1*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2004 Jun 16 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 33This example doesn't work: 34 :e `=foo . ".c" ` 35Inside `` don't use " as the start of a comment. 36Also don't expand % or #. 37 38Corrections for docs from A3. Skip ones already done. 39 40 41For version 7.0: 42- Include many PATCHES: 43 9 Win32 GuI: The print dialog uses a font which doesn't display multi-byte 44 messages. Include patch from Vipin Aravind? Update from Yasuhiro 45 Matsumoto. 46 8 ":winpos" doesn't work. Patch from Vipin Aravind. 47 8 Add GTK 2.3 file dialog support. Patch by Grahame Bowland, 2004 Mar 15, 48 but it doesn't use "initdir" or "dflt". (will update patch) 49 8 On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't defined. Include patch from Cristiano De 50 Michele. He no longer has such a machine. 51 8 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or 52 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing 53 the file: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking . 54 Do we still want this/ 55 8 Add buffer-local autocommands? Reduces overhead for autocommands that 56 trigger often (inserting a character, switching mode). 57 :au Event <buffer> do-something 58 E.g.: 59 :au BufEnter <buffer> menu enable ... 60 :au BufLeave <buffer> menu disable ... 61 Patch from Yakov Lerner, including test (2004 Jan 7). 62 He'll send updated patch. 63 Autocommands: 64 VimResized - When the Vim window has been resized (SIGWINCH) 65 patch from Yakov Lerner, 2003 July 24. 66 He'll write documentation and send updated patch. 67 - Include the kvim patch. http://freenux.org/vim/ (Mickael Marchand) 68 Do not add Qtopia yet, it doesn't work very well. 69 Mickael will update the patch before 21st. 70 --- responses above 71 7 Make "5dd" on last-but-one-line not delete anything (Vi compatible). 72 Add flag in 'cpoptions' for this. When not present, "2dd" in the last 73 line should delete the last line. Patch from greenx 2002 Apr 11. 74 8 Accelerators don't work in a dialog. Include patch from Martin Dalecki 75 (Jan 3, tested by David Harrison). Should work with Alt-o then. 76 7 Use accelerators for the Motif file selection dialog. Patch from 77 Martin Dalecki 2002 Jan 11. 78 8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina 79 (28 feb 2002). 80 8 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard 81 Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim-icns/TransBack.diff 82 8 Patches from "Rain Dog" Cucka: 83 - guifont selector (2002 Dec 15) 84 - scrollbar (2002 Dec 8) 85 - Quartz fonts (2002 Dec 8) 86 7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears 87 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3. 88 8 Unix: When libcall() fails there is no clear error message. Johannes 89 Zellner has a patch for this. 90 8 ":hardcopy": 91 - Patch to append CTRL-D to PostScript output (Mike Williams, 2004 Jun 92 14) 93 - support printing multi-byte characters. Patch from Motonobu 94 Ichimura. New (better) patch from Mike Williams (2004 Jan 20) 95 9 Merge in ideas from ~/vim/patches/tutor.txt (Gabriel Zachmann) 96 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac? 97 - Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work 98 for multi-byte characters. 99 7 Add patch from Wall for this one ( ~/Mail/oldmail/wall/in.00019 ): 100 'flipcase' variable: upper/lowercase pairs. 101 Insert comma's between pairs and allow a range, make it look like 102 'isfname'. E.g. ":set flipcase=a-zA-Z,xX,23-33:143-153". The colon to 103 separate the from and to part is optional. 104 - Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind. 105 - Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5) 106 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not 107 been given values. 108 Add section in help files for these highlight groups? 109 8 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm 110 with an ESC sequence. Ideas in: ~/vim/patches/vikas.xtermcolors . 111 7 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Martin 112 Dalecki has a patch for Motif) 113 - Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a 114 line in between columns (e.g. for 'textwidth'). 115 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20. 116 9 Add cursor-column highlighting. Enable it with 'cursorcolumn' option, 117 set highlighting with "CursorColumn" group. Useful for aligning text. 118 Also cursor-row highlighting. Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto for 119 underlining the cursor line, 2004 Mar 24. 120 Alternatie: when 'number' is set highlight the number of the current 121 line. 122 7 Be able to call a function while passing on a variable number of 123 arguments: 124 :function Foo(abc, ...) 125 : call Bar(a:abc, a:*) 126 Charles Campbell has a patch for this 127 8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible. 128 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. 129 8 Add functions: 130 tr(expr, from, to) translate chars (Patch from Ron Aaron, Apr 8 131 2004) 132 strrep() Repeat a string (patch from Christophe Poucet, 133 2003 Sep 12, also contains XX) 134 Alt: repeat(expr, count) werkt ook voor lists. 135 mousex() mousey() get position of mouse pointer (patch by Ross 136 Presser) 137 He will send a new patch. 138 Is this really useful? 139 --- 140 multibyteidx(string, idx) Byte index in multi-byte character. 141 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Feb 25 142 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what}) 143 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}. 144 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File". 145 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu 146 File.Open..." argument. 147 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22 148 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping. 149 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4. 150 match({pat}, {string} [,start] [,count]) get index of count'th match 151 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 31 152 find() find file in 'path' (patch from Johannes 153 Zellner 2001 Dec 20) 154 realname() Get user name (first, last, full) 155 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov 156 3 2002) 157 getfperm() file permissions, in form "rwxrwxrwx" 158 (patch from Nikolai Weibull 2003 Jan 13) 159 getftype() "file", "dir", "link", "other"? 160 (patch from Nikolai Weibull 2003 Jan 13) 161 setbufline() set line in any buffer (patch from Yegappan 162 Lakshmanan, 2003 Jan 21) 163 winnr("$") Get number of windows. (patch from Nikolai 164 Weibull 2003 Jan 13) (another patch from 165 Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2003 Aug 31) 166 search() Add optional offset argument. 167 Add 'n' flag. (patch from Nikolai Weibull 168 2003 Jan 13) 169 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical 170 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg) 171 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag 172 (2003 May 13) 173 system({cmd}, {expr}) Filter {expr} through the shell command 174 {cmd} and return the result. 175 (Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan) 176 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for 177 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ ) 178 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro 179 Matsumoto) How to get the messages into the 180 .po files? 181 7 Add "nbsp" in 'listchars'? Patch from David Blanchet, 2003 Jul 28. 182 7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions 183 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10) 184 7 Add 'taglistfiles' option, show file name and type when listing matching 185 tags name with CTRL-D completion. Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan. 186 7 Motif: use the menu font consistently. Patch from Martin Dalecki 2002 187 Jan 11. 188 - Motif: add 3D shading for the menu entries? Patch from Martin Dalecki. 189 8 Add expression-expansion, so that the user can define his own kind of 190 completion. Patch from Taro Muraoka, 2003 Aug 26. 191 7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto. 192 9 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after 193 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line. 194 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug. Rich has 195 a suggestion for a patch to fix this. 196 e-mail to Rich bounced. 197 7 Make ":startinsert" command work directly for functions and scripts? 198 Also make it possible to append (it's difficult at end of line). 199 And add ":startreplace" (patch by Charles Campbell, 2004 Jan 9, 200 http://www.erols.com/astronaut/vim/index.html#Patch) 201 8 Text objects: Add "a'" and 'a"': a single or double quoted string. 202 (Tim Chase) Patch from Taro Muraoka (2003 Dec 16). 203 7 For Visual mode: Command to do a search for the string in the marked 204 area. Only when fewer than two lines. Use "g/" and "gb". Patch from 205 Yegappan Lakshmanan. 206 7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right 207 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli) 208 8 Add patch from Charles Campbell to have ":0file!" remove the name of 209 the current buffer. (2003 June 17) 210 8 Make it possible to delete marks. Charles Campbell has a patch that 211 does this with the markclear() function (2004 Jan 9). And the 212 ":delmark" command (2004 Feb 9) 213 7 Win32: Add patch for 5-button mouse. (Michael Geddes 2001 Nov 26) 214 8 Lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk (uncrypted). 215 Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. 216 7 Support a stronger encryption. Jason Holt implemented AES (May 6 2003). 217 7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie) 218 7 Add the MzScheme interface. Patch on http://iamphet.nm.ru/scheme/ 219 (Sergey Khorev) 220 8 Make 'statusline' local, so that each window can have a different 221 value. But should it also be local to a buffer? (Yegappan Lakshmanan 222 has a patch, 2002 feb 15) 223 8 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's 224 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1. 225 7 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David 226 Kotchan has a patch for it) 227 8 Add term entries for function keys on xterm with alt and ctrl (new in 228 pl 94). E.g., Control adds ";5" in "<Esc>[20;5~". Find a generic way 229 to prepend a modifier in console mode, to avoid having to specify each 230 individual modified key. 231 Steve Wall has a patch (2002 Mar 12) for adding function keys up to 37, 232 with modifiers. 233 8 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See 234 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface. 235 Or use emacs server kind of thing? 236 7 Add an option to set the width of the 'number' column. Eight 237 positions is often more than needed. Or adjust the width to the 238 length of the file? 239 Add patch that adds 'numberlen' option. (James Harvey) 240 Other patch with min and max from Emmanuel Renieris (2002 Jul 24) 241 Other patch without an option by Gilles Roy (2002 Jul 25) 242 7 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25. 243 - findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at 244 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram, 245 incomplete patch Mar 18) 246 8 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore 247 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in 248 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams: 249 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another 250 option name. 251- Change ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be 252 incremented/decremented each time. 253- new DATA TYPES: lists, dictionaries and function references. 254 Check old patch from Robert Webb for array support. 255 Add type checking? See ~/vim/ideas.txt. 256- Add SPELLCHECKER, with easy to add support for many languages. 257 8 Add spell checking. Use "ispell -a" somehow. 258 ~/vim/patches/wm_vim-5_4d.zip can be used as an example (includes 259 ispell inside Vim). Gautam Iyer has an example with "aspell". 260 "engspchk" from Charles Campbell is a good way. Support for 261 approximate-regexps will help (agrep http://www.tgries.de/agrep/). 262- REFACTORING: The main() function is very long. Move parts to separate 263 functions, especially loops. Ideas from Walter Briscoe (2003 Apr 3, 2004 264 Feb 9). 265- Improve the interface between the generic GUI code and the system-specific 266 code. Generic code handles text window with scrollbars, system-specific 267 code menu, toolbar, etc. 268- Store messages to allow SCROLLING BACK for all commands. And other "less" 269 like commands. 270- "INTELLISENSE". First cleanup the Insert-mode completion. 271 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747 272 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim 273- PERSISTENT UNDO: store undo in a file. 274 Support multiple threads. Show the list of changes in a window to be able 275 to select a version. 2767 SWAP FILE CHANGE: When a dos format file was edited with ":e ++ff=unix", 277 Vim is killed and trying to recover the file, 'ff' will be dos. Same for 278 non-default fileencoding. (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jul 17) 279 Should store the values in block 0 of the swap file, but that is an 280 incompatible change. 2817 Support WINDOW TABS. Works like several pages, each with their own 282 split windows. Patch for GTK 1.2 from Christian Michon, 2004 Jan 6. 283 Also for the console! 284- EMBEDDING: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program. 285 For Xwindows this can be done with XReparentWindow(). 286 For GTK Neil Bird has a patch to use Vim like a widget. 287- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block 288 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2. 289- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye, 290 assisted by Mikolaj Machowski. Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it 291 generic. Also found here: http://skawina.eu.org/mikolaj/vimgdb 292 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program 293 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the 294 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the 295 other window. 296 Wishes for NetBeans commands: 297 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors. 298 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?) 299 in terminal mode. 300- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is. 301 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command 302 scrolls back to where the cursor is. 3038 Support four composing characters, needed for Hebrew. (Ron Aaron) 304 305 306Vi incompatibility: 3078 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other 308 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it 309 is deleted or restored. (Webb) 310 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo. 311 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the '' 312 position is one line down. (Veselinovic) 3138 ":change" in a single-line file adds an empty line. When the file used to 314 be longer a "~" line is displayed, but there really is an empty line. 315 (Haakon Riiser, 2003 Dec 3 and Dec 16) 3168 ":append" and ":insert" in an empty file add an extra empty line. (Haakon 317 Riiser, 2003 Dec 3) Test for ML_EMPTY. 3188 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should 319 make Vim exit. 3207 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line 321 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway). 322 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input. 3238 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips 324 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument 325 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded) 3266 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but 327 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag 328 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off. 3298 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another 330 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one. 331 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file 332 names in one buffer??? 333 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and 334 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not 335 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer. 3367 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some 337 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual" 338 command was one command. 3397 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep 340 the ":map" when it's used without arguments? 3417 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option. 3427 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty. 3437 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a 344 flag in 'cpoptions' for this. 3457 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when 346 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing 347 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either 348 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file). 3497 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode). 3507 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines. 3517 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go 352 to the match with the tag? Option? 3537 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option. 3547 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del> 355 (Sayre). 3567 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the 357 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible). 3587 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual". 359 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next 360 match. Nvi can do it too. 3617 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking) 362 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\ 363 line 1\ line 2\\ 364 line 2\ line 3\\ 365 . line4/ 3666 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of 367 the way the shell is started? 3686 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange 369 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line). 370 371 372GTK+ 1 (OK in GTK 2): 3738 When menus are disabled, 'm' removed from 'guioptions', Alt-F still pops 374 up the File menu. Cannot reproduce this: gives a warning for a NULL 375 pointer if the menu was never displayed. 3768 When using "gvim -geom 40x30" or setting 'columns' in .gvimrc or with a 377 GUIEnter autocommand, the width is still set to fit the toolbar. Also 378 happens when changing the font. How to avoid that the toolbar specifies 379 the minimal window width? 3808 When using a theme with different scrollbars (gtkstep), the scrollbars can 381 be too narrow. (Drazen Kacar) 3828 Font "7x14" has a bold version "7x14bold". Try to find the bold font by 383 appending "bold" when there are not 14 dashes. 384 385GTK+ GUI known bugs: 3868 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj 387 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in 388 creating a label? 3899 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim 390 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and 391 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works. 392 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again. 3937 DND doesn't work with KDE (also with GTK 1). 394 395 396Win32 GUI known bugs: 3978 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2 398 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically? 3998 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications. 400 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs. 401 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html 4028 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be 403 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp) 4047 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow 405 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to 406 "lucida_console:h8"). 4076 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":" 408 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis) 4097 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason 410 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible 411 to use an opaque background in most places? 4128 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that 413 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly. 414 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters. 4158 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font 416 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the 417 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono. 4187 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan, 419 2004 May 9) 4208 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces 421 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim 422 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with 423 MS-Windows 98? 424 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a 425 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed 426 file: Window moves with the cursor! 427 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it? 4288 When activating the Vim window with mouse click, don't move cursor to 429 mouse position. Catch WM_MOUSEACTIVATE. (Luevelsmeyer) 4308 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it 431 appear. (Sami Salonen) 4328 Windows NT: writing to aux.* makes Vim hang. (Acevedo) 4338 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that 434 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win 435 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also 436 doesn't work properly. 4378 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops 438 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it 439 appears in the right position. (Webb) 4409 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse 441 button doesn't give popup menu. 442 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless 443 selection. 444 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button. 445 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the 446 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text. 4478 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the 448 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore) 449 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error 450 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code. 4518 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg. 452 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not 453 be read. 4548 MessageBox used for error messages can be too big. There is no way to 455 scroll it, or even hit the OK button (but you can hit return). 456 Use a scrollable window. 4577 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida 458 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char). 459 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'. 4607 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the 461 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to 462 scroll? Need to be able to get out of hit-enter prompt with the mouse 463 anyway. 4647 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance. 465 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar. 4667 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using 467 "/min" as the command name. (Rogall) 4686 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor). 4698 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work 470 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because 471 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr? 4728 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we 473 know which keyboard is being used? 4747 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern 475 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn 476 area (Koloseike). 4778 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might 478 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first, 479 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in 480 the font name). 481 482 483Athena and Motif: 4849 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is 485 required and it's missing? 4868 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned 487 wrong. 4889 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can 489 be off by default. 4909 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now, 491 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting 492 flag. 4938 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character. 494 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1. 495 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this. 4968 Perhaps use fontsets for everything? 4976 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting 498 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all 499 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of 500 the tooltips work though... 5017 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not 502 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory). 5038 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the 504 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the 505 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'. 506 507 508Athena GUI: 5099 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in 510 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving 511 through files. 5127 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to 513 read long file names. (Schroeder) 5144 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go 515 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the 516 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets" 517 problem during a refresh. 5185 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing 519 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the 520 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors. 521 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes 522 colors as it should. 523 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the 524 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug? 525 526 527Motif GUI: 5288 Popup menu ordering is wrong. 5297 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()? 530 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2). 5318 The texts in the find/replace dialog don't use the right font. 5328 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes 533 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes. 534 (Phillipps) 535 536 537GUI: 5389 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no 539 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy) 5409 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C. 541 e.g. on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on 542 Solaris 2.6. (Marley) 5439 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim 544 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf) 5458 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key 546 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version). 5478 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both 548 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate 549 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed. 5508 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling 551 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state 552 of where it is processing the output. 553 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code. 5548 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font 555 doesn't work. 5568 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS. 5578 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS. 5588 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for 559 browse(). 5608 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this, 561 use that code? Or use console dialog. 5628 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the 563 error message disappears too quick. 5648 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later, 565 to avoid problems. 5668 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there 567 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for 568 input. Or maybe every 100 ms? 5698 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank 570 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0". 571 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works. 5728 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed 573 up. Set erase character somehow? 5748 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character 575 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this. 576 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling. 577 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya) 5788 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11. 5797 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not 580 visible. 5817 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is 582 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey) 5837 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it 584 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw. 5858 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the 586 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek) 5878 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not 588 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32. 589 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the 590 remaining part of the window (Phillipps). 591- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun. 5924 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times 593 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times 594 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486. 595 596 597MSDOS/DJGPP: 5989 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao) 599 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the 600 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem. 6018 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists. 602 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error? 6039 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused 604 code and reduce static data. 6059 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C. 606 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since 607 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting 608 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work. 6099 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work. 610 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67 611 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71 612 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2) 613 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>. 614 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream? 615 Make this work like in Win32 console. 616 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended 617 key code. Use a translation table? 6189 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used. 619 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself. 6208 Use DJGPP 2.03. 6218 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT. 622 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip). 6238 setlocale() is bogus. 6248 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some 625 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched 626 Windows 95 system! 6278 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe) 6287 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g. in keyword completion) on a 8088 629 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin). 6307 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.: 631 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley) 632 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem). 6338 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add 634 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt. 6357 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen. 636 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a 637 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are 638 "[New file]". 6397 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode 640 that is supported? 6418 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them. 6428 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter 643 Briscoe) 644 645 646MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32: 6478 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use 648 gen_expand_wildcards(). 6498 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander 650 Wagner. 6518 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL. 6528 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt, 653 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name. 6548 Should $USERPROFILE be used instead of $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? 6558 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have 656 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key. 6578 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift. 658 Should work like in the GUI version. 6598 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for 660 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names. 6618 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when 662 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command? 6638 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file" 664 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be 665 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc. 6668 ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means directory "#bb" 667 in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth) 6688 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going 669 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to 670 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth) 671 672 673Windows 95: 6748 Editing a file by it's short file name and writing it, makes the long file 675 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps. 676 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly). 6778 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the 678 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32). 679 680 681Win32 console: 6829 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its 683 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister) 684 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor. 685 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable. 686 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1 687 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name. 688 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file. 689 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed 690 and the file is not saved. 691 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its 692 long name. 6938 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at 694 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT. 6957 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals, 696 besides the console. 6978 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes) 6989 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with 699 <C-S-i>? 7009 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on 701 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI? 7028 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__ 703 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around? 7047 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'? 705 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when 706 exiting. 707 708 709Amiga: 7108 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte 711 sequences. 7129 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove 713 backslashes in result. 7148 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do 715 all options, using white space separation. 716 717 718Macintosh: 7199 Mac: The motion type is not stored on the clipboard. Using ":set 720 clipboard=unnamed" makes "yyp" work characterwise. (Michael DeMoney) 7217 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both. 722 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac 723 (Jack) 724 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html 7258 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear 726 to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17) 7278 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI. 7289 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher) 729 - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost. 7308 The Vim/About menu doesn't work. 7318 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV. 7328 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh. 7338 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh. 7349 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be 735 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone) 7369 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when 737 scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher) 7389 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two 739 seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher) 7409 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly. 7418 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige) 7428 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige) 743 744 745"Small" problems: 7468 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used, 747 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited 748 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure 749 the ATTENTION message shows up. 7509 When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with 751 'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though 752 the fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to 753 check for the buffer to be unmodified. 7548 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the 755 error number, it's not a regular error message. 7567 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to 757 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 7588 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and 759 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column 760 for redirection. 7617 There is no way to change directory and go back without changing the local 762 and/or global directory. Add a way to find out if the current window uses 763 a local directory. Add cdcmd() that returns ":cd" or ":lcd"? 7647 After running "make test" the window title is sometimes not restored. 765 Mostly sticks at "test3.in", but not always. Appears to happen more often 766 when compiled with Python (threading). 7677 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use 768 'termencoding'. 7698 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor 770 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor 771 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when 772 using the horizontal scrollbar. 7737 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed 774 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the 775 invocations belong together. 7768 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this 777 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams) 7788 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the 779 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the 780 UnxUtils.zip archive. 781 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter 782 Briscoe says it's not as good. 7838 'fillchars' doesn't work for multi-byte characters. 7849 Editing a XML file with a long line is extremely slow. Example file from 785 Randy Parker (Dec 13). Editing the dictionaries for engspchk plugin with 786 syntax highlighting is also very slow. 787 Limit the searching for items to a few hundred characters? 7888 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing 789 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly) 7907 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names: 791 use "~/" when possible. 7928 After using diff mode, ":set nodiff" doesn't restore the old foldmethod. 793 (Thomas S. Urban) 7947 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte 795 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail 796 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[] 797 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8). 7988 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when 799 defined. 8007 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an 801 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found. 802 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions. 8037 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode 804 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second 805 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel) 8067 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the 807 bottom window only bigger as much as needed. 8087 "[p" doesn't work in Visual mode. (David Brown) 8097 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere. 810 Remove? (Dan Sharp) 8119 The argument <f-args> of a user command doesn't handle backslashes 812 properly. "Cmd \ e" is one argument, "Cmd \\ e" still is one argument. 813 "Cmd \ e" is two arguments, first one ending in space. (Kontra Gergely) 8149 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This 815 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining 816 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command": 817 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining 818 script can be called. 8198 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po, 820 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still 821 works. 8229 When a syntax region does not use "keepend" and a contained item does use 823 "extend", this makes the outer region stop at the end of the contained 824 region. (Lutz Eymers) Another example Nov 14 2002. 8258 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with 826 CTRL-C. 8277 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X 828 server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp 829 of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK 830 doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it 831 won't work for GTK anyway. 8328 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error 833 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid. 8348 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line() 835 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this 836 configurable? 8378 'hkmap' should probably be global-local. 8389 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes 839 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work 840 then. (Pritesh Mistry) 8418 ":s!from!to!" works, but ":smagic!from!to!" doesn't. It sees the "!" as a 842 flag to to the command. Same for ":snomagic". (Johan Spetz) 8438 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save 844 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()? 8458 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is 846 always written, even when the original file already exists. 8477 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter, 848 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space. 8499 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file 850 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being 851 written. 8529 The "Error detected while processing modelines" message should have an 853 error number. 8547 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer. 8558 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose 856 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when 857 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'. 8588 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global 859 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez) 8609 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing 861 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give 862 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating 863 one. 8647 On MS-DOS or MS-Windows, when editing the same file over a network, the 865 drive letter is different, thus an existing swap file doesn't generate a 866 warning. Use some flag to indicate the swap file is in the same directory 867 as the original file? Could make b0_fname[] start with a special 868 character like ">". 8697 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes. 870 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs. 8717 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that 872 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back. 8737 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed 874 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's 875 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y 876 direction, not horizontally? 8778 When using CTRL-D after ":help", restrict the number of matches to a 878 thousand, otherwise using CTRL-D without an argument takes too long. 8798 ":hardcopy": 880 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16. 881 - Need to handle unprintable characters. 882 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform 883 dithering to make grey text? 884 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total 885 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams) 886 - Should interpreted CTRL-L as a page break. 887 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'. 888 Default to black when no syntax highlighting. 889 - Be able to print a window in diff mode. 890 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate 891 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected). 8928 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the 893 text in following lines where the linebreak changes. 8949 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on 895 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect 896 that Windows NT is being used? 8978 When opening the same file on Unix and on MS-Windows, there is no 898 ATTENTION message, because the path in the swap file is different. Using 899 a relative path name will cause no ATTENTION for Vim 5.8. 900 Somehow add a flag that the swap file is in the same dir as the file? 9018 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a 902 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it. 9038 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert 904 in lines that don't extend into the block? 9058 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O 906 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev) 907 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work. 9088 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from 909 'linebreak'. 9108 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection 911 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab. 912 (Helmut Stiegler) 9138 With 'virtualedit' set, a blockwise Visual selection that starts and ends 914 in a tab, "<" shifts too much. (Helmut Stiegler) 9159 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When 916 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending 917 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of 918 'magic' in history. (Margo) 9199 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for 920 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc". 9219 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern 922 isn't updated). 9239 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga). 9249 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled 925 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which 926 cause another redraw, etc. 9278 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path() 928 must escape special characters in the pattern. 9298 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an 930 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use 931 ":w!!" for that. 932 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and 933 restore file to readonly afterwards. 9347 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get 935 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the 936 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as 937 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from 938 clipboard) 9397 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal 940 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark 941 Waggoner) 9428 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window 943 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no 944 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\". 9458 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a 946 way to avoid using the builtin termcap. 9478 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also 948 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm. 949 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style. 9508 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator 951 (e.g., ":w"). 9528 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for 953 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long. 9548 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column 955 for ">>". 9568 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long 957 script in do_cmdline(). 9588 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the 959 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that 960 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have 961 changes. 9628 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT 963 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim". 9648 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to 965 check for file marks. This can be slow. 9667 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change 967 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's 968 needed. 969 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key. 9708 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option 971 to skip catch_signals()? 9729 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the 973 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert 974 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of 975 text? 9768 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts 977 all the text. Add ":rmenu"? 9788 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of 979 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>. 9809 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are 981 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7, 982 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed. 983 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or 984 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate(). 9857 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/". 986 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and 987 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings 988 in the list? 9898 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking 990 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up, 991 instead of on button down. 9928 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw. 9939 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for 994 reaching the end of the available buffer. 9958 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a 996 character is typed. 9978 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this. 998 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it. 9998 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not 1000 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure 10018 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an 1002 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template 1003 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp". 1004 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for 1005 cygwin bash. 10067 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}". 1007 Remember flags for backreferences. 10087 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been 1009 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT? 10107 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names 1011 that contain a '$' after all have been found. 10128 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about 1013 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX. 10147 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting 1015 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name. 10167 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing. 1017 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and 1018 "initdir" is the default path to be used. 10197 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of 1020 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols) 10218 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo 1022 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so 1023 that the user knows he has to delete the files. 10247 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func 1025 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this. 10267 After ":%d" an undo reports the number of lines added as if there still 1027 was one line. 1028 1029 1030I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!): 10319 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file 1032 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three 1033 files. (McCollister) 10348 Motif: Tear-off menu item crashes Vim on some machines. (Netherton) It 1035 works fine for me, maybe it's a Motif problem. 1036 1037 1038Problems that will (probably) not be solved: 1039- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering 1040 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the 1041 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like 1042 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external 1043 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text. 1044- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access 1045 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message. 1046 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it. 1047- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim. 1048 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim. 1049- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will 1050 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which 1051 character gets the highlighting. 1052- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm 1053 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly. 1054- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem. 1055 (Jennings) 1056- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino). 1057- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25 1058 errors. How do we get the rest? 1059- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why? 1060- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The 1061 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong. 1062- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a 1063 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy 1064 first? 1065- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for 1066 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names. 1067- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy 1068 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim, 1069 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK. 1070- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The 1071 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working. 1072 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p". 1073 (Benzinger). 1074- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that 1075 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim 1076 can't get back what the external command didn't use. 1077- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error. 1078 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code. 1079- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being 1080 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar. 1081- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer 1082 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when 1083 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted. 1084 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library. 1085 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn) 1086 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)? 1087- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles 1088 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE. 1089 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134. 1090- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal 1091 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif 1092 libraries, get a patch from Sun. 1093- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X 1094 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash. 1095- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks 1096 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff. 1097- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim 1098 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy) 1099- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive 1100 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used. 1101- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up: 1102 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library 1103 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to 1104 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the 1105 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem. 1106- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the 1107 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line: 1108 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr> 1109- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a 1110 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert 1111 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard) 1112- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co' 1113 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the 1114 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the 1115 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined 1116 in the vimrc file to be lost. 1117- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and 1118 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars. 1119 1120--------------------- extensions and improvements ---------------------- 1121 *extensions-improvements* 1122 1123Documentation: 11248 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth) 11257 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual. 11269 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention: 1127 - change to cursor position and curswant 1128 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.) 1129 - how it works for folded lines 1130 - how it works with multi-byte characters 11319 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would 1132 work too. 11338 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag" 1134 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double 1135 text. 11368 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running". 11377 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to 1138 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'. 11397 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and 1140 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag. 1141- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks. 1142 1143 1144Help: 1145- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a 1146 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag. 1147- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go 1148 to the other matches. 1149- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files. 1150- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|. 1151- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always 1152 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file, 1153 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a 1154 default contents. 1155- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal 1156 height for the help window (and other windows). 1157- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute". 1158- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive? 1159- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands. 1160 1161 1162User Friendlier: 11638 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for 1164 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter 1165 Briscoe) 11668 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types? 11678 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that 1168 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if 1169 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf". 11708 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc, 1171 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu. 1172- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file. 1173 ":mkplugin <file>"? 11748 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that 1175 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from 1176 'runtimepath'. 1177 " Vim plugin 1178 <main plugin code> 1179 " >>> plugin help start <<< 1180 <plugin docs> 1181- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."? 11829 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or 1183 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty 1184 item?). 1185 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands. 11868 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems. 11877 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output? 1188 1189 1190Diff mode: 11918 Add a command to stop diff mode: ":set nodiff fdc = 0 noscrollbind" 11928 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file). 1193 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing: 1194 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis 11957 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also 1196 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same 1197 location. 1198 1199 1200Folding: 1201 (commands still available: zg zG zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zw zW zy zY; 1202 secondary: zB zS zT zZ) 12038 Add different highlighting for a fold line depending on the fold level. 1204 (Noel Henson) 12058 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the 1206 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the 1207 user aware of this? 12088 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which 1209 commands skip over a closed fold. 12108 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt) 12118 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB. 12127 When using 2html.vim, also reproduce folds as you can see them. When 1213 someone doesn't want the folds he can disable them before converting. 1214 First attempt by Carl Osterwisch, 2004 May 10. 12157 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds. 1216- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. Require showing a character in 1217 'foldcolumn' to avoid the missing line goes unnoticed. 1218- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll 1219 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds 1220 smoother? 1221- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list, 1222 using the wininfo in wi_folds. 1223- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects. 1224- Add 'hidecomment' option: don't display comments in /* */ and after //. 1225- "zu": undo change in manual fold. "zU" redo change in manual fold. How to 1226 implement this? 1227- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the 1228 cursor. 1229- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3": set fold level for a region. 1230- Can set 'foldtext' to empty string: don't display any line. How to 1231 implement this? 1232- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt) 1233- Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like 1234 searches. 1235 1236 1237Multi-byte characters: 12389 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the 1239 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal 1240 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single 1241 byte). 12428 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for 1243 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html. 1244 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like: 1245 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-" 1246 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first 1247 item. 12488 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for 1249 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"? 12508 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an 1251 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for 1252 ":grep". 12538 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search 1254 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka) 12557 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted, 1256 so that the user can fix the problem. 12578 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo 1258 Schweigert) 12599 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El) 12608 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters. 12618 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters. 12628 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes. 12638 "ga" should show all composing characters, also if there are more than 2. 12647 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored? 12658 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing. 12668 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes. 12678 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte 1268 characters. 12698 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters. 12708 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead 1271 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example. 12727 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead. 1273 'display' option to specify this. 12747 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default(): 1275 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c) 1276- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the 1277 fontselector somehow. 1278- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it 1279 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale. 1280- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for 1281 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong. 1282- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset, 1283 depending on the default value of 'encoding'. 1284 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used. 1285 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know 1286 if a font exists? 1287- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with 1288 convert_input() for Mac GUI, RiscOS GUI, BeOS GUI. 1289- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters. 1290 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_ 12917 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of 1292 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky) 1293- Make 'langmap' accept multi-byte characters. 1294- Do we need the reverse of 'keymap', like 'langmap' but with files and 1295 multi-byte characters? E.g., when using a Russian keyboard. 1296- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text 1297 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort 1298 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command? 1299- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into 1300 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it: 1301 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz 1302 But it's very complicated... 1303 1304 1305Printing: 1306- Add "page width" to wrap long lines. 1307- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for 1308 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function. 1309- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'. 1310- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer 1311 name, portrait/landscape, etc). 1312- PostScript: only works for 7-bit ASCII and EBCDIC. Should support 1313 different 'encoding' values somehow. 1314- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same 1315 units as for the margins. 1316- Support right-to-left text? 13178 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the 1318 color. 1319 1320 1321Syntax highlighting: 13228 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson) 1323 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual". 13248 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined 1325 cluster can be added to existing syntax items. 13268 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this: 1327 "({ something })", often used in GCC code. 13288 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing 1329 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for 1330 ":wq file". 13318 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script). 13329 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is 1333 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it... 13347 Make syntax keyword table configurable. Set number of bits used with 1335 ":syn clear [hashbits]", so that we don't need to reallocate the table. 1336 minimal 4 bits, maximal 16. (Campbell) 13377 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and 1338 Search highlighting. 13398 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to 1340 change this for each release. 13418 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end 1342 pattern, but not in the body. 13438 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this 1344 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item, 1345 instead of the containing item. 13468 For keywords, allow to define the size of the hash table with ":syn 1347 clear". Change KHASH_ defines into variables stored in buffer struct. 1348 Use something else than linear linked list from the hash table. (Campbell) 13498 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside (). 13508 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype 1351 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules? 1352 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, 1353 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax. 13548 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a 1355 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained] 13568 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey 1357 background) when on one of the parens or in between them. 1358 Or highlight the matching paren when the cursor is on one. 13598 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error". 13608 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop 1361 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be 1362 used. 13638 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will 1364 allow spell checking. (Fleiner) 13658 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And 1366 re-insert the [] if possible. 13678 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for 1368 the Cursor). 13698 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like 1370 using "\1" in a ":s" command. 13718 Support for deleting syntax items: 1372 :syn keyword cTodo remove this 1373 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern" 1374 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that" 13758 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way 1376 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for 1377 a '<'. (Fleiner) 13787 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification? 1379 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or 1380 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern. 13817 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be 1382 detected. 13838 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original 1384 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this). 13858 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to 1386 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible. 13878 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group. 13888 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values. 13897 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to 1390 ":mkvimrc". 13918 Improve c.vim: 1392 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on: 1393 "c_strict_ansi". 1394 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way... 13958 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the 1396 current line while in Insert mode. 13978 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been 1398 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again? 13998 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current 1400 display position. 14018 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to 1402 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern. 1403 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()". 14048 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until 1405 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when 1406 highlighting starts. 14077 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the 1408 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow. 1409 E.g. for this html: 1410 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I> 14117 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed 1412 (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"): 1413 :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display="" 14147 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is. 14157 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled 1416 words. 14177 Command line completion for ":find" should search in 'path'. 14188 Add more command line completion for :syntax. 14198 Add more command line completion for :highlight. 14208 Add more command line completion for :sign. 14217 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands. 1422 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and 1423 completion? 14248 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their 1425 highlighting. (Salman Halim) 14267 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to 1427 select one of the sets. 14288 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1 1429 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch 1430 2, etc. 14318 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the 1432 highlighting (for "." command). 14338 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /. 1434 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /? 14358 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing. 14367 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs": 1437 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c". 14386 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of 1439 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall) 1440- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful 1441 when extending an already existing syntax file. 1442- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too? 1443- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin 1444 (for comment blocks). 1445- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags: 1446 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor. 1447 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match. 1448 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match. 1449 Also for {}, <>, etc.? 1450 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?) 1451 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the 1452 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it. 1453 (Campbell) 1454 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around 1455 the cursor. (Iain Truskett) 14567 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword. 1457 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow). 14587 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should 1459 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set). 1460 And allows for sections with different highlighting. 14617 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it 1462 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from 1463 messages. And external commands? 14648 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for 1465 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim? 14667 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an 1467 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line. 1468 1469 1470Built-in script language: 14718 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and 1472 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings. 14738 Allow range for ":exec". Pass it on to the executed command. (Webb) 14748 exists("&&option") tests if 'option' is actually implemented. Useful for 1475 'shellslash', for example. 14768 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham) 14778 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When 1478 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an 1479 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same 1480 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle 1481 nested packages? 1482 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}(). 1483 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from 1484 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path). 14857 Make globpath() also work with "**" and upwards search. (Brian Medley) 14867 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode. 1487 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if 1488 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that 1489 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an 1490 autocommand. 1491 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a 1492 .vim file. Problem: distribution. 1493 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached 1494 file belongs to a sourced script? 14957 Add "n" flag to search() function, just like searchpair(). (Alexey 1496 Marinichev) 14977 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn', 1498 signs and/or 'number'. 14998 Add functions: 1500 sprintf(format, arg, ..) How to prevent a crash??? 1501 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx" 1502 mkdir(dir) Create directory 1503 copy(from, to) Copy a file 1504 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string 1505 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace() 1506 input(prompt, complete) like input() but do specified completion 1507 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left 1508 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in 1509 Visual block mode. 1510 tagtype(tag) get type of tag (also checks if it exists) 1511 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard) 1512 getbufline() get line from any buffer 1513 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer 1514 appendbufline() append line in any buffer 1515 sort() Sort a newline-separated string. Also: 1516 ":sort". 1517 libcall() Allow more than one argument. 1518 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function 1519 to allow the library to execute a command or 1520 evaluate an expression. 1521 char2hex() convert char string to hex string. XX 1522 hex2char() convert hex string to char string. XX 15237 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the 1524 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero. 15258 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was 1526 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file. 15278 Pass the executable name to the Vim scripts in some way. As v:argv0? 15288 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts. 15298 When starting to source a vim script, delete all functions that it has 1530 previously defined? Avoids using ":fun!" all the time. 15317 Add optional arguments to user functions: 1532 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17) 15336 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"? 15348 Add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var" just ignore. 15358 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable, 1536 option or environment variable. 15378 ":let &option" should list the value of the option. 15387 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the 1539 stack available (separated with '\n'). 15408 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed: 1541 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands} 15428 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started. 15438 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default), 1544 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0, 1545 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and 1546 charwise({expr}). 15477 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer 1548 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch 1549 buffer for this? 1550 result = scratch(string, command) 1551 result = apply(string, command) 1552 result = execute(string, command) 1553 "command" would use <> notation. 1554 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number? 15557 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds). 15567 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an 1557 option for the search path. (Sekera) 15587 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files. 1559 1560 1561Robustness: 15628 This pattern in syntax/java.vim causes a recursive call of regmatch(): 1563 syn match javaStringError +"\([^"\\]\|\\.\)*$+ 1564 A long line with a " in it can cause a crash when it runs out of stack 1565 space (on systems where this isn't caught). How can we catch this for 1566 more systems? 1567 1568 1569Performance: 15708 Loading plugins takes startup time. Only load the part that is used to 1571 trigger the rest, and load the rest when it's needed? 15728 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags. 15739 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster? 15748 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result? 15757 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when 1576 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start? 15778 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same 1578 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines 1579 when starting up in a color terminal. 15808 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on 1581 Win16. 15829 Setting GUI options in the console (e.g., 'guifont') should not cause a 1583 redraw. 15848 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this 1585 function be improved? 15868 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the 1587 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap 1588 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can 1589 this be improved? 15908 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up 1591 MS-DOS version. (Negri) 15927 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower when adding a region for folding 1593 from { to }. (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman) 15947 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying 1595 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang) 15967 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a 1597 lot of abbreviations). 15987 DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster. 15997 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file 1600 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line 1601 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>. 1602 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat. 1603 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place. 1604 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase. 1605 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc. 16068 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the 1607 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was 1608 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating 1609 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)? 16108 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to 1611 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid 1612 using strcmp() too often? 16137 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file? 1614 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating 1615 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a 1616 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another 1617 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from 1618 the two blocks to the memfile block. 16197 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory 1620 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called 1621 with an argument that can be messed with. 1622 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that 1623 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced. 16247 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)". 1625- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek() 16268 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in 1627 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim. 1628- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of 1629 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation? 1630- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki) 1631- Do profiling on: 1632 - :g/pat/normal cmd 1633 - 1000ii<Esc> 1634 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary) 1635 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan) 1636 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u". 1637 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and 1638 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl". 1639 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary. 1640 - editing a vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim). 16417 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were 1642 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it 1643 changed). 1644 - On each change, remember start and end of the change. 1645 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count. 1646- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest! 1647- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still 1648 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"? 1649- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to 1650 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from 1651 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg(). 1652- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of 1653 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing). 1654- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height. 1655- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if 1656 cursor is right of the screen. 16578 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a 1658 CTRL-C (it's slow). 1659 1660 1661Code size: 16628 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded. 1663- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be 1664 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions. 16658 Make a GUI-only version for Unix? 16668 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using 1667 it. 16687 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be 1669 left out. 16708 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals 1671 can be removed. 16728 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed? 1673 1674 1675Messages: 16768 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the 1677 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!". 16788 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip 1679 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()? 16808 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a 1681 script. 16828 "vim --version" output goes to stderr, should be stdout. Can all output 1683 from messages using printf() go to stdout? 1684- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key. 1685 Perhaps after ten seconds? 1686- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9. 16879 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays: 1688 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop. 1689 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long 1690 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before 1691 redrawing. 16927 Add an option, which is a regexp, that disables warning messages which 1693 match that regexp (Tsirkin). 16948 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more 1695 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text. 16968 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another 1697 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option 1698 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off". 1699 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts 1700 typing, error messages must be switched back on. 1701 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings). 1702- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed? 1703 sleep before second message? 17048 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is 1705 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers", 1706 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the 1707 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall) 1708 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and 1709 error messages, printing text, etc. 17108 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt. 1711 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when 1712 a prompt is present (with a callback function?). 1713 1714 1715Screen updating: 17167 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one 1717 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the 1718 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit). 1719- screen_line(): 1720 - insert/delete character stuff. 1721 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line). 1722- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when 1723 dragging the status line with the mouse). 1724- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when 1725 waiting for a character. 17268 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from 1727 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when 1728 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping. 17297 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together. 1730 1731 1732Scrolling: 17338 Add "zm" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle. 17346 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi) 1735- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc.. 1736 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound 1737 windows. 17387 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next 1739 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it 1740 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer. 1741- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it 1742 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this? 1743 (Goldfarb) 1744- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all 1745 bound windows. 1746- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to 1747 be bound by regexp searches 1748- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenfull. (Campbell) 1749- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the 1750 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number 1751 of lines but not with a single line). 1752 1753 1754Autoconf: 17558 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader. 17568 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb) 1757 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically? 1758- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the 1759 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner). 1760- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4(). 1761- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it? 1762- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf. 1763 1764 1765Perl interface: 17668 Rename typemap file to something else? 17677 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark) 17687 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C? 17696 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll). 1770 1771 1772Shared libraries: 17736 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it. 1774 :libload internal-name libname 1775 :libunload internal-name 1776 :liblist 1777 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...) 1778 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...) 1779 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment. 17806 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries. 1781 1782 1783Tags: 17848 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify 1785 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m". 17868 Add a function that returns the line in the tags file for a matching tag. 1787 Can be used to extract more info (class name, inheritance, etc.) (Rico 1788 Hendriks) 17897 Count before CTRL-]: jump to N'th match 17908 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis. 17918 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able 1792 to type the tag number directly. 17937 Add a tag-select window. Works like ":cwindow". (Michal Malecki) 17947 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a 1795 window for each tag. 17967 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting? 17977 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit 1798 bottom" search message. 17997 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry, 1800 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were 1801 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb) 18027 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and 1803 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod". 1804 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func" 1805 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx. 18067 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields: 1807 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c 1808 :tagargs clear 1809 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag 1810 matching). 18117 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command? 1812 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi. 1813 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi) 1814 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way. 18157 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With 1816 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again. 18177 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use 1818 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add 1819 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect". 1820 1821 1822Security: 1823- nothing at the moment 1824 1825 1826Win32 GUI: 18278 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for 1828 the message and input? 18297 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at 1830 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 1831 dynamically? 18327 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu. 1833 (Mike McCollister) 18348 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several 1835 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't 1836 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all 1837 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest 1838 common part of the path. 18398 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik) 18408 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that 1841 gettext and menus work. 18428 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit 1843 return in every console. 1844 Also: Look at how Emacs does runs external commands: 1845 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html. 18468 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands: 1847 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text). 18488 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF. 1849 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands? 18507 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme. 1851 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser) 18527 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog). 18537 <Esc> should close a dialog. 18547 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be 1855 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended 1856 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any 1857 prompts. 18587 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that 1859 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have 1860 the file added into an already running Vim. 18617 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide 1862 functions to find the window title. 1863 1864 1865GUI: 18668 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS. 1867- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a 1868 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier. 18697 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows. 18708 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI. 18716 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu. 18728 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When 1873 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position. 18749 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze) 18757 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype? 18768 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the 1877 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide". 18788 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text 1879 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine 1880 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated. 18818 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim) 1882 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front. 18838 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more 1884 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c. 1885 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow 1886 running them in separate processes. 18877 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument. 18888 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask 1889 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code. 18907 Add some code to handle proportional fonts? Need to draw each character 1891 separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font is not exactly 1892 double-width. (Maeda) 18938 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default). 18948 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to 1895 select one. Martin Dalecki has a font selector for Motif, but it needs a 1896 bit more work. 18978 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.). 18988 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all? 18998 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a 1900 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this 1901 portable (X11, Win32, ..)? 19027 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items. 1903 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The 1904 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything. 19057 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back. 1906 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim). 19077 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can 1908 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors. 1909 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For 1910 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs. 19117 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the 1912 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas) 19137 Should support multi-column menus. 1914- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far 1915 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right). 1916- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode". 19178 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus. 19186 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a 1919 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui". 19207 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'? 19217 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos', 1922 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>. 1923 Or add a command, like ":winsize"? 19247 Add toolbar for more GUIs. 19258 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item 1926 name can be chosen free. 19277 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of 1928 the window? Allows for softkey-like use. 19296 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the 1930 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a 1931 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is 1932 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to 1933 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks 1934 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI 1935 things. 19367 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default 1937 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog. 1938- Motif steals <F10> from us, to pop up menus with the keyboard. How do we 1939 get it back if we want it? 1940- Paste in Insert mode should not do autowrap etc. Or maybe this should be 1941 changeable with an option? 1942- Put a nice picture in the icon (but how do we do that?). 19437 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks 1944 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated. 1945- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal 1946 where it was started from? 19477 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument. 1948 1949 1950VMS: 1951- Improvement: rewrite term/TTY handling. 1952- Improvement: create VMS GTK runtime libraries on OpenVMS 7.1-2 (today GTK 1953 works just on 7.3). 1954 1955 1956Autocommands: 19579 Make sure that side effects of autocommands are handled correctly. Don't 1958 execute autocommands when a buffer or window is halfway some changes. 1959 Move all apply_autocmds() calls to a higher level where needed. 19608 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g. 1961 "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc". 19628 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two 1963 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more 1964 difficult). 19658 Also trigger CursorHold in Insert mode? 19667 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that user 1967 can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the kind 1968 of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient? 19698 Can't use ":normal" in CursorHold autocommands. Make the CursorHold event 1970 insert a special key code, and call the autocommand functions from a 1971 higher level, so that vgetc() isn't used recursively. 19728 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist? 1973 And anything else? 19748 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input 1975 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus). 1976 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ... 19778 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc". 19788 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag. 1979 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found. 19806 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be 1981 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron) 19827 Add a way to skip an autocommand if going from one *.c file to another *.c 1983 file. 19847 When trying to open a directory, don't load the file but trigger an 1985 autocommand event OpenDirectory. 19867 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link, 1987 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate 1988 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type 1989 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard) 19905 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the 1991 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will 1992 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas) 19937 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for 1994 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the 1995 file. 19968 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at 1997 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read 1998 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'. 1999- Add events to autocommands: 2000 Error - When an error happens 2001 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode 2002 InsertEnter - Entering Insert mode 2003 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode 2004 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode 2005 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode 2006 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands. 2007 *Leave - Leaving the mode 2008 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M") 2009 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged 2010 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the 2011 window title) 2012 BufReadAction - replaces reading a file 2013 BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file 2014 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down 2015 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the 2016 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor. 2017 Set v:char to the character, can be changed. 2018 (not triggered when 'paste' is set). 2019 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting 2020 the char. 2021 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for 2022 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the 2023 file from CVS). 2024 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be 2025 used to do a :preserve for remote files. 2026 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate 2027 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so 2028 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add 2029 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah) 2030 WinResized - When a window has been resized 2031- Add autocommand to be executed every so many seconds? For writing the 2032 file now and then ('autosave'). 2033 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'* 2034 'autosave' 'aw' number (default 0) 2035 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the 2036 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set. 2037 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer. 2038 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make 2039 them save the file itself besides the swapfile. 2040 2041 2042Insert mode completion/expansion: 20438 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete 2044 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages. 20459 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with 2046 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended. 2047 (Webb) 20488 The code has become too complex. Redesign it, or at least add proper 2049 comments. 20508 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion: 2051 - ignore/match case 2052 - different characters than 'iskeyword' 20538 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text. 20548 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive 2055 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of 2056 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo. 2057 Should work for C++ and Java. 2058 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc. 20597 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?). 20607 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS 2061 instead of words. 20628 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents. 20638 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does). 2064 Requires remembering a number of insertions. 20658 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names. 2066 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion. 2067- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the 2068 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use 2069 wildcards in the file name)? 2070- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted). 2071- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?). 2072- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could 2073 be in another file). 2074- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches. 2075- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option? 2076- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string 2077 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W) 2078- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions. 2079- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows? 2080- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly) 20818 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that 2082 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb) 2083 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-]. 2084 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'. 2085- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list). 2086 2087 2088Command line editing: 20897 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command 2090 line. 20918 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion 2092 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of 2093 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc. 2094- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of 2095 lines wraps to start of line). 2096- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view 2097 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many 2098 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run 2099 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012). 2100 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history. 2101 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the 2102 cmdwin does now already. 2103 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal 2104 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T? 2105 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the 2106 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid 2107 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines? 2108 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate 2109 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode 2110 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh. 2111 Problems: 2112 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar' 2113 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations 2114 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches 2115 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands 2116 - Normal: no ":" commands? 2117 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line. 2118 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of 2119 character in first column? 2120 - Implementation ideas: 2121 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer. 2122 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum. 2123 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line. 2124 - sync undo after entering a command line? 2125 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line 2126 Mode. 2127 2128 2129Command line completion: 21308 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument. 21318 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate 2132 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h". 21338 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list 2134 them with the optional part inside []. 21357 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be 2136 edited. (Sven Guckes) 21377 Add completion for when entering an expression after CTRL-R= and "=. 2138 (Servatius Brandt) 2139- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible. 2140- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the 2141 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>". 21428 For ":find" and ":sfind" expand files found in 'path'. 21438 Add cmdline completion for the ":debug" command. 21448 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting 2145 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp? 21467 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the 2147 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb) 2148- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching 2149 identifiers (Webb). 21508 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>" 2151 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit. 21527 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion. 2153 Useful for ":s/word/xx/". 2154- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started. 2155 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line. 2156- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for 2157 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut) 2158 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D. 2159- Add completion for Environment variables: ":echo $SH<Tab>" -> "$SHELL". 2160 2161 2162Command line history: 2163- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a 2164 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a 2165 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't 2166 completely resulted from one mapping. 2167- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history, 2168 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel) 2169 2170 2171Insert mode: 21728 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command 2173 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink) 2174 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do 2175 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing. 2176 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode. 21777 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a 2178 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y. 21797 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it 2180 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'. 2181- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed 2182 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and 2183 also for characters that wrap to the next line. 2184 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register). 2185 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that 2186 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>. 2187- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in 2188 Normal mode. 2189- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their 2190 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands 2191 are used. 2192- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits. 2193- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b. 2194- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y. 2195 2196 2197'cindent', 'smartindent': 21988 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with line break in arguments: 2199 Foo::Foo (int one, 2200 int two) 2201 : something(4) 2202 {} 22038 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with multiple lines: 2204 Foo::Foo (int one, int two) 2205 : something(4), 2206 somethingelse(3) 2207 {} 22089 Too much indent for "lulu": (Uwe Zeisberger) 2209 int main () 2210 { 2211 if (lala) 2212 do 2213 ++(*lolo); 2214 while (lili 2215 && lele); 2216 lulu; 2217 } 22189 Function gets extra indent: (Jamax) 2219 void function(int param) { 2220 if (false) 2221 return; 2222 } 22239 brace not indented correctly: 2224 case 'c': if (cond) 2225 { 2226 Should align with "if" in case statement. 22277 Allow aligning a closing ")" with the line above, instead of the matching 2228 "(": (Riehm) if (asdfasdf && 2229 asdf 2230 ) 22318 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is 2232 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer) 22338 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna) 2234 func( 2235 new String[] { 2236 "asdf", 2237 "asdf" 2238 } 2239 ); 22407 Separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner): 2241 func( 2242 int x) // indent like "(4" 2243 { 2244 if (a 2245 && b) // indent like "(0" 22468 Strange problem with this code, "hello" is indented wrong: (Gary Holloway) 2247 main() { char foo[] = "/*"; 2248 /* This is a comment; the indentation of C 2249 * source below this comment gets messed up due to the string above. 2250 */ 2251 hello 22529 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler) 2253 if (a) 2254 { 2255 if (b) 2256 { 2257 // { 2258 } 2259 } <-- this is indented incorrect 22609 Wrong indent for cino=(4, removing the (void) fixes it: (Zellner) 2261 (void) MyFancyFunction( 2262 argument); 2263- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the 2264 indent to 0 should be switched on/off. 22657 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line. 2266- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first 2267 line). 2268- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}? 2269- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous 2270 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically? 22717 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines. 2272- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It 2273 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb) 2274- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out 2275 code), unless the line starts with "*". 2276- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"? 2277- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line 2278 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted). 22798 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the 2280 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more 2281 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment. 2282- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'. 2283- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where 2284 lines start with "\item". 2285- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown) 2286 /* here is a comment that 2287 is just autoindented, and 2288 nothing else */ 2289- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi". 22907 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for 2291 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the 2292 indents. 2293 And/or: Add option to copy indent as-is, without changing spaces to tabs. 2294 also for 'autoindent'. 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and 2295 spaces used for indent, when the indent remains the same or increases. 2296 2297 2298Java: 22998 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve 2300 Odendahl? 23018 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for 2302 "[i" commands and friends. 2303- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java. 2304 (Jason) 2305- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be 2306 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy) 2307 2308 2309'comments': 23108 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated 2311 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping. 2312 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader 2313 when it's "#" or "//". 23147 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line. 2315 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed. 23167 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item. 23176 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more 2318 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a 2319 regexp is used. 23208 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line 2321 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'? 2322 2323 2324Virtual edit: 23258 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left. 23267 Add a mode where the cursor is only allowed to go one character after the 2327 end of the line? 23287 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line? 2329 2330 2331Text objects: 23328 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc. 23337 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it 2334 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area. 23358 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single 2336 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at 2337 the end of the line or before a ".". 23387 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs" 2339 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus) 23407 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph 2341 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}"). 23426 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email. 23435 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For 2344 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one. 2345 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the 2346 cursor is on. 2347 2348 2349Select mode: 23508 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block, 2351 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall) 23527 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word. 2353 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743 23547 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line. 2355 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse' 2356 contains 'C' or 'A'. 2357 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in 2358 normal_cmd(). 2359 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info. 2360 - Typing text replaces the selection. 2361 2362 2363Visual mode: 2364- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero, 2365 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer 2366 is in the top line. 23678 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new 2368 text. make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding 2369 where needed. 23707 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width, 2371 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc. 23727 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start 2373 of each selected line. 23748 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode? 23758 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer. 2376 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any 2377 other buffer. (Ron Aaron) 23788 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron, 2379 Ben Godfrey) 23807 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and 2381 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey) 23827 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of 2383 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area. 23847 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David 2385 Young is working on this) 23867 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines. 2387 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with 2388 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line. 23898 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text? 2390 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful. 23917 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should 2392 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an 2393 option! 23947 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position 2395 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select 2396 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen 2397 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap. 2398 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to 2399 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line, 2400 without changing the column. 24016 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode. 24027 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the 2403 current buffer. 24047 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area. 24056 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line, 2406 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1. 24076 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line. 24086 ":'<,'>source" should read the selected lines and ":source" them. 24096 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed 2410 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB 2411 or other special character. 24126 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting. 2413 2414 2415More advanced repeating commands: 2416- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt"). 24177 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember 2418 the command line so that it can be repeated? 2419- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g. 2420 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb). 2421 "y." will repeat last yank. 2422 "c2." will repeat the last but one change? 2423 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history 2424 and/or pick an older command. 2425- History stack for . command? Use "g." command. 2426 2427 2428Mappings and Abbreviations: 24298 Let ":verbose map xx" report where the mapping was set, just like with 2430 ":verbose set". 24318 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be 2432 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell) 2433 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command? 24348 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work? 24357 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte". 2436 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway? 24378 ":verbose map" could show the script where the mapping was defined. 2438 m_script_ID can be used. 24398 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the 2440 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&. 24418 Add ":amap", like ":amenu". 24428 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to 2443 entering search strings. 24448 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the 2445 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and 2446 not the <Space>. 24478 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS). 24488 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never 2449 (?) work. 24507 ":verbose map" should display where a mapping was defined, like ":verbose 2451 set". 24528 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function 2453 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is 2454 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings? 24557 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation? 24567 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q", 2457 that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger' 2458 option. 24597 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try 2460 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy". 24617 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character 2462 (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for 2463 mapping a key to do something and then completion. 24647 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard. 24656 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the 2466 abbreviations are to be used. 2467- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For 2468 example, for a mouse escape sequence: 2469 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l 2470- Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping. 2471- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in 2472 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings 2473 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording? 2474- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a 2475 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r". 2476- Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in 2477 <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this? 2478- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings 2479 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does). 2480- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and 2481 mappings off for :unab and :unmap. 24826 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete 2483 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids 2484 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you 2485 hit another character. 2486- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings: 2487 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G 2488 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l 2489 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g 2490 Or implicit: 2491 :map q <Register>d<Number>$ 2492- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for 2493 non-replace Insert mode? 2494- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode? 24956 Alias for Normal mode commands, works like :substitute? Would allow 2496 mappings with arguments. 2497- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings. 2498- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key 2499 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself. 2500- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as 2501 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command? 2502- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they 2503 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>. 2504- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap. 2505- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping 2506 ":freekeys". 2507- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm). 2508 2509 2510Incsearch: 2511- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'? 2512- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn 2513 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled 2514 up every time. 2515- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the 2516 folds when going to another line. 2517- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many 2518 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?) 2519 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match 2520 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872. 2521- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other 2522 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid). 2523 2524 2525Searching: 25268 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\(([^()]*\@@[^()]*)\)\@r". \@@ stands 2527 for "go recursive here" and \@r marks the recursive atom. 2528item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on 2529 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of 2530 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"? 2531 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)* 25327 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for 2533 search(). (Brett) 25347 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's 2535 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference. 25368 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in 2537 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax? 25388 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current 2539 line. 25407 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an 2541 example. 25428 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in 2543 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif. 2544- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that 2545 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */). 2546 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back. 2547 Alternative: use matchit.vim 25488 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care? 25498 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that 2550 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it. 2551 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$". 25527 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and 2553 "\d". 25547 Add a way to specify characters as hex, octal or <C-M> form. Could be 2555 \%1ax, \%200o and \%<C-M>. Also \%1234u for multi-byte chars. 25568 Flags that apply to the whole pattern. 2557 This works for all places where a regexp is used. 2558 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern? 25598 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example, 2560 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line. 25618 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g" 2562 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command. 2563 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing 2564 search pattern. 2565- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group. 2566 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group. 2567- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade) 2568 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one. 2569 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's 2570 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities. 25717 Add POSIX regexp, like Nvi, with 'extended' option? It's like very-magic. 2572- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it. 2573 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling) 2574- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?): 2575 i ignore case 2576 I use case 2577 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?) 2578 v use Vi regexp syntax 2579 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command 2580 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command 2581 Perl uses these too: 2582 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only) 2583 m multiple line expression (we don't need it) 2584 o compile only once (Perl only) 2585 s single line expression (we don't need it) 2586 x extended regexp (we don't need it) 2587 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the 2588 following command. 2589 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault'). 2590- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used 2591 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/ 2592 for search string)? 25937 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special 2594 characters. See C't article, August 1997. 2595- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are 2596 equivalent (for Unix filenames). 2597- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text 2598 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin) 2599- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this". 2600- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer, 2601 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern: 2602 a for the next file in the argument list 2603 f for file in the buffer list 2604 w for file edited in a window. 2605 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for 2606 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask 2607 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No 2608 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ". 2609- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler) 2610- Special characters in patterns: 2611 Inside []: 2612 \012 octal character 2613 \0x1a hex character 2614 \0<BS> \0<Esc>: special character 26157 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search 2616 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark. 26177 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after 2618 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe 2619 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in 2620 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always). 26216 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side 2622 effects. 26237 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete 2624 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc. 2625 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary. 26267 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) 2627 Also ":dselect". 2628 2629 2630Undo: 2631- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not 2632 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a", 2633 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted? 26348 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo 2635 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new 2636 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing. 2637 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things. 26388 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change, 2639 only remember the lines that really changed. 26407 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous 2641 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a 2642 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need 2643 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone. 26447 Add an undo tree: When making a change, instead of clearing any future 2645 undo (thus redo) info, make a new branch. How to navigate through the 2646 undo tree? 2647- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and ']. 2648 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb). 2649- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the 2650 number of undo levels (with confirmation). 2651- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123]. 2652 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number: 2653 [-99]. 2654- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating. 2655- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once. 2656- Store undo info in a file that survives until the next edit. Then it's 2657 possible to undo to before the current editing session. Combined with 2658 viminfo? 2659- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed, 2660 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file?? 2661 2662 2663Buffer list: 26647 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}". 2665 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that 2666 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the 2667 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only". 26688 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files. 2669 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim. 26708 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check 2671 inode too. 26727 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When 2673 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use. (or the highest 2674 number in use plus one?) 26757 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and 2676 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann) 2677- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the 2678 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb) 2679- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the 2680 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"? 26817 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list. 2682 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson) 26837 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer 2684 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc. 26858 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected. 26868 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$' 2687 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel". 26887 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for 2689 internal use and for when executing an external program? 2690 2691 2692Swap (.swp) files: 26938 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another 2694 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when 2695 there are short file name problems. 26968 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap 2697 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions. 26988 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su. 26998 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same 2700 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file 2701 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup 2702 file the same as the actual file? 2703 Use the code for resolve()? 27047 Store the options 'fileencoding', 'fileformat', etc. in the swapfile, 2705 because they change what will be written to the file. Requires adding 2706 another block to the swapfile. 27077 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another 2708 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible. 27097 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere 2710 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'? 2711 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not 2712 enough room. 27137 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp 2714 or /var/preserve. 2715- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to 2716 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only. 2717- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen). 2718 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'? 2719- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the 2720 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do 2721 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a 2722 cached list of which line is where. 2723 2724 2725Viminfo: 27267 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file, 2727 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone 2728 else's viminfo file. 27298 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file 2730 name. (Schild) 27318 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu). 27328 Remember the last used register for "@@". 27338 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the 2734 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so. 2735 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display 2736 this? 27377 Also store the ". register (last inserted text). 27387 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some 2739 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron) 27406 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting 2741 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the 2742 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code? 2743- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of 2744 "last visited files" and select one to jump to. 2745 2746 2747Modelines: 27488 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid 2749 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it. 2750 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ". 2751- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to 2752 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the 2753 modeline setting. 2754- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings, 2755 no function calls, to avoid a security problem. 2756- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for 2757 .cpp files. 2758- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for 2759 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak. 2760- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed 2761 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir. 2762 2763 2764Options: 27658 Make ":mksession" store buffer-specific options for the specific buffer. 27668 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when 2767 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant) 27687 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only 2769 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the 2770 side effect. 27718 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to 2772 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their 2773 default value. 27748 Should ":mksession" restore the current directory when writing the 2775 session, or the directory where the session file is? Probably need a word 2776 in 'sessionoptions' to make a choice: 2777 "curdir" (cd to current directory when session file was generated) 2778 "sessiondir" (cd to directory of session file) 2779 "nodir" (don't cd at all) 27808 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string 2781 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should 2782 also be supported. 27838 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag 2784 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting 2785 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used. 27867 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas) 27877 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the 2788 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway) 27897 Add plugins for formatting. Should be able to make a choice depending on 2790 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.). 2791 2792 2793External commands: 27948 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen 2795 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd". 27964 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls" 2797 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g. 2798 -f). 27994 Allow direct execution, without using a shell. 28004 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI? 2801 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell! 28024 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands. 2803 2804 2805Multiple Windows: 28067 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits. 28078 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window. 2808 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window. 28097 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab> 2810 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to 2811 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer. 28127 Add a 'winfixwidth' option, similar to 'winfixheight'. 28136 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window. 2814 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new 2815 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would 2816 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel) 28177 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows 2818 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with 2819 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE 2820 too. Requires some form of inter process communication. 2821- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer 2822 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command. 2823 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer 2824 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made. 2825 2826 2827Marks: 28288 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this 2829 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-. 28308 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m? 28318 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times. 2832 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file. 28338 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle 2834 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when 2835 the mark was set. 28367 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers, 2837 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands 2838 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with 2839 ":browse marks"? 28406 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige) 28417 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the 2842 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark. 28437 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group). 2844 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does. 28457 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m 2846 command). 28477 Try to keep marks in the same position when: 2848 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the 2849 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo) 2850 - inserting/deleting characters in a line. 28515 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in 2852 mappings. 28536 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and 2854 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines. 2855 Highlight the marked lines somehow. 2856 2857 2858Digraphs: 28597 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists. 2860 Also the keymap? 2861- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line 2862 below/above). 2863- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special 2864 characters? 28658 Add command to remove (all) digraphs. (Brown) 28667 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At 2867 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32). 2868 2869 2870Writing files: 2871- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for 2872 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to 2873 shortname conversion. 28748 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc. 28758 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode' 2876 file. 28778 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some 2878 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another 2879 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'? 28807 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make 2881 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski) 28826 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like 2883 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'. 28846 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory. 2885 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas) 28866 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#". 2887 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name? 28888 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids 2889 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman) 28907 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations 2891 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition). 28927 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more 2893 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is 2894 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before 2895 waiting for a character to be typed). 28968 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status 2897 line of the window, like "[time]". 2898 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes. 2899 Automatic and/or with a command. 2900 2901 2902Substitute: 29038 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.: 2904 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w". 2905- :s///p prints the line after a substitution. 2906- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern. 29078 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective. 2908 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys. 2909- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or: 2910 :s///N substitutes N times. 2911- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.: 2912 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do 2913 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution. 29147 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex 2915 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the 2916 last line column 5. 29175 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks, 2918 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the 2919 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands. 2920 (Stanislav Sitar) 2921 2922 2923Mouse support: 29248 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'? 29257 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu. 29268 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic 2927 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you 2928 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar) 29297 Checkout sysmouse() for FreeBSD console mouse support. 2930- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console. 2931- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to 2932 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners). 2933- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!? 2934- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to. 2935 2936 2937Crypt and security: 29388 Also crypt the swapfile, each block separately. Change mf_write() and 2939 mf_read(). How to get b_p_key to these functions? 2940 2941 2942Argument list: 29436 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list. 2944 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches 2945 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match. 29466 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers? 2947 2948 2949Registers: 29508 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne) 29518 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping 2952 around in windows. 29538 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for 2954 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r" 2955 for every line. 29566 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the 2957 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What 2958 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.? 2959- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of 2960 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more". 2961- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment 2962 leader when line wraps? 2963- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each 2964 line in the range. 2965- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text 2966 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo") 29678 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register. 2968 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)? 2969 2970 2971Debug mode: 29727 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received. 29738 Add breakpoints for setting an option 29748 Add breakpoits for assigning to a variable. 29757 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution 2976 when evaluating to non-zero. 29777 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo. 29787 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al. 2979 2980 2981Various improvements: 29828 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename 2983 the buffer. Buffer may be modified. 29846 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of 2985 errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c". 29866 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5) 29877 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>. 2988 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"? 2989 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command. 29907 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a 2991 window as a buffer-tab selection. 29927 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want 2993 to manipulate text without changing the window layout. 29948 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until 2995 all changes are gone. 29967 Add a ":cpfile", go in the other direction as ":cnfile". 29976 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri) 29988 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim. 2999 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim. 3000 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it 3001 in this Vim. 30028 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as 3003 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"? 30048 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes 3005 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and 3006 have it apply to the following command. 30078 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other 3008 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the 3009 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up. 3010 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'? 30117 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a 3012 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files. 30137 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>, 3014 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize 3015 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key 3016 without modifier (unless mapped). 30178 Add ":breakdel *": delete all breakpoints. 30187 Support ":browse edit" in console, using explorer.vim? 30196 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line. 30208 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map". 30219 Support ACLs on more systems. 30227 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be 3023 highlighted differently. 30248 Allow using "**" as a wildcard in commands like ":next" and ":args". 30258 Provide a way to avoid wildcard expansion. Use double quotes, like in the 3026 shell? :edit "my[file].txt" (currently works if there is no "myf.txt") 30277 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above 3028 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message 3029 (truncated to fit in the space). 30307 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner) 30318 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout) 30328 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise 3033 Visual mode. 30347 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use 3035 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV. 30367 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping 3037 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0". 30387 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name. 30397 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently. 30407 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines? 30418 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney) 30428 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in 3043 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for 3044 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef 3045 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do? 30468 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down. 30476 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain 3048 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron) 30498 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists. 30508 Use confirm/dialog stuff to ask the user, when a file has changed outside 3051 of Vim, if he wants to reload it. Triggered when focus gained, after 3052 shell command, when entering another buffer, etc.. 3053 Also do this when editing a new file, and another application creates 3054 the file before doing ":w" in Vim. 3055 Also check if the file protection has changed. When checking a file into 3056 RCS it is made read-only, when checking out it is made read-write. 30578 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file 3058 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would 3059 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist 3060 does something like this. (Shah) 30617 Use growarray for replace stack. 30627 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution 3063 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis). 30643 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"? 30658 Make "more" prompt accept command characters, like "hit-enter" prompt? 3066 Or extend it with more commands, like "less": 'b' for back, 'j' for one 3067 line down, etc. 30688 For the "--more--" prompt, support the 'b'ack command for more commands. 3069 Possible implementation: Do it at a very low level, caching the lines that 3070 are on the screen (with highlight attributes). Avoids that changes have 3071 to be made for all functions that list something. 30727 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same 3073 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers? 3074- Keep a list of most recently used files for each window, use "[o" to go 3075 back (older file) and "]n" to go forward (newer file) (like ^O and ^I for 3076 jumps) (Webb). Use ":files" and ":ls" to list the files in history order. 30777 Add a history of recently accessed buffer. Maybe make "2 CTRL-^" jump to 3078 the 2nd previously visited buffer, "3 CTRL-^" to the third, etc. Or use 3079 "3 g CTRL-^" for this? 3080- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode. 3081- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file. 3082- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c 3083- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window. 30847 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive 3085 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used. 3086- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home 3087 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc. 3088- Remove mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this. 3089- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set, 3090 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert) 3091- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to 3092 call "play newbeep.au"). 3093- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or 3094 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function. 3095 (Bhatt). 3096- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for 3097 blockwise registers). 3098- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the 3099 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt). 3100- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps 3101 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed, 3102 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't 3103 noticeable. 31049 When using ":w <fname>" it's possible that this file is loaded in another 3105 buffer. Give a warning right away, don't wait for a shell command. 3106- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb). 31077 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters. 3108 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code. 3109- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs 3110 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between 3111 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent 3112 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new 3113 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change. 31148 Add 'formatexpr' option: Used for formatting operator "gq" instead of the 3115 builtin formatting or 'formatprg'. 31168 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the 3117 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for 3118 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a 3119 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line). 3120 ":set autoformat=\\s$". 3121- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern? 31227 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the 3123 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt) 3124- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is 3125 not in column 1. 31266 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a 3127 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext". 31287 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined? 3129- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator? 31308 findmatchlimit() should be able to skip comments. Solves problem of 3131 matching the '{' in /* if (foo) { */ (Fiveash) 3132- Add more redirecting of Ex commands: 3133 :redir @> register (append) 3134 :redir # bufname 3135 :redir #> bufname (append) 3136 :redir = variable 3137 :redir => variable (append) 3138- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with 3139 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set". 3140 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit". 31416 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32 3142 console? (Klaus Hast) 3143- Add :delcr command: 3144 *:delcr* 3145 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines 3146 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is 3147 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range]. 3148 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If 3149 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all 3150 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi} 3151- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat(). 3152- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta 3153 characters from 'isprint'. 3154- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName(). 3155- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area. 3156 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn. 3157- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but 3158 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More 3159 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion. 3160- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()). 3161- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like 3162 Nvi). 3163- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the 3164 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define. 31657 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position. 3166- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that 3167 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'? 31686 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file. 3169- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the 3170 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13 3171 macro). 3172- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files. 3173- Add command like ":ts" that shows the output of "[I" and asks for a match 3174 to jump to. (Zellner) 3175- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also 3176 expanded. Is there a better way to do this? 3177- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source". 31788 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set. 3179- Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null". 3180- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty. 3181- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible! 3182- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down 3183 if it is not the first or last window. 3184- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if 3185 there is one) instead of the file itself. 31867 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example: 3187 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0 3188 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files. 3189- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion. 3190- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as 3191 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so 3192 many percent down the windows). 3193- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the 3194 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the 3195 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'. 3196- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g. 3197 'dictionary' when it is "*.h". 3198- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to 3199 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit). 3200- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent) 3201- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends. 3202- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the 3203 passwd file? (Antwerpen) 3204- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack. 3205- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush". 32068 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw", 3207 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is 3208 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack? 3209 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when 3210 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping? 3211- Use a builtin grep command for ":grep"? Makes it possible to add the 3212 column number. Can use the code of ":helpgrep". 3213 Also support using "**" in filename, so that a directory tree can be 3214 searched. 3215- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time 3216 t_bs is set? (Webb) 3217- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also 3218 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert). 3219- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline (Demirel). Store 3220 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window 3221 (Webb). 3222- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the 3223 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al. 3224- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering 3225 hex codes like 0xff). 3226- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command 3227 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo 3228 the last TYPED command. 3229- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf". 3230- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows. 3231- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/" 3232 should also work? 3233- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL? 32348 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file 3235 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine 3236 name. 3237- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a 3238 trailing '.'. 3239- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a 3240 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use 3241 find_file_in_path(). 3242- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between 3243 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon). 3244- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion. 3245- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a 3246 form usable by Vim on the current machine. 3247- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have 3248 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags. 3249- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one 3250 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains 3251 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline. 3252- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine 3253 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz) 3254- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments. 3255- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt) 3256- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back 3257 to the minimal size. 3258- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */). 3259- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline(). 3260- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb). 3261- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file. 3262- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers. 3263- Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw'). 3264- Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line: 3265 "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ??? 3266- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line 3267 entered)? 3268- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible 3269 as an output filter. 3270- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this. 3271- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line. 3272- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file. 3273- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc. 3274- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char. 3275- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long 3276 lines. 3277- Uppercase characters in ex commands can be made lowercase? 32788 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"), 3279 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option 3280 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex 3281 or in octal. 32827 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more 3283 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument? 3284- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source. 3285 After ":w !command" a wait_return? 3286- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()). 3287- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without 3288 insert line command). 3289- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it. 3290- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals. 3291- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000). 3292- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying. 3293- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace 3294 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>. 3295- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work 3296 yet. 3297- Implement 'redraw' option. 3298- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or 3299 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right). 3300- Add 'indent' option: Always use this amount of indent when starting a new 3301 line and when formatting text. 3302- Use pipes for filtering on Unix. Requires using fork() to be able to read 3303 and write at the same time, or some select() mechanism. 33047 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs 3305 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin. 33068 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can 3307 do it. 3308- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to. 3309- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts, 3310 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list. 3311- Add text justification option. 3312- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on". 3313- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is 3314 off". 3315- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR. 3316- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message. 3317- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but 3318 gives read errors. Check protection before opening. 3319- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied". 3320- If file does not exists, check if directory exists. 3321- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor. 3322- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex 3323 commands. 3324- ":set -w all": list one option per line. 3325- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file. 3326- :table command (Webb) 3327- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ". 3328- Make it possible for a user to define a new operator. Implementation with 3329 internal scripting language or Perl? 3330- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?). 3331- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb). 3332- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files. 3333- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel). 3334- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited 3335 (Demirel). 3336- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc. 3337- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore", 3338 for use in macro's and the like. 3339- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while 3340 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window? 3341- Add possibility to put output of ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for 3342 ":set all". ":r :set all"? 3343- 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really 3344 read-only mode). 3345- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not 3346 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in 3347 a window to become smaller (Webb). 3348- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized 3349 proportionally (Webb). 3350- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use 3351 mkopttab to make option table? 3352- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current 3353 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)? 3354- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster 3355 (Haritsis). 3356- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used 3357 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev) 3358- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the 3359 cursor? 3360- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton). 3361- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)? 33625 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names. 3363 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix. 33648 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to 3365 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places. 3366 (Netherton) 33676 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a 3368 space after "(", for example. 33695 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs 3370 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit'). 3371 (Servatius Brandt) 3372 3373 3374From Elvis: 3375- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages? 3376- Add ":alias" command. 3377- fontchanges recognized "\\fB" etc. 3378- Search patterns: 3379 \@ match word under cursor. 3380 but do: 3381 \@w match the word under the cursor? 3382 \@W match the WORD under the cursor? 33838 ":window" command: 3384 :win + next window (up) 3385 :win ++ idem, wrapping 3386 :win - previous window (down) 3387 :win -- idem, wrapping 3388 :win nr to window number "nr" 3389 :win name to window editing buffer "name" 33907 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is 3391 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"? 3392 3393 3394From Nvi: 3395- 'searchincr' option, alias for 'incsearch'? 3396- 'leftright' option, alias for 'nowrap'? 3397- Have a look at "vi/doc/vi.chart", for Nvi specialties. 33988 Add 'keytime', time in 1/10 sec for mapping timeout? 3399- Add 'filec' option as an alternative for 'wildchar'. 34006 Support Nvi command names as an alias: 3401 :bg :hide 3402 :fg fname :buf fname (with 'hidden' set?) 3403 :dis b :ls 3404 :Edit fname :split fname 3405 :Fg fname :sbuf fname (with 'hidden' set?) 3406 :Next :snext (can't do this, already use :Next) 3407 :Previous :sprevious 3408 :Tag :stag 3409 3410 3411From xvi: 3412- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character. 3413- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet) 3414 3415 3416From vile: 3417- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window. 3418- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files 3419 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files. 3420 3421 3422Far future and "big" extensions: 3423- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice 3424 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,... 3425- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in 3426 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac). 3427 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the 3428 current layout mirrored. 3429- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer. 3430- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords, 3431 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.). 3432- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent). 3433- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different 3434 font in each top-level window. 3435- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit'). 3436- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them. 3437- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning. 3438- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to. 3439 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim). 3440- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all 3441 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files 3442 mentioned in the tags file. 3443 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???) 3444 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."? 3445- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other 3446 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter). 3447- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five 3448 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc.. 34494 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands: 3450 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format. 3451 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted. 3452 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list, 3453 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags 3454 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples: 3455 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list 3456- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes 3457 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but 3458 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/. 3459 3460 3461vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl: 3462vim: set fo+=n : 3463