html#Patch 75 ~/tmp/ptch.delmark.bz2 76 ~/tmp/ptch.markclear 77 Implement setmark(markname, lnum [, col [, filename]]) instead? 78 When "lnum" is zero delete the mark. 79 When "filename" has no wildcards and there is no matching buffer, add 80 the buffer (unlisted). 81 Patch for \xnn (Ciaran McCreesh) 2004 Jul 10 82 http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm/patches/vim/vim-7.00a-regexp-numbered-characters-r5.patch 83 7 Add 'taglistfiles' option, show file name and type when listing matching 84 tags name with CTRL-D completion. Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan. 85 2004 Jul 11 86 7 For Visual mode: Command to do a search for the string in the marked 87 area. Only when fewer than two lines. Use "g/" and "gb". Patch from 88 Yegappan Lakshmanan. 2004 Jul 11 89 8 Make 'statusline' local, so that each window can have a different 90 value. But should it also be local to a buffer? (Yegappan Lakshmanan 91 has a patch, 2004 Jul 11) 92 8 Add buffer-local autocommands? Reduces overhead for autocommands that 93 trigger often (inserting a character, switching mode). 94 :au Event <buffer> do-something 95 E.g.: 96 :au BufEnter <buffer> menu enable ... 97 :au BufLeave <buffer> menu disable ... 98 Patch from Yakov Lerner, including test (2004 Jan 7). 99 VimResized - When the Vim window has been resized (SIGWINCH) 100 patch from Yakov Lerner, 2003 July 24. 101 Patch for specifying an expression for numbered lists. (Hugo Haas, 102 2004 Aug 7) 103 --- awaiting updated patch --- 104 7 Add patch from Wall for this one ( ~/Mail/oldmail/wall/in.00019 ): 105 'flipcase' variable: upper/lowercase pairs. 106 Insert comma's between pairs and allow a range, make it look like 107 'isfname'. E.g. ":set flipcase=a-zA-Z,xX,23-33:143-153". The colon to 108 separate the from and to part is optional. 109 Resp: no time now. 110 8 Add GTK 2.3 file dialog support. Patch by Grahame Bowland, 2004 Mar 15, 111 but it doesn't use "initdir" or "dflt". (will update patch) 112 8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible. 113 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. 114 He will update the patch for 6.3. 115 Autocommands: 116 7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto. 117 Update 2004 Jun 17. 118 How does this work? Missing comments. 119 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 120 Update 2004 Jun 17 121 Missing docs. Search in 'runtimepath'? 122 How to get the messages into the .po files? 123 --- did not respond (yet) -- 124 7 Make "5dd" on last-but-one-line not delete anything (Vi compatible). 125 Add flag in 'cpoptions' for this. When not present, "2dd" in the last 126 line should delete the last line. Patch from greenx 2002 Apr 11. 127 8 Accelerators don't work in a dialog. Include patch from Martin Dalecki 128 (Jan 3, tested by David Harrison). Should work with Alt-o then. 129 7 Use accelerators for the Motif file selection dialog. Patch from 130 Martin Dalecki 2002 Jan 11. 131 8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina 132 (28 feb 2002). 133 7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears 134 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3. 135 - Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work 136 for multi-byte characters. 137 - Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind. 138 - Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5) 139 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not 140 been given values. 141 Add section in help files for these highlight groups? 142 8 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm 143 with an ESC sequence. Ideas in: ~/vim/patches/vikas.xtermcolors . 144 7 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Martin 145 Dalecki has a patch for Motif) 146 - Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a 147 line in between columns (e.g. for 'textwidth'). 148 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20. 149 8 Add functions: 150 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical 151 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg) 152 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag 153 (2003 May 13) 154 system({cmd}, {expr}) Filter {expr} through the shell command 155 {cmd} and return the result. 156 (Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan) 157 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for 158 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ ) 159 7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions 160 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10) 161 7 Motif: use the menu font consistently. Patch from Martin Dalecki 2002 162 Jan 11. 163 - Motif: add 3D shading for the menu entries? Patch from Martin Dalecki. 164 7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right 165 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli) 166 8 Lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk (uncrypted). 167 Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. 168 7 Support a stronger encryption. Jason Holt implemented AES (May 6 2003). 169 7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie) 170 8 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's 171 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1. 172 7 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David 173 Kotchan has a patch for it) 174 8 Add term entries for function keys on xterm with alt and ctrl (new in 175 pl 94). E.g., Control adds ";5" in "<Esc>[20;5~". Find a generic way 176 to prepend a modifier in console mode, to avoid having to specify each 177 individual modified key. 178 Steve Wall has a patch (2002 Mar 12) for adding function keys up to 37, 179 with modifiers. 180 8 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See 181 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface. 182 Or use emacs server kind of thing? 183 7 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25. 184 - findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at 185 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram, 186 incomplete patch Mar 18) 187 188 189- In the kvim/KDE source files fix the formatting. 190- KDE version is called "kvim". Make it "gvim", like the others? 191- Better configure check for KDE include files from Dan Sharp. 192- KDE Input method patch. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 193- Change ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be 194 incremented/decremented each time. 195- For string variables, use length instead of NUL termination. 196- new DATA TYPES: lists, dictionaries and function references. 197 Check old patch from Robert Webb for array support. 198 Add type checking? See ~/vim/ideas.txt. 199- Add SPELLCHECKER, with easy to add support for many languages. 200 8 Add spell checking. Use "ispell -a" somehow. 201 ~/vim/patches/wm_vim-5_4d.zip can be used as an example (includes 202 ispell inside Vim). Gautam Iyer has an example with "aspell". 203 "engspchk" from Charles Campbell is a good way. Support for 204 approximate-regexps will help (agrep http://www.tgries.de/agrep/). 205 - Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to 206 existing syntax items (to add @Spell). Add ":syntax contains 207 {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn cluster" but change 208 the contains list directly for matching syntax items. 209 - Keep wordlist in syntax group, load it only once and use it several 210 times later. Sort of global syntax items. 211- REFACTORING: The main() function is very long. Move parts to separate 212 functions, especially loops. Ideas from Walter Briscoe (2003 Apr 3, 2004 213 Feb 9). 214- Improve the interface between the generic GUI code and the system-specific 215 code. Generic code handles text window with scrollbars, system-specific 216 code menu, toolbar, etc. 217- Store messages to allow SCROLLING BACK for all commands. And other "less" 218 like commands. 219- "INTELLISENSE". First cleanup the Insert-mode completion. 220 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747 221 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim 222- PERSISTENT UNDO: store undo in a file. 223 Support multiple threads. Show the list of changes in a window to be able 224 to select a version. 2257 SWAP FILE CHANGE: When a dos format file was edited with ":e ++ff=unix", 226 Vim is killed and trying to recover the file, 'ff' will be dos. Same for 227 non-default fileencoding. (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jul 17) 228 Should store the values in block 0 of the swap file, but that is an 229 incompatible change. 2307 Support WINDOW TABS. Works like several pages, each with their own 231 split windows. Patch for GTK 1.2 from Christian Michon, 2004 Jan 6. 232 Also for the console! 233- EMBEDDING: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program. 234 For Xwindows this can be done with XReparentWindow(). 235 For GTK Neil Bird has a patch to use Vim like a widget. 236- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block 237 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2. 238- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye, 239 assisted by Mikolaj Machowski. Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it 240 generic. Also found here: http://skawina.eu.org/mikolaj/vimgdb 241 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program 242 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the 243 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the 244 other window. 245 Wishes for NetBeans commands: 246 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors. 247 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?) 248 in terminal mode. 249- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is. 250 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command 251 scrolls back to where the cursor is. 2528 Support four composing/combining characters, needed for Hebrew. (Ron Aaron) 253 Add the 'maxcombining' option to set the nr. of composing characters. 254- Add a few more things to 'diffopt': "horizontal", "vertical", 255 "foldcolumn". (Benji Fisher, 2004 Jun 21) 256- FileChangedShellPost autocommand event: after (not) reloading a changed 257 file. Can be used to update statusline oslt. 2588 When a file is change outside of Vim and unmodified in Vim there is no 259 simple way to automatically reload the file. Either add an option for 260 this or make it simple to have the FileChangedShell invoke the normal 261 action, telling it what to do. 262- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display. 263- Mac: Unicode input and display (Eckehard Berns, June 27) 2648 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac? 265 New patch 2004 Jun 16 2669 Add cursor-column highlighting. Enable it with 'cursorcolumn' option, 267 set highlighting with "CursorColumn" group. Useful for aligning text. 268 Also cursor-row highlighting. Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto for 269 underlining the cursor line: 2004 Jun 17. Should use highlight group 270 instead. 271 Alternative: when 'number' is set highlight the number of the current 272 line. 2737 Make ":startinsert" command work directly for functions and scripts? 274 Also make it possible to append (it's difficult at end of line). 275- When using 'incsearch" CTRL-R CTRL-W gets the word under the cursor, but 276 the part that already matched is doubled then. Remove the part of the 277 word that would be doubled. Make it work line CTRL-N in Insert mode. 278- Add Lua interface? (Wolfgang Oertl) 279- "onemore" flag in 'virtualedit': move cursor past end of line. Patch by 280 Mattias Flodin (2004 Jul 30) 281 282Support ":set syntax=cpp.doxygen"? Suggested patch by Michael Geddes (9 Aug 2832004). Should also work for 'filetype'. 284 285Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav 286Smilauer, 2004 Aug 17) 287 288 289Vi incompatibility: 2908 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other 291 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it 292 is deleted or restored. (Webb) 293 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo. 294 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the '' 295 position is one line down. (Veselinovic) 2968 ":change" in a single-line file adds an empty line. When the file used to 297 be longer a "~" line is displayed, but there really is an empty line. 298 (Haakon Riiser, 2003 Dec 3 and Dec 16) 2998 ":append" and ":insert" in an empty file add an extra empty line. (Haakon 300 Riiser, 2003 Dec 3) Test for ML_EMPTY. 3018 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should 302 make Vim exit. 3037 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line 304 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway). 305 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input. 3068 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips 307 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument 308 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded) 3096 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but 310 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag 311 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off. 3128 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another 313 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one. 314 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file 315 names in one buffer??? 316 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and 317 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not 318 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer. 3197 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some 320 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual" 321 command was one command. 3227 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep 323 the ":map" when it's used without arguments? 3247 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option. 3257 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty. 3267 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a 327 flag in 'cpoptions' for this. 3287 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when 329 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing 330 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either 331 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file). 3327 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode). 3337 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines. 3347 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go 335 to the match with the tag? Option? 3367 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option. 3377 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del> 338 (Sayre). 3397 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the 340 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible). 3417 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual". 342 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next 343 match. Nvi can do it too. 3447 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking) 345 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\ 346 line 1\ line 2\\ 347 line 2\ line 3\\ 348 . line4/ 3496 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of 350 the way the shell is started? 3516 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange 352 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line). 353 354 355GTK+ 1 (OK in GTK 2): 3568 When menus are disabled, 'm' removed from 'guioptions', Alt-F still pops 357 up the File menu. Cannot reproduce this: gives a warning for a NULL 358 pointer if the menu was never displayed. 3598 When using "gvim -geom 40x30" or setting 'columns' in .gvimrc or with a 360 GUIEnter autocommand, the width is still set to fit the toolbar. Also 361 happens when changing the font. How to avoid that the toolbar specifies 362 the minimal window width? 3638 When using a theme with different scrollbars (gtkstep), the scrollbars can 364 be too narrow. (Drazen Kacar) 3658 Font "7x14" has a bold version "7x14bold". Try to find the bold font by 366 appending "bold" when there are not 14 dashes. 367 368GTK+ GUI known bugs: 3698 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj 370 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in 371 creating a label? 3729 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim 373 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and 374 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works. 375 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again. 3767 DND doesn't work with KDE (also with GTK 1). 377 378KDE GUI known bugs: 379- The default font is ugly. bold text isn't displayed correctly. 380- Error messages when starting up. The "tip of the day" box is empty. 381- Encoding of menu items needs to be converted. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 382 383Win32 GUI known bugs: 3848 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2 385 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically? 3868 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications. 387 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs. 388 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html 3898 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be 390 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp) 3917 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow 392 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to 393 "lucida_console:h8"). 3946 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":" 395 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis) 3968 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide 397 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both 398 type of characters. 3997 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason 400 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible 401 to use an opaque background in most places? 4028 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that 403 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly. 404 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters. 4058 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font 406 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the 407 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono. 4087 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan, 409 2004 May 9) 4108 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces 411 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim 412 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with 413 MS-Windows 98? 414 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a 415 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed 416 file: Window moves with the cursor! 417 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it? 4188 When activating the Vim window with mouse click, don't move cursor to 419 mouse position. Catch WM_MOUSEACTIVATE. (Luevelsmeyer) 4208 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it 421 appear. (Sami Salonen) 4228 Windows NT: writing to aux.* makes Vim hang. (Acevedo) 4238 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that 424 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win 425 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also 426 doesn't work properly. 4278 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops 428 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it 429 appears in the right position. (Webb) 4309 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse 431 button doesn't give popup menu. 432 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless 433 selection. 434 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button. 435 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the 436 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text. 4378 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the 438 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore) 439 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error 440 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code. 4418 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg. 442 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not 443 be read. 4448 MessageBox used for error messages can be too big. There is no way to 445 scroll it, or even hit the OK button (but you can hit return). 446 Use a scrollable window. 4477 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida 448 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char). 449 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'. 4507 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the 451 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to 452 scroll? Need to be able to get out of hit-enter prompt with the mouse 453 anyway. 4547 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance. 455 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar. 4567 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using 457 "/min" as the command name. (Rogall) 4586 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor). 4598 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work 460 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because 461 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr? 4628 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we 463 know which keyboard is being used? 4647 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern 465 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn 466 area (Koloseike). 4678 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might 468 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first, 469 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in 470 the font name). 471 472 473Athena and Motif: 4749 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is 475 required and it's missing? 4768 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned 477 wrong. 4789 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can 479 be off by default. 4809 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now, 481 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting 482 flag. 4838 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character. 484 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1. 485 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this. 4868 Perhaps use fontsets for everything? 4876 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting 488 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all 489 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of 490 the tooltips work though... 4917 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not 492 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory). 4938 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the 494 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the 495 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'. 496 497 498Athena GUI: 4999 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in 500 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving 501 through files. 5027 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to 503 read long file names. (Schroeder) 5044 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go 505 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the 506 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets" 507 problem during a refresh. 5085 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing 509 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the 510 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors. 511 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes 512 colors as it should. 513 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the 514 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug? 515 516 517Motif GUI: 5188 Popup menu ordering is wrong. 5197 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()? 520 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2). 5218 The texts in the find/replace dialog don't use the right font. 5228 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes 523 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes. 524 (Phillipps) 525 526 527GUI: 5289 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no 529 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy) 5309 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C. 531 e.g. on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on 532 Solaris 2.6. (Marley) 5339 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim 534 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf) 5358 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key 536 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version). 5378 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both 538 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate 539 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed. 5408 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling 541 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state 542 of where it is processing the output. 543 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code. 5448 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font 545 doesn't work. 5468 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS. 5478 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS. 5488 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for 549 browse(). 5508 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this, 551 use that code? Or use console dialog. 5528 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the 553 error message disappears too quick. 5548 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later, 555 to avoid problems. 5568 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there 557 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for 558 input. Or maybe every 100 ms? 5598 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank 560 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0". 561 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works. 5628 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed 563 up. Set erase character somehow? 5648 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character 565 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this. 566 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling. 567 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya) 5688 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11. 5697 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not 570 visible. 5717 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is 572 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey) 5737 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it 574 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw. 5758 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the 576 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek) 5778 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not 578 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32. 579 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the 580 remaining part of the window (Phillipps). 581- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun. 5824 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times 583 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times 584 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486. 585 586 587MSDOS/DJGPP: 5889 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao) 589 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the 590 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem. 5918 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists. 592 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error? 5939 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused 594 code and reduce static data. 5959 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C. 596 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since 597 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting 598 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work. 5999 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work. 600 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67 601 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71 602 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2) 603 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>. 604 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream? 605 Make this work like in Win32 console. 606 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended 607 key code. Use a translation table? 6089 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used. 609 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself. 6108 Use DJGPP 2.03. 6118 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT. 612 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip). 6138 setlocale() is bogus. 6148 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some 615 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched 616 Windows 95 system! 6178 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe) 6187 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g. in keyword completion) on a 8088 619 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin). 6207 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.: 621 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley) 622 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem). 6238 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add 624 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt. 6257 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen. 626 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a 627 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are 628 "[New file]". 6297 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode 630 that is supported? 6318 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them. 6328 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter 633 Briscoe) 634 635 636MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32: 6378 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use 638 gen_expand_wildcards(). 6398 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander 640 Wagner. 6418 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL. 6428 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt, 643 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name. 6448 Should $USERPROFILE be used instead of $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? 6458 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have 646 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key. 6478 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift. 648 Should work like in the GUI version. 6498 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for 650 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names. 6518 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when 652 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command? 6538 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file" 654 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be 655 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc. 6568 ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means directory "#bb" 657 in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth) 6588 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going 659 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to 660 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth) 661 662 663Windows 95: 6648 Editing a file by it's short file name and writing it, makes the long file 665 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps. 666 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly). 6678 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the 668 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32). 669 670 671Win32 console: 6729 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its 673 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister) 674 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor. 675 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable. 676 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1 677 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name. 678 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file. 679 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed 680 and the file is not saved. 681 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its 682 long name. 6838 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at 684 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT. 6857 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals, 686 besides the console. 6878 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes) 6889 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with 689 <C-S-i>? 6909 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on 691 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI? 6928 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__ 693 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around? 6947 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'? 695 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when 696 exiting. 697 698 699Amiga: 7008 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte 701 sequences. 7029 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove 703 backslashes in result. 7048 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do 705 all options, using white space separation. 706 707 708Macintosh: 7097 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard 710 Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff 711 Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it. 7127 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both. 713 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac 714 (Jack) 715 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html 7168 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear 717 to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17) 7188 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI. 7199 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher) 720 - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost. 7218 The Vim/About menu doesn't work. 7228 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV. 7238 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh. 7248 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh. 7259 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be 726 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone) 7279 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when 728 scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher) 7299 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two 730 seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher) 7319 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly. 7328 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige) 7338 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige) 734 735 736"Small" problems: 7378 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used, 738 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited 739 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure 740 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this. 7419 When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with 742 'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though 743 the fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to 744 check for the buffer to be unmodified. 7458 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the 746 error number, it's not a regular error message. 7477 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to 748 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 7498 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and 750 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column 751 for redirection. 7527 There is no way to change directory and go back without changing the local 753 and/or global directory. Add a way to find out if the current window uses 754 a local directory. Add cdcmd() that returns ":cd" or ":lcd"? 7557 After running "make test" the window title is sometimes not restored. 756 Mostly sticks at "test3.in", but not always. Appears to happen more often 757 when compiled with Python (threading). 7587 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use 759 'termencoding'. 7608 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor 761 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor 762 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when 763 using the horizontal scrollbar. 7647 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed 765 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the 766 invocations belong together. 7678 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this 768 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams) 7698 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the 770 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the 771 UnxUtils.zip archive. 772 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter 773 Briscoe says it's not as good. 7748 'fillchars' doesn't work for multi-byte characters. 7759 Editing a XML file with a long line is extremely slow. Example file from 776 Randy Parker (Dec 13). Editing the dictionaries for engspchk plugin with 777 syntax highlighting is also very slow. 778 Limit the searching for items to a few hundred characters? 7798 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing 780 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly) 7817 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names: 782 use "~/" when possible. 7837 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte 784 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail 785 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[] 786 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8). 7878 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when 788 defined. 7897 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an 790 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found. 791 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions. 7927 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode 793 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second 794 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel) 7957 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the 796 bottom window only bigger as much as needed. 7977 "[p" doesn't work in Visual mode. (David Brown) 7987 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere. 799 Remove? (Dan Sharp) 8009 The argument <f-args> of a user command doesn't handle backslashes 801 properly. "Cmd \ e" is one argument, "Cmd \\ e" still is one argument. 802 "Cmd \ e" is two arguments, first one ending in space. (Kontra Gergely) 8039 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This 804 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining 805 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command": 806 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining 807 script can be called. 8088 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po, 809 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still 810 works. 8119 When a syntax region does not use "keepend" and a contained item does use 812 "extend", this makes the outer region stop at the end of the contained 813 region. (Lutz Eymers) Another example Nov 14 2002. 8148 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with 815 CTRL-C. 8167 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X 817 server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp 818 of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK 819 doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it 820 won't work for GTK anyway. 8218 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error 822 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid. 8238 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line() 824 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this 825 configurable? 8268 'hkmap' should probably be global-local. 8279 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes 828 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work 829 then. (Pritesh Mistry) 8308 ":s!from!to!" works, but ":smagic!from!to!" doesn't. It sees the "!" as a 831 flag to to the command. Same for ":snomagic". (Johan Spetz) 8328 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save 833 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()? 8348 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is 835 always written, even when the original file already exists. 8367 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter, 837 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space. 8389 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file 839 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being 840 written. 8419 The "Error detected while processing modelines" message should have an 842 error number. 8437 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer. 8448 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose 845 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when 846 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'. 8478 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global 848 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez) 8499 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing 850 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give 851 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating 852 one. 8537 On MS-DOS or MS-Windows, when editing the same file over a network, the 854 drive letter is different, thus an existing swap file doesn't generate a 855 warning. Use some flag to indicate the swap file is in the same directory 856 as the original file? Could make b0_fname[] start with a special 857 character like ">". 8587 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes. 859 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs. 8607 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that 861 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back. 8627 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed 863 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's 864 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y 865 direction, not horizontally? 8668 When using CTRL-D after ":help", restrict the number of matches to a 867 thousand, otherwise using CTRL-D without an argument takes too long. 8688 ":hardcopy": 869 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16. 870 - Need to handle unprintable characters. 871 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform 872 dithering to make grey text? 873 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total 874 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams) 875 - Should interpreted CTRL-L as a page break. 876 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'. 877 Default to black when no syntax highlighting. 878 - Be able to print a window in diff mode. 879 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate 880 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected). 8818 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the 882 text in following lines where the linebreak changes. 8839 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on 884 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect 885 that Windows NT is being used? 8868 When opening the same file on Unix and on MS-Windows, there is no 887 ATTENTION message, because the path in the swap file is different. Using 888 a relative path name will cause no ATTENTION for Vim 5.8. 889 Somehow add a flag that the swap file is in the same dir as the file? 8908 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a 891 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it. 8928 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert 893 in lines that don't extend into the block? 8948 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O 895 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev) 896 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work. 8978 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from 898 'linebreak'. 8998 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection 900 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab. 901 (Helmut Stiegler) 9028 With 'virtualedit' set, a blockwise Visual selection that starts and ends 903 in a tab, "<" shifts too much. (Helmut Stiegler) 9049 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When 905 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending 906 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of 907 'magic' in history. (Margo) 9089 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for 909 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc". 9109 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern 911 isn't updated). 9129 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga). 9139 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled 914 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which 915 cause another redraw, etc. 9168 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path() 917 must escape special characters in the pattern. 9188 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an 919 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use 920 ":w!!" for that. 921 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and 922 restore file to readonly afterwards. 9237 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get 924 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the 925 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as 926 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from 927 clipboard) 9287 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal 929 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark 930 Waggoner) 9318 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window 932 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no 933 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\". 9348 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a 935 way to avoid using the builtin termcap. 9368 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also 937 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm. 938 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style. 9398 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator 940 (e.g., ":w"). 9418 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for 942 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long. 9438 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column 944 for ">>". 9458 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long 946 script in do_cmdline(). 9478 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the 948 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that 949 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have 950 changes. 9518 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT 952 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim". 9538 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to 954 check for file marks. This can be slow. 9557 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change 956 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's 957 needed. 958 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key. 9598 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option 960 to skip catch_signals()? 9619 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the 962 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert 963 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of 964 text? 9658 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts 966 all the text. Add ":rmenu"? 9678 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of 968 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>. 9699 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are 970 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7, 971 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed. 972 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or 973 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate(). 9747 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/". 975 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and 976 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings 977 in the list? 9788 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking 979 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up, 980 instead of on button down. 9818 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw. 9829 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for 983 reaching the end of the available buffer. 9848 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a 985 character is typed. 9868 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this. 987 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it. 9888 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not 989 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure 9908 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an 991 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template 992 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp". 993 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for 994 cygwin bash. 9957 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}". 996 Remember flags for backreferences. 9977 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been 998 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT? 9997 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names 1000 that contain a '$' after all have been found. 10018 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about 1002 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX. 10037 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting 1004 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name. 10057 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing. 1006 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and 1007 "initdir" is the default path to be used. 10087 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of 1009 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols) 10108 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo 1011 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so 1012 that the user knows he has to delete the files. 10137 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func 1014 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this. 10157 After ":%d" an undo reports the number of lines added as if there still 1016 was one line. 1017 1018 1019I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!): 10209 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file 1021 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three 1022 files. (McCollister) 10238 Motif: Tear-off menu item crashes Vim on some machines. (Netherton) It 1024 works fine for me, maybe it's a Motif problem. 1025 1026 1027Problems that will (probably) not be solved: 1028- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering 1029 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the 1030 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like 1031 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external 1032 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text. 1033- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access 1034 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message. 1035 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it. 1036- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim. 1037 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim. 1038- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will 1039 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which 1040 character gets the highlighting. 1041- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm 1042 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly. 1043- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem. 1044 (Jennings) 1045- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino). 1046- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25 1047 errors. How do we get the rest? 1048- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why? 1049- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The 1050 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong. 1051- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a 1052 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy 1053 first? 1054- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for 1055 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names. 1056- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy 1057 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim, 1058 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK. 1059- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The 1060 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working. 1061 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p". 1062 (Benzinger). 1063- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that 1064 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim 1065 can't get back what the external command didn't use. 1066- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error. 1067 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code. 1068- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being 1069 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar. 1070- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer 1071 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when 1072 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted. 1073 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library. 1074 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn) 1075 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)? 1076- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles 1077 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE. 1078 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134. 1079- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal 1080 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif 1081 libraries, get a patch from Sun. 1082- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X 1083 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash. 1084- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks 1085 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff. 1086- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim 1087 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy) 1088- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive 1089 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used. 1090- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up: 1091 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library 1092 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to 1093 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the 1094 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem. 1095- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the 1096 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line: 1097 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr> 1098- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a 1099 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert 1100 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard) 1101- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar. 1102 This is a GTK 2.4.x bug, fixed in GTK 2.4.2. (Thomas de Grenier de Latour) 1103- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co' 1104 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the 1105 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the 1106 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined 1107 in the vimrc file to be lost. 1108- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and 1109 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars. 1110 1111--------------------- extensions and improvements ---------------------- 1112 *extensions-improvements* 1113 1114Documentation: 11158 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded 1116 or not. 11178 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth) 11187 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual. 11199 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention: 1120 - change to cursor position and curswant 1121 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.) 1122 - how it works for folded lines 1123 - how it works with multi-byte characters 11249 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would 1125 work too. 11268 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag" 1127 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double 1128 text. 11298 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running". 11307 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to 1131 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'. 11327 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and 1133 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag. 1134- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks. 1135 1136 1137Help: 1138- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a 1139 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag. 1140- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go 1141 to the other matches. 1142- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files. 1143- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|. 1144- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always 1145 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file, 1146 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a 1147 default contents. 1148- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal 1149 height for the help window (and other windows). 1150- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute". 1151- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive? 1152- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands. 1153 1154 1155User Friendlier: 11568 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for 1157 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter 1158 Briscoe) 11598 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types? 11608 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that 1161 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if 1162 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf". 11638 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc, 1164 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu. 1165- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file. 1166 ":mkplugin <file>"? 11678 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that 1168 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from 1169 'runtimepath'. 1170 " Vim plugin 1171 <main plugin code> 1172 " >>> plugin help start <<< 1173 <plugin docs> 1174- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."? 11759 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or 1176 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty 1177 item?). 1178 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands. 11798 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems. 11807 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output? 1181 1182 1183Diff mode: 11848 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file). 1185 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing: 1186 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis 11877 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also 1188 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same 1189 location. 1190 1191 1192Folding: 1193 (commands still available: zg zG zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zw zW zy zY; 1194 secondary: zB zS zT zZ) 11958 Add different highlighting for a fold line depending on the fold level. 1196 (Noel Henson) 11978 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the 1198 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the 1199 user aware of this? 12008 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which 1201 commands skip over a closed fold. 12028 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt) 12038 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB. 12047 When using 2html.vim, also reproduce folds as you can see them. When 1205 someone doesn't want the folds he can disable them before converting. 1206 First attempt by Carl Osterwisch, 2004 May 10. 12077 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds. 1208- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. Require showing a character in 1209 'foldcolumn' to avoid the missing line goes unnoticed. 1210- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll 1211 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds 1212 smoother? 1213- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list, 1214 using the wininfo in wi_folds. 1215- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects. 1216- Add 'hidecomment' option: don't display comments in /* */ and after //. 1217- "zu": undo change in manual fold. "zU" redo change in manual fold. How to 1218 implement this? 1219- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the 1220 cursor. 1221- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3": set fold level for a region. 1222- Can set 'foldtext' to empty string: don't display any line. How to 1223 implement this? 1224- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt) 1225- Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like 1226 searches. 1227 1228 1229Multi-byte characters: 12309 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the 1231 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal 1232 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single 1233 byte). 12348 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for 1235 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html. 1236 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like: 1237 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-" 1238 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first 1239 item. 12408 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for 1241 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"? 12428 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an 1243 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for 1244 ":grep". 12458 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search 1246 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka) 12477 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted, 1248 so that the user can fix the problem. 12498 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo 1250 Schweigert) 12519 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El) 12528 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters. 12538 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters. 12548 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes. 12558 "ga" should show all composing characters, also if there are more than 2. 12567 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored? 12578 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing. 12588 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes. 12598 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte 1260 characters. 12618 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters. 12628 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead 1263 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example. 12647 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead. 1265 'display' option to specify this. 12667 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default(): 1267 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c) 1268- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the 1269 fontselector somehow. 1270- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it 1271 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale. 1272- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for 1273 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong. 1274- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset, 1275 depending on the default value of 'encoding'. 1276 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used. 1277 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know 1278 if a font exists? 1279- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with 1280 convert_input() for Mac GUI, RiscOS GUI, BeOS GUI. 1281- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters. 1282 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_ 12837 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of 1284 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky) 1285- Make 'langmap' accept multi-byte characters. 1286- Do we need the reverse of 'keymap', like 'langmap' but with files and 1287 multi-byte characters? E.g., when using a Russian keyboard. 1288- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text 1289 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort 1290 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command? 1291- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into 1292 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it: 1293 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz 1294 But it's very complicated... 1295 1296 1297Printing: 1298- Add "page width" to wrap long lines. 1299- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for 1300 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function. 1301- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'. 1302- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer 1303 name, portrait/landscape, etc). 1304- PostScript: only works for 7-bit ASCII and EBCDIC. Should support 1305 different 'encoding' values somehow. 1306- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same 1307 units as for the margins. 1308- Support right-to-left text? 13098 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the 1310 color. 1311 1312 1313Syntax highlighting: 13148 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson) 1315 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual". 13168 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined 1317 cluster can be added to existing syntax items. 13188 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this: 1319 "({ something })", often used in GCC code. 13208 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing 1321 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for 1322 ":wq file". 13238 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script). 13249 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is 1325 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it... 13267 Make syntax keyword table configurable. Set number of bits used with 1327 ":syn clear [hashbits]", so that we don't need to reallocate the table. 1328 minimal 4 bits, maximal 16. (Campbell) 13297 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and 1330 Search highlighting. 13318 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to 1332 change this for each release. 13338 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end 1334 pattern, but not in the body. 13358 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this 1336 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item, 1337 instead of the containing item. 13388 For keywords, allow to define the size of the hash table with ":syn 1339 clear". Change KHASH_ defines into variables stored in buffer struct. 1340 Use something else than linear linked list from the hash table. (Campbell) 13418 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside (). 13428 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype 1343 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules? 1344 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, 1345 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax. 13468 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a 1347 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained] 13488 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey 1349 background) when on one of the parens or in between them. 1350 Or highlight the matching paren when the cursor is on one. 13518 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error". 13528 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop 1353 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be 1354 used. 13558 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will 1356 allow spell checking. (Fleiner) 13578 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And 1358 re-insert the [] if possible. 13598 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for 1360 the Cursor). 13618 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like 1362 using "\1" in a ":s" command. 13638 Support for deleting syntax items: 1364 :syn keyword cTodo remove this 1365 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern" 1366 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that" 13678 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way 1368 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for 1369 a '<'. (Fleiner) 13707 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification? 1371 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or 1372 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern. 13737 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be 1374 detected. 13758 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original 1376 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this). 13778 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to 1378 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible. 13798 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group. 13808 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values. 13817 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to 1382 ":mkvimrc". 13838 Improve c.vim: 1384 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on: 1385 "c_strict_ansi". 1386 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way... 13878 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the 1388 current line while in Insert mode. 13898 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been 1390 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again? 13918 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current 1392 display position. 13938 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to 1394 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern. 1395 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()". 13968 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until 1397 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when 1398 highlighting starts. 13997 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the 1400 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow. 1401 E.g. for this html: 1402 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I> 14037 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed 1404 (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"): 1405 :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display="" 14067 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is. 14077 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled 1408 words. 14097 Command line completion for ":find" should search in 'path'. 14108 Add more command line completion for :syntax. 14118 Add more command line completion for :highlight. 14128 Add more command line completion for :sign. 14137 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands. 1414 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and 1415 completion? 14168 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their 1417 highlighting. (Salman Halim) 14187 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to 1419 select one of the sets. 14208 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1 1421 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch 1422 2, etc. 14238 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the 1424 highlighting (for "." command). 14258 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /. 1426 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /? 14278 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing. 14287 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs": 1429 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c". 14306 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of 1431 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall) 1432- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful 1433 when extending an already existing syntax file. 1434- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too? 1435- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin 1436 (for comment blocks). 1437- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags: 1438 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor. 1439 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match. 1440 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match. 1441 Also for {}, <>, etc.? 1442 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?) 1443 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the 1444 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it. 1445 (Campbell) 1446 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around 1447 the cursor. (Iain Truskett) 14487 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword. 1449 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow). 14507 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should 1451 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set). 1452 And allows for sections with different highlighting. 14537 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it 1454 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from 1455 messages. And external commands? 14568 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for 1457 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim? 14587 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an 1459 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line. 1460 1461 1462Built-in script language: 14638 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and 1464 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings. 14658 Allow range for ":exec". Pass it on to the executed command. (Webb) 14668 exists("&&option") tests if 'option' is actually implemented. Useful for 1467 'shellslash', for example. 14688 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham) 14698 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When 1470 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an 1471 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same 1472 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle 1473 nested packages? 1474 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}(). 1475 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from 1476 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path). 14777 Make globpath() also work with "**" and upwards search. (Brian Medley) 14787 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode. 1479 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if 1480 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that 1481 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an 1482 autocommand. 1483 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a 1484 .vim file. Problem: distribution. 1485 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached 1486 file belongs to a sourced script? 14877 Add "n" flag to search() function, just like searchpair(). (Alexey 1488 Marinichev) 14897 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn', 1490 signs and/or 'number'. 14918 Add functions: 1492 search() Add optional offset argument. 1493 realname() Get user name (first, last, full) 1494 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov 1495 3 2002 1496 Only add this when also implemented for 1497 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could 1498 be used. 1499 get_user_name() gets login name. 1500 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what}) 1501 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}. 1502 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File". 1503 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu 1504 File.Open..." argument. 1505 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22 1506 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary 1507 with properties instead. 1508 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping. 1509 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4. 1510 Return a list instead. 1511 sprintf(format, arg, ..) How to prevent a crash??? 1512 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx" 1513 mkdir(dir) Create directory 1514 copy(from, to) Copy a file 1515 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string 1516 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace() 1517 input(prompt, complete) like input() but do specified completion 1518 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left 1519 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in 1520 Visual block mode. 1521 tagtype(tag) get type of tag (also checks if it exists) 1522 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard) 1523 getbufline() get line from any buffer 1524 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer 1525 appendbufline() append line in any buffer 1526 sort() Sort a newline-separated string. Also: 1527 ":sort". 1528 libcall() Allow more than one argument. 1529 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function 1530 to allow the library to execute a command or 1531 evaluate an expression. 1532 char2hex() convert char string to hex string. XX 1533 hex2char() convert hex string to char string. XX 15347 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the 1535 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero. 15368 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was 1537 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file. 15388 Pass the executable name to the Vim scripts in some way. As v:argv0? 15398 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts. 15408 When starting to source a vim script, delete all functions that it has 1541 previously defined? Avoids using ":fun!" all the time. 15427 Add optional arguments to user functions: 1543 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17) 15446 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"? 15458 Add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var" just ignore. 15468 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable, 1547 option or environment variable. 15488 ":let &option" should list the value of the option. 15497 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the 1550 stack available (separated with '\n'). 15518 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed: 1552 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands} 15538 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started. 15548 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default), 1555 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0, 1556 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and 1557 charwise({expr}). 15587 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer 1559 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch 1560 buffer for this? 1561 result = scratch(string, command) 1562 result = apply(string, command) 1563 result = execute(string, command) 1564 "command" would use <> notation. 1565 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number? 15667 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds). 15677 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an 1568 option for the search path. (Sekera) 15697 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files. 1570 1571 1572Robustness: 15738 This pattern in syntax/java.vim causes a recursive call of regmatch(): 1574 syn match javaStringError +"\([^"\\]\|\\.\)*$+ 1575 A long line with a " in it can cause a crash when it runs out of stack 1576 space (on systems where this isn't caught). How can we catch this for 1577 more systems? 15786 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or 1579 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing 1580 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking . 1581 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf). 1582 Andy doesn't have time to work on it. 1583 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a 1584 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded? 1585 1586 1587Performance: 15888 Loading plugins takes startup time. Only load the part that is used to 1589 trigger the rest, and load the rest when it's needed? 15908 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags. 15919 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster? 15928 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result? 15937 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when 1594 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start? 15958 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same 1596 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines 1597 when starting up in a color terminal. 15988 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on 1599 Win16. 16009 Setting GUI options in the console (e.g., 'guifont') should not cause a 1601 redraw. 16028 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this 1603 function be improved? 16048 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the 1605 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap 1606 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can 1607 this be improved? 16088 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up 1609 MS-DOS version. (Negri) 16107 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower when adding a region for folding 1611 from { to }. (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman) 16127 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying 1613 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang) 16147 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a 1615 lot of abbreviations). 16167 DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster. 16177 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file 1618 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line 1619 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>. 1620 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat. 1621 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place. 1622 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase. 1623 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc. 16248 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the 1625 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was 1626 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating 1627 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)? 16288 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to 1629 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid 1630 using strcmp() too often? 16317 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file? 1632 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating 1633 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a 1634 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another 1635 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from 1636 the two blocks to the memfile block. 16377 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory 1638 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called 1639 with an argument that can be messed with. 1640 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that 1641 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced. 16427 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)". 1643- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek() 16448 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in 1645 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim. 1646- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of 1647 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation? 1648- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki) 1649- Do profiling on: 1650 - :g/pat/normal cmd 1651 - 1000ii<Esc> 1652 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary) 1653 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan) 1654 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u". 1655 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and 1656 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl". 1657 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary. 1658 - editing a vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim). 16597 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were 1660 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it 1661 changed). 1662 - On each change, remember start and end of the change. 1663 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count. 1664- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest! 1665- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still 1666 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"? 1667- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to 1668 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from 1669 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg(). 1670- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of 1671 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing). 1672- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height. 1673- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if 1674 cursor is right of the screen. 16758 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a 1676 CTRL-C (it's slow). 1677 1678 1679Code size: 16808 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded. 1681- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be 1682 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions. 16838 Make a GUI-only version for Unix? 16848 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using 1685 it. 16867 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be 1687 left out. 16888 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals 1689 can be removed. 16908 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed? 1691 1692 1693Messages: 16948 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the 1695 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!". 16968 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip 1697 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()? 16988 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a 1699 script. 17008 "vim --version" output goes to stderr, should be stdout. Can all output 1701 from messages using printf() go to stdout? 1702- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key. 1703 Perhaps after ten seconds? 1704- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9. 17059 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays: 1706 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop. 1707 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long 1708 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before 1709 redrawing. 17107 Add an option, which is a regexp, that disables warning messages which 1711 match that regexp (Tsirkin). 17128 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more 1713 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text. 17148 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another 1715 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option 1716 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off". 1717 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts 1718 typing, error messages must be switched back on. 1719 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings). 1720- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed? 1721 sleep before second message? 17228 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is 1723 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers", 1724 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the 1725 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall) 1726 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and 1727 error messages, printing text, etc. 17288 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt. 1729 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when 1730 a prompt is present (with a callback function?). 1731 1732 1733Screen updating: 17347 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one 1735 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the 1736 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit). 1737- screen_line(): 1738 - insert/delete character stuff. 1739 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line). 1740- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when 1741 dragging the status line with the mouse). 1742- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when 1743 waiting for a character. 17448 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from 1745 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when 1746 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping. 17477 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together. 1748 1749 1750Scrolling: 17518 Add "zm" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle. 17526 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi) 1753- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc.. 1754 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound 1755 windows. 17567 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next 1757 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it 1758 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer. 1759- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it 1760 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this? 1761 (Goldfarb) 1762- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all 1763 bound windows. 1764- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to 1765 be bound by regexp searches 1766- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell) 1767- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the 1768 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number 1769 of lines but not with a single line). 1770 1771 1772Autoconf: 17738 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader. 17748 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb) 1775 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically? 1776- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the 1777 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner). 1778- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4(). 1779- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it? 1780- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf. 1781 1782 1783Perl interface: 17848 Rename typemap file to something else? 17857 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark) 17867 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C? 17876 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll). 1788 1789 1790Shared libraries: 17916 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it. 1792 :libload internal-name libname 1793 :libunload internal-name 1794 :liblist 1795 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...) 1796 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...) 1797 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment. 17986 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries. 1799 1800 1801Tags: 18028 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify 1803 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m". 18048 Add a function that returns the line in the tags file for a matching tag. 1805 Can be used to extract more info (class name, inheritance, etc.) (Rico 1806 Hendriks) 18077 Count before CTRL-]: jump to N'th match 18088 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis. 18098 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able 1810 to type the tag number directly. 18117 Add a tag-select window. Works like ":cwindow". (Michal Malecki) 18127 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a 1813 window for each tag. 18147 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting? 18157 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit 1816 bottom" search message. 18177 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry, 1818 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were 1819 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb) 18207 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and 1821 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod". 1822 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func" 1823 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx. 18247 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields: 1825 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c 1826 :tagargs clear 1827 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag 1828 matching). 18297 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command? 1830 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi. 1831 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi) 1832 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way. 18337 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With 1834 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again. 18357 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use 1836 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add 1837 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect". 1838 1839 1840Security: 1841- nothing at the moment 1842 1843 1844Win32 GUI: 18458 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for 1846 the message and input? 18477 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at 1848 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 1849 dynamically? 18507 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu. 1851 (Mike McCollister) 18528 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several 1853 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't 1854 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all 1855 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest 1856 common part of the path. 18578 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik) 18588 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that 1859 gettext and menus work. 18608 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit 1861 return in every console. 1862 Also: Look at how Emacs does runs external commands: 1863 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html. 18648 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands: 1865 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text). 18668 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF. 1867 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands? 18687 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme. 1869 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser) 18707 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog). 18717 <Esc> should close a dialog. 18727 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be 1873 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended 1874 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any 1875 prompts. 18767 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that 1877 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have 1878 the file added into an already running Vim. 18797 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide 1880 functions to find the window title. 1881 1882 1883GUI: 18848 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS. 1885- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a 1886 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier. 18877 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows. 18888 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI. 18896 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu. 18908 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When 1891 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position. 18929 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze) 18937 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype? 18948 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the 1895 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide". 18968 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text 1897 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine 1898 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated. 18998 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim) 1900 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front. 19018 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more 1902 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c. 1903 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow 1904 running them in separate processes. 19057 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument. 19068 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask 1907 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code. 19087 Add some code to handle proportional fonts? Need to draw each character 1909 separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font is not exactly 1910 double-width. (Maeda) 19118 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default). 19128 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to 1913 select one. Martin Dalecki has a font selector for Motif, but it needs a 1914 bit more work. 19158 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.). 19168 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all? 19178 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a 1918 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this 1919 portable (X11, Win32, ..)? 19207 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items. 1921 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The 1922 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything. 19237 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back. 1924 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim). 19257 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can 1926 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors. 1927 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For 1928 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs. 19297 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the 1930 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas) 19317 Should support multi-column menus. 1932- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far 1933 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right). 1934- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode". 19358 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus. 19366 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a 1937 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui". 19387 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'? 19397 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos', 1940 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>. 1941 Or add a command, like ":winsize"? 19427 Add toolbar for more GUIs. 19438 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item 1944 name can be chosen free. 19457 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of 1946 the window? Allows for softkey-like use. 19476 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the 1948 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a 1949 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is 1950 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to 1951 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks 1952 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI 1953 things. 19547 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default 1955 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog. 1956- Motif steals <F10> from us, to pop up menus with the keyboard. How do we 1957 get it back if we want it? 1958- Paste in Insert mode should not do autowrap etc. Or maybe this should be 1959 changeable with an option? 1960- Put a nice picture in the icon (but how do we do that?). 19617 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks 1962 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated. 1963- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal 1964 where it was started from? 19657 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument. 1966 1967 1968VMS: 1969- Improvement: rewrite term/TTY handling. 1970- Improvement: create VMS GTK runtime libraries on OpenVMS 7.1-2 (today GTK 1971 works just on 7.3). 1972 1973 1974Autocommands: 19759 Make sure that side effects of autocommands are handled correctly. Don't 1976 execute autocommands when a buffer or window is halfway some changes. 1977 Move all apply_autocmds() calls to a higher level where needed. 19788 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g. 1979 "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc". 19808 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two 1981 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more 1982 difficult). 19838 Also trigger CursorHold in Insert mode? 19847 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that user 1985 can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the kind 1986 of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient? 19878 Can't use ":normal" in CursorHold autocommands. Make the CursorHold event 1988 insert a special key code, and call the autocommand functions from a 1989 higher level, so that vgetc() isn't used recursively. 19908 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist? 1991 And anything else? 19928 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input 1993 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus). 1994 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ... 19958 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc". 19968 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag. 1997 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found. 19986 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be 1999 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron) 20007 Add a way to skip an autocommand if going from one *.c file to another *.c 2001 file. 20027 When trying to open a directory, don't load the file but trigger an 2003 autocommand event OpenDirectory. 20047 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link, 2005 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate 2006 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type 2007 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard) 20085 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the 2009 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will 2010 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas) 20117 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for 2012 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the 2013 file. 20148 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at 2015 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read 2016 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'. 2017- Add events to autocommands: 2018 Error - When an error happens 2019 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode 2020 InsertEnter - Entering Insert mode 2021 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode 2022 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode 2023 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode 2024 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter) 2025 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled 2026 when exiting isn't a good idea. 2027 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands. 2028 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M") 2029 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged 2030 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the 2031 window title) 2032 BufReadAction - replaces reading a file 2033 BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file 2034 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down 2035 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the 2036 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor. 2037 Set v:char to the character, can be changed. 2038 (not triggered when 'paste' is set). 2039 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting 2040 the char. 2041 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for 2042 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the 2043 file from CVS). 2044 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be 2045 used to do a :preserve for remote files. 2046 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate 2047 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so 2048 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add 2049 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah) 2050 WinResized - When a window has been resized 2051- Add autocommand to be executed every so many seconds? For writing the 2052 file now and then ('autosave'). 2053 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'* 2054 'autosave' 'aw' number (default 0) 2055 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the 2056 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set. 2057 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer. 2058 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make 2059 them save the file itself besides the swapfile. 2060 2061 2062Insert mode completion/expansion: 20638 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete 2064 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages. 20659 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with 2066 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended. 2067 (Webb) 20688 The code has become too complex. Redesign it, or at least add proper 2069 comments. 20708 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion: 2071 - ignore/match case 2072 - different characters than 'iskeyword' 20738 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text. 20748 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive 2075 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of 2076 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo. 2077 Should work for C++ and Java. 2078 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc. 20797 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?). 20807 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS 2081 instead of words. 20828 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents. 20838 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does). 2084 Requires remembering a number of insertions. 20858 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names. 2086 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion. 2087- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the 2088 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use 2089 wildcards in the file name)? 2090- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted). 2091- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?). 2092- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could 2093 be in another file). 2094- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches. 2095- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option? 2096- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string 2097 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W) 2098- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions. 2099- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows? 2100- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly) 21018 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that 2102 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb) 2103 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-]. 2104 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'. 2105- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list). 2106 2107 2108Command line editing: 21097 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command 2110 line. 21118 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion 2112 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of 2113 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc. 2114- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of 2115 lines wraps to start of line). 2116- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view 2117 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many 2118 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run 2119 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012). 2120 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history. 2121 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the 2122 cmdwin does now already. 2123 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal 2124 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T? 2125 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the 2126 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid 2127 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines? 2128 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate 2129 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode 2130 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh. 2131 Problems: 2132 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar' 2133 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations 2134 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches 2135 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands 2136 - Normal: no ":" commands? 2137 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line. 2138 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of 2139 character in first column? 2140 - Implementation ideas: 2141 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer. 2142 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum. 2143 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line. 2144 - sync undo after entering a command line? 2145 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line 2146 Mode. 2147 2148 2149Command line completion: 21508 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument. 21518 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate 2152 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h". 21538 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list 2154 them with the optional part inside []. 21557 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be 2156 edited. (Sven Guckes) 21577 Add completion for when entering an expression after CTRL-R= and "=. 2158 (Servatius Brandt) 2159- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible. 2160- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the 2161 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>". 21628 For ":find" and ":sfind" expand files found in 'path'. 21638 Add cmdline completion for the ":debug" command. 21648 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting 2165 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp? 21667 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the 2167 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb) 2168- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching 2169 identifiers (Webb). 21708 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>" 2171 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit. 21727 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion. 2173 Useful for ":s/word/xx/". 2174- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started. 2175 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line. 2176- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for 2177 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut) 2178 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D. 2179- Add completion for Environment variables: ":echo $SH<Tab>" -> "$SHELL". 2180 2181 2182Command line history: 2183- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a 2184 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a 2185 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't 2186 completely resulted from one mapping. 2187- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history, 2188 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel) 2189 2190 2191Insert mode: 21929 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after 2193 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line. 2194 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug. 21958 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command 2196 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink) 2197 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do 2198 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing. 2199 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode. 22007 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a 2201 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y. 22027 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it 2203 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'. 2204- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed 2205 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and 2206 also for characters that wrap to the next line. 2207 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register). 2208 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that 2209 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>. 2210- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in 2211 Normal mode. 2212- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their 2213 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands 2214 are used. 2215- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits. 2216- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b. 2217- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y. 2218 2219 2220'cindent', 'smartindent': 22218 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with line break in arguments: 2222 Foo::Foo (int one, 2223 int two) 2224 : something(4) 2225 {} 22268 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with multiple lines: 2227 Foo::Foo (int one, int two) 2228 : something(4), 2229 somethingelse(3) 2230 {} 22319 Too much indent for "lulu": (Uwe Zeisberger) 2232 int main () 2233 { 2234 if (lala) 2235 do 2236 ++(*lolo); 2237 while (lili 2238 && lele); 2239 lulu; 2240 } 22419 Function gets extra indent: (Jamax) 2242 void function(int param) { 2243 if (false) 2244 return; 2245 } 22469 brace not indented correctly: 2247 case 'c': if (cond) 2248 { 2249 Should align with "if" in case statement. 22507 Allow aligning a closing ")" with the line above, instead of the matching 2251 "(": (Riehm) if (asdfasdf && 2252 asdf 2253 ) 22548 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is 2255 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer) 22568 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna) 2257 func( 2258 new String[] { 2259 "asdf", 2260 "asdf" 2261 } 2262 ); 22637 Separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner): 2264 func( 2265 int x) // indent like "(4" 2266 { 2267 if (a 2268 && b) // indent like "(0" 22698 Strange problem with this code, "hello" is indented wrong: (Gary Holloway) 2270 main() { char foo[] = "/*"; 2271 /* This is a comment; the indentation of C 2272 * source below this comment gets messed up due to the string above. 2273 */ 2274 hello 22759 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler) 2276 if (a) 2277 { 2278 if (b) 2279 { 2280 // { 2281 } 2282 } <-- this is indented incorrect 22839 Wrong indent for cino=(4, removing the (void) fixes it: (Zellner) 2284 (void) MyFancyFunction( 2285 argument); 2286- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the 2287 indent to 0 should be switched on/off. 22887 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line. 2289- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first 2290 line). 2291- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}? 2292- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous 2293 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically? 22947 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines. 2295- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It 2296 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb) 2297- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out 2298 code), unless the line starts with "*". 2299- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"? 2300- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line 2301 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted). 23028 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the 2303 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more 2304 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment. 2305- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'. 2306- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where 2307 lines start with "\item". 2308- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown) 2309 /* here is a comment that 2310 is just autoindented, and 2311 nothing else */ 2312- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi". 23137 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for 2314 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the 2315 indents. 2316 And/or: Add option to copy indent as-is, without changing spaces to tabs. 2317 also for 'autoindent'. 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and 2318 spaces used for indent, when the indent remains the same or increases. 2319 2320 2321Java: 23228 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve 2323 Odendahl? 23248 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for 2325 "[i" commands and friends. 2326- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java. 2327 (Jason) 2328- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be 2329 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy) 2330 2331 2332'comments': 23338 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated 2334 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping. 2335 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader 2336 when it's "#" or "//". 23377 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line. 2338 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed. 23397 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item. 23406 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more 2341 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a 2342 regexp is used. 23438 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line 2344 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'? 2345 2346 2347Virtual edit: 23488 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left. 23497 Add a mode where the cursor is only allowed to go one character after the 2350 end of the line? 23517 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line? 2352 2353 2354Text objects: 23558 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc. 23567 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it 2357 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area. 23588 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single 2359 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at 2360 the end of the line or before a ".". 23617 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs" 2362 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus) 23637 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph 2364 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}"). 23656 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email. 23665 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For 2367 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one. 2368 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the 2369 cursor is on. 2370 2371 2372Select mode: 23738 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block, 2374 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall) 23757 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word. 2376 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743 23777 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line. 2378 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse' 2379 contains 'C' or 'A'. 2380 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in 2381 normal_cmd(). 2382 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info. 2383 - Typing text replaces the selection. 2384 2385 2386Visual mode: 2387- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero, 2388 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer 2389 is in the top line. 23908 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new 2391 text. make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding 2392 where needed. 23937 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width, 2394 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc. 23957 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start 2396 of each selected line. 23978 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode? 23988 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer. 2399 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any 2400 other buffer. (Ron Aaron) 24018 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron, 2402 Ben Godfrey) 24037 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and 2404 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey) 24057 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of 2406 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area. 24077 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David 2408 Young is working on this) 24097 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines. 2410 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with 2411 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line. 24128 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text? 2413 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful. 24147 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should 2415 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an 2416 option! 24177 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position 2418 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select 2419 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen 2420 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap. 2421 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to 2422 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line, 2423 without changing the column. 24246 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode. 24257 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the 2426 current buffer. 24277 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area. 24286 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line, 2429 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1. 24306 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line. 24316 ":'<,'>source" should read the selected lines and ":source" them. 24326 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed 2433 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB 2434 or other special character. 24356 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting. 2436 2437 2438More advanced repeating commands: 2439- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt"). 24407 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember 2441 the command line so that it can be repeated? 2442- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g. 2443 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb). 2444 "y." will repeat last yank. 2445 "c2." will repeat the last but one change? 2446 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history 2447 and/or pick an older command. 2448- History stack for . command? Use "g." command. 2449 2450 2451Mappings and Abbreviations: 24528 Let ":verbose map xx" report where the mapping was set, just like with 2453 ":verbose set". 24548 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be 2455 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell) 2456 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command? 24578 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work? 24587 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte". 2459 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway? 24608 ":verbose map" could show the script where the mapping was defined. 2461 m_script_ID can be used. 24628 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the 2463 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&. 24648 Add ":amap", like ":amenu". 24658 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to 2466 entering search strings. 24678 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the 2468 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and 2469 not the <Space>. 24708 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS). 24718 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never 2472 (?) work. 24737 ":verbose map" should display where a mapping was defined, like ":verbose 2474 set". 24758 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function 2476 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is 2477 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings? 24787 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation? 24797 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q", 2480 that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger' 2481 option. 24827 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try 2483 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy". 24847 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character 2485 (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for 2486 mapping a key to do something and then completion. 24877 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard. 24886 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the 2489 abbreviations are to be used. 2490- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For 2491 example, for a mouse escape sequence: 2492 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l 2493- Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping. 2494- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in 2495 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings 2496 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording? 2497- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a 2498 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r". 2499- Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in 2500 <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this? 2501- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings 2502 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does). 2503- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and 2504 mappings off for :unab and :unmap. 25056 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete 2506 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids 2507 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you 2508 hit another character. 2509- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings: 2510 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G 2511 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l 2512 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g 2513 Or implicit: 2514 :map q <Register>d<Number>$ 2515- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for 2516 non-replace Insert mode? 2517- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode? 25186 Alias for Normal mode commands, works like :substitute? Would allow 2519 mappings with arguments. 2520- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings. 2521- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key 2522 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself. 2523- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as 2524 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command? 2525- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they 2526 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>. 2527- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap. 2528- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping 2529 ":freekeys". 2530- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm). 2531 2532 2533Incsearch: 2534- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'? 2535- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn 2536 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled 2537 up every time. 2538- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the 2539 folds when going to another line. 2540- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many 2541 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?) 2542 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match 2543 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872. 2544- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other 2545 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid). 2546 2547 2548Searching: 25498 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\(([^()]*\@@[^()]*)\)\@r". \@@ stands 2550 for "go recursive here" and \@r marks the recursive atom. 2551item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on 2552 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of 2553 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"? 2554 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)* 25557 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for 2556 search(). (Brett) 25577 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's 2558 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference. 25598 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in 2560 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax? 25618 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current 2562 line. 25637 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an 2564 example. 25658 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in 2566 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif. 2567- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that 2568 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */). 2569 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back. 2570 Alternative: use matchit.vim 25718 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care? 25728 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that 2573 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it. 2574 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$". 25757 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and 2576 "\d". 25777 Add a way to specify characters as hex, octal or <C-M> form. Could be 2578 \%1ax, \%200o and \%<C-M>. Also \%1234u for multi-byte chars. 25798 Flags that apply to the whole pattern. 2580 This works for all places where a regexp is used. 2581 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern? 25828 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example, 2583 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line. 25848 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g" 2585 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command. 2586 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing 2587 search pattern. 2588- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group. 2589 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group. 2590- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade) 2591 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one. 2592 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's 2593 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities. 25947 Add POSIX regexp, like Nvi, with 'extended' option? It's like very-magic. 2595- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it. 2596 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling) 2597- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?): 2598 i ignore case 2599 I use case 2600 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?) 2601 v use Vi regexp syntax 2602 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command 2603 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command 2604 Perl uses these too: 2605 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only) 2606 m multiple line expression (we don't need it) 2607 o compile only once (Perl only) 2608 s single line expression (we don't need it) 2609 x extended regexp (we don't need it) 2610 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the 2611 following command. 2612 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault'). 2613- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used 2614 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/ 2615 for search string)? 26167 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special 2617 characters. See C't article, August 1997. 2618- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are 2619 equivalent (for Unix filenames). 2620- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text 2621 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin) 2622- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this". 2623- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer, 2624 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern: 2625 a for the next file in the argument list 2626 f for file in the buffer list 2627 w for file edited in a window. 2628 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for 2629 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask 2630 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No 2631 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ". 2632- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler) 2633- Special characters in patterns: 2634 Inside []: 2635 \012 octal character 2636 \0x1a hex character 2637 \0<BS> \0<Esc>: special character 26387 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search 2639 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark. 26407 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after 2641 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe 2642 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in 2643 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always). 26446 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side 2645 effects. 26467 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete 2647 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc. 2648 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary. 26497 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) 2650 Also ":dselect". 2651 2652 2653Undo: 2654- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not 2655 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a", 2656 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted? 26578 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo 2658 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new 2659 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing. 2660 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things. 26618 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change, 2662 only remember the lines that really changed. 26637 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous 2664 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a 2665 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need 2666 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone. 26677 Add an undo tree: When making a change, instead of clearing any future 2668 undo (thus redo) info, make a new branch. How to navigate through the 2669 undo tree? 2670- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and ']. 2671 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb). 2672- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the 2673 number of undo levels (with confirmation). 2674- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123]. 2675 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number: 2676 [-99]. 2677- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating. 2678- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once. 2679- Store undo info in a file that survives until the next edit. Then it's 2680 possible to undo to before the current editing session. Combined with 2681 viminfo? 2682- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed, 2683 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file?? 2684 2685 2686Buffer list: 26877 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}". 2688 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that 2689 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the 2690 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only". 26918 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files. 2692 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim. 26938 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check 2694 inode too. 26957 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When 2696 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use. (or the highest 2697 number in use plus one?) 26987 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and 2699 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann) 2700- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the 2701 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb) 2702- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the 2703 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"? 27047 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list. 2705 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson) 27067 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer 2707 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc. 27088 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected. 27098 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$' 2710 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel". 27117 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for 2712 internal use and for when executing an external program? 2713 2714 2715Swap (.swp) files: 27168 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another 2717 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when 2718 there are short file name problems. 27198 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap 2720 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions. 27218 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su. 27228 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same 2723 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file 2724 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup 2725 file the same as the actual file? 2726 Use the code for resolve()? 27277 Store the options 'fileencoding', 'fileformat', etc. in the swapfile, 2728 because they change what will be written to the file. Requires adding 2729 another block to the swapfile. 27307 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another 2731 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible. 27327 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere 2733 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'? 2734 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not 2735 enough room. 27367 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp 2737 or /var/preserve. 2738- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to 2739 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only. 2740- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen). 2741 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'? 2742- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the 2743 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do 2744 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a 2745 cached list of which line is where. 2746 2747 2748Viminfo: 27497 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file, 2750 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone 2751 else's viminfo file. 27528 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file 2753 name. (Schild) 27548 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu). 27558 Remember the last used register for "@@". 27568 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the 2757 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so. 2758 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display 2759 this? 27607 Also store the ". register (last inserted text). 27617 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some 2762 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron) 27636 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting 2764 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the 2765 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code? 2766- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of 2767 "last visited files" and select one to jump to. 2768 2769 2770Modelines: 27718 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid 2772 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it. 2773 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ". 2774- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to 2775 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the 2776 modeline setting. 2777- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings, 2778 no function calls, to avoid a security problem. 2779- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for 2780 .cpp files. 2781- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for 2782 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak. 2783- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed 2784 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir. 2785 2786 2787Options: 27888 Make ":mksession" store buffer-specific options for the specific buffer. 27898 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when 2790 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant) 27917 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only 2792 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the 2793 side effect. 27948 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to 2795 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their 2796 default value. 27978 Should ":mksession" restore the current directory when writing the 2798 session, or the directory where the session file is? Probably need a word 2799 in 'sessionoptions' to make a choice: 2800 "curdir" (cd to current directory when session file was generated) 2801 "sessiondir" (cd to directory of session file) 2802 "nodir" (don't cd at all) 28038 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string 2804 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should 2805 also be supported. 28068 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag 2807 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting 2808 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used. 28097 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas) 28107 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the 2811 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway) 28127 Add plugins for formatting. Should be able to make a choice depending on 2813 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.). 2814 2815 2816External commands: 28178 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen 2818 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd". 28194 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls" 2820 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g. 2821 -f). 28224 Allow direct execution, without using a shell. 28234 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI? 2824 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell! 28254 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands. 2826 2827 2828Multiple Windows: 28297 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits. 28308 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window. 2831 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window. 28327 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab> 2833 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to 2834 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer. 28357 Add a 'winfixwidth' option, similar to 'winfixheight'. 28366 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window. 2837 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new 2838 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would 2839 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel) 28407 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows 2841 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with 2842 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE 2843 too. Requires some form of inter process communication. 2844- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer 2845 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command. 2846 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer 2847 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made. 2848 2849 2850Marks: 28518 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this 2852 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-. 28538 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m? 28548 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times. 2855 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file. 28568 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle 2857 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when 2858 the mark was set. 28597 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers, 2860 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands 2861 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with 2862 ":browse marks"? 28636 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige) 28647 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the 2865 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark. 28667 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group). 2867 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does. 28687 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m 2869 command). 28707 Try to keep marks in the same position when: 2871 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the 2872 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo) 2873 - inserting/deleting characters in a line. 28745 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in 2875 mappings. 28766 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and 2877 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines. 2878 Highlight the marked lines somehow. 2879 2880 2881Digraphs: 28827 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists. 2883 Also the keymap? 2884- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line 2885 below/above). 2886- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special 2887 characters? 28888 Add command to remove (all) digraphs. (Brown) 28897 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At 2890 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32). 2891 2892 2893Writing files: 2894- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for 2895 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to 2896 shortname conversion. 28978 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc. 28988 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode' 2899 file. 29008 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some 2901 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another 2902 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'? 29037 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make 2904 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski) 29056 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like 2906 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'. 29076 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory. 2908 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas) 29096 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#". 2910 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name? 29118 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids 2912 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman) 29137 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations 2914 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition). 29157 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more 2916 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is 2917 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before 2918 waiting for a character to be typed). 29198 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status 2920 line of the window, like "[time]". 2921 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes. 2922 Automatic and/or with a command. 2923 2924 2925Substitute: 29268 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.: 2927 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w". 2928- :s///p prints the line after a substitution. 2929- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern. 29308 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective. 2931 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys. 2932- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or: 2933 :s///N substitutes N times. 2934- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.: 2935 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do 2936 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution. 29377 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex 2938 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the 2939 last line column 5. 29405 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks, 2941 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the 2942 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands. 2943 (Stanislav Sitar) 2944 2945 2946Mouse support: 29478 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'? 29487 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu. 29498 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic 2950 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you 2951 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar) 29527 Checkout sysmouse() for FreeBSD console mouse support. 2953- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console. 2954- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to 2955 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners). 2956- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!? 2957- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to. 2958 2959 2960Crypt and security: 29618 Also crypt the swapfile, each block separately. Change mf_write() and 2962 mf_read(). How to get b_p_key to these functions? 2963 2964 2965Argument list: 29666 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list. 2967 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches 2968 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match. 29696 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers? 2970 2971 2972Registers: 29738 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne) 29748 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping 2975 around in windows. 29768 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for 2977 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r" 2978 for every line. 29796 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the 2980 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What 2981 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.? 2982- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of 2983 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more". 2984- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment 2985 leader when line wraps? 2986- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each 2987 line in the range. 2988- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text 2989 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo") 29908 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register. 2991 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)? 2992 2993 2994Debug mode: 29957 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received. 29968 Add breakpoints for setting an option 29978 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable. 29987 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution 2999 when evaluating to non-zero. 30007 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo. 30017 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al. 3002 3003 3004Various improvements: 30058 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename 3006 the buffer. Buffer may be modified. 30076 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of 3008 errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c". 30097 Add a ":cstring" command. Works like ":cfile" but reads from a string 3010 variable. Also accept a list variable? 30116 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5) 30127 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>. 3013 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"? 3014 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command. 30157 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a 3016 window as a buffer-tab selection. 30177 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want 3018 to manipulate text without changing the window layout. 30198 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until 3020 all changes are gone. 30217 Add a ":cpfile", go in the other direction as ":cnfile". 30226 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri) 30238 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim. 3024 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim. 3025 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it 3026 in this Vim. 30278 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as 3028 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"? 30298 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes 3030 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and 3031 have it apply to the following command. 30328 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other 3033 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the 3034 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up. 3035 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'? 30367 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a 3037 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files. 30387 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>, 3039 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize 3040 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key 3041 without modifier (unless mapped). 30428 Add ":breakdel *": delete all breakpoints. 30437 Support ":browse edit" in console, using explorer.vim? 30446 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line. 30458 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map". 30469 Support ACLs on more systems. 30477 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be 3048 highlighted differently. 30498 Allow using "**" as a wildcard in commands like ":next" and ":args". 30508 Provide a way to avoid wildcard expansion. Use double quotes, like in the 3051 shell? :edit "my[file].txt" (currently works if there is no "myf.txt") 30527 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above 3053 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message 3054 (truncated to fit in the space). 30557 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner) 30568 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout) 30578 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise 3058 Visual mode. 30597 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use 3060 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV. 30617 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping 3062 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0". 30637 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name. 30647 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently. 30657 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines? 30668 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney) 30678 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in 3068 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for 3069 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef 3070 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do? 30718 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down. 30726 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain 3073 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron) 30748 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists. 30758 Use confirm/dialog stuff to ask the user, when a file has changed outside 3076 of Vim, if he wants to reload it. Triggered when focus gained, after 3077 shell command, when entering another buffer, etc.. 3078 Also do this when editing a new file, and another application creates 3079 the file before doing ":w" in Vim. 3080 Also check if the file protection has changed. When checking a file into 3081 RCS it is made read-only, when checking out it is made read-write. 30828 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file 3083 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would 3084 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist 3085 does something like this. (Shah) 30867 Use growarray for replace stack. 30877 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution 3088 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis). 30893 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"? 30908 Make "more" prompt accept command characters, like "hit-enter" prompt? 3091 Or extend it with more commands, like "less": 'b' for back, 'j' for one 3092 line down, etc. 30938 For the "--more--" prompt, support the 'b'ack command for more commands. 3094 Possible implementation: Do it at a very low level, caching the lines that 3095 are on the screen (with highlight attributes). Avoids that changes have 3096 to be made for all functions that list something. 30977 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same 3098 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers? 3099- Keep a list of most recently used files for each window, use "[o" to go 3100 back (older file) and "]n" to go forward (newer file) (like ^O and ^I for 3101 jumps) (Webb). Use ":files" and ":ls" to list the files in history order. 31027 Add a history of recently accessed buffer. Maybe make "2 CTRL-^" jump to 3103 the 2nd previously visited buffer, "3 CTRL-^" to the third, etc. Or use 3104 "3 g CTRL-^" for this? 3105- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode. 3106- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file. 3107- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c 3108- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window. 31097 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive 3110 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used. 3111- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home 3112 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc. 3113- Remove mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this. 3114- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set, 3115 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert) 3116- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to 3117 call "play newbeep.au"). 3118- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or 3119 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function. 3120 (Bhatt). 3121- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for 3122 blockwise registers). 3123- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the 3124 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt). 3125- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps 3126 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed, 3127 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't 3128 noticeable. 31299 When using ":w <fname>" it's possible that this file is loaded in another 3130 buffer. Give a warning right away, don't wait for a shell command. 3131- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb). 31327 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters. 3133 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code. 3134- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs 3135 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between 3136 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent 3137 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new 3138 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change. 31397 Add a way to define an item list with a pattern in 'formatoptions'. The 3140 'n' flag doesn't work for "6.3" or "6a.". 31418 Add 'formatexpr' option: Used for formatting operator "gq" instead of the 3142 builtin formatting or 'formatprg'. 31438 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the 3144 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for 3145 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a 3146 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line). 3147 ":set autoformat=\\s$". 3148- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern? 31497 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the 3150 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt) 3151- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is 3152 not in column 1. 31536 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a 3154 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext". 31557 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined? 3156- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator? 31578 findmatchlimit() should be able to skip comments. Solves problem of 3158 matching the '{' in /* if (foo) { */ (Fiveash) 3159- Add more redirecting of Ex commands: 3160 :redir @> register (append) 3161 :redir # bufname 3162 :redir #> bufname (append) 3163 :redir = variable 3164 :redir => variable (append) 3165- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with 3166 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set". 3167 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit". 31686 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32 3169 console? (Klaus Hast) 3170- Add :delcr command: 3171 *:delcr* 3172 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines 3173 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is 3174 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range]. 3175 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If 3176 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all 3177 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi} 3178- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat(). 3179- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta 3180 characters from 'isprint'. 3181- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName(). 3182- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area. 3183 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn. 3184- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but 3185 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More 3186 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion. 3187- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()). 3188- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like 3189 Nvi). 3190- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the 3191 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define. 31927 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position. 3193- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that 3194 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'? 31956 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file. 3196- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the 3197 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13 3198 macro). 3199- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files. 3200- Add command like ":ts" that shows the output of "[I" and asks for a match 3201 to jump to. (Zellner) 3202- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also 3203 expanded. Is there a better way to do this? 3204- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source". 32058 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set. 3206- Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null". 3207- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty. 3208- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible! 3209- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down 3210 if it is not the first or last window. 3211- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if 3212 there is one) instead of the file itself. 32137 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example: 3214 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0 3215 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files. 3216- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion. 3217- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as 3218 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so 3219 many percent down the windows). 3220- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the 3221 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the 3222 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'. 3223- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g. 3224 'dictionary' when it is "*.h". 3225- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to 3226 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit). 3227- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent) 3228- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends. 3229- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the 3230 passwd file? (Antwerpen) 3231- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack. 3232- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush". 32338 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw", 3234 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is 3235 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack? 3236 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when 3237 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping? 3238- Use a builtin grep command for ":grep"? Makes it possible to add the 3239 column number. Can use the code of ":helpgrep". 3240 Also support using "**" in filename, so that a directory tree can be 3241 searched. 3242 Also see the "minigrep.vim" script on www.vim.org. 3243- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time 3244 t_bs is set? (Webb) 3245- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also 3246 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert). 3247- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline (Demirel). Store 3248 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window 3249 (Webb). 3250- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the 3251 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al. 3252- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering 3253 hex codes like 0xff). 3254- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command 3255 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo 3256 the last TYPED command. 3257- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf". 3258- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows. 3259- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/" 3260 should also work? 3261- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL? 32628 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file 3263 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine 3264 name. 3265- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a 3266 trailing '.'. 3267- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a 3268 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use 3269 find_file_in_path(). 3270- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between 3271 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon). 3272- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion. 3273- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a 3274 form usable by Vim on the current machine. 3275- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have 3276 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags. 3277- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one 3278 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains 3279 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline. 3280- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine 3281 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz) 3282- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments. 3283- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt) 3284- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back 3285 to the minimal size. 3286- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */). 3287- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline(). 3288- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb). 3289- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file. 3290- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers. 3291- Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw'). 3292- Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line: 3293 "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ??? 3294- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line 3295 entered)? 3296- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible 3297 as an output filter. 3298- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this. 3299- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line. 3300- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file. 3301- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc. 3302- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char. 3303- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long 3304 lines. 3305- Uppercase characters in ex commands can be made lowercase? 33068 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"), 3307 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option 3308 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex 3309 or in octal. 33107 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more 3311 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument? 3312- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source. 3313 After ":w !command" a wait_return? 3314- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()). 3315- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without 3316 insert line command). 3317- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it. 3318- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals. 3319- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000). 3320- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying. 3321- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace 3322 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>. 3323- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work 3324 yet. 3325- Implement 'redraw' option. 3326- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or 3327 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right). 3328- Use pipes for filtering on Unix. Requires using fork() to be able to read 3329 and write at the same time, or some select() mechanism. 33307 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs 3331 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin. 33328 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can 3333 do it. 3334- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to. 3335- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts, 3336 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list. 3337- Add text justification option. 3338- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on". 3339- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is 3340 off". 3341- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR. 3342- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message. 3343- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but 3344 gives read errors. Check protection before opening. 3345- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied". 3346- If file does not exists, check if directory exists. 3347- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor. 3348- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex 3349 commands. 3350- ":set -w all": list one option per line. 3351- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file. 3352- :table command (Webb) 3353- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ". 3354- Make it possible for a user to define a new operator. Implementation with 3355 internal scripting language or Perl? 3356- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?). 3357- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb). 3358- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files. 3359- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel). 3360- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited 3361 (Demirel). 3362- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc. 3363- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore", 3364 for use in macro's and the like. 3365- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while 3366 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window? 3367- Add possibility to put output of ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for 3368 ":set all". ":r :set all"? 3369- 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really 3370 read-only mode). 3371- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not 3372 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in 3373 a window to become smaller (Webb). 3374- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized 3375 proportionally (Webb). 3376- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use 3377 mkopttab to make option table? 3378- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current 3379 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)? 3380- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster 3381 (Haritsis). 3382- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used 3383 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev) 3384- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the 3385 cursor? 3386- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton). 3387- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)? 33885 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names. 3389 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix. 33908 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore 3391 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in 3392 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams: 3393 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another 3394 option name. 33958 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to 3396 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places. 3397 (Netherton) 33986 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a 3399 space after "(", for example. 34005 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs 3401 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit'). 3402 (Servatius Brandt) 3403 3404 3405From Elvis: 3406- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages? 3407- Add ":alias" command. 3408- fontchanges recognized "\\fB" etc. 3409- Search patterns: 3410 \@ match word under cursor. 3411 but do: 3412 \@w match the word under the cursor? 3413 \@W match the WORD under the cursor? 34148 ":window" command: 3415 :win + next window (up) 3416 :win ++ idem, wrapping 3417 :win - previous window (down) 3418 :win -- idem, wrapping 3419 :win nr to window number "nr" 3420 :win name to window editing buffer "name" 34217 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is 3422 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"? 3423 3424 3425From Nvi: 3426- 'searchincr' option, alias for 'incsearch'? 3427- 'leftright' option, alias for 'nowrap'? 3428- Have a look at "vi/doc/vi.chart", for Nvi specialties. 34298 Add 'keytime', time in 1/10 sec for mapping timeout? 3430- Add 'filec' option as an alternative for 'wildchar'. 34316 Support Nvi command names as an alias: 3432 :bg :hide 3433 :fg fname :buf fname (with 'hidden' set?) 3434 :dis b :ls 3435 :Edit fname :split fname 3436 :Fg fname :sbuf fname (with 'hidden' set?) 3437 :Next :snext (can't do this, already use :Next) 3438 :Previous :sprevious 3439 :Tag :stag 3440 3441 3442From xvi: 3443- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character. 3444- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet) 3445 3446 3447From vile: 3448- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window. 3449- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files 3450 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files. 3451 3452 3453Far future and "big" extensions: 3454- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice 3455 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,... 3456- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in 3457 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac). 3458 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the 3459 current layout mirrored. 3460- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer. 3461- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords, 3462 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.). 3463- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent). 3464- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different 3465 font in each top-level window. 3466- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit'). 3467- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them. 3468- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning. 3469- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to. 3470 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim). 3471- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all 3472 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files 3473 mentioned in the tags file. 3474 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???) 3475 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."? 3476- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other 3477 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter). 3478- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five 3479 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc.. 34804 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands: 3481 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format. 3482 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted. 3483 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list, 3484 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags 3485 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples: 3486 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list 3487- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes 3488 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but 3489 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/. 3490 3491 3492vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl: 3493vim: set fo+=n : 3494