1*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2004 Jun 24 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 33Change for fsync() error in Vim 6 as patch? 34 35For version 7.0: 36- Include many PATCHES: 37 9 Merge in ideas from tutor.txt (Gabriel Zachmann) 38 New version 2004 June 16. 39 8 ":winpos" doesn't work. Patch from Vipin Aravind. 40 8 Add GTK 2.3 file dialog support. Patch by Grahame Bowland, 2004 Mar 15, 41 but it doesn't use "initdir" or "dflt". (will update patch) 42 8 On Sinix SYS_NMLN isn't defined. Include patch from Cristiano De 43 Michele. He no longer has such a machine. 44 8 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or 45 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing 46 the file: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking . 47 Do we still want this? Andy doesn't have time to work on it. 48 8 Add buffer-local autocommands? Reduces overhead for autocommands that 49 trigger often (inserting a character, switching mode). 50 :au Event <buffer> do-something 51 E.g.: 52 :au BufEnter <buffer> menu enable ... 53 :au BufLeave <buffer> menu disable ... 54 Patch from Yakov Lerner, including test (2004 Jan 7). 55 He'll send updated patch. 56 Autocommands: 57 VimResized - When the Vim window has been resized (SIGWINCH) 58 patch from Yakov Lerner, 2003 July 24. 59 He'll write documentation and send updated patch. 60 InsmodEnter 61 InsmodLeave Taro Muraoka, 2004 Jun 16 62 - Include the kvim patch. http://freenux.org/vim/ (Mickael Marchand) 63 Do not add Qtopia yet, it doesn't work very well. 64 update from Mickael 2004 Jun 20. 65 8 Unix: When libcall() fails there is no clear error message. Johannes 66 Zellner has a patch for this. 67 updated patch 2004 June 16. 68 7 Add the MzScheme interface. Patch on http://iamphet.nm.ru/scheme/ 69 (Sergey Khorev) 70 Alt URL: http://cyber.miem.edu.ru/~iamphet/scheme/mzvim-0.560.tar.gz 71 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac? 72 New patch 2004 Jun 16 73 8 Add expression-expansion, so that the user can define his own kind of 74 completion. Patch from Taro Muraoka, 2003 Aug 26. 75 New patch 2004 Jun 16 76 8 Text objects: Add "a'" and 'a"': a single or double quoted string. 77 (Tim Chase) Patch from Taro Muraoka (2003 Dec 16). 78 New patch 2004 Jun 16 79 7 Add "nbsp" in 'listchars'? Patch from David Blanchet, 2003 Jul 28. 80 again 2004 Jun 16 81 8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible. 82 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. 83 He will update the patch for 6.3. 84 9 Add cursor-column highlighting. Enable it with 'cursorcolumn' option, 85 set highlighting with "CursorColumn" group. Useful for aligning text. 86 Also cursor-row highlighting. Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto for 87 underlining the cursor line, 2004 Mar 24. Update 2004 Jun 17 88 Alternatie: when 'number' is set highlight the number of the current 89 line. 90 7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto. 91 Update 2004 Jun 17. 92 8 Patches from Peter "Rain Dog" Cucka: 93 - guifont selector (2002 Dec 15) 94 update 2004 Jun 20 95 7 Add an option to set the width of the 'number' column. Eight 96 positions is often more than needed. Or adjust the width to the 97 length of the file? 98 Add patch that adds 'numberlen' option. (James Harvey) 99 Other patch with min and max from Emmanuel Renieris (2002 Jul 24) 100 Other patch without an option by Gilles Roy (2002 Jul 25) 101 New patch from Emmanuel Renieris, 2004 Jun 17 102 Needs more work: use one option with one or two numbers 103 7 Be able to call a function while passing on a variable number of 104 arguments: 105 :function Foo(abc, ...) 106 : call Bar(a:abc, a:*) 107 Charles Campbell has a patch for this 108 He lost the patch himself. 109 7 Make ":startinsert" command work directly for functions and scripts? 110 Also make it possible to append (it's difficult at end of line). 111 And add ":startreplace" (patch by Charles Campbell, 2004 Jan 9, 112 http://www.erols.com/astronaut/vim/index.html#Patch) 113 Update 2004 June 18 114 8 Add patch from Charles Campbell to have ":0file!" remove the name of 115 the current buffer. (2003 June 17) 116 Lost the patch himself. 117 8 Make it possible to delete marks. Charles Campbell has a patch that 118 does this with the markclear() function (2004 Jan 9). And the 119 ":delmark" command (2004 Feb 9) 120 Update 2004 June 18 121 8 ":hardcopy": 122 - Patch to append CTRL-D to PostScript output (Mike Williams, 2004 Jun 123 14) 124 - support printing multi-byte characters. Patch from Motonobu 125 Ichimura. New (better) patch from Mike Williams (2004 Jan 20) 126 Updated patch: http://www.eandem.co.uk/mrw/vim/special/index.html 127 7 Add patch from Wall for this one ( ~/Mail/oldmail/wall/in.00019 ): 128 'flipcase' variable: upper/lowercase pairs. 129 Insert comma's between pairs and allow a range, make it look like 130 'isfname'. E.g. ":set flipcase=a-zA-Z,xX,23-33:143-153". The colon to 131 separate the from and to part is optional. 132 Resp: no time now. 133 --- responses above -- 134 7 Make "5dd" on last-but-one-line not delete anything (Vi compatible). 135 Add flag in 'cpoptions' for this. When not present, "2dd" in the last 136 line should delete the last line. Patch from greenx 2002 Apr 11. 137 8 Accelerators don't work in a dialog. Include patch from Martin Dalecki 138 (Jan 3, tested by David Harrison). Should work with Alt-o then. 139 7 Use accelerators for the Motif file selection dialog. Patch from 140 Martin Dalecki 2002 Jan 11. 141 8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina 142 (28 feb 2002). 143 7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears 144 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3. 145 - Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work 146 for multi-byte characters. 147 - Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind. 148 - Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5) 149 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not 150 been given values. 151 Add section in help files for these highlight groups? 152 8 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm 153 with an ESC sequence. Ideas in: ~/vim/patches/vikas.xtermcolors . 154 7 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Martin 155 Dalecki has a patch for Motif) 156 - Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a 157 line in between columns (e.g. for 'textwidth'). 158 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20. 159 8 Add functions: 160 tr(expr, from, to) translate chars (Patch from Ron Aaron, Apr 8 161 2004) 162 strrep() Repeat a string (patch from Christophe Poucet, 163 2003 Sep 12, also contains XX) 164 Alt: repeat(expr, count) werkt ook voor lists. 165 mousex() mousey() get position of mouse pointer (patch by Ross 166 Presser) 167 He will send a new patch. 168 Is this really useful? 169 multibyteidx(string, idx) Byte index in multi-byte character. 170 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Feb 25 171 Update June 18 (third one). 172 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what}) 173 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}. 174 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File". 175 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu 176 File.Open..." argument. 177 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22 178 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping. 179 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4. 180 match({pat}, {string} [,start] [,count]) get index of count'th match 181 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Jun 19 182 find() find file in 'path' (patch from Johannes 183 Zellner 2001 Dec 20) 184 Update 2004 Jun 16. 185 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro 186 Matsumoto) How to get the messages into the 187 .po files? 188 Update 2004 Jun 17 189 --- 190 realname() Get user name (first, last, full) 191 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov 192 3 2002) 193 getfperm() file permissions, in form "rwxrwxrwx" 194 (patch from Nikolai Weibull 2003 Jan 13) 195 getftype() "file", "dir", "link", "other"? 196 (patch from Nikolai Weibull 2003 Jan 13) 197 setbufline() set line in any buffer (patch from Yegappan 198 Lakshmanan, 2003 Jan 21) 199 winnr("$") Get number of windows. (patch from Nikolai 200 Weibull 2003 Jan 13) (another patch from 201 Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2003 Aug 31) 202 search() Add optional offset argument. 203 Add 'n' flag. (patch from Nikolai Weibull 204 2003 Jan 13) 205 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical 206 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg) 207 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag 208 (2003 May 13) 209 system({cmd}, {expr}) Filter {expr} through the shell command 210 {cmd} and return the result. 211 (Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan) 212 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for 213 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ ) 214 7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions 215 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10) 216 7 Add 'taglistfiles' option, show file name and type when listing matching 217 tags name with CTRL-D completion. Patch from Yegappan Lakshmanan. 218 7 Motif: use the menu font consistently. Patch from Martin Dalecki 2002 219 Jan 11. 220 - Motif: add 3D shading for the menu entries? Patch from Martin Dalecki. 221 7 For Visual mode: Command to do a search for the string in the marked 222 area. Only when fewer than two lines. Use "g/" and "gb". Patch from 223 Yegappan Lakshmanan. 224 7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right 225 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli) 226 8 Lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk (uncrypted). 227 Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. 228 7 Support a stronger encryption. Jason Holt implemented AES (May 6 2003). 229 7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie) 230 8 Make 'statusline' local, so that each window can have a different 231 value. But should it also be local to a buffer? (Yegappan Lakshmanan 232 has a patch, 2002 feb 15) 233 8 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's 234 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1. 235 7 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David 236 Kotchan has a patch for it) 237 8 Add term entries for function keys on xterm with alt and ctrl (new in 238 pl 94). E.g., Control adds ";5" in "<Esc>[20;5~". Find a generic way 239 to prepend a modifier in console mode, to avoid having to specify each 240 individual modified key. 241 Steve Wall has a patch (2002 Mar 12) for adding function keys up to 37, 242 with modifiers. 243 8 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See 244 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface. 245 Or use emacs server kind of thing? 246 7 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25. 247 - findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at 248 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram, 249 incomplete patch Mar 18) 250- Change ga_room into ga_maxlen, so that it doesn't need to be 251 incremented/decremented each time. 252- new DATA TYPES: lists, dictionaries and function references. 253 Check old patch from Robert Webb for array support. 254 Add type checking? See ~/vim/ideas.txt. 255- Add SPELLCHECKER, with easy to add support for many languages. 256 8 Add spell checking. Use "ispell -a" somehow. 257 ~/vim/patches/wm_vim-5_4d.zip can be used as an example (includes 258 ispell inside Vim). Gautam Iyer has an example with "aspell". 259 "engspchk" from Charles Campbell is a good way. Support for 260 approximate-regexps will help (agrep http://www.tgries.de/agrep/). 261 - Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to 262 existing syntax items (to add @Spell). Add ":syntax contains 263 {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn cluster" but change 264 the contains list directly for matching syntax items. 265 - Keep wordlist in syntax group, load it only once and use it several 266 times later. Sort of global syntax items. 267- REFACTORING: The main() function is very long. Move parts to separate 268 functions, especially loops. Ideas from Walter Briscoe (2003 Apr 3, 2004 269 Feb 9). 270- Improve the interface between the generic GUI code and the system-specific 271 code. Generic code handles text window with scrollbars, system-specific 272 code menu, toolbar, etc. 273- Store messages to allow SCROLLING BACK for all commands. And other "less" 274 like commands. 275- "INTELLISENSE". First cleanup the Insert-mode completion. 276 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747 277 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim 278- PERSISTENT UNDO: store undo in a file. 279 Support multiple threads. Show the list of changes in a window to be able 280 to select a version. 2817 SWAP FILE CHANGE: When a dos format file was edited with ":e ++ff=unix", 282 Vim is killed and trying to recover the file, 'ff' will be dos. Same for 283 non-default fileencoding. (Miroslaw Dobrzanski-Neumann, Jul 17) 284 Should store the values in block 0 of the swap file, but that is an 285 incompatible change. 2867 Support WINDOW TABS. Works like several pages, each with their own 287 split windows. Patch for GTK 1.2 from Christian Michon, 2004 Jan 6. 288 Also for the console! 289- EMBEDDING: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program. 290 For Xwindows this can be done with XReparentWindow(). 291 For GTK Neil Bird has a patch to use Vim like a widget. 292- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block 293 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2. 294- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye, 295 assisted by Mikolaj Machowski. Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it 296 generic. Also found here: http://skawina.eu.org/mikolaj/vimgdb 297 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program 298 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the 299 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the 300 other window. 301 Wishes for NetBeans commands: 302 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors. 303 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?) 304 in terminal mode. 305- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is. 306 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command 307 scrolls back to where the cursor is. 3088 Support four composing characters, needed for Hebrew. (Ron Aaron) 309- Add a few more things to 'diffopt': "horizontal", "vertical", 310 "foldcolumn". (Benji Fisher, 2004 Jun 21) 311- FileChangedShellPost autocommand event: after (not) reloading a changed 312 file. Can be used to update statusline oslt. 313- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display. 314 315 316Vi incompatibility: 3178 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other 318 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it 319 is deleted or restored. (Webb) 320 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo. 321 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the '' 322 position is one line down. (Veselinovic) 3238 ":change" in a single-line file adds an empty line. When the file used to 324 be longer a "~" line is displayed, but there really is an empty line. 325 (Haakon Riiser, 2003 Dec 3 and Dec 16) 3268 ":append" and ":insert" in an empty file add an extra empty line. (Haakon 327 Riiser, 2003 Dec 3) Test for ML_EMPTY. 3288 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should 329 make Vim exit. 3307 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line 331 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway). 332 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input. 3338 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips 334 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument 335 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded) 3366 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but 337 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag 338 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off. 3398 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another 340 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one. 341 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file 342 names in one buffer??? 343 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and 344 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not 345 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer. 3467 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some 347 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual" 348 command was one command. 3497 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep 350 the ":map" when it's used without arguments? 3517 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option. 3527 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty. 3537 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a 354 flag in 'cpoptions' for this. 3557 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when 356 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing 357 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either 358 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file). 3597 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode). 3607 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines. 3617 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go 362 to the match with the tag? Option? 3637 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option. 3647 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del> 365 (Sayre). 3667 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the 367 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible). 3687 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual". 369 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next 370 match. Nvi can do it too. 3717 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking) 372 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\ 373 line 1\ line 2\\ 374 line 2\ line 3\\ 375 . line4/ 3766 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of 377 the way the shell is started? 3786 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange 379 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line). 380 381 382GTK+ 1 (OK in GTK 2): 3838 When menus are disabled, 'm' removed from 'guioptions', Alt-F still pops 384 up the File menu. Cannot reproduce this: gives a warning for a NULL 385 pointer if the menu was never displayed. 3868 When using "gvim -geom 40x30" or setting 'columns' in .gvimrc or with a 387 GUIEnter autocommand, the width is still set to fit the toolbar. Also 388 happens when changing the font. How to avoid that the toolbar specifies 389 the minimal window width? 3908 When using a theme with different scrollbars (gtkstep), the scrollbars can 391 be too narrow. (Drazen Kacar) 3928 Font "7x14" has a bold version "7x14bold". Try to find the bold font by 393 appending "bold" when there are not 14 dashes. 394 395GTK+ GUI known bugs: 3968 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj 397 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in 398 creating a label? 3999 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim 400 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and 401 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works. 402 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again. 4037 DND doesn't work with KDE (also with GTK 1). 404 405 406Win32 GUI known bugs: 4078 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2 408 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically? 4098 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications. 410 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs. 411 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html 4128 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be 413 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp) 4147 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow 415 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to 416 "lucida_console:h8"). 4176 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":" 418 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis) 4197 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason 420 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible 421 to use an opaque background in most places? 4228 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that 423 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly. 424 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters. 4258 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font 426 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the 427 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono. 4287 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan, 429 2004 May 9) 4308 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces 431 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim 432 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with 433 MS-Windows 98? 434 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a 435 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed 436 file: Window moves with the cursor! 437 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it? 4388 When activating the Vim window with mouse click, don't move cursor to 439 mouse position. Catch WM_MOUSEACTIVATE. (Luevelsmeyer) 4408 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it 441 appear. (Sami Salonen) 4428 Windows NT: writing to aux.* makes Vim hang. (Acevedo) 4438 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that 444 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win 445 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also 446 doesn't work properly. 4478 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops 448 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it 449 appears in the right position. (Webb) 4509 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse 451 button doesn't give popup menu. 452 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless 453 selection. 454 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button. 455 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the 456 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text. 4578 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the 458 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore) 459 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error 460 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code. 4618 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg. 462 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not 463 be read. 4648 MessageBox used for error messages can be too big. There is no way to 465 scroll it, or even hit the OK button (but you can hit return). 466 Use a scrollable window. 4677 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida 468 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char). 469 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'. 4707 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the 471 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to 472 scroll? Need to be able to get out of hit-enter prompt with the mouse 473 anyway. 4747 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance. 475 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar. 4767 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using 477 "/min" as the command name. (Rogall) 4786 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor). 4798 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work 480 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because 481 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr? 4828 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we 483 know which keyboard is being used? 4847 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern 485 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn 486 area (Koloseike). 4878 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might 488 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first, 489 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in 490 the font name). 491 492 493Athena and Motif: 4949 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is 495 required and it's missing? 4968 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned 497 wrong. 4989 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can 499 be off by default. 5009 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now, 501 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting 502 flag. 5038 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character. 504 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1. 505 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this. 5068 Perhaps use fontsets for everything? 5076 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting 508 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all 509 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of 510 the tooltips work though... 5117 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not 512 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory). 5138 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the 514 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the 515 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'. 516 517 518Athena GUI: 5199 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in 520 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving 521 through files. 5227 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to 523 read long file names. (Schroeder) 5244 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go 525 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the 526 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets" 527 problem during a refresh. 5285 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing 529 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the 530 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors. 531 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes 532 colors as it should. 533 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the 534 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug? 535 536 537Motif GUI: 5388 Popup menu ordering is wrong. 5397 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()? 540 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2). 5418 The texts in the find/replace dialog don't use the right font. 5428 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes 543 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes. 544 (Phillipps) 545 546 547GUI: 5489 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no 549 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy) 5509 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C. 551 e.g. on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on 552 Solaris 2.6. (Marley) 5539 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim 554 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf) 5558 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key 556 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version). 5578 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both 558 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate 559 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed. 5608 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling 561 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state 562 of where it is processing the output. 563 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code. 5648 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font 565 doesn't work. 5668 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS. 5678 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS. 5688 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for 569 browse(). 5708 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this, 571 use that code? Or use console dialog. 5728 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the 573 error message disappears too quick. 5748 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later, 575 to avoid problems. 5768 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there 577 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for 578 input. Or maybe every 100 ms? 5798 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank 580 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0". 581 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works. 5828 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed 583 up. Set erase character somehow? 5848 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character 585 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this. 586 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling. 587 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya) 5888 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11. 5897 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not 590 visible. 5917 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is 592 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey) 5937 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it 594 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw. 5958 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the 596 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek) 5978 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not 598 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32. 599 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the 600 remaining part of the window (Phillipps). 601- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun. 6024 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times 603 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times 604 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486. 605 606 607MSDOS/DJGPP: 6089 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao) 609 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the 610 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem. 6118 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists. 612 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error? 6139 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused 614 code and reduce static data. 6159 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C. 616 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since 617 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting 618 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work. 6199 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work. 620 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67 621 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71 622 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2) 623 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>. 624 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream? 625 Make this work like in Win32 console. 626 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended 627 key code. Use a translation table? 6289 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used. 629 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself. 6308 Use DJGPP 2.03. 6318 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT. 632 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip). 6338 setlocale() is bogus. 6348 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some 635 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched 636 Windows 95 system! 6378 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe) 6387 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g. in keyword completion) on a 8088 639 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin). 6407 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.: 641 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley) 642 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem). 6438 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add 644 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt. 6457 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen. 646 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a 647 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are 648 "[New file]". 6497 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode 650 that is supported? 6518 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them. 6528 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter 653 Briscoe) 654 655 656MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32: 6578 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use 658 gen_expand_wildcards(). 6598 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander 660 Wagner. 6618 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL. 6628 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt, 663 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name. 6648 Should $USERPROFILE be used instead of $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? 6658 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have 666 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key. 6678 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift. 668 Should work like in the GUI version. 6698 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for 670 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names. 6718 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when 672 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command? 6738 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file" 674 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be 675 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc. 6768 ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means directory "#bb" 677 in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth) 6788 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going 679 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to 680 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth) 681 682 683Windows 95: 6848 Editing a file by it's short file name and writing it, makes the long file 685 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps. 686 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly). 6878 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the 688 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32). 689 690 691Win32 console: 6929 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its 693 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister) 694 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor. 695 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable. 696 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1 697 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name. 698 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file. 699 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed 700 and the file is not saved. 701 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its 702 long name. 7038 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at 704 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT. 7057 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals, 706 besides the console. 7078 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes) 7089 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with 709 <C-S-i>? 7109 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on 711 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI? 7128 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__ 713 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around? 7147 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'? 715 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when 716 exiting. 717 718 719Amiga: 7208 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte 721 sequences. 7229 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove 723 backslashes in result. 7248 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do 725 all options, using white space separation. 726 727 728Macintosh: 7297 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard 730 Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff 731 Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it. 7327 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both. 733 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac 734 (Jack) 735 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html 7368 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear 737 to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17) 7388 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI. 7399 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher) 740 - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost. 7418 The Vim/About menu doesn't work. 7428 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV. 7438 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh. 7448 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh. 7459 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be 746 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone) 7479 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when 748 scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher) 7499 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two 750 seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher) 7519 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly. 7528 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige) 7538 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige) 754 755 756"Small" problems: 7578 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used, 758 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited 759 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure 760 the ATTENTION message shows up. 7619 When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with 762 'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though 763 the fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to 764 check for the buffer to be unmodified. 7658 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the 766 error number, it's not a regular error message. 7677 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to 768 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 7698 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and 770 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column 771 for redirection. 7727 There is no way to change directory and go back without changing the local 773 and/or global directory. Add a way to find out if the current window uses 774 a local directory. Add cdcmd() that returns ":cd" or ":lcd"? 7757 After running "make test" the window title is sometimes not restored. 776 Mostly sticks at "test3.in", but not always. Appears to happen more often 777 when compiled with Python (threading). 7787 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use 779 'termencoding'. 7808 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor 781 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor 782 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when 783 using the horizontal scrollbar. 7847 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed 785 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the 786 invocations belong together. 7878 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this 788 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams) 7898 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the 790 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the 791 UnxUtils.zip archive. 792 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter 793 Briscoe says it's not as good. 7948 'fillchars' doesn't work for multi-byte characters. 7959 Editing a XML file with a long line is extremely slow. Example file from 796 Randy Parker (Dec 13). Editing the dictionaries for engspchk plugin with 797 syntax highlighting is also very slow. 798 Limit the searching for items to a few hundred characters? 7998 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing 800 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly) 8017 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names: 802 use "~/" when possible. 8038 After using diff mode, ":set nodiff" doesn't restore the old foldmethod. 804 (Thomas S. Urban) 8057 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte 806 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail 807 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[] 808 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8). 8098 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when 810 defined. 8117 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an 812 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found. 813 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions. 8147 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode 815 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second 816 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel) 8177 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the 818 bottom window only bigger as much as needed. 8197 "[p" doesn't work in Visual mode. (David Brown) 8207 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere. 821 Remove? (Dan Sharp) 8229 The argument <f-args> of a user command doesn't handle backslashes 823 properly. "Cmd \ e" is one argument, "Cmd \\ e" still is one argument. 824 "Cmd \ e" is two arguments, first one ending in space. (Kontra Gergely) 8259 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This 826 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining 827 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command": 828 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining 829 script can be called. 8308 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po, 831 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still 832 works. 8339 When a syntax region does not use "keepend" and a contained item does use 834 "extend", this makes the outer region stop at the end of the contained 835 region. (Lutz Eymers) Another example Nov 14 2002. 8368 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with 837 CTRL-C. 8387 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X 839 server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp 840 of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK 841 doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it 842 won't work for GTK anyway. 8438 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error 844 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid. 8458 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line() 846 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this 847 configurable? 8488 'hkmap' should probably be global-local. 8499 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes 850 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work 851 then. (Pritesh Mistry) 8528 ":s!from!to!" works, but ":smagic!from!to!" doesn't. It sees the "!" as a 853 flag to to the command. Same for ":snomagic". (Johan Spetz) 8548 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save 855 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()? 8568 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is 857 always written, even when the original file already exists. 8587 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter, 859 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space. 8609 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file 861 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being 862 written. 8639 The "Error detected while processing modelines" message should have an 864 error number. 8657 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer. 8668 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose 867 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when 868 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'. 8698 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global 870 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez) 8719 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing 872 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give 873 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating 874 one. 8757 On MS-DOS or MS-Windows, when editing the same file over a network, the 876 drive letter is different, thus an existing swap file doesn't generate a 877 warning. Use some flag to indicate the swap file is in the same directory 878 as the original file? Could make b0_fname[] start with a special 879 character like ">". 8807 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes. 881 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs. 8827 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that 883 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back. 8847 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed 885 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's 886 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y 887 direction, not horizontally? 8888 When using CTRL-D after ":help", restrict the number of matches to a 889 thousand, otherwise using CTRL-D without an argument takes too long. 8908 ":hardcopy": 891 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16. 892 - Need to handle unprintable characters. 893 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform 894 dithering to make grey text? 895 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total 896 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams) 897 - Should interpreted CTRL-L as a page break. 898 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'. 899 Default to black when no syntax highlighting. 900 - Be able to print a window in diff mode. 901 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate 902 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected). 9038 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the 904 text in following lines where the linebreak changes. 9059 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on 906 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect 907 that Windows NT is being used? 9088 When opening the same file on Unix and on MS-Windows, there is no 909 ATTENTION message, because the path in the swap file is different. Using 910 a relative path name will cause no ATTENTION for Vim 5.8. 911 Somehow add a flag that the swap file is in the same dir as the file? 9128 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a 913 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it. 9148 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert 915 in lines that don't extend into the block? 9168 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O 917 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev) 918 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work. 9198 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from 920 'linebreak'. 9218 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection 922 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab. 923 (Helmut Stiegler) 9248 With 'virtualedit' set, a blockwise Visual selection that starts and ends 925 in a tab, "<" shifts too much. (Helmut Stiegler) 9269 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When 927 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending 928 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of 929 'magic' in history. (Margo) 9309 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for 931 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc". 9329 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern 933 isn't updated). 9349 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga). 9359 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled 936 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which 937 cause another redraw, etc. 9388 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path() 939 must escape special characters in the pattern. 9408 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an 941 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use 942 ":w!!" for that. 943 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and 944 restore file to readonly afterwards. 9457 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get 946 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the 947 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as 948 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from 949 clipboard) 9507 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal 951 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark 952 Waggoner) 9538 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window 954 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no 955 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\". 9568 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a 957 way to avoid using the builtin termcap. 9588 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also 959 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm. 960 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style. 9618 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator 962 (e.g., ":w"). 9638 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for 964 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long. 9658 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column 966 for ">>". 9678 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long 968 script in do_cmdline(). 9698 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the 970 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that 971 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have 972 changes. 9738 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT 974 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim". 9758 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to 976 check for file marks. This can be slow. 9777 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change 978 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's 979 needed. 980 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key. 9818 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option 982 to skip catch_signals()? 9839 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the 984 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert 985 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of 986 text? 9878 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts 988 all the text. Add ":rmenu"? 9898 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of 990 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>. 9919 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are 992 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7, 993 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed. 994 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or 995 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate(). 9967 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/". 997 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and 998 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings 999 in the list? 10008 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking 1001 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up, 1002 instead of on button down. 10038 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw. 10049 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for 1005 reaching the end of the available buffer. 10068 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a 1007 character is typed. 10088 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this. 1009 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it. 10108 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not 1011 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure 10128 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an 1013 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template 1014 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp". 1015 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for 1016 cygwin bash. 10177 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}". 1018 Remember flags for backreferences. 10197 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been 1020 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT? 10217 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names 1022 that contain a '$' after all have been found. 10238 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about 1024 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX. 10257 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting 1026 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name. 10277 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing. 1028 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and 1029 "initdir" is the default path to be used. 10307 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of 1031 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols) 10328 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo 1033 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so 1034 that the user knows he has to delete the files. 10357 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func 1036 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this. 10377 After ":%d" an undo reports the number of lines added as if there still 1038 was one line. 1039 1040 1041I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!): 10429 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file 1043 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three 1044 files. (McCollister) 10458 Motif: Tear-off menu item crashes Vim on some machines. (Netherton) It 1046 works fine for me, maybe it's a Motif problem. 1047 1048 1049Problems that will (probably) not be solved: 1050- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering 1051 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the 1052 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like 1053 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external 1054 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text. 1055- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access 1056 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message. 1057 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it. 1058- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim. 1059 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim. 1060- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will 1061 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which 1062 character gets the highlighting. 1063- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm 1064 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly. 1065- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem. 1066 (Jennings) 1067- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino). 1068- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25 1069 errors. How do we get the rest? 1070- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why? 1071- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The 1072 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong. 1073- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a 1074 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy 1075 first? 1076- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for 1077 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names. 1078- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy 1079 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim, 1080 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK. 1081- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The 1082 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working. 1083 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p". 1084 (Benzinger). 1085- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that 1086 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim 1087 can't get back what the external command didn't use. 1088- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error. 1089 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code. 1090- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being 1091 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar. 1092- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer 1093 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when 1094 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted. 1095 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library. 1096 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn) 1097 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)? 1098- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles 1099 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE. 1100 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134. 1101- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal 1102 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif 1103 libraries, get a patch from Sun. 1104- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X 1105 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash. 1106- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks 1107 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff. 1108- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim 1109 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy) 1110- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive 1111 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used. 1112- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up: 1113 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library 1114 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to 1115 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the 1116 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem. 1117- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the 1118 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line: 1119 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr> 1120- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a 1121 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert 1122 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard) 1123- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar. 1124 This is a GTK 2.4.x bug, fixed in GTK 2.4.2. (Thomas de Grenier de Latour) 1125- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co' 1126 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the 1127 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the 1128 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined 1129 in the vimrc file to be lost. 1130- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and 1131 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars. 1132 1133--------------------- extensions and improvements ---------------------- 1134 *extensions-improvements* 1135 1136Documentation: 11378 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth) 11387 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual. 11399 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention: 1140 - change to cursor position and curswant 1141 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.) 1142 - how it works for folded lines 1143 - how it works with multi-byte characters 11449 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would 1145 work too. 11468 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag" 1147 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double 1148 text. 11498 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running". 11507 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to 1151 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'. 11527 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and 1153 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag. 1154- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks. 1155 1156 1157Help: 1158- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a 1159 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag. 1160- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go 1161 to the other matches. 1162- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files. 1163- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|. 1164- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always 1165 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file, 1166 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a 1167 default contents. 1168- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal 1169 height for the help window (and other windows). 1170- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute". 1171- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive? 1172- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands. 1173 1174 1175User Friendlier: 11768 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for 1177 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter 1178 Briscoe) 11798 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types? 11808 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that 1181 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if 1182 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf". 11838 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc, 1184 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu. 1185- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file. 1186 ":mkplugin <file>"? 11878 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that 1188 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from 1189 'runtimepath'. 1190 " Vim plugin 1191 <main plugin code> 1192 " >>> plugin help start <<< 1193 <plugin docs> 1194- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."? 11959 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or 1196 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty 1197 item?). 1198 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands. 11998 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems. 12007 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output? 1201 1202 1203Diff mode: 12048 Add a command to stop diff mode: ":set nodiff fdc = 0 noscrollbind" 12058 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file). 1206 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing: 1207 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis 12087 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also 1209 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same 1210 location. 1211 1212 1213Folding: 1214 (commands still available: zg zG zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zw zW zy zY; 1215 secondary: zB zS zT zZ) 12168 Add different highlighting for a fold line depending on the fold level. 1217 (Noel Henson) 12188 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the 1219 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the 1220 user aware of this? 12218 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which 1222 commands skip over a closed fold. 12238 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt) 12248 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB. 12257 When using 2html.vim, also reproduce folds as you can see them. When 1226 someone doesn't want the folds he can disable them before converting. 1227 First attempt by Carl Osterwisch, 2004 May 10. 12287 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds. 1229- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. Require showing a character in 1230 'foldcolumn' to avoid the missing line goes unnoticed. 1231- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll 1232 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds 1233 smoother? 1234- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list, 1235 using the wininfo in wi_folds. 1236- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects. 1237- Add 'hidecomment' option: don't display comments in /* */ and after //. 1238- "zu": undo change in manual fold. "zU" redo change in manual fold. How to 1239 implement this? 1240- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the 1241 cursor. 1242- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3": set fold level for a region. 1243- Can set 'foldtext' to empty string: don't display any line. How to 1244 implement this? 1245- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt) 1246- Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like 1247 searches. 1248 1249 1250Multi-byte characters: 12519 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the 1252 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal 1253 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single 1254 byte). 12558 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for 1256 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html. 1257 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like: 1258 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-" 1259 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first 1260 item. 12618 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for 1262 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"? 12638 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an 1264 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for 1265 ":grep". 12668 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search 1267 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka) 12687 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted, 1269 so that the user can fix the problem. 12708 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo 1271 Schweigert) 12729 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El) 12738 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters. 12748 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters. 12758 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes. 12768 "ga" should show all composing characters, also if there are more than 2. 12777 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored? 12788 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing. 12798 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes. 12808 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte 1281 characters. 12828 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters. 12838 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead 1284 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example. 12857 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead. 1286 'display' option to specify this. 12877 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default(): 1288 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c) 1289- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the 1290 fontselector somehow. 1291- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it 1292 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale. 1293- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for 1294 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong. 1295- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset, 1296 depending on the default value of 'encoding'. 1297 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used. 1298 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know 1299 if a font exists? 1300- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with 1301 convert_input() for Mac GUI, RiscOS GUI, BeOS GUI. 1302- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters. 1303 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_ 13047 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of 1305 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky) 1306- Make 'langmap' accept multi-byte characters. 1307- Do we need the reverse of 'keymap', like 'langmap' but with files and 1308 multi-byte characters? E.g., when using a Russian keyboard. 1309- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text 1310 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort 1311 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command? 1312- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into 1313 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it: 1314 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz 1315 But it's very complicated... 1316 1317 1318Printing: 1319- Add "page width" to wrap long lines. 1320- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for 1321 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function. 1322- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'. 1323- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer 1324 name, portrait/landscape, etc). 1325- PostScript: only works for 7-bit ASCII and EBCDIC. Should support 1326 different 'encoding' values somehow. 1327- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same 1328 units as for the margins. 1329- Support right-to-left text? 13308 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the 1331 color. 1332 1333 1334Syntax highlighting: 13358 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson) 1336 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual". 13378 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined 1338 cluster can be added to existing syntax items. 13398 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this: 1340 "({ something })", often used in GCC code. 13418 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing 1342 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for 1343 ":wq file". 13448 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script). 13459 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is 1346 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it... 13477 Make syntax keyword table configurable. Set number of bits used with 1348 ":syn clear [hashbits]", so that we don't need to reallocate the table. 1349 minimal 4 bits, maximal 16. (Campbell) 13507 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and 1351 Search highlighting. 13528 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to 1353 change this for each release. 13548 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end 1355 pattern, but not in the body. 13568 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this 1357 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item, 1358 instead of the containing item. 13598 For keywords, allow to define the size of the hash table with ":syn 1360 clear". Change KHASH_ defines into variables stored in buffer struct. 1361 Use something else than linear linked list from the hash table. (Campbell) 13628 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside (). 13638 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype 1364 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules? 1365 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, 1366 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax. 13678 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a 1368 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained] 13698 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey 1370 background) when on one of the parens or in between them. 1371 Or highlight the matching paren when the cursor is on one. 13728 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error". 13738 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop 1374 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be 1375 used. 13768 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will 1377 allow spell checking. (Fleiner) 13788 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And 1379 re-insert the [] if possible. 13808 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for 1381 the Cursor). 13828 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like 1383 using "\1" in a ":s" command. 13848 Support for deleting syntax items: 1385 :syn keyword cTodo remove this 1386 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern" 1387 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that" 13888 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way 1389 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for 1390 a '<'. (Fleiner) 13917 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification? 1392 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or 1393 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern. 13947 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be 1395 detected. 13968 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original 1397 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this). 13988 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to 1399 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible. 14008 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group. 14018 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values. 14027 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to 1403 ":mkvimrc". 14048 Improve c.vim: 1405 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on: 1406 "c_strict_ansi". 1407 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way... 14088 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the 1409 current line while in Insert mode. 14108 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been 1411 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again? 14128 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current 1413 display position. 14148 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to 1415 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern. 1416 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()". 14178 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until 1418 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when 1419 highlighting starts. 14207 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the 1421 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow. 1422 E.g. for this html: 1423 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I> 14247 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed 1425 (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"): 1426 :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display="" 14277 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is. 14287 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled 1429 words. 14307 Command line completion for ":find" should search in 'path'. 14318 Add more command line completion for :syntax. 14328 Add more command line completion for :highlight. 14338 Add more command line completion for :sign. 14347 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands. 1435 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and 1436 completion? 14378 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their 1438 highlighting. (Salman Halim) 14397 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to 1440 select one of the sets. 14418 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1 1442 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch 1443 2, etc. 14448 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the 1445 highlighting (for "." command). 14468 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /. 1447 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /? 14488 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing. 14497 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs": 1450 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c". 14516 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of 1452 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall) 1453- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful 1454 when extending an already existing syntax file. 1455- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too? 1456- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin 1457 (for comment blocks). 1458- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags: 1459 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor. 1460 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match. 1461 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match. 1462 Also for {}, <>, etc.? 1463 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?) 1464 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the 1465 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it. 1466 (Campbell) 1467 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around 1468 the cursor. (Iain Truskett) 14697 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword. 1470 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow). 14717 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should 1472 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set). 1473 And allows for sections with different highlighting. 14747 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it 1475 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from 1476 messages. And external commands? 14778 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for 1478 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim? 14797 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an 1480 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line. 1481 1482 1483Built-in script language: 14848 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and 1485 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings. 14868 Allow range for ":exec". Pass it on to the executed command. (Webb) 14878 exists("&&option") tests if 'option' is actually implemented. Useful for 1488 'shellslash', for example. 14898 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham) 14908 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When 1491 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an 1492 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same 1493 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle 1494 nested packages? 1495 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}(). 1496 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from 1497 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path). 14987 Make globpath() also work with "**" and upwards search. (Brian Medley) 14997 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode. 1500 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if 1501 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that 1502 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an 1503 autocommand. 1504 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a 1505 .vim file. Problem: distribution. 1506 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached 1507 file belongs to a sourced script? 15087 Add "n" flag to search() function, just like searchpair(). (Alexey 1509 Marinichev) 15107 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn', 1511 signs and/or 'number'. 15128 Add functions: 1513 sprintf(format, arg, ..) How to prevent a crash??? 1514 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx" 1515 mkdir(dir) Create directory 1516 copy(from, to) Copy a file 1517 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string 1518 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace() 1519 input(prompt, complete) like input() but do specified completion 1520 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left 1521 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in 1522 Visual block mode. 1523 tagtype(tag) get type of tag (also checks if it exists) 1524 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard) 1525 getbufline() get line from any buffer 1526 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer 1527 appendbufline() append line in any buffer 1528 sort() Sort a newline-separated string. Also: 1529 ":sort". 1530 libcall() Allow more than one argument. 1531 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function 1532 to allow the library to execute a command or 1533 evaluate an expression. 1534 char2hex() convert char string to hex string. XX 1535 hex2char() convert hex string to char string. XX 15367 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the 1537 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero. 15388 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was 1539 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file. 15408 Pass the executable name to the Vim scripts in some way. As v:argv0? 15418 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts. 15428 When starting to source a vim script, delete all functions that it has 1543 previously defined? Avoids using ":fun!" all the time. 15447 Add optional arguments to user functions: 1545 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17) 15466 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"? 15478 Add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var" just ignore. 15488 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable, 1549 option or environment variable. 15508 ":let &option" should list the value of the option. 15517 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the 1552 stack available (separated with '\n'). 15538 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed: 1554 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands} 15558 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started. 15568 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default), 1557 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0, 1558 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and 1559 charwise({expr}). 15607 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer 1561 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch 1562 buffer for this? 1563 result = scratch(string, command) 1564 result = apply(string, command) 1565 result = execute(string, command) 1566 "command" would use <> notation. 1567 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number? 15687 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds). 15697 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an 1570 option for the search path. (Sekera) 15717 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files. 1572 1573 1574Robustness: 15758 This pattern in syntax/java.vim causes a recursive call of regmatch(): 1576 syn match javaStringError +"\([^"\\]\|\\.\)*$+ 1577 A long line with a " in it can cause a crash when it runs out of stack 1578 space (on systems where this isn't caught). How can we catch this for 1579 more systems? 1580 1581 1582Performance: 15838 Loading plugins takes startup time. Only load the part that is used to 1584 trigger the rest, and load the rest when it's needed? 15858 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags. 15869 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster? 15878 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result? 15887 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when 1589 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start? 15908 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same 1591 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines 1592 when starting up in a color terminal. 15938 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on 1594 Win16. 15959 Setting GUI options in the console (e.g., 'guifont') should not cause a 1596 redraw. 15978 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this 1598 function be improved? 15998 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the 1600 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap 1601 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can 1602 this be improved? 16038 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up 1604 MS-DOS version. (Negri) 16057 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower when adding a region for folding 1606 from { to }. (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman) 16077 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying 1608 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang) 16097 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a 1610 lot of abbreviations). 16117 DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster. 16127 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file 1613 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line 1614 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>. 1615 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat. 1616 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place. 1617 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase. 1618 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc. 16198 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the 1620 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was 1621 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating 1622 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)? 16238 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to 1624 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid 1625 using strcmp() too often? 16267 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file? 1627 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating 1628 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a 1629 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another 1630 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from 1631 the two blocks to the memfile block. 16327 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory 1633 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called 1634 with an argument that can be messed with. 1635 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that 1636 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced. 16377 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)". 1638- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek() 16398 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in 1640 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim. 1641- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of 1642 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation? 1643- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki) 1644- Do profiling on: 1645 - :g/pat/normal cmd 1646 - 1000ii<Esc> 1647 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary) 1648 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan) 1649 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u". 1650 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and 1651 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl". 1652 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary. 1653 - editing a vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim). 16547 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were 1655 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it 1656 changed). 1657 - On each change, remember start and end of the change. 1658 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count. 1659- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest! 1660- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still 1661 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"? 1662- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to 1663 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from 1664 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg(). 1665- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of 1666 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing). 1667- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height. 1668- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if 1669 cursor is right of the screen. 16708 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a 1671 CTRL-C (it's slow). 1672 1673 1674Code size: 16758 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded. 1676- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be 1677 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions. 16788 Make a GUI-only version for Unix? 16798 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using 1680 it. 16817 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be 1682 left out. 16838 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals 1684 can be removed. 16858 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed? 1686 1687 1688Messages: 16898 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the 1690 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!". 16918 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip 1692 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()? 16938 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a 1694 script. 16958 "vim --version" output goes to stderr, should be stdout. Can all output 1696 from messages using printf() go to stdout? 1697- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key. 1698 Perhaps after ten seconds? 1699- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9. 17009 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays: 1701 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop. 1702 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long 1703 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before 1704 redrawing. 17057 Add an option, which is a regexp, that disables warning messages which 1706 match that regexp (Tsirkin). 17078 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more 1708 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text. 17098 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another 1710 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option 1711 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off". 1712 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts 1713 typing, error messages must be switched back on. 1714 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings). 1715- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed? 1716 sleep before second message? 17178 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is 1718 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers", 1719 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the 1720 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall) 1721 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and 1722 error messages, printing text, etc. 17238 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt. 1724 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when 1725 a prompt is present (with a callback function?). 1726 1727 1728Screen updating: 17297 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one 1730 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the 1731 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit). 1732- screen_line(): 1733 - insert/delete character stuff. 1734 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line). 1735- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when 1736 dragging the status line with the mouse). 1737- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when 1738 waiting for a character. 17398 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from 1740 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when 1741 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping. 17427 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together. 1743 1744 1745Scrolling: 17468 Add "zm" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle. 17476 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi) 1748- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc.. 1749 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound 1750 windows. 17517 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next 1752 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it 1753 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer. 1754- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it 1755 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this? 1756 (Goldfarb) 1757- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all 1758 bound windows. 1759- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to 1760 be bound by regexp searches 1761- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell) 1762- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the 1763 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number 1764 of lines but not with a single line). 1765 1766 1767Autoconf: 17688 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader. 17698 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb) 1770 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically? 1771- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the 1772 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner). 1773- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4(). 1774- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it? 1775- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf. 1776 1777 1778Perl interface: 17798 Rename typemap file to something else? 17807 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark) 17817 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C? 17826 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll). 1783 1784 1785Shared libraries: 17866 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it. 1787 :libload internal-name libname 1788 :libunload internal-name 1789 :liblist 1790 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...) 1791 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...) 1792 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment. 17936 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries. 1794 1795 1796Tags: 17978 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify 1798 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m". 17998 Add a function that returns the line in the tags file for a matching tag. 1800 Can be used to extract more info (class name, inheritance, etc.) (Rico 1801 Hendriks) 18027 Count before CTRL-]: jump to N'th match 18038 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis. 18048 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able 1805 to type the tag number directly. 18067 Add a tag-select window. Works like ":cwindow". (Michal Malecki) 18077 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a 1808 window for each tag. 18097 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting? 18107 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit 1811 bottom" search message. 18127 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry, 1813 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were 1814 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb) 18157 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and 1816 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod". 1817 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func" 1818 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx. 18197 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields: 1820 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c 1821 :tagargs clear 1822 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag 1823 matching). 18247 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command? 1825 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi. 1826 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi) 1827 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way. 18287 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With 1829 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again. 18307 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use 1831 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add 1832 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect". 1833 1834 1835Security: 1836- nothing at the moment 1837 1838 1839Win32 GUI: 18408 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for 1841 the message and input? 18427 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at 1843 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 1844 dynamically? 18457 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu. 1846 (Mike McCollister) 18478 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several 1848 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't 1849 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all 1850 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest 1851 common part of the path. 18528 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik) 18538 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that 1854 gettext and menus work. 18558 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit 1856 return in every console. 1857 Also: Look at how Emacs does runs external commands: 1858 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html. 18598 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands: 1860 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text). 18618 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF. 1862 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands? 18637 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme. 1864 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser) 18657 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog). 18667 <Esc> should close a dialog. 18677 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be 1868 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended 1869 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any 1870 prompts. 18717 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that 1872 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have 1873 the file added into an already running Vim. 18747 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide 1875 functions to find the window title. 1876 1877 1878GUI: 18798 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS. 1880- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a 1881 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier. 18827 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows. 18838 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI. 18846 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu. 18858 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When 1886 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position. 18879 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze) 18887 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype? 18898 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the 1890 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide". 18918 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text 1892 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine 1893 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated. 18948 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim) 1895 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front. 18968 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more 1897 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c. 1898 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow 1899 running them in separate processes. 19007 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument. 19018 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask 1902 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code. 19037 Add some code to handle proportional fonts? Need to draw each character 1904 separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font is not exactly 1905 double-width. (Maeda) 19068 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default). 19078 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to 1908 select one. Martin Dalecki has a font selector for Motif, but it needs a 1909 bit more work. 19108 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.). 19118 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all? 19128 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a 1913 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this 1914 portable (X11, Win32, ..)? 19157 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items. 1916 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The 1917 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything. 19187 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back. 1919 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim). 19207 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can 1921 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors. 1922 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For 1923 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs. 19247 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the 1925 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas) 19267 Should support multi-column menus. 1927- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far 1928 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right). 1929- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode". 19308 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus. 19316 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a 1932 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui". 19337 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'? 19347 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos', 1935 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>. 1936 Or add a command, like ":winsize"? 19377 Add toolbar for more GUIs. 19388 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item 1939 name can be chosen free. 19407 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of 1941 the window? Allows for softkey-like use. 19426 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the 1943 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a 1944 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is 1945 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to 1946 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks 1947 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI 1948 things. 19497 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default 1950 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog. 1951- Motif steals <F10> from us, to pop up menus with the keyboard. How do we 1952 get it back if we want it? 1953- Paste in Insert mode should not do autowrap etc. Or maybe this should be 1954 changeable with an option? 1955- Put a nice picture in the icon (but how do we do that?). 19567 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks 1957 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated. 1958- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal 1959 where it was started from? 19607 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument. 1961 1962 1963VMS: 1964- Improvement: rewrite term/TTY handling. 1965- Improvement: create VMS GTK runtime libraries on OpenVMS 7.1-2 (today GTK 1966 works just on 7.3). 1967 1968 1969Autocommands: 19709 Make sure that side effects of autocommands are handled correctly. Don't 1971 execute autocommands when a buffer or window is halfway some changes. 1972 Move all apply_autocmds() calls to a higher level where needed. 19738 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g. 1974 "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc". 19758 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two 1976 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more 1977 difficult). 19788 Also trigger CursorHold in Insert mode? 19797 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that user 1980 can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the kind 1981 of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient? 19828 Can't use ":normal" in CursorHold autocommands. Make the CursorHold event 1983 insert a special key code, and call the autocommand functions from a 1984 higher level, so that vgetc() isn't used recursively. 19858 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist? 1986 And anything else? 19878 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input 1988 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus). 1989 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ... 19908 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc". 19918 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag. 1992 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found. 19936 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be 1994 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron) 19957 Add a way to skip an autocommand if going from one *.c file to another *.c 1996 file. 19977 When trying to open a directory, don't load the file but trigger an 1998 autocommand event OpenDirectory. 19997 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link, 2000 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate 2001 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type 2002 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard) 20035 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the 2004 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will 2005 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas) 20067 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for 2007 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the 2008 file. 20098 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at 2010 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read 2011 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'. 2012- Add events to autocommands: 2013 Error - When an error happens 2014 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode 2015 InsertEnter - Entering Insert mode 2016 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode 2017 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode 2018 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode 2019 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands. 2020 *Leave - Leaving the mode 2021 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M") 2022 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged 2023 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the 2024 window title) 2025 BufReadAction - replaces reading a file 2026 BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file 2027 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down 2028 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the 2029 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor. 2030 Set v:char to the character, can be changed. 2031 (not triggered when 'paste' is set). 2032 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting 2033 the char. 2034 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for 2035 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the 2036 file from CVS). 2037 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be 2038 used to do a :preserve for remote files. 2039 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate 2040 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so 2041 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add 2042 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah) 2043 WinResized - When a window has been resized 2044- Add autocommand to be executed every so many seconds? For writing the 2045 file now and then ('autosave'). 2046 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'* 2047 'autosave' 'aw' number (default 0) 2048 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the 2049 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set. 2050 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer. 2051 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make 2052 them save the file itself besides the swapfile. 2053 2054 2055Insert mode completion/expansion: 20568 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete 2057 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages. 20589 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with 2059 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended. 2060 (Webb) 20618 The code has become too complex. Redesign it, or at least add proper 2062 comments. 20638 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion: 2064 - ignore/match case 2065 - different characters than 'iskeyword' 20668 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text. 20678 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive 2068 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of 2069 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo. 2070 Should work for C++ and Java. 2071 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc. 20727 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?). 20737 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS 2074 instead of words. 20758 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents. 20768 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does). 2077 Requires remembering a number of insertions. 20788 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names. 2079 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion. 2080- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the 2081 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use 2082 wildcards in the file name)? 2083- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted). 2084- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?). 2085- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could 2086 be in another file). 2087- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches. 2088- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option? 2089- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string 2090 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W) 2091- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions. 2092- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows? 2093- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly) 20948 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that 2095 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb) 2096 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-]. 2097 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'. 2098- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list). 2099 2100 2101Command line editing: 21027 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command 2103 line. 21048 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion 2105 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of 2106 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc. 2107- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of 2108 lines wraps to start of line). 2109- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view 2110 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many 2111 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run 2112 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012). 2113 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history. 2114 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the 2115 cmdwin does now already. 2116 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal 2117 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T? 2118 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the 2119 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid 2120 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines? 2121 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate 2122 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode 2123 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh. 2124 Problems: 2125 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar' 2126 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations 2127 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches 2128 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands 2129 - Normal: no ":" commands? 2130 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line. 2131 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of 2132 character in first column? 2133 - Implementation ideas: 2134 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer. 2135 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum. 2136 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line. 2137 - sync undo after entering a command line? 2138 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line 2139 Mode. 2140 2141 2142Command line completion: 21438 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument. 21448 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate 2145 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h". 21468 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list 2147 them with the optional part inside []. 21487 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be 2149 edited. (Sven Guckes) 21507 Add completion for when entering an expression after CTRL-R= and "=. 2151 (Servatius Brandt) 2152- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible. 2153- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the 2154 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>". 21558 For ":find" and ":sfind" expand files found in 'path'. 21568 Add cmdline completion for the ":debug" command. 21578 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting 2158 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp? 21597 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the 2160 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb) 2161- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching 2162 identifiers (Webb). 21638 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>" 2164 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit. 21657 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion. 2166 Useful for ":s/word/xx/". 2167- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started. 2168 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line. 2169- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for 2170 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut) 2171 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D. 2172- Add completion for Environment variables: ":echo $SH<Tab>" -> "$SHELL". 2173 2174 2175Command line history: 2176- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a 2177 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a 2178 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't 2179 completely resulted from one mapping. 2180- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history, 2181 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel) 2182 2183 2184Insert mode: 21859 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after 2186 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line. 2187 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug. 21888 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command 2189 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink) 2190 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do 2191 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing. 2192 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode. 21937 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a 2194 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y. 21957 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it 2196 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'. 2197- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed 2198 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and 2199 also for characters that wrap to the next line. 2200 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register). 2201 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that 2202 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>. 2203- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in 2204 Normal mode. 2205- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their 2206 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands 2207 are used. 2208- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits. 2209- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b. 2210- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y. 2211 2212 2213'cindent', 'smartindent': 22148 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with line break in arguments: 2215 Foo::Foo (int one, 2216 int two) 2217 : something(4) 2218 {} 22198 Wrong indent for ":" after a method with multiple lines: 2220 Foo::Foo (int one, int two) 2221 : something(4), 2222 somethingelse(3) 2223 {} 22249 Too much indent for "lulu": (Uwe Zeisberger) 2225 int main () 2226 { 2227 if (lala) 2228 do 2229 ++(*lolo); 2230 while (lili 2231 && lele); 2232 lulu; 2233 } 22349 Function gets extra indent: (Jamax) 2235 void function(int param) { 2236 if (false) 2237 return; 2238 } 22399 brace not indented correctly: 2240 case 'c': if (cond) 2241 { 2242 Should align with "if" in case statement. 22437 Allow aligning a closing ")" with the line above, instead of the matching 2244 "(": (Riehm) if (asdfasdf && 2245 asdf 2246 ) 22478 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is 2248 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer) 22498 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna) 2250 func( 2251 new String[] { 2252 "asdf", 2253 "asdf" 2254 } 2255 ); 22567 Separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner): 2257 func( 2258 int x) // indent like "(4" 2259 { 2260 if (a 2261 && b) // indent like "(0" 22628 Strange problem with this code, "hello" is indented wrong: (Gary Holloway) 2263 main() { char foo[] = "/*"; 2264 /* This is a comment; the indentation of C 2265 * source below this comment gets messed up due to the string above. 2266 */ 2267 hello 22689 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler) 2269 if (a) 2270 { 2271 if (b) 2272 { 2273 // { 2274 } 2275 } <-- this is indented incorrect 22769 Wrong indent for cino=(4, removing the (void) fixes it: (Zellner) 2277 (void) MyFancyFunction( 2278 argument); 2279- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the 2280 indent to 0 should be switched on/off. 22817 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line. 2282- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first 2283 line). 2284- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}? 2285- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous 2286 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically? 22877 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines. 2288- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It 2289 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb) 2290- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out 2291 code), unless the line starts with "*". 2292- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"? 2293- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line 2294 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted). 22958 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the 2296 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more 2297 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment. 2298- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'. 2299- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where 2300 lines start with "\item". 2301- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown) 2302 /* here is a comment that 2303 is just autoindented, and 2304 nothing else */ 2305- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi". 23067 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for 2307 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the 2308 indents. 2309 And/or: Add option to copy indent as-is, without changing spaces to tabs. 2310 also for 'autoindent'. 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and 2311 spaces used for indent, when the indent remains the same or increases. 2312 2313 2314Java: 23158 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve 2316 Odendahl? 23178 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for 2318 "[i" commands and friends. 2319- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java. 2320 (Jason) 2321- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be 2322 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy) 2323 2324 2325'comments': 23268 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated 2327 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping. 2328 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader 2329 when it's "#" or "//". 23307 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line. 2331 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed. 23327 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item. 23336 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more 2334 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a 2335 regexp is used. 23368 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line 2337 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'? 2338 2339 2340Virtual edit: 23418 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left. 23427 Add a mode where the cursor is only allowed to go one character after the 2343 end of the line? 23447 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line? 2345 2346 2347Text objects: 23488 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc. 23497 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it 2350 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area. 23518 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single 2352 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at 2353 the end of the line or before a ".". 23547 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs" 2355 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus) 23567 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph 2357 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}"). 23586 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email. 23595 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For 2360 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one. 2361 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the 2362 cursor is on. 2363 2364 2365Select mode: 23668 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block, 2367 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall) 23687 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word. 2369 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743 23707 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line. 2371 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse' 2372 contains 'C' or 'A'. 2373 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in 2374 normal_cmd(). 2375 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info. 2376 - Typing text replaces the selection. 2377 2378 2379Visual mode: 2380- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero, 2381 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer 2382 is in the top line. 23838 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new 2384 text. make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding 2385 where needed. 23867 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width, 2387 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc. 23887 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start 2389 of each selected line. 23908 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode? 23918 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer. 2392 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any 2393 other buffer. (Ron Aaron) 23948 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron, 2395 Ben Godfrey) 23967 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and 2397 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey) 23987 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of 2399 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area. 24007 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David 2401 Young is working on this) 24027 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines. 2403 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with 2404 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line. 24058 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text? 2406 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful. 24077 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should 2408 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an 2409 option! 24107 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position 2411 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select 2412 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen 2413 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap. 2414 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to 2415 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line, 2416 without changing the column. 24176 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode. 24187 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the 2419 current buffer. 24207 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area. 24216 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line, 2422 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1. 24236 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line. 24246 ":'<,'>source" should read the selected lines and ":source" them. 24256 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed 2426 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB 2427 or other special character. 24286 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting. 2429 2430 2431More advanced repeating commands: 2432- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt"). 24337 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember 2434 the command line so that it can be repeated? 2435- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g. 2436 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb). 2437 "y." will repeat last yank. 2438 "c2." will repeat the last but one change? 2439 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history 2440 and/or pick an older command. 2441- History stack for . command? Use "g." command. 2442 2443 2444Mappings and Abbreviations: 24458 Let ":verbose map xx" report where the mapping was set, just like with 2446 ":verbose set". 24478 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be 2448 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell) 2449 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command? 24508 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work? 24517 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte". 2452 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway? 24538 ":verbose map" could show the script where the mapping was defined. 2454 m_script_ID can be used. 24558 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the 2456 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&. 24578 Add ":amap", like ":amenu". 24588 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to 2459 entering search strings. 24608 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the 2461 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and 2462 not the <Space>. 24638 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS). 24648 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never 2465 (?) work. 24667 ":verbose map" should display where a mapping was defined, like ":verbose 2467 set". 24688 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function 2469 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is 2470 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings? 24717 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation? 24727 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q", 2473 that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger' 2474 option. 24757 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try 2476 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy". 24777 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character 2478 (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for 2479 mapping a key to do something and then completion. 24807 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard. 24816 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the 2482 abbreviations are to be used. 2483- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For 2484 example, for a mouse escape sequence: 2485 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l 2486- Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping. 2487- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in 2488 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings 2489 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording? 2490- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a 2491 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r". 2492- Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in 2493 <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this? 2494- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings 2495 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does). 2496- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and 2497 mappings off for :unab and :unmap. 24986 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete 2499 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids 2500 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you 2501 hit another character. 2502- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings: 2503 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G 2504 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l 2505 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g 2506 Or implicit: 2507 :map q <Register>d<Number>$ 2508- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for 2509 non-replace Insert mode? 2510- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode? 25116 Alias for Normal mode commands, works like :substitute? Would allow 2512 mappings with arguments. 2513- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings. 2514- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key 2515 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself. 2516- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as 2517 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command? 2518- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they 2519 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>. 2520- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap. 2521- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping 2522 ":freekeys". 2523- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm). 2524 2525 2526Incsearch: 2527- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'? 2528- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn 2529 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled 2530 up every time. 2531- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the 2532 folds when going to another line. 2533- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many 2534 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?) 2535 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match 2536 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872. 2537- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other 2538 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid). 2539 2540 2541Searching: 25428 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\(([^()]*\@@[^()]*)\)\@r". \@@ stands 2543 for "go recursive here" and \@r marks the recursive atom. 2544item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on 2545 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of 2546 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"? 2547 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)* 25487 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for 2549 search(). (Brett) 25507 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's 2551 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference. 25528 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in 2553 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax? 25548 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current 2555 line. 25567 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an 2557 example. 25588 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in 2559 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif. 2560- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that 2561 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */). 2562 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back. 2563 Alternative: use matchit.vim 25648 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care? 25658 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that 2566 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it. 2567 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$". 25687 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and 2569 "\d". 25707 Add a way to specify characters as hex, octal or <C-M> form. Could be 2571 \%1ax, \%200o and \%<C-M>. Also \%1234u for multi-byte chars. 25728 Flags that apply to the whole pattern. 2573 This works for all places where a regexp is used. 2574 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern? 25758 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example, 2576 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line. 25778 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g" 2578 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command. 2579 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing 2580 search pattern. 2581- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group. 2582 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group. 2583- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade) 2584 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one. 2585 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's 2586 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities. 25877 Add POSIX regexp, like Nvi, with 'extended' option? It's like very-magic. 2588- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it. 2589 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling) 2590- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?): 2591 i ignore case 2592 I use case 2593 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?) 2594 v use Vi regexp syntax 2595 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command 2596 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command 2597 Perl uses these too: 2598 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only) 2599 m multiple line expression (we don't need it) 2600 o compile only once (Perl only) 2601 s single line expression (we don't need it) 2602 x extended regexp (we don't need it) 2603 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the 2604 following command. 2605 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault'). 2606- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used 2607 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/ 2608 for search string)? 26097 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special 2610 characters. See C't article, August 1997. 2611- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are 2612 equivalent (for Unix filenames). 2613- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text 2614 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin) 2615- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this". 2616- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer, 2617 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern: 2618 a for the next file in the argument list 2619 f for file in the buffer list 2620 w for file edited in a window. 2621 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for 2622 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask 2623 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No 2624 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ". 2625- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler) 2626- Special characters in patterns: 2627 Inside []: 2628 \012 octal character 2629 \0x1a hex character 2630 \0<BS> \0<Esc>: special character 26317 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search 2632 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark. 26337 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after 2634 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe 2635 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in 2636 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always). 26376 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side 2638 effects. 26397 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete 2640 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc. 2641 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary. 26427 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) 2643 Also ":dselect". 2644 2645 2646Undo: 2647- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not 2648 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a", 2649 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted? 26508 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo 2651 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new 2652 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing. 2653 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things. 26548 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change, 2655 only remember the lines that really changed. 26567 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous 2657 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a 2658 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need 2659 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone. 26607 Add an undo tree: When making a change, instead of clearing any future 2661 undo (thus redo) info, make a new branch. How to navigate through the 2662 undo tree? 2663- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and ']. 2664 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb). 2665- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the 2666 number of undo levels (with confirmation). 2667- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123]. 2668 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number: 2669 [-99]. 2670- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating. 2671- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once. 2672- Store undo info in a file that survives until the next edit. Then it's 2673 possible to undo to before the current editing session. Combined with 2674 viminfo? 2675- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed, 2676 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file?? 2677 2678 2679Buffer list: 26807 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}". 2681 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that 2682 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the 2683 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only". 26848 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files. 2685 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim. 26868 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check 2687 inode too. 26887 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When 2689 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use. (or the highest 2690 number in use plus one?) 26917 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and 2692 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann) 2693- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the 2694 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb) 2695- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the 2696 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"? 26977 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list. 2698 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson) 26997 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer 2700 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc. 27018 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected. 27028 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$' 2703 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel". 27047 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for 2705 internal use and for when executing an external program? 2706 2707 2708Swap (.swp) files: 27098 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another 2710 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when 2711 there are short file name problems. 27128 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap 2713 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions. 27148 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su. 27158 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same 2716 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file 2717 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup 2718 file the same as the actual file? 2719 Use the code for resolve()? 27207 Store the options 'fileencoding', 'fileformat', etc. in the swapfile, 2721 because they change what will be written to the file. Requires adding 2722 another block to the swapfile. 27237 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another 2724 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible. 27257 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere 2726 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'? 2727 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not 2728 enough room. 27297 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp 2730 or /var/preserve. 2731- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to 2732 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only. 2733- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen). 2734 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'? 2735- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the 2736 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do 2737 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a 2738 cached list of which line is where. 2739 2740 2741Viminfo: 27427 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file, 2743 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone 2744 else's viminfo file. 27458 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file 2746 name. (Schild) 27478 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu). 27488 Remember the last used register for "@@". 27498 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the 2750 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so. 2751 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display 2752 this? 27537 Also store the ". register (last inserted text). 27547 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some 2755 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron) 27566 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting 2757 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the 2758 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code? 2759- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of 2760 "last visited files" and select one to jump to. 2761 2762 2763Modelines: 27648 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid 2765 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it. 2766 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ". 2767- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to 2768 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the 2769 modeline setting. 2770- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings, 2771 no function calls, to avoid a security problem. 2772- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for 2773 .cpp files. 2774- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for 2775 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak. 2776- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed 2777 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir. 2778 2779 2780Options: 27818 Make ":mksession" store buffer-specific options for the specific buffer. 27828 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when 2783 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant) 27847 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only 2785 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the 2786 side effect. 27878 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to 2788 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their 2789 default value. 27908 Should ":mksession" restore the current directory when writing the 2791 session, or the directory where the session file is? Probably need a word 2792 in 'sessionoptions' to make a choice: 2793 "curdir" (cd to current directory when session file was generated) 2794 "sessiondir" (cd to directory of session file) 2795 "nodir" (don't cd at all) 27968 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string 2797 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should 2798 also be supported. 27998 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag 2800 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting 2801 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used. 28027 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas) 28037 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the 2804 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway) 28057 Add plugins for formatting. Should be able to make a choice depending on 2806 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.). 2807 2808 2809External commands: 28108 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen 2811 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd". 28124 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls" 2813 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g. 2814 -f). 28154 Allow direct execution, without using a shell. 28164 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI? 2817 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell! 28184 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands. 2819 2820 2821Multiple Windows: 28227 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits. 28238 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window. 2824 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window. 28257 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab> 2826 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to 2827 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer. 28287 Add a 'winfixwidth' option, similar to 'winfixheight'. 28296 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window. 2830 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new 2831 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would 2832 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel) 28337 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows 2834 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with 2835 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE 2836 too. Requires some form of inter process communication. 2837- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer 2838 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command. 2839 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer 2840 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made. 2841 2842 2843Marks: 28448 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this 2845 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-. 28468 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m? 28478 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times. 2848 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file. 28498 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle 2850 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when 2851 the mark was set. 28527 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers, 2853 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands 2854 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with 2855 ":browse marks"? 28566 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige) 28577 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the 2858 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark. 28597 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group). 2860 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does. 28617 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m 2862 command). 28637 Try to keep marks in the same position when: 2864 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the 2865 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo) 2866 - inserting/deleting characters in a line. 28675 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in 2868 mappings. 28696 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and 2870 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines. 2871 Highlight the marked lines somehow. 2872 2873 2874Digraphs: 28757 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists. 2876 Also the keymap? 2877- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line 2878 below/above). 2879- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special 2880 characters? 28818 Add command to remove (all) digraphs. (Brown) 28827 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At 2883 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32). 2884 2885 2886Writing files: 2887- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for 2888 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to 2889 shortname conversion. 28908 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc. 28918 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode' 2892 file. 28938 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some 2894 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another 2895 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'? 28967 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make 2897 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski) 28986 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like 2899 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'. 29006 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory. 2901 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas) 29026 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#". 2903 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name? 29048 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids 2905 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman) 29067 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations 2907 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition). 29087 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more 2909 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is 2910 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before 2911 waiting for a character to be typed). 29128 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status 2913 line of the window, like "[time]". 2914 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes. 2915 Automatic and/or with a command. 2916 2917 2918Substitute: 29198 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.: 2920 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w". 2921- :s///p prints the line after a substitution. 2922- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern. 29238 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective. 2924 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys. 2925- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or: 2926 :s///N substitutes N times. 2927- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.: 2928 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do 2929 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution. 29307 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex 2931 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the 2932 last line column 5. 29335 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks, 2934 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the 2935 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands. 2936 (Stanislav Sitar) 2937 2938 2939Mouse support: 29408 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'? 29417 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu. 29428 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic 2943 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you 2944 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar) 29457 Checkout sysmouse() for FreeBSD console mouse support. 2946- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console. 2947- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to 2948 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners). 2949- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!? 2950- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to. 2951 2952 2953Crypt and security: 29548 Also crypt the swapfile, each block separately. Change mf_write() and 2955 mf_read(). How to get b_p_key to these functions? 2956 2957 2958Argument list: 29596 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list. 2960 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches 2961 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match. 29626 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers? 2963 2964 2965Registers: 29668 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne) 29678 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping 2968 around in windows. 29698 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for 2970 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r" 2971 for every line. 29726 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the 2973 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What 2974 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.? 2975- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of 2976 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more". 2977- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment 2978 leader when line wraps? 2979- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each 2980 line in the range. 2981- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text 2982 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo") 29838 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register. 2984 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)? 2985 2986 2987Debug mode: 29887 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received. 29898 Add breakpoints for setting an option 29908 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable. 29917 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution 2992 when evaluating to non-zero. 29937 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo. 29947 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al. 2995 2996 2997Various improvements: 29988 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename 2999 the buffer. Buffer may be modified. 30006 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of 3001 errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c". 30026 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5) 30037 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>. 3004 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"? 3005 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command. 30067 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a 3007 window as a buffer-tab selection. 30087 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want 3009 to manipulate text without changing the window layout. 30108 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until 3011 all changes are gone. 30127 Add a ":cpfile", go in the other direction as ":cnfile". 30136 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri) 30148 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim. 3015 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim. 3016 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it 3017 in this Vim. 30188 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as 3019 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"? 30208 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes 3021 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and 3022 have it apply to the following command. 30238 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other 3024 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the 3025 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up. 3026 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'? 30277 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a 3028 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files. 30297 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>, 3030 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize 3031 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key 3032 without modifier (unless mapped). 30338 Add ":breakdel *": delete all breakpoints. 30347 Support ":browse edit" in console, using explorer.vim? 30356 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line. 30368 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map". 30379 Support ACLs on more systems. 30387 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be 3039 highlighted differently. 30408 Allow using "**" as a wildcard in commands like ":next" and ":args". 30418 Provide a way to avoid wildcard expansion. Use double quotes, like in the 3042 shell? :edit "my[file].txt" (currently works if there is no "myf.txt") 30437 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above 3044 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message 3045 (truncated to fit in the space). 30467 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner) 30478 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout) 30488 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise 3049 Visual mode. 30507 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use 3051 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV. 30527 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping 3053 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0". 30547 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name. 30557 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently. 30567 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines? 30578 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney) 30588 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in 3059 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for 3060 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef 3061 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do? 30628 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down. 30636 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain 3064 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron) 30658 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists. 30668 Use confirm/dialog stuff to ask the user, when a file has changed outside 3067 of Vim, if he wants to reload it. Triggered when focus gained, after 3068 shell command, when entering another buffer, etc.. 3069 Also do this when editing a new file, and another application creates 3070 the file before doing ":w" in Vim. 3071 Also check if the file protection has changed. When checking a file into 3072 RCS it is made read-only, when checking out it is made read-write. 30738 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file 3074 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would 3075 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist 3076 does something like this. (Shah) 30777 Use growarray for replace stack. 30787 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution 3079 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis). 30803 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"? 30818 Make "more" prompt accept command characters, like "hit-enter" prompt? 3082 Or extend it with more commands, like "less": 'b' for back, 'j' for one 3083 line down, etc. 30848 For the "--more--" prompt, support the 'b'ack command for more commands. 3085 Possible implementation: Do it at a very low level, caching the lines that 3086 are on the screen (with highlight attributes). Avoids that changes have 3087 to be made for all functions that list something. 30887 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same 3089 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers? 3090- Keep a list of most recently used files for each window, use "[o" to go 3091 back (older file) and "]n" to go forward (newer file) (like ^O and ^I for 3092 jumps) (Webb). Use ":files" and ":ls" to list the files in history order. 30937 Add a history of recently accessed buffer. Maybe make "2 CTRL-^" jump to 3094 the 2nd previously visited buffer, "3 CTRL-^" to the third, etc. Or use 3095 "3 g CTRL-^" for this? 3096- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode. 3097- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file. 3098- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c 3099- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window. 31007 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive 3101 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used. 3102- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home 3103 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc. 3104- Remove mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this. 3105- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set, 3106 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert) 3107- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to 3108 call "play newbeep.au"). 3109- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or 3110 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function. 3111 (Bhatt). 3112- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for 3113 blockwise registers). 3114- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the 3115 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt). 3116- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps 3117 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed, 3118 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't 3119 noticeable. 31209 When using ":w <fname>" it's possible that this file is loaded in another 3121 buffer. Give a warning right away, don't wait for a shell command. 3122- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb). 31237 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters. 3124 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code. 3125- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs 3126 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between 3127 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent 3128 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new 3129 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change. 31308 Add 'formatexpr' option: Used for formatting operator "gq" instead of the 3131 builtin formatting or 'formatprg'. 31328 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the 3133 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for 3134 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a 3135 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line). 3136 ":set autoformat=\\s$". 3137- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern? 31387 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the 3139 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt) 3140- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is 3141 not in column 1. 31426 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a 3143 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext". 31447 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined? 3145- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator? 31468 findmatchlimit() should be able to skip comments. Solves problem of 3147 matching the '{' in /* if (foo) { */ (Fiveash) 3148- Add more redirecting of Ex commands: 3149 :redir @> register (append) 3150 :redir # bufname 3151 :redir #> bufname (append) 3152 :redir = variable 3153 :redir => variable (append) 3154- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with 3155 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set". 3156 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit". 31576 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32 3158 console? (Klaus Hast) 3159- Add :delcr command: 3160 *:delcr* 3161 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines 3162 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is 3163 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range]. 3164 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If 3165 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all 3166 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi} 3167- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat(). 3168- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta 3169 characters from 'isprint'. 3170- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName(). 3171- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area. 3172 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn. 3173- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but 3174 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More 3175 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion. 3176- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()). 3177- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like 3178 Nvi). 3179- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the 3180 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define. 31817 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position. 3182- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that 3183 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'? 31846 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file. 3185- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the 3186 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13 3187 macro). 3188- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files. 3189- Add command like ":ts" that shows the output of "[I" and asks for a match 3190 to jump to. (Zellner) 3191- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also 3192 expanded. Is there a better way to do this? 3193- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source". 31948 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set. 3195- Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null". 3196- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty. 3197- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible! 3198- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down 3199 if it is not the first or last window. 3200- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if 3201 there is one) instead of the file itself. 32027 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example: 3203 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0 3204 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files. 3205- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion. 3206- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as 3207 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so 3208 many percent down the windows). 3209- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the 3210 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the 3211 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'. 3212- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g. 3213 'dictionary' when it is "*.h". 3214- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to 3215 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit). 3216- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent) 3217- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends. 3218- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the 3219 passwd file? (Antwerpen) 3220- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack. 3221- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush". 32228 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw", 3223 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is 3224 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack? 3225 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when 3226 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping? 3227- Use a builtin grep command for ":grep"? Makes it possible to add the 3228 column number. Can use the code of ":helpgrep". 3229 Also support using "**" in filename, so that a directory tree can be 3230 searched. 3231- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time 3232 t_bs is set? (Webb) 3233- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also 3234 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert). 3235- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline (Demirel). Store 3236 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window 3237 (Webb). 3238- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the 3239 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al. 3240- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering 3241 hex codes like 0xff). 3242- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command 3243 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo 3244 the last TYPED command. 3245- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf". 3246- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows. 3247- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/" 3248 should also work? 3249- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL? 32508 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file 3251 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine 3252 name. 3253- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a 3254 trailing '.'. 3255- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a 3256 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use 3257 find_file_in_path(). 3258- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between 3259 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon). 3260- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion. 3261- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a 3262 form usable by Vim on the current machine. 3263- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have 3264 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags. 3265- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one 3266 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains 3267 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline. 3268- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine 3269 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz) 3270- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments. 3271- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt) 3272- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back 3273 to the minimal size. 3274- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */). 3275- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline(). 3276- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb). 3277- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file. 3278- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers. 3279- Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw'). 3280- Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line: 3281 "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ??? 3282- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line 3283 entered)? 3284- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible 3285 as an output filter. 3286- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this. 3287- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line. 3288- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file. 3289- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc. 3290- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char. 3291- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long 3292 lines. 3293- Uppercase characters in ex commands can be made lowercase? 32948 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"), 3295 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option 3296 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex 3297 or in octal. 32987 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more 3299 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument? 3300- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source. 3301 After ":w !command" a wait_return? 3302- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()). 3303- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without 3304 insert line command). 3305- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it. 3306- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals. 3307- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000). 3308- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying. 3309- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace 3310 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>. 3311- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work 3312 yet. 3313- Implement 'redraw' option. 3314- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or 3315 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right). 3316- Use pipes for filtering on Unix. Requires using fork() to be able to read 3317 and write at the same time, or some select() mechanism. 33187 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs 3319 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin. 33208 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can 3321 do it. 3322- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to. 3323- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts, 3324 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list. 3325- Add text justification option. 3326- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on". 3327- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is 3328 off". 3329- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR. 3330- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message. 3331- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but 3332 gives read errors. Check protection before opening. 3333- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied". 3334- If file does not exists, check if directory exists. 3335- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor. 3336- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex 3337 commands. 3338- ":set -w all": list one option per line. 3339- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file. 3340- :table command (Webb) 3341- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ". 3342- Make it possible for a user to define a new operator. Implementation with 3343 internal scripting language or Perl? 3344- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?). 3345- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb). 3346- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files. 3347- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel). 3348- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited 3349 (Demirel). 3350- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc. 3351- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore", 3352 for use in macro's and the like. 3353- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while 3354 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window? 3355- Add possibility to put output of ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for 3356 ":set all". ":r :set all"? 3357- 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really 3358 read-only mode). 3359- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not 3360 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in 3361 a window to become smaller (Webb). 3362- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized 3363 proportionally (Webb). 3364- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use 3365 mkopttab to make option table? 3366- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current 3367 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)? 3368- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster 3369 (Haritsis). 3370- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used 3371 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev) 3372- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the 3373 cursor? 3374- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton). 3375- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)? 33765 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names. 3377 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix. 33788 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore 3379 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in 3380 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams: 3381 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another 3382 option name. 33838 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to 3384 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places. 3385 (Netherton) 33866 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a 3387 space after "(", for example. 33885 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs 3389 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit'). 3390 (Servatius Brandt) 3391 3392 3393From Elvis: 3394- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages? 3395- Add ":alias" command. 3396- fontchanges recognized "\\fB" etc. 3397- Search patterns: 3398 \@ match word under cursor. 3399 but do: 3400 \@w match the word under the cursor? 3401 \@W match the WORD under the cursor? 34028 ":window" command: 3403 :win + next window (up) 3404 :win ++ idem, wrapping 3405 :win - previous window (down) 3406 :win -- idem, wrapping 3407 :win nr to window number "nr" 3408 :win name to window editing buffer "name" 34097 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is 3410 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"? 3411 3412 3413From Nvi: 3414- 'searchincr' option, alias for 'incsearch'? 3415- 'leftright' option, alias for 'nowrap'? 3416- Have a look at "vi/doc/vi.chart", for Nvi specialties. 34178 Add 'keytime', time in 1/10 sec for mapping timeout? 3418- Add 'filec' option as an alternative for 'wildchar'. 34196 Support Nvi command names as an alias: 3420 :bg :hide 3421 :fg fname :buf fname (with 'hidden' set?) 3422 :dis b :ls 3423 :Edit fname :split fname 3424 :Fg fname :sbuf fname (with 'hidden' set?) 3425 :Next :snext (can't do this, already use :Next) 3426 :Previous :sprevious 3427 :Tag :stag 3428 3429 3430From xvi: 3431- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character. 3432- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet) 3433 3434 3435From vile: 3436- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window. 3437- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files 3438 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files. 3439 3440 3441Far future and "big" extensions: 3442- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice 3443 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,... 3444- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in 3445 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac). 3446 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the 3447 current layout mirrored. 3448- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer. 3449- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords, 3450 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.). 3451- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent). 3452- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different 3453 font in each top-level window. 3454- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit'). 3455- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them. 3456- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning. 3457- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to. 3458 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim). 3459- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all 3460 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files 3461 mentioned in the tags file. 3462 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???) 3463 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."? 3464- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other 3465 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter). 3466- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five 3467 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc.. 34684 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands: 3469 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format. 3470 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted. 3471 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list, 3472 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags 3473 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples: 3474 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list 3475- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes 3476 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but 3477 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/. 3478 3479 3480vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl: 3481vim: set fo+=n : 3482