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diff --git a/runtime/doc/gui_w32.txt b/runtime/doc/gui_w32.txt index 6ae7fa2431..eef0aaefb6 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/gui_w32.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/gui_w32.txt @@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ selection. You can use CTRL-Q instead. You can also use CTRL-Q in Insert mode and Command-line mode to get the old meaning of CTRL-V. But CTRL-Q doesn't work for terminals when it's used for control flow. -NOTE: The clipboard support still has a number of bugs. See |todo|. +NOTE: The clipboard support still has a number of bugs. ============================================================================== 4. Shell Commands *gui-shell-win32* diff --git a/runtime/doc/help.txt b/runtime/doc/help.txt index 9ca96dfd79..bb19805a20 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/help.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/help.txt @@ -94,7 +94,6 @@ General subjects ~ |tips.txt| various tips on using Vim |message.txt| (error) messages and explanations |quotes.txt| remarks from users of Vim -|todo.txt| known problems and desired extensions |develop.txt| development of Vim |debug.txt| debugging Vim itself |uganda.txt| Vim distribution conditions and what to do with your money diff --git a/runtime/doc/todo.txt b/runtime/doc/todo.txt deleted file mode 100644 index eeed014fdb..0000000000 --- a/runtime/doc/todo.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,4897 +0,0 @@ -*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.4. Last change: 2014 Dec 06 - - - VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar - - - TODO list for Vim *todo* - -This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired -improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by -subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able -to look for "the next thing to do": - -Priority classification: -9 next point release -8 next release -7 as soon as possible -6 soon -5 should be included -4 nice to have -3 consider including -2 maybe not -1 probably not -- unclassified - - *votes-for-changes* -See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should -be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|. - -Issues can also be entered online: http://code.google.com/p/vim/issues/list -Updates will be forwarded to the vim_dev maillist. Issues entered there will -not be repeated below, unless there is extra information. - - *known-bugs* --------------------- Known bugs and current work ----------------------- - -Patch to fix list range assign crash. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2014 Dec 1) - -Patch to fix range with user command. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Dec 2) -Update Dec 6, with support for user commands. - -When window number in Ex range is too high, give an error? -Only when backwards compatible. - -:s/\n// doesn't change anything. Since 7.4.232? (Eliseo Martínez, 2014 Nov -28) Patch on Issue 287 - -Using vim_snprintf() in window.c can be in a function. - -Regexp problems: -- The NFA engine does not implement the time limit passed to - nfa_regexec_multi() -- Very slow with a long line and Ruby highlighting. (John Whitley, 2014 Dec 4) -- Bug with pattern: '\vblock (\d+)\.\n.*\d+%(\1)@<!\.$' - (Lech Lorens, 2014 Feb 3) -- Issue 164: freeze on regexp search. -- Ignorecase not handled properly for multi-byte characters. (Axel Bender, - 2013 Dec 11) -- Using \@> and \?. (Brett Stahlman, 2013 Dec 21) Remark from Marcin Szamotulski - Remark from Brett 2014 Jan 6 and 7. -- Difference in NFA and old engine. (Brett Stahlman, 2014 Nov 5) -- Bug when using \>. (Ramel, 2014 Feb 2) (Aaron Bohannon, 2014 Feb 13) -- NFA regexp doesn't handle \%<v correctly. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 May 12) -- Does not work with NFA regexp engine: - \%u, \%x, \%o, \%d followed by a composing character -- Bug relating to back references. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Jul 24) -- Using back reference before the capturing group sometimes works with the old - engine, can we do this with the new engine? E.g. with - "/\%(<\1>\)\@<=.*\%(<\/\(\w\+\)>\)\@=" matching text inside HTML tags. -- Diff highlighting can be very slow. (Issue 309) - -Still using freed memory after using setloclist(). (lcd, 2014 Jul 23) -More info Jul 24. Not clear why. - -Patch to make getregtype() return the right size for non-linux systems. -(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Jul 8) -Breaks test_eval. Inefficient, can we only compute y_width when needed? - -Problem that a previous silent ":throw" causes a following try/catch not to -work. (ZyX, 2013 Sep 28) - -Patch to fix recognizing function name. (Ozaki Kiichi, 2014 Nov 28) - -":cd C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc*" does not work, even though the -directory exists. (Sergio Gallelli, 2013 Dec 29) - -The entries added by matchaddpos() are returned by getmatches() but can't be -set with setmatches(). (lcd47, 2014 Jun 29) - -Gvim: when both Tab and CTRL-I are mapped, use CTRL-I not for Tab. - -Problem using ":try" inside ":execute". (ZyX, 2013 Sep 15) - -Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack) - -Change behavior of v:hlsearch? Patch from Christian, 2014 Oct 22. - -Patch to recover from X server restart: hint on Issue 203 (2014 Nov 21 18:44) - -MS-Windows: When editing a file with a leading space, writing it uses the -wrong name. (Aram, 2014 Nov 7) Vim 7.4. - -Add LessCss support. (Jenoma / Alessandro Vioni, 2014 Nov 24) -Now with updated license, Nov 24. - -patch to remove FEAT_OSFILETYPE from fileio.c. (Christian, 2014 Nov 12) - -Value returned by virtcol() changes depending on how lines wrap. This is -inconsistent with the documentation. - -Ukrainian vimtutor. (Issue 288) - -Regenerate the Unicode tables in mbyte.c. -Diff from ZyX, 2014 Dec 6. - -Patch to fix relative numbers. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 17) -Update Nov 26. - -Patch to fix wrong formatting if 'linebreak' is set. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 -Nov 12) - -Patch to avoid recognizing polkit as hog files. (Issue 292) - -Patch to support hex values for setting option value. -(Zyx, 2015 Nov 6) - -On MS-Windows running tests with Mercurial has problems when the fileformat of -the input files are changed. (Ken Takata, Taro Muraoka, 2014 Sep 25) -Update Nov 5. - -MS-Windows: Crash opening very long file name starting with "\\". -(Christian Brock, 2012 Jun 29) - -Patch for this from Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Dec 28: -8 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping - around in windows. - -Using CTRL-L while popup menu is visible behaves like CTRL-P, which is wrong. -Patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2015 Jan 5. -Is this right? Comment from Amadeus Demarzi. -Another patch from Christian, Jan 6. -Comment from Hirohito Higashi, Jan 6. - -Cursorline background color not mixed with character highlight. -Patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Dec 3. - -Problem using diff syntax with cp932 encoding. Idea from Yasuhiro Matsumoto, -patch from Ken Takata (2014 Nov 6) - -ml_updatechunk() is slow when retrying for another encoding. (John Little, -2014 Sep 11) - -Patch to add a different escape sequence for replace mode. -(Omar Sandoval, 2014 Nov 30) - -Calling setreg() with an empty list doesn't work. -Patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Dec 14. - -Extended file attributes lost on write (backupcopy=no). Issue 306. - -Window height computed incorrectly when Vim is minimized. -Patch to fix this. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 19) - -Patch to allow values greater than 255 for ctermfg/ctermbg on Windows. -(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Dec 5) - -Mixup of highlighting when there is a match and SpellBad. (ZyX, 2015 Jan 1) - -When 'balloonexpr' returns a list the result has a trailing newline. -Just remove one trailing newline. (lcd, 2014 Oct 17) - -Make comments in the test Makefile silent. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 24) - -Result of systemlist() does not show whether text ended in line break. -(Bjorn Linse, 2014 Nov 27) - -When in 'comments' "n:x" follows after three-part comment directly it repeats -any one-character from the previous line. (Kartik Agaram, 2014 Sep 19) - -Syntax highlighting slow (hangs) in SASS file. (Niek Bosch, 2013 Aug 21) - -Patch to add the EndOfBuffer highlight group, used instead of NonText for "~" -lines. (Marco Hinz, 2014 Nov 2) - -Adding "~" to 'cdpath' doesn't work for completion? (Davido, 2013 Aug 19) - -Plugins need to make a lot of effort, lots of mappings, to know what happened -before pressing the key that triggers a plugin action. How about keeping the -last N pressed keys, so that they do not need to be mapped? - -":q!" should reset modified flag for current buffer, if another buffer is -modified no need to abandon it again. -Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 21. -Update from Hirohito Higashi, 2014 Nov 21. -With test, Nov 23. - -Wrong scrolling when using incsearch. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2014 Dec 4. -Is this a good solution? - -Can assign to s:type when a function s:type has been defined. -Also the other way around: define a function while a variable with that name -was already defined. -(Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 3) - -Patch to make closed folds line up. (Charles Campbell, 2014 Sep 12) - -Patch for building a 32bit Vim with 64bit MingW compiler. -(Michael Soyka, 2014 Oct 15) - -Delete old code in os_msdos.c, mch_FullName(). - -Redo only remembers the last change. Could use "{count}g." to redo an older -change. How does the user know which change? At least have a way to list -them: ":repeats". - -Patch for glob(), adding slash to normal files. (Ingo Karkat, 2014 Dec 22) - -Using "." to repeat an Ex command puts that command in history. Probably -should not happen. If the command is the result of a mapping it's not put in -history either. (Jacob Niehus, 2014 Nov 2) -Patch from Jacob, Nov 2. - -"hi link" does not respect groups with GUI settings only. (Mark Lodato, 2014 -Jun 8) - -Bug: Autocompleting ":tag/pat" replaces "/pat" with a match but does not -insert a space. (Micha Mos, 2014 Nov 7) - -Patch to add the :bvimgrep command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Nov 12) -Update Dec 6. - -Patch to add argument to :cquit. (Thinca, 2014 Oct 12) - -No error for missing endwhile. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 20) - -start_global_changes() plus end_global_changes() causes problem for -clip_unnamed_plus. (Jason Pleau, 2014 Sep 12) - -Patch to add :arglocal and :arglists. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2014 Aug 6) - -PHP syntax is extremely slow. (Anhad Jai Singh, 2014 Jan 19) - -Spell files use a latin single quote. Unicode also has another single quote: -0x2019. (Ron Aaron, 2014 Apr 4) -New OpenOffice spell files support this with ICONV. But they are not -compatible with Vim spell files. The old files can no longer be downloaded. - -Patch to make FocusGained and FocusLost work in modern terminals. (Hayaki -Saito, 2013 Apr 24) - -Win32: patch to use 64 bit stat() if possible. (Ken Takata, 2014 May 12) -More tests May 14. Update May 29. Update Aug 10. - -The garbage collector may use too much stack. Make set_ref_in_item() -iterative instead of recursive. Test program by Marc Weber (2013 Dec 10) -Patch by Ben Fritz, 2014 Jun 22. -Related: Vim hangs when freeing a lot of objects. Patch by Yasuhiro -Matsumoto, 2014 Aug 26. - -Idea: For a window in the middle (has window above and below it), use -right-mouse-drag on the status line to move a window up/down without changing -its height? It's like dragging the status bar above it at the same time. - -Can we make ":unlet $VAR" use unsetenv() to delete the env var? -What for systems that don't have unsetenv()? - -Patch to add a :domodeline command. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Oct 21) - -This does not give an error: (Andre Sihera, 2014 Mar 21) - vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo if 1 | echo 1' -This neither: (ZyX) - vim -u NONE 1 2 3 -c 'bufdo while 1 | echo 1' - -'viewdir' default on MS-Windows is not a good choice, it's a system directory. -Change 'viewdir' to "$HOME/vimfiles/view" and use 'viewdiralt' to also read -from? - -Problem with upwards search on Windows (works OK on Linux). (Brett Stahlman, -2014 Jun 8) - -Patch to load TCL dynamically. (Ken Takata, 2014 Sep 20) - -Include a plugin manager with Vim? Neobundle seems to be the best currently. -Long message about this from ZyX, 2014 Mar 23. And following replies. -Also see http://vim-wiki.mawercer.de/wiki/topic/vim%20plugin%20managment.html -User view: -- Support multiple sources, basically any http:// URL. Be able to look into - the files before deciding to install. -- Be able to try out a plugin and remove it again with (almost) no traces. -- Each plugin needs a "manifest" file that has the version, dependencies - (including Vim version and features), conflicts, list of files, etc. - Updater uses that to decide what/how to update. - Dependencies can use a URL for specific versions, or short name for scripts - on vim.org. -- Once a plugin is installed it remembers where it came from, updater checks - there. Can manually update when really needed. -- Must be possible to install for one user. Also system wide? -- Can edit plugin config with Vim. Can temporarily disable a plugin. -- Run the update manually, find latest version and install. -- Be able to download without special tools, must work for 95% of users. -Implementation: -- Avoid the 'runtimepath' getting long. Need some other way to keep each - plugin separate. -- When installing or updating, first figure out what needs to be done. This - may involve recursively fetching manifest files for dependencies. Then show - the user what's going to change and ask for OK. -- Scripts on Vim.org must be able to consist of several files. Is zip format - sufficient? Upload the manifest? Or refer to a site that has the manifest? -- Best is to fetch individual files or use a Vimball. Reduces dependency on - tools that might be missing and allows inspection of the files before - installing. -Out of scope: -- Overview of plugins, ratings, comments, etc. That's another world. -- Development work on plugins (although diff with distributed version would be - useful). - -Setting the spell file in a session only reads the local additions, not the -normal spell file. (Enno Nagel, 2014 Mar 29) - -CTRL-] in Visual mode uses the selected text as a tag. This does not work -when preceded with CTRL-W. (Patrick Hemmer, 2014 Jun 28) - -When typing the first character of a command, e.g. "f", then using a menu, the -menu item doesn't work. Clear typeahead when using a menu? - -Editing an ascii file as ucs-2 or ucs-4 causes display errors. -(ZyX, 2014 Mar 30) - -":Next 1 some-arg" does not complain about trailing argument. Also for -various other commands. (ZyX, 2014 Mar 30) - -patch to skip sort if no line matches the expression. -(Christian Brabandt, 2014 Jun 25) - -Patch to add sortuniq(). (Cade Forester, 2014 Mar 19) -Or add uniq() instead? Patch by lcd47, but it has problems. - -Patch to support sorting on floating point number. (Alex Jakushev, 2010 Oct -30) - -Patch to support expression argument to sort() instead of a function name. -Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 May 31. -Or should we add a more general mechanism, like a lambda() function? -Patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Sep 16. - -Patch to fix display of listchars on the cursorline. (Nayuri Aohime, 2013) -Update suggested by Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2014 Nov 25: -https://gist.github.com/presuku/d3d6b230b9b6dcfc0477 - -Patch for XDG base directory support. (Jean François Bignolles, 2014 Mar 4) -Remark on the docs. Should not be a compile time feature. But then what? - -Completion of ":e" is ":earlier", should be ":edit". Complete to the matching -command instead of doing this alphabetically. (Mikel Jorgensen) - -Patch to add v:completed_item. (Shougo Matsu, 2013 Nov 29). - -Patch to get MSVC version in a nicer way. (Ken Takata, 2014 Jul 24) - -Patch to define macros for hardcoded values. (Elias Diem, 2013 Dec 14) - -Several syntax file match "^\s*" which may get underlined if that's in the -highlight group. Add a "\zs" after it? - -Patch to fix temp directories for Windows, so that it works without tweaking. -Issue 28. - -Go through more coverity reports. - -Patch to add ":undorecover", get as much text out of the undo file as -possible. (Christian Brabandt, 2014 Mar 12, update Aug 22) - -Updated spec ftplugin. (Matěj Cepl, 2013 Oct 16) - -Patch to right-align signs. (James Kolb (email james), 2013 Sep 23) - -Patch to handle integer overflow. (Aaron Burrow, 2013 Dec 12) - -With "$" in 'cpoptions' the popup menu isn't fully drawn. (Matti Niemenmaa, -2013 Sep 5) - -Patch to add "ntab" item in 'listchars' to repeat first character. (Nathaniel -Braun, pragm, 2013 Oct 13) A better solution 2014 Mar 5. - -Undo message is not always properly displayed. Patch by Ken Takata, 2013 oct -3. Doesn't work properly according to Yukihiro Nakadaira. - -/[b-a] gives error E16, should probably be E769. - -7 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow - pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to - "lucida_console:h8"). -Patch by Thomas Tuegel, also for GTK, 2013 Nov 24 - -:help gives example for z?, but it does not work. m? and t? do work. - -Python: Extended funcrefs: use func_T* structure in place of char_u* function -names. -(ZyX, 2013 Jul 15, update Sep 22, 24, 28; Update 2013 Dec 15, 2014 Jan 6) -Also fixes Bug: E685 error for func_unref(). (ZyX, 2010 Aug 5) - -Patch to add funcref to Lua. (Luis Carvalho, 2013 Sep 4) -With tests: Sep 5. - -Patch to fix that on suckless Terminal mousewheel up does not work. -(Ralph Eastwood, 2013 Nov 25) - -Discussion about canonicalization of Hebrew. (Ron Aaron, 2011 April 10) - -Checking runtime scripts: Thilo Six, 2012 Jun 6. - -When evaluating expression in backticks, autoload doesn't work. -(Andy Wokula, 2013 Dec 14) - -Using <nr>ifoobar<esc> can slow down Vim. Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 -Dec 13. - -Fold can't be opened after ":move". (Ein Brown) -Patch from Christian Brabandt doesn't fix it completely. - -Patch from Christian Brabandt to preserve upper case marks when wiping out a -buffer. (2013 Dec 9) - -Patch for drag&drop reordering of GUI tab pages reordering. -(Ken Takata, 2013 Nov 22, second one, also by Masamichi Abe) - -Patch to add option that tells whether small deletes go into the numbered -registers. (Aryeh Leib Taurog, 2013 Nov 18) - -Javascript file where indent gets stuck on: GalaxyMaster, 2012 May 3. - -The BufUnload event is triggered when re-using the empty buffer. -(Pokey Rule, 2013 Jul 22) -Patch by Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Jul 22. - -The CompleteDone autocommand needs some info passed to it: -- The word that was selected (empty if abandoned complete) -- Type of completion: tag, omnifunc, user func. - -Patch to allow more types in remote_expr(). (Lech Lorens, 2014 Jan 5) -Doesn't work for string in list. Other way to pass all types of variables -reliably? - -Using ":call foo#d.f()" doesn't autoload the "foo.vim" file. -That is, calling a dictionary function on an autoloaded dict. -Works OK for echo, just not for ":call" and ":call call()". (Ted, 2011 Mar -17) -Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Mar 23. -Not 100% sure this is the right solution. - -Problem caused by patch 7.3.638: window->open does not update window -correctly. Issue 91. - -Patch to add {lhs} to :mapclear: clear all maps starting with {lhs}. -(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Dec 9) - -Exception caused by argument of return is not caught by try/catch. -(David Barnett, 2013 Nov 19) - -8 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when - defined. -Issue 28. - -Patch to fix that 'cedit' is recognized after :normal. (Christian Brabandt, -2013 Mar 19, later message) - -Patch to view coverage of the tests. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 15) - -Patch to add "Q" and "A" responses to interactive :substitute. They are -carried over when using :global. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 19) - -Bug with 'cursorline' in diff mode. Line being scrolled into view gets -highlighted as the cursor line. (Alessandro Ivaldi, 2013 Jun 4) - -Two highlighting bugs. (ZyX, 2013 Aug 18) - -Patch to add the bufferlist() function. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2013 May 5) -May 17: with winlist() and tabpagelist(). -May 19: with local variables. -May 28: with options - -Patch to support 'u' in interactive substitute. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Sep -28) With tests: Oct 9. - -Patch from Christian Brabandt to make the "buffer" argument for ":sign place" -optional. (2013 Jul 12) - -Dialog is too big on Linux too. (David Fishburn, 2013 Sep 2) - -Patch to allow setting w:quickfix_title via setqflist() and setloclist() -functions. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 8, update May 21) -Patch to add getlocstack() / setlocstack(). (Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 14) -Second one. Update May 22. -Update by Daniel Hahler, 2014 Jul 4, Aug 14, Oct 14, Oct 15. - -Patch to make fold updates much faster. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Dec) - -Issue 54: document behavior of -complete, also expands arg. - -- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine - the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz) -Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Apr 20, unfinished. - -Bug: findfile("any", "file:///tmp;") does not work. - -'ff' is wrong for one-line file without EOL. (Issue 77) - -Patch to set antialiasing style on Windows. (Ondrej Balaz, 2013 Mar 14) -Needs a different check for CLEARTYPE_QUALITY. - -In the ATTENTION message about an existing swap file, mention the name of the -process that is running. It might actually be some other program, e.g. after -a reboot. - -Patch to have text objects defined by arbitrary single characters. (Daniel -Thau, 2013 Nov 20, 2014 Jan 29, 2014 Jan 31) -Ben Fritz: problem with 'selection' set to "exclusive". -Updated to current Vim, not quite right yet. (Ben Fritz, 2014 Mar 27) - -Patch to select the next or previous text object if there isn't one under the -cursor. (Daniel Thau, 2013 Nov 20) - -patch to add "combine" flag to syntax commands. (so8res, 2012 Dec 6) - -Bug caused by patch 7.3.1288? Issue 183. -I can't reproduce it. - -Syntax update problem in one buffer opened in two windows, bottom window is -not correctly updated. (Paul Harris, 2012 Feb 27) - -Patch to add assignments in cscope. (Uli Meis, Estabrooks, 2012 Sep 1) -Alternate patch by Gary Johnson, Sep 4. - -Patch to add getsid(). (Tyru, 2011 Oct 2) Do we want this? Update Oct 4. -Or use expand('<sid>')? - -Patch to make confirm() display colors. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Nov 9) - -Patch to add functions for signs. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 27) - -Do we need some way (option) to show the sign column even when there are no -signs? Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22. - -Patch to remove flicker from popup menu. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2013 Aug 15) - -Patch to add 'completeselect' option. Specifies how to select a candidate in -insert completion. (Shougo, 2013 May 29) -Update to add to existing 'completeopt'. 2013 May 30 - -Problem with refresh:always in completion. (Tyler Wade, 2013 Mar 17) - -b:undo_ftplugin cannot call a script-local function. (Boris Danilov, 2013 Jan -7) - -Win32: The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at -compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 dynamically? - -Python: Be able to define a Python function that can be called directly from -Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value, like with -vim.bindeval(). - -Patch for :tabcloseleft, after closing a tab go to left tab. (William Bowers, -2012 Aug 4) - -Patch to improve equivalence classes in regexp patterns. -(Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jan 16, update Jan 17) - -Patch with suggestions for starting.txt. (Tony Mechelynck, 2012 Oct 24) -But use Gnome instead of GTK? - -Should be possible to enable/disable matchparen per window or buffer. -Add a check for b:no_match_paren in Highlight_matching_Pair() (Marcin -Szamotulski, 2012 Nov 8) - -Issue 72: 'autochdir' causes problems for :vimgrep. - -Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after -loading all files. - -Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command -line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only -after starting up? - -Patch to add ":ldo" and ":cdo", execute commands over quickfix list and -location list. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2013 Jun 2) - -8 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters. - Patch by Christian Wellenbrock, 2013 Jul 5. - -MS-Windows resizing problems: -- Windows window on screen positioning: Patch by Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jun - 20. Uses getWindowRect() instead of GetWindowPlacement() -- Win32: When the taskbar is at the top of the screen creating the tabbar - causes the window to move unnecessarily. (William E. Skeith III, 2012 Jan - 12) Patch: 2012 Jan 13 Needs more work (2012 Feb 2) - -Patch to use Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen, 2010 Jul 30) -Latest version: 2011 May 18 -8 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see - http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12 - Version from Guopeng Wen that does this (2010 Dec 27) -Alternative: MSI installer: https://github.com/petrkle/vim-msi/ -Or the one on Issue 279 - -'iminsert' global value set when using ":setlocal iminsert"? (Wu, 2012 Jun 23) - -Patch to append regexp to tag commands to make it possible to select one out -of many matches. (Cody Cutler, 2013 Mar 28) - -Patch to add tagfunc(). Cleaned up by Christian Brabandt, 2013 Jun 22. - -Help for 'b:undo_indent'. (Thilo Six, 2012 May 28) -Also question if examples are correct. - -The input map for CTRL-O in mswin.vim causes problems after CTRL-X CTRL-O. -Suggestion for another map. (Philip Mat, 2012 Jun 18) -But use "gi" instead of "a". Or use CTRL-\ CTRL-O. - -Patch to support user name completion on MS-Windows. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 -Aug 16) - -When there are no command line arguments ":next" and ":argu" give E163, which -is confusing. Should say "the argument list is empty". - -xterm supports escape sequences to mark a paste operation. Need to be -enabled. (Bruno Sutic, 2014 Jul 11) How to know the terminal supports this? - -Patch to have the fold and sign column and at the last line of the buffer. -(Marco Hinz, 2014 Sep 25) -Alternate suggestion: let all columns continue, also the number column. - -Patch to add tests for if_xcmdsrv.c., Jul 8, need some more work. (Brian Burns) -New tests Jul 13. Update Jul 17. Discussion Jul 18. - -When running Vim in silent ex mode, an existing swapfile causes Vim to wait -for a user action without a prompt. (Maarten Billemont, 2012 Feb 3) -Do give the prompt? Quit with an error? - -Patch to list user digraphs. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Apr 14) - -Patch to add digraph() function. (Christian Brabandt, 2013 Aug 22, update Aug -24) - -Patch for input method status. (Hirohito Higashi, 2012 Apr 18) - -Update Vim app icon (for Gnome). (Jakub Steiner, 2013 Dec 6) - -Patch to use .png icons for the toolbar on MS-Windows. (Martin Gieseking, 2013 -Apr 18) - -":cd" doesn't work when current directory path contains "**". -finddir() has the same problem. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2012 Jan 10) -Requires a rewrite of the file_file_in_path code. - -Should use has("browsefilter") in ftplugins. Requires patch 7.3.593. - -Update for vim2html.pl. (Tyru, 2013 Feb 22) - -Patch to sort functions starting with '<' after others. Omit dict functions, -they can't be called. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2011 Oct 11) - -Patch to pass list to or(), and() and xor(). (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2012 Feb 8) - -Patch to improve "it" and "at" text object matching. (Christian Brabandt, 2011 -Nov 20) - -`] moves to character after insert, instead of the last inserted character. -(Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Dec 9) - -Plugin for Modeleasy. (Massimiliano Tripoli, 2011 Nov 29) - -BufWinLeave triggers too late when quitting last window in a tab page. (Lech -Lorens, 2012 Feb 21) - -Patch for 'transparency' option. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17) -Only for MS-Windows. No documentation. Do we want this? - -Patch to support cursor shape in Cygwin console. (Ben bgold, 2011 Dec 27) - -Patch to support UTF-8 for Hangul. (Shawn Y.H. Kim, 2011 May 1) -Needs more work. Pinged 2012 Jan 4. - -Issue 64: when 'incsearch' is on can't paste LF on command line. - -On MS-Windows a temp dir with a & init causes system() to fail. (Ben Fritz, -2012 Jun 19) - -'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and -'list' is set. (Dennis Preiser) -Patch 7.3.116 was the wrong solution. -Christian Brabandt has another incomplete patch. (2011 Jul 13) - -With concealed text mouse click doesn't put the cursor in the right position. -(Herb Sitz) Fix by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 16. Doesn't work properly, -need to make the change in where RET_WIN_BUF_CHARTABSIZE() is called. - -Syntax region with 'concealends' and a 'cchar' value, 'conceallevel' set to 2, -only one of the two ends gets the cchar displayed. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 Aug -21, Ben Fritz, 2010 Sep 14) - -The :syntax cchar value can only be a single character. It would be useful to -support combining characters. (Charles Campbell) - -'cursorline' works on a text line only. Add 'cursorscreenline' for -highlighting the screen line. (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Mar 31) - -Win32: Patch to use task dialogs when available. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 Sep 17) -New feature, requires testing. Made some remarks. - -Win32: Patch for alpha-blended icons and toolbar height. (Sergiu Dotenco, 2011 -Sep 17) Asked for feedback from others. - -Win32: Cannot cd into a directory that starts with a space. (Andy Wokula, 2012 -Jan 19) - -Need to escape $HOME on Windows? (ZyX, 2011 Jul 21, discussion 2013 Jul 4) -Can't simply use a backslash, \$HOME has a different meaning already. -Would be possible to use $$HOME where $HOME is to be used. - -"2" in 'formatoptions' not working in comments. (Christian Corneliussen, 2011 -Oct 26) - -Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20) - -With "unamedplus" in 'clipboard' pasting in Visual mode causes error for empty -register. (Michael Seiwald, 2011 Jun 28) I can't reproduce it. - -Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26) - -When using a Vim server, a # in the path causes an error message. -(Jeff Lanzarotta, 2011 Feb 17) - -Setting $HOME on MS-Windows is not very well documented. Suggestion by Ben -Fritz (2011 Oct 27). - -Bug: Windows 7 64 bit system freezes when 'clipboard' set to "unnamed" and -doing ":g/test/d". Putting every delete on the clipboard? (Robert Chan, 2011 -Jun 17) - -When there is a ">" in a line that "gq" wraps to the start of the next line, -then the following line will pick it up as a leader. Should get the leader -from the first line, not a wrapped line. (Matt Ackeret, 2012 Feb 27) - -Using ":break" or something else that stops executing commands inside a -":finally" does not rethrow a previously uncaught exception. (ZyX, 2010 Oct -15) - -Vim using lots of memory when joining lines. (John Little, 2010 Dec 3) - -BT regexp engine: After trying a \@> match and failing, submatches are not -cleared. See test64. - -Changes to manpage plugin. (Elias Toivanen, 2011 Jul 25) - -Patch to make "z=" work when 'spell' is off. Does this have nasty side -effects? (Christian Brabandt, 2012 Aug 5, Update 2013 Aug 12) -Would also need to do this for spellbadword() and spellsuggest(). - -Patch for variable tabstops. On github (Christian Brabandt, 2014 May 15) -Update Aug 16 (email). - -On 64 bit MS-Windows "long" is only 32 bits, but we sometimes need to store a -64 bits value. Change all number options to use nropt_T and define it to the -right type. - -string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code? -(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23) - -Make 'formatprg' global-local. (Sung Pae) - -When doing "redir => s:foo" in a script and then "redir END" somewhere else -(e.g. in a function) it can't find s:foo. -When a script contains "redir => s:foo" but doesn't end redirection, a -following "redir" command gives an error for not being able to access s:foo. -(ZyX, 2011 Mar 27) - -When setqflist() uses a filename that triggers a BufReadCmd autocommand Vim -doesn't jump to the correct line with :cfirst. (ZyX, 2011 Sep 18) - -Behavior of i" and a" text objects isn't logical. (Ben Fritz, 2013 Nov 19) - -7 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists. -Patch from Christian Brabandt, 2011 Aug 19. - -maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a -mapping, how to restore the script ID? - -Bug in try/catch: return with invalid compare throws error that isn't caught. -(ZyX, 2011 Jan 26) - -When setting a local option value from the global value, add a script ID that -indicates this, so that ":verbose set" can give a hint. Check with options in -the help file. - -After patch 7.3.097 still get E15. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 18) -Also for another example (ZyX, 2011 Jan 24) - -Build problem with small features on Mac OS X 10.6. (Rainer, 2011 Jan 24) - -"0g@$" puts '] on last byte of multi-byte. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 22) - -Patch to addd TextDeletePost and TextYankPost events. (Philippe Vaucher, 2011 -May 24) Update May 26. - -Patch for :tabrecently. (Hirokazu Yoshida, 2012 Jan 30) - -Problem with "syn sync grouphere". (Gustavo Niemeyer, 2011 Jan 27) - -Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt, -2010 Dec 18) - -With a filler line in diff mode, it isn't displayed in the column with line -number, but it is in the sign column. Doesn't look right. (ZyX 2011 Jun 5) -Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jun 5. Introduces new problems. - -Add jump() function. (Marcin Szamotulski, 2013 Aug 29) -Is this needed? CTRL-O and CTRL-I do the same, just more difficult to use. - -8 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error". -Patch by Christian Brabandt, uses ]e [e ]t and [t. 2011 Aug 9. - -8 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once - after typing something. -Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a -function that resets did_cursorhold. -Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 May 6. - -Add event for when the text scrolls. A bit like CursorMoved. Also a similar -one for insert mode. Use the event in matchparen to update the highlight if -the match scrolls into view. - -7 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----". -Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27. -Update by Ben Fritz, with fix for TOhtml. (2011 Jul 30) - -9 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to - avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33. -Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2011 Jul 27. - -Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22) -Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g - -In the sandbox it's not allowed to do many things, but it's possible to change -or set variables. Add a way to prevent variables from being changed in the -sandbox? E.g.: ":protect g:restore_settings". - -Win32: tear-off menu does not work when menu language is German. (Markus -Bossler, 2011 Mar 2) Fixed by 7.3.095? - -Version of netbeans.c for use with MacVim. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2010 Nov 18) - -7.3.014 changed how backslash at end of line works, but still get a NUL when -there is one backslash. (Ray Frush, 2010 Nov 18) What does the original ex -do? - -Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov -22) - -New esperanto spell file can't be processed. (Dominique Pelle, 2011 Jan 30) -- move compflags to separate growarray? -- instead of a regexp use a hashtable. Expand '?', '*', '+'. What would be - the maximum repeat for * and +? - -"L'Italie" noted as a spell error at start of the sentence. (Dominique Pelle, -2011 Feb 27) - -Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the -^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer? - -'colorcolumn' has higher priority than hlsearch. Should probably be the other -way around. (Nazri Ramliy, 2013 Feb 19) - -When Vim is put in the background (SIGTSTP) and then gets a SIGHUP it doesn't -exit. It exists as soon as back in the foreground. (Stephen Liang, 2011 Jan -9) Caused by vim_handle_signal(SIGNAL_BLOCK); in ui.c. - -g` not working correctly when using :edit. It works OK when editing a file on -the command line. (Ingo Karkat, 2011 Jan 25) - -Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim -crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17) - -Patch to add FoldedLineNr highlighting: different highlighting for the line -number of a closed fold. (eXerigumo Clanjor, 2013 Jul 15) - -Regexp engine performance: -- Profiling: - ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/ruby.vim - ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/loop.vim - ./vim -u NONE -s ~/vim/test/alsa.vim - ./vim -s ~/vim/test/todo.vim - ./vim -s ~/vim/test/xml.vim - Dominique Pelle: xmlSyncDT is particularly slow (Jun 7) -- More test files from the src/pkg/regexp/testdata directory in the Go repo. -- Performance tests: - - Using asciidoc syntax. (Marek Schimara, 2013 Jun 6) - - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune) - - ~/vim/text/edl.svg (also XML) - - glts has five tests. (May 25) - - ~/vim/test/slowsearch - - ~/vim/test/rgb.vim - - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use - 'hlsearch'. - - Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to - reproduce it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch - 7.2.274. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) Generally, folding with - 'foldmethod' set to "syntax" is slow. Do profiling to find out why. - -Patch to add 'systemencoding', convert between 'encoding' and this for file -names, shell commands and the like. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 14) -Assume the system converts between the actual encoding of the filesystem to -the system encoding (usually utf-8). - -Patch to add GUI colors to the terminal, when it supports it. (ZyX, 2013 Jan -26, update 2013 Dec 14, another 2014 Nov 22) - -Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM. -Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2) - -'beval' option should be global-local. - -setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11) - -7 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make - file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski) - Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Oct 21. - -With "tw=55 fo+=a" typing space before ) doesn't work well. (Scott Mcdermott, -2010 Oct 24) - -Patch to add random number generator. (Hong Xu, 2010 Nov 8, update Nov 10) -Alternative from Christian Brabandt. (2010 Sep 19) - -Messages in message.txt are highlighted as examples. - -When using cp850 the NBSP (0xff) is not drawn correctly. (Brett Stahlman, 2010 -Oct 22) 'isprint' is set to "@,161-255". - -":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3) - -'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15) - -C-indenting: A matching { in a comment is ignored, but intermediate { are not -checked to be in a comment. Implement FM_SKIPCOMM flag of findmatchlimit(). -Issue 46. - -Mac with X11: clipboard doesn't work properly. (Raf, 2010 Aug 16) - -Using CompilerSet doesn't record where an option was set from. E.g., in the -gcc compiler plugin. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Dec 13) - -":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by -accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15) - -Don't call check_restricted() for histadd(), setbufvar(), settabvar(), -setwinvar(). - -Patch for GVimExt to show an icon. (Dominik Riebeling, 2010 Nov 7) - -When writing a file > 2Gbyte, the reported number of bytes is negative. -(Antonio Colombo, 2010 Dec 18) - -Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting. -(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30, again 2011 Jul 2) - -When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines -instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10) - -Gui menu edit/paste in block mode insert only inserts in one line (Bjorn -Winckler, 2011 May 11) -Requires a map mode for Insert mode started from blockwise Visual mode. - -Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read -back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13) - -Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11) -Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10) - -CreateFile and CreateFileW are used without sharing, filewritable() fails when -the file was already open (e.g. script is being sourced). Add FILE_SHARE_READ| -FILE_SHARE_WRITE in mch_access()? (Phillippe Vaucher, 2010 Nov 2) - -Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29) -Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner) - -Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010 -Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433? - -I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice. -Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running -an external command). - -Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20) - -Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with -non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7) - -iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009 -Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail -or replace with a character and continue? - -Add local time at start of --startuptime output. -Requires configure check for localtime(). -Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec. - -Patch to add "combine" to :syntax, combines highlight attributes. (Nate -Soares, 2012 Dec 3) - -Patch to make ":hi link" also take arguments. (Nate Soares, 2012 Dec 4) - -Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3) -Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in -path. - -Test 51 fails when language set to German. (Marco, 2011 Jan 9) -Dominique can't reproduce it. - -'ambiwidth' should be global-local. - -":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed -like it has ":keepjumps" before it. - -Coverity: ask someone to create new user: Dominique. -Check if there are new reported defects: http://scan.coverity.com/rung2.html - -Patch to support :undo absolute jump to file save number. (Christian Brabandt, -2010 Nov 5) - -Patch to use 'foldnextmax' also for "marker" foldmethod. (Arnaud Lacombe, 2011 -Jan 7) - -Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17) -Only with "vim -u NONE". - -Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8) - -With 'wildmode' set to "longest:full,full" and pressing Tab once the first -entry in wildmenu is highlighted, that shouldn't happen. (Yuki Watanabe, 2011 -Feb 12) - -Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width -characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq) - -Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26) - -Using ']' as the end of a range in a pattern requires double escaping: - /[@-\\]] (Andy Wokula, 2011 Jun 28) - -Syntax priority problem. (Charles Campbell, 2011 Sep 15) - -When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded. -Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9) - -When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number, -not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a -string value. - -Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2) - -For running gvim on an USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command -line argument -noregister. - -When using an expression in 'statusline' leading white space sometimes goes -missing (but not always). (ZyX, 2010 Nov 1) - -When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one -doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended? - -Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo". -(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15. -Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ? -There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view. -Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work? - -":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax -highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier -to avoid changing 'eventignore'? - -Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6) -Probably needs a bit of work. - -Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2) -Added test, updates, June 23. -Updated for 7.4: http://litcave.rudi.ir/farsi_vim.diff -With modification for Tatweel character: https://dpaste.de/VmFw -Remark from Ameretat Reith (2014 Oct 13) - -List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiwara, 2009 Jul 18) -Are they all OK? Update Jul 22. - -Win32: Improved Makefile for MSVC. (Leonardo Valeri Manera, 2010 Aug 18) - -Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15) - -Win32: Patch for enabling quick edit mode in console. (Craig Barkhouse, 2010 -Sep 1) - -Win32: Patch for using .png files for icons. (Charles Peacech, 2012 Feb 5) - -Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor -on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7) - -Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong, -2009 Jul 18) - -Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in -window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12) -Needs more work. - -Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8) - -When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a -few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28) - -'cmdwinheight' is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value. -(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15) - -Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark -J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31) - -When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done -for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10) - -Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9) - -When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line. - -":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window, -because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in -ex_docmd.c. - -Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)" -Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs. - -string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used -for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv. - -Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed. - -'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul -20) - -Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview(). - -Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with -SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18) - -When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then -indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one. -(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17) - -Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands -are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11) -Ignore window options when not in the right window? -Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer -that doesn't have a window. - -When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo -doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6) - -getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not -displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer. - -":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u". - -There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what -was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted -perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo. - -Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4) - -Support a 'systemencoding' option (for Unix). It specifies the encoding of -file names. (Kikuchan, 2010 Oct 5). Useful on a latin1 or double-byte Asian -system when 'encoding' is "utf-8". - -Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which -does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22) - -opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change -height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not -very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22) - -Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand. -(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3) - -Session file generates error upon loading, cause by --remote-silent-tab. -(7tommm (ytommm) 2010 Nov 24) - -Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing -char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4) - -Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R. -Haskell, 2010 Aug 24) - -This does not work yet: "a\(%C\)" (get composing characters into a submatch). - -A function on a dictionary is not profiled. (ZyX, 2010 Dec 25) - -Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish -messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages -es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle, -2009 Jan 26) - -When $HOME contains special characters, such as a comma, escape them when used -in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5) -Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped. - -Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from -a modeline. - -Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by -Sergey Khorev) - -Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text -part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient. - -netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row -number to be below last visible line. - -After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not -correct. Don't use it in the swap file. - -Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off. -(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29) - -shellescape() depends on 'shellslash' for quoting. That doesn't work when -'shellslash' is set but using cmd.exe. (Ben Fritz) -Use a different option or let it depend on whether 'shell' looks like a -unix-like shell? - -Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a -register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break. -(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16) - -Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23) -Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/ - -Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we -make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24) - -When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can -still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names? - -"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text. -(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2) - -Update src/testdir/main.aap. - -Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way -that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the -ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1) -Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...". - -Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6) -Maybe call it v:motiontype. - -MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew" -doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer -probably causes this. - -'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura, -2009 Jan 16) - -Patch to support strikethrough next to bold and italic. (Christian Brabandt, -2013 Jul 30) Update from Ken Takata, 2013 Oct 12. - -Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for -":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the -option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument -is executed. - -":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the -first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this. -Similar problem with ":e". (Marc Montu, 2014 Apr 22) - -Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3 -laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1) -Works OK with Vim in an xterm. - -Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change -anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7) - -On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it -doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9) -Shell expansion returns unexpanded string? -Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start? - -":unlet $VAR" doesn't work. - -When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with -'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the -fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for -the buffer to be unmodified. -Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have -another look at it. - -c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0". -(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7) - -You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an -error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008 -Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is -at the other match for 0xBF. - -When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the -argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19) - -Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a -backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5) - -When 'rightleft' is set, cursorcolumn isn't highlighted after the end of a -line. It's also wrong in folds. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 21) - -Using an insert mode expression mapping, cursor is not in the expected -position. (ZyX, 2010 Aug 29) - -After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33 -(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the -command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling? - -":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim -Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14. - -Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 -Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl. - -When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work -either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses -put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice? - -Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly: -Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?') -Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', ''] -Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails? -(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8) - -Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12) - -ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value. - -Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[". -(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid -escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for -an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c. -This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008 -July 7) -Using --remote-silent while the current directory has a # in the name does not -work, the # needs to be escaped. (Tramblay Bruno, 2012 Sep 15) - -When using remote-silent the -R flag is not passed on. (Axel Bender, 2012 May -31) - -Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't -work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery -Kondakoff, 2009 May 13) - -Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull, -2008 May 14) - -Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21) -Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c". -'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27) - -Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008 -Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately? - -Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23) -Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2. - -8 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab - for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are - several). - Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses - taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so - that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb) -Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2013 May 31. - -Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable. - -The utf class table is missing some entries: - 0x2212, minus sign - 0x2217, star - 0x2500, bar - 0x26ab, circle - -Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the -line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1) - -Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is -changed or the window is resized. - -Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008 -Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7. - -C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL -with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one. -Try to reproduce at work. - -Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19) -Is there a way to list all the files first? - -When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may -result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr -16) - -Fail to edit file after failed register access. Error flag remains set? -(Lech Lorens, 2010 Aug 30) - -Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19) -Await response to question to make the register writable. - -src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a -remark why. - -Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct -1) - -In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what -each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices" - -try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15) - -try/catch not working when inside a for loop. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 25) - -":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window. -Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck) - -Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold. - -Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences. -Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html - -Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26) -Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007 -Jul 31) - -C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error. -(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1) - -When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge -and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31) - -Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7 - Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs - -New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge) - -":echoe" in catch block stops processing, while this doesn't happen outside of -a catch block. (ZyX, 2011 Jun 2) - -'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu -Likonen, March 19) - -Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some -other way to test buffer-local autocommands. - -The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it -appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding -matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24. - -When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every -character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for -'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which -(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE. - -Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11) -Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org. - -Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes -back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24) -Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6. - -Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6) -No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix. - -Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the -terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7) - -Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18) - -Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib, -but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument, -that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21) - -When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking? - -Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul -Coronado, 2008 Oct 30) - -Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the -popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and -size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu. -This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22. - -Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has -a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT -isn't right? - -When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading -it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer) - -Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and -then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include -files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15) -Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs -indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in -":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like -in ":1find /**/file". This is for files that unix "find" can find very -quickly. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian -Kelling, 2008 July 4) - -When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the -parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape -neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on -particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008 -Jun 3) -However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if -the user put quotes around the expanded item? - -A throw in a function causes missing an endif below the call. (Spiros -Bousbouras, 2011 May 16) - -Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory. -Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp). - -Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a -switch list is noticed: - switch (i) - { - case 1: - foobar: - } - -Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation. - -Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim -with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then -go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time -moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25) - -Windows installer should install 32-bit version of right-click handler also on -64-bit systems. (Brian Cunningham, 2011 Dec 28) - -Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry. -Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry. -Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an -argument list or opening each file in a separate tab. -(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26) - -Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap. -(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16) - -Dos uninstal may delete vim.bat from the wrong directory (e.g., when someone -makes his own wrapper). Add a magic string with the version number to the -.bat file and check for it in the uninstaller. E.g. - # uninstall key: vim7.3* - -Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov, -2007 Feb 8) - -Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in -set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME? - -Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7) - -Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias -Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31. -New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other -patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22) - -Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias -Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4. - -Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis, -2007 Feb 18) -Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems. - -Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages -label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6. - -Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen -with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael -Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17) - -Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing -pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var. -Patches from Ken Takata might help (2014 Apr 17) - -Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17) - -Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing. -Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape() -only takes 'shellslash' into account. - -Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16. -Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12) -Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'fileencodings' is set -properly? - -Add a few features to xxd. (Vadim Vygonets, 2013 Nov 11) -Patches: 2013 Nov 19 -1: Add -e: little endian hexdump -2: Add -o: add offset to displayed position -3: Change displayed file position width to 8 chars - -Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega, -2007 Jun 21) - -When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008 -Jun 18) - -If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work. - -Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for -windows. (Adam George) - -F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a -modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like -K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2) - -UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear -to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2) - -In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through -the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28) - -C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26) - -":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop. - -When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479 -error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20) - -Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then -use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no". - -":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'. - -The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put -it in keep_msg? - -Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match" -error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file -name literally, and esp. if there is only one name. - -Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes -longer than 2 seconds. - -Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow. -Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24) -Also for ":w" without a file name. -The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand. - -input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file -name? - -Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed? - -When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped. -(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right) -Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\(" -will be seen as a path separator plus "\(". - -gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (. -This also fails with --remote. - -When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye, -2008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in -all places where buf_freeall() is called? - -aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page. - -When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset? -(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27) - -Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change -the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15) - -Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the -superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079. - -Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first -character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list". - -Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006 -Jun 5) - -Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov -2008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip -Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list. - -In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error, -but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 -Jul 22) - -There should be something about spell checking in the user manual. - -Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word, -":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z=" -somehow? Or use a new function. - -Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21) - -Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is -moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check -that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars'). - -The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3) - -When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the -cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change -the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27) - -Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page -has been created. - -Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the -shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the -fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake", -background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it. -A.Politz may work on this. - -These two abbreviations don't give the same result: - let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>" - cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR> - cabbr YYY xyz<Left> - -Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command -partly. (2006 Dec 7) - -In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another -buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to -reload it then? - -New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did -previous version. - -For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg. - -Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set, -only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors. - -Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory -tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that -doesn't contain other directories. - -Default for 'background' is wrong when using xterm with 256 colors. -Table with estimates from Matteo Cavalleri, 2014 Jan 10. - -Setting 'background' resets the Normal background color: - highlight Normal ctermbg=DarkGray - set background=dark -This is undesired, 'background' is supposed to tell Vim what the background -color is, not reset it. - -Linux distributions: -- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is - known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help - xfree-xterm". -- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc. - -Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the -start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to -show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the -middle? - -When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it -(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the -connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of -dying? Also relevant when running in a console. - -Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended. - -When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the -current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where -the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis) - -When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened. -Only skip shortening for ":cc"? - -Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice* - - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim - - setting 'mouse' to "a" - - getting colors in xterm - - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc. - -Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles -Campbell 2006 Jul 06. - -Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6) - -A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy -Wokula, 2007 Aug 25) - -Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna -Dara, 2006 June 21) - -Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large -number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6) - -After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center -the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands. - -Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing? - -Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for -copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X -error and stop using the connection to the server. - -Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006 -Jul 26, Gary Johnson) - -Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski, -2008 Sep 29) - -In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can -check the result of has("patch13"). - -Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway through after saving view -and restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25) - -Netrw has trouble executing autocommands only for a directory. Add <isdir> -and <notisdir> to autocommand patterns? Also <isfile>? - -Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to -put backslashes before special chars, only for white space. - -Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window, -resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other. - -In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way, -can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects? - -When right after "vim file", "M" then CTRL-W v the windows are scrolled -differently and unexpectedly. Caused by patch 7.2.398? - -The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should -be only one. - -It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print -the function name before resolving it to a number? - let d = {} - fun! d.foo() - echo "here" - endfun - call d.foo(9) - -Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are -only set after Visual moded is ended. -Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be -used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt) - -Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the -output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu) -Should we use 'termencoding' for this? - -Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is -"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File -name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex -Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1) - -printf() uses the field width in bytes. Can it be made character width, -perhaps with a modifier? What does Posix say? - -Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script. -(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 ) - -Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir -as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen) - -Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007 -Jan 1) - -Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr -23) - -":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using -tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007 -Jun 18) - -xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for -buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow(). -Xterm 224 supports it! - -When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion -text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is -latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24. - -Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function? - -Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is -no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11) - -In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the -VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas, -2007 Oct 16) - -Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it. - -When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously -typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 -Sep 3, 11) - -X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and -pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23) -clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length. -Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection. -Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before -clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code. - -":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect -this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)? - -When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle. -Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are -restored. (Luc St-Louis) - -Add an option for a minimal text length before inserting a line break for -'textwidth'. Avoids very short lines when a very long word follows. -(Kartik Agaram) - - -At next release: -- Build a huge version by default. -- Improve plugin handling: Automatic updates, handle dependencies? - E.g. Vundle: https://github.com/gmarik/vundle - - -More patches: -- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11) - Needs a few tests. -- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3) -- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct - 21) -- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs - patch May 10) -- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric - Arnold, 2006 May 22) -- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file. - (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14) -- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30) -- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16) -- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad - Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a - character at a time? -- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13) -- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana - Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17) -- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and - "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18) -- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul - 21) -- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in - vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20) -- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben - Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22. -- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008 - Sep 13) -- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29, - Docs patch Oct 30, update David Burgin (glts) 2013 Aug 24, 2014 Oct 10) -- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by - Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts - more friendly for the Vim distribution. - New version received 2008 Jan 6. - No maintenance in two years... -- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3) - -Awaiting updated patches: -9 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns): - 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac? - New patch 2004 Jun 16 - - selecting proportional font breaks display - - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this. - - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt) - - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work. - (Alan Schmitt) -9 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search() - be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution. -8 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24) -8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible. - Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3. -7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto. - Update 2004 Sep 6. - How does this work? Missing comments. -8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina - (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations... -7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it" appears - before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3. -- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work - for multi-byte characters. -- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind. -- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5) - use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not - been given values. - Add section in help files for these highlight groups? -8 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm - with an ESC sequence. - xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor: - <Esc>]12;?<Bel> - Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit. -7 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin - Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon) -- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a - line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth'). - Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20. -8 Add functions: - gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto) - Update 2004 Sep 10 - Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24) - Search in 'runtimepath'? - More docs needed about how to use this. - How to get the messages into the .po files? - strchars() Like strlen() and strwidth() but counting characters - instead of bytes. - confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical - layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg) - Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag - (2003 May 13) - raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for - Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ ) - taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches. - useful for interactive things or completion. - col('^') column of first non-white character. - Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', '')) - + 1", but that's ugly. -7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions - better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10) -- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the - quickfix window (2004 dec 2) -7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right - to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli) -8 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk - (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock. -7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie) -8 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's - done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1. -7 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David - Kotchan has a patch for it) -8 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See - patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface. - Or use emacs server kind of thing? -7 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25. -- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at - get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram, - incomplete patch Mar 18) -- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work. - - -MSDOS and Win32: -8 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's - a good fallback, thus use: - $HOME - $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH - SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE); - $USERPROFILE - SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE); - $ALLUSERSPROFILE - $SYSTEMDRIVE\ - C:\ -8 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have - special keys for these. Should use modifier + key. -8 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift. - Should work like in the GUI version. -8 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for - STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names. -8 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when - it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command? -8 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file" - followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be - another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc. -8 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going - to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to - backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth) - - -Win32 console: -9 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its - long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister) - 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor. - 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable. - 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1 - 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name. - 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file. - 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed - and the file is not saved. - Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its - long name. -7 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals, - besides the console. -8 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes) -9 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with - <C-S-i>? -9 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on - a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI? -8 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__ - is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around? -7 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'? - Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when - exiting. - - -Macintosh: -7 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both. - Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac - (Jack) - dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html -8 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn, - 2006 Sept 28) -8 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh. -8 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh. -9 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be - a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone) -9 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly. - - -"Small" problems: -- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and - CTRL-Q. Add an option for it? -- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed, - otherwise it's not clear where it comes from. -- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the - Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing. - (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1) - Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the - cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text. - Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing - the command. -9 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_ - functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz) -9 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't - edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't, - file isn't readonly, etc. -8 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used, - the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited - normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure - the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this. -7 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to - requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) -8 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and - redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column - for redirection. -7 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use - 'termencoding'. -- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the - 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed. -8 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor - line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor - to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when - using the horizontal scrollbar. -7 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed - with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the - invocations belong together. -8 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this - buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams) -8 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the - tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the - UnxUtils.zip archive. - Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter - Briscoe says it's not as good. -8 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call - edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in - an allocated structure? -8 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing - ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly) -7 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte - character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail - byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[] - (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8). -7 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an - ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found. - Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions. -7 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode - "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second - delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel) -7 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the - bottom window only bigger as much as needed. -7 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere. - Remove? (Dan Sharp) -9 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This - causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining - script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command": - "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining - script can be called. -8 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po, - but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still - works. -8 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with - CTRL-C. -8 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line() - is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this - configurable? -8 'hkmap' should probably be global-local. -9 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes - the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work - then. (Pritesh Mistry) -8 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save - "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()? -8 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+" - is a multi-byte character. -8 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is - always written, even when the original file already exists. -9 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file - being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being - written. -7 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer. -8 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose - set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when - 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'. -8 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose", - so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values. - When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when - ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'. -8 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global - variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez) -9 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing - swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give - a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating - one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14. -7 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes. - Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs. -7 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed - command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's - covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y - direction, not horizontally? -8 ":hardcopy": - - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16. - - Need to handle unprintable characters. - - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform - dithering to make grey text? - - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total - number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams) - - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'? - - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break. - - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'. - Default to black when no syntax highlighting. - - Be able to print a window in diff mode. - - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate - one for B&W printing (if that can be detected). -8 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the - text in following lines where the linebreak changes. -8 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a - block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it. -8 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert - in lines that don't extend into the block? -8 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O - yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev) - Doing "hl" first appears to make it work. -8 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from - 'linebreak'. -8 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection - that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab. - (Helmut Stiegler) -9 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When - 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending - on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of - 'magic' in history. (Margo) -9 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for - ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc". -9 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern - isn't updated). -9 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled - correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which - cause another redraw, etc. -8 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path() - must escape special characters in the pattern. -8 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an - existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use - ":w!!" for that. - Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and - restore file to readonly afterwards. - Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue. -7 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal - selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark - Waggoner) -8 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window - title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no - need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\". -6 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is - annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of - colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout. -8 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a - way to avoid using the builtin termcap. -8 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also - recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm. - See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style. -8 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert. -8 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator - (e.g., ":w"). -8 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for - "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long. -8 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column - for ">>". -8 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long - script in do_cmdline(). -8 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the - maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that - this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have - changes. -8 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT - filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim". -8 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to - check for file marks. This can be slow. -7 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change - add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's - needed. - Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key. -8 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option - to skip catch_signals()? -9 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the - clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert - mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of - text? -8 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts - all the text. Add ":rmenu"? -8 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of - overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>. -9 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are - wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7, - window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed. - --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or - "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate(). -7 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/". - Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and - use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings - in the list? -8 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking - on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up, - instead of on button down. -8 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw. -9 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for - reaching the end of the available buffer. - Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006 - May 14) -8 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a - character is typed. -8 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this. - It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it. -8 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not - work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure -8 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an - alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template - for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp". - Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for - cygwin bash. -7 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}". - Remember flags for backreferences. -7 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been - changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT? -7 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names - that contain a '$' after all have been found. -8 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about - it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX. -7 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting - this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name. -7 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing. - "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and - "initdir" is the default path to be used. -7 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of - two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols) -8 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo - tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so - that the user knows he has to delete the files. -7 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func - <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this. - - -I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!): -9 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file - disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three - files. (McCollister) - - -Problems that will (probably) not be solved: -- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim - test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to - "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title - with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window - manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be - worked around with a delay. -- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering - a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the - display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like - the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external - command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text. -- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access - permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message. - XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it. -- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm - problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly. -- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem. - (Jennings) -- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino). -- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The - access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong. -- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a - readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy - first? -- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for - names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names. -- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy - (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim, - because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK. -- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The - "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working. - Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p". - (Benzinger). -- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer - time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when - the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted. - Looks like a problem with the Win32 library. - Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn) - Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)? -- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles - are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE. - This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134. -- Win32, MS-Windows: expanding plugin/**/*.vim also picks up - dir/ctags.vim,v. This is because the short file name is something like - "ctags~1.vim" and that matches the pattern. -- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co' - termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the - termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the - highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined - in the vimrc file to be lost. -- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and - "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars. - ---------------------- extensions and improvements ---------------------- - *extensions-improvements* - -Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed: -- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)". - Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if - calling a function. - With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)". - Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit(). -- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block - can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2. -- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye. - Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here: - http://clewn.sf.net. - And the idevim plugin/script. - To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program - with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the - terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the - other window. - Wishes for NetBeans commands: - - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors. - - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?) - in terminal mode. -- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to - implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru - Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR - 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198. - Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine) - Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net - And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php -- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is. - Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command - scrolls back to where the cursor is. -- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the - first line to be able to start halfway through. -8 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify - values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m". - Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of - taglist() can be used. -- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program. - This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly? - - -Documentation: -8 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007 - Feb 20. -8 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded - or not. -8 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth) -7 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual. -9 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention: - - change to cursor position and curswant - - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.) - - how it works for folded lines - - how it works with multi-byte characters -9 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would - work too. -8 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag" - should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double - text. -8 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running". -7 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to - look at the help for 'winaltkeys'. -7 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and - <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag. - Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz. -- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks. - - -Help: -- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a - pattern. And then match it as part of a tag. -- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go - to the other matches. -- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files. -- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|. -- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always - displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file, - user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a - default contents. -- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal - height for the help window (and other windows). -- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute". -- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive? -- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands. - - -User Friendlier: -8 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for - links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter - Briscoe) -8 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types? -8 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that - dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if - the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf". -8 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc, - $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu. -- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file. - ":mkplugin <file>"? -8 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that - includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from - 'runtimepath'. - " Vim plugin - <main plugin code> - " >>> plugin help start <<< - <plugin docs> -- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."? -9 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or - disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty - item?). - Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands. -7 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output? -7 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session - of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim - window can be displayed. (Eduard) - - -Tab pages: -9 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems. -7 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color, - font, etc.) -8 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu. -8 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path. -7 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows. -7 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify - its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output. -7 Add local variables for each tab page? -8 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between - tab pages. -7 Add local highlighting for each tab page? -7 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with - window-local directories? - - -Spell checking: -- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX. - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777 -- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent - of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match - with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote. -- Could filter é things for HTML before doing spell checking. - Similarly for TeX. -- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW - items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes - problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this. -- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4: - What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do? - Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes? -- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words. - Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox) -- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now - used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/ - (Teemu Likonen) -8 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from - hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes. -8 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG. - WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID -8 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file: - implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP - items and check if the result is a valid word. - implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP - implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE - Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case. - How is it supposed to work? -- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its - context. Thus to spell-check a whole file. -- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase. -- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of - the word are not used. -- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to - use same wordlist for hyphenation. -- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of - syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file? -- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now? - Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end? -- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following - word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words? -- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/ - - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that. - - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism - in the affix file separately. - - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting - COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value. - - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX - - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word - Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc. -- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then - the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a - bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching - specific prefixes with suffixes. - Alternative: - PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond} - We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the - affix which is required. -- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for - COMPOUNDWORDMAX. -- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2, - etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word - directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3 -- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after - word/flags and affix. -- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item? - Await comments from other spell checking authors. -- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/ -8 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing - syntax items (to add @Spell). - Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn - cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items. -- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org). - http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html - http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/ - author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca> -8 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and - "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"? -8 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell. -8 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their - use of words with a dash. -7 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists. -8 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'? - :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath - More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments - in English, strings in German (po file). - - -Diff mode: -9 When making small changes, e.g. deleting a character, update the diff. - Possibly without running diff. -9 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be - found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c - It's quite big and badly documented though. -8 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file). - Use an unnamed buffer, like doing: - new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis - Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what - can be undone. (Tom Popovich) -7 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also - move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same - location. - - -Folding: - (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY; - secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=) -8 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves - through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling. -8 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. -9 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold - with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds. -8 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the - behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the - user aware of this? -8 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which - commands skip over a closed fold. -8 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt) -8 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB. -7 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds. -- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an - empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the - missing line goes unnoticed. - How to implement this? -- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll - until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds - smoother? -- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list, - using the wininfo in wi_folds. -- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session - file can contain: - args version.c main.c - edit version.c - Can editing version.c twice be avoided? -- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects. -- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How - to implement this? -- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the - cursor. -- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or - match. -- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt) -8 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like - searches. - - -Multi-byte characters: -- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back - to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8? - :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename - Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8. -9 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the - display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal - double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single - byte). -9 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is - set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could - it be done with an autocommand? -8 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for - the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html. - To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like: - "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-" - Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first - item. -8 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for - the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"? - For HTML look for "charset=utf-8". -8 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an - option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for - ":grep" and ":helpgrep". - More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function). -8 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search - should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka) -8 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g., - when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a - different fileencoding for filter output? -7 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted, - so that the user can fix the problem. -8 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo - Schweigert) -9 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El) -8 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters. -8 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters. -8 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes. -7 Searching and composing characters: - When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored? - Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing - characters can be manipulated. -8 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing. -8 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes. -8 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte - characters. -8 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters. -8 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead - of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example. -7 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead. - 'display' option to specify this. -7 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default(): - (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c) -- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for - other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong. -- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset, - depending on the default value of 'encoding'. - Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used. - For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know - if a font exists? -- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with - convert_input() for Mac GUI. -- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters. - Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_ -7 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of - "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky) -- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup - table anymore (breakat_flags[]). - Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line - at a multi-byte character >= 0x100. -- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text - could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort - of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command? -- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into - account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it: - ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz - But it's very complicated... - - -Printing: -7 Implement "undercurl" for printing. -- Add "page width" to wrap long lines. -- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for - the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function. -- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George - Reilly) -- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'. -- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer - name, portrait/landscape, etc). -- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit - character set. How to support Unicode fully? -- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same - units as for the margins. -- Support right-to-left text? -8 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the - color. - - -Syntax highlighting: -8 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson) - Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual". -8 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined - cluster can be added to existing syntax items. -8 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this: - "({ something })", often used in GCC code. -7 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region, - preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell) -8 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing - it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for - ":wq file". -7 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be - really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax - group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27) -8 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script). -9 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is - used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it... -7 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and - Search highlighting. -7 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line. - Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating. -8 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to - change this for each release. -8 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end - pattern, but not in the body. -8 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this - one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item, - instead of the containing item. -8 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside (). -8 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype - this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules? - When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, - but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax. - Also need a separate 'iskeyword' for the command line, e.g., in a help - window ":e /asdf/asdf/" CTRL-W works different. -8 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a - "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained] -8 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey - background) when on one of the parens or in between them. - Option for the matchparen plugin? -8 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop - sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be - used. -8 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will - allow spell checking. (Fleiner) -8 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And - re-insert the [] if possible. -8 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for - the Cursor). -8 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then - when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what - highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a - password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull) - syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern' -8 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like - using "\1" in a ":s" command. -8 Support for deleting syntax items: - :syn keyword cTodo remove this - :syn match cTodo remove "pattern" - :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that" -8 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way - doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for - a '<'. (Fleiner) -7 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification? - Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or - backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern. -7 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be - detected. -8 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original - character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this). -8 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to - "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible. -8 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group. -8 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values. -7 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to - ":mkvimrc". -8 Improve c.vim: - - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on: - "c_strict_ansi". - - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way... -8 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the - current line while in Insert mode. -8 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been - loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again? -8 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current - display position. -8 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to - allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern. - Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()". -8 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until - redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when - highlighting starts. -8 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use - GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape - sequence. -7 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item - lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the - user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would - get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai - Weibull) -7 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the - colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow. - E.g. for this html: - <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I> -7 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is. -7 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled - words. -8 Add more command line completion for :syntax. -8 Add more command line completion for :highlight. -7 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands. - Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and - completion? -8 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their - highlighting. (Salman Halim) -7 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to - select one of the sets. -8 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1 - 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch - 2, etc. -8 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the - highlighting (for "." command). -8 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /. - For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /? -8 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing. -7 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs": - ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c". -6 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of - the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall) -- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful - when extending an already existing syntax file. -- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too? -- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin - (for comment blocks). -- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags: - 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor. - 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match. - 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match. - Also for {}, <>, etc.? - 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?) - OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the - region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it. - (Campbell) - Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around - the cursor. (Iain Truskett) -7 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword. - Can also be done with a script (but it's slow). -7 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should - allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set). - And allows for sections with different highlighting. -7 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it - highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from - messages. And external commands? -8 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for - text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim? -7 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an - unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line. - - -Built-in script language: -8 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that - they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal. - At least use this for error messages. -7 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and - restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how - to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)? -8 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and - ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings. -- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum, - 2006 Dec 11. -- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb) -8 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file. - You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them. - Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function. - It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling. - Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to - execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac(). -7 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID? - Will be tricky for the list of script names. -8 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham) -8 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When - encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an - obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same - sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle - nested packages? - Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}(). - Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from - $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path). -7 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode. - 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if - has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that - supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an - autocommand. - 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a - .vim file. Problem: distribution. - 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached - file belongs to a sourced script? -7 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn', - signs and/or 'number'. -6 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to - implement this? -8 Add functions: - has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function - with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt". - system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use - exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand) - escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with. - modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the - stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things. - realname() Get user name (first, last, full) - user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov - 3 2002 - Only add this when also implemented for - non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could - be used. - get_user_name() gets login name. - menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what}) - Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}. - menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File". - menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu - File.Open..." argument. - Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22 - Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary - with properties instead. - mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping. - Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4. - Return a list instead. - char2hex() convert char string to hex string. - base64enc() base 64 encoding - base64dec() base 64 decoding - attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx" - filecopy(from, to) Copy a file - shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace() - perl(cmd) call Perl and return string - inputrl() like input() but right-to-left - typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to - find out what happened) - virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in - Visual block mode. - getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard) - deletebufline() delete line in any buffer - appendbufline() append line in any buffer - libcall() Allow more than one argument. - libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function - to allow the library to execute a command or - evaluate an expression. -7 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the - column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero. -8 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was - specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file. -8 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args - List? Or extra parameter to argv()? -8 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts. -7 Add optional arguments to user functions: - :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17) -6 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"? -8 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var" - just ignore. -8 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable, - option or environment variable. -8 ":let &option" should list the value of the option. -8 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist. - Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List. -7 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack - available as a List. -8 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed: - :au VarChanged {varname} {commands} -8 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started. -8 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default), - linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0, - rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and - charwise({expr}). -7 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer - with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch - buffer for this? - result = scratch(string, command) - result = apply(string, command) - result = execute(string, command) - "command" would use <> notation. - Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number? -7 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds). - - -Robustness: -6 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or - fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing - the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking . - The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf). - Andy doesn't have time to work on it. - Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a - lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded? - - -Performance: -7 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list - itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string). -7 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before - starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this - size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where - you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it. -8 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a - buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked - so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(), - that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7) - With a patch, but does it work? -8 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it - once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid - repeating it in various system files. -8 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags. -9 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster? -8 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result? -7 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when - jumping around. Instead use an index for the start? -8 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same - as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines - when starting up in a color terminal. -8 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this - function be improved? -8 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the - default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap - file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can - this be improved? -7 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax". - (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman) -7 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying - http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang) -7 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a - lot of abbreviations). -7 MS-DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster. -7 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file - at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line - for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>. - Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat. - Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place. - Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase. - Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc. -8 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to - compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid - using strcmp() too often? -7 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file? - Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating - the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a - memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another - fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from - the two blocks to the memfile block. -7 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory - and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called - with an argument that can be messed with. - Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that - indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced. -7 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)". -- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek() -8 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in - $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim. -- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of - lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation? -- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki) -- Do profiling on: - - :g/pat/normal cmd - - 1000ii<Esc> - - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary) - - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan) - - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u". - - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and - "~/vim/test/lockup.pl". - - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary. - - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim). -7 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were - changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it - changed). - - On each change, remember start and end of the change. - - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count. -- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest! -- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still - very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"? -- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to - move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from - normal_cmd() down to do_execreg(). -- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of - the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing). -- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height. -- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if - cursor is right of the screen. -8 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a - CTRL-C (it's slow). - - -Code size: -8 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded. -- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be - passed to do_cmdline() and other functions. -8 Make a GUI-only version for Unix? -8 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using - it. -7 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be - left out. -8 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals - can be removed. -8 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed? - - -Messages: -8 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the - command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!". -8 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip - lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()? -8 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a - script. -- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key. - Perhaps after ten seconds? -- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9. -8 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin" - message. -9 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays: - Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop. - When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long - message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before - redrawing. -8 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more - specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text. -8 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another - option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option - not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off". - Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts - typing, error messages must be switched back on. - Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings). -- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed? - Sleep before second message? -8 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is - not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers", - etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the - screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall) - --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and - error messages, printing text, etc. -8 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt. - Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when - a prompt is present (with a callback function?). - - -Screen updating: -7 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one - screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the - first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit). -- screen_line(): - - insert/delete character stuff. - - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line). -- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when - dragging the status line with the mouse). -- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when - waiting for a character. -8 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from - an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when - 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping. -7 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together. - - -Scrolling: -8 Add "zy" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle. -6 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi) -- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc.. - Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound - windows. -7 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next - one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it - looks like each window displays a page of the buffer. -- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it - up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this? - (Goldfarb) -- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all - bound windows. -- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to - be bound by regexp searches -- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell) -- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the - fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number - of lines but not with a single line). - - -Autoconf: -8 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader. -8 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb) - Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically? -- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the - system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner). -- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4(). -- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it? -- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf. - - -Perl interface: -8 Rename typemap file to something else? -7 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark) -7 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C? -6 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll). - - -Shared libraries: -6 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it. - :libload internal-name libname - :libunload internal-name - :liblist - :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...) - :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...) - libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment. -6 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries. - - -Tags: -9 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is - added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found - match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in - the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When - 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all. -8 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path. - This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to - make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better - would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008 - April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4) -7 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the - number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members. - (Flemming Madsen) -8 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis. -8 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able - to type the tag number directly. -7 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a - window for each tag. -7 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting? -7 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit - bottom" search message. -7 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry, - so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were - before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb) -- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack. -- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush". -- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch - to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to - what you were working on. -7 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and - use ":ta class:someClass someMethod". - Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func" - with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx. -7 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields: - :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c - :tagargs clear - These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag - matching). -7 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command? - There is an example for how to do this in Nvi. - Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi) - The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way. -7 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With - a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again. -7 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use - the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add - ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect". - - -Autocommands: -- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup? -8 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the - swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc. - Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete - the swap file. (Marc Merlin) -8 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand - buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS. -7 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g., - CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific - buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or - changing the buffer name. -7 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag. -8 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag. - Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found. -8 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two - things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more - difficult). -7 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the - user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the - kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient? -8 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input - focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus). - Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ... -7 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option - name? -8 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist? - And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things. -8 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc". -6 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be - handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron) -7 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event. -7 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link, - <x> for executable, etc. With commas to separate alternatives. The - autocommand is only executed when both the file type AND the file pattern - match. (Leonard) -5 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the - file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will - trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas) -7 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for - what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the - file. -8 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at - "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read - command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'. -- Add events to autocommands: - Error - When an error happens - NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode - ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode - CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow - different mapping) - VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode - *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter) - VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled - when exiting isn't a good idea. - CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing - WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J" - SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M") - PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged - - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the - window title) - ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down - InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting - the char. - BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for - putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the - file from CVS). - BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be - used to do a :preserve for remote files. - BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate - the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so - that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add - BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah) - ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size - changes. - WinResized - After a window has been resized - WinClose - Just before closing a window -- Write the file now and then ('autosave'): - *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'* - 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0) - Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the - last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set. - Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer. - Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make - them save the file itself besides the swapfile. - - -Omni completion: -- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and - mix it with other kinds of completion). -- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE: - - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information. - Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc. - Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java. - - Check Readline for its completion interface. -- Ideas from others: - http://www.wholetomato.com/ - http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747 - http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim - or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net - Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C# - MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet - explorer), uses .dll shared libraries. - For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var. - Uses Perl for C++. - Uses ctags to find the info: - ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files - www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang) - IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265 - and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/ - http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs) - Ivan Villanueva has something for Java. - Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html - Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net -- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match? - - -Insert mode completion/expansion: -7 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only - display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep". -7 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with - the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and - "$HOME/tmp" -8 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete - with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages. -9 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with - the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended. - (Webb) -8 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion: - - ignore/match case - - different characters than 'iskeyword' -8 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that - "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb) - Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-]. - When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'. - Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be - defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc. -8 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text. -7 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant - text does: www.textware.com -8 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive - completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of - "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo. - Should work for C++ and Java. - Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc. -7 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?). -7 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS - instead of words. -8 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents. -8 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does). - Requires remembering a number of insertions. -8 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names. - Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion. -- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system - header files. (Andri Moell) -- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the - 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use - wildcards in the file name)? -- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted). -- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?). -- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could - be in another file). -- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches. -- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option? -- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string - (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W) -- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions. -- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows? -- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly) -- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list). - - -Command line editing: -7 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command - line. -8 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion - functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of - completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc. -- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of - lines wraps to start of line). -- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view - on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many - disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run - into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012). - - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history. - Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the - cmdwin does now already. - - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal - mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T? - - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the - cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid - that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines? - - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate - getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode - and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh. - Problems: - - Insert: completion with 'wildchar' - - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations - - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches - - Normal: no CTRL-W commands - - Normal: no ":" commands? - - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line. - - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of - character in first column? - - Implementation ideas: - - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer. - - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum. - - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line. - - sync undo after entering a command line? - - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line - Mode. - - -Command line completion: -8 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument. -8 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate - file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h". -8 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list - them with the optional part inside []. -8 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that - ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches). -7 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be - edited. (Sven Guckes) -- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible. -- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the - current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>". -8 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting - message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp? -7 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the - file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb) -- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching - identifiers (Webb). -8 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>" - would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit. -7 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion. - Useful for ":s/word/xx/". -- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started. - Also to be used for <Up> in the command line. -- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for - command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut) - Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D. - - -Command line history: -- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a - character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a - command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't - completely resulted from one mapping. -- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history, - so that it can be repeated. (Demirel) - - -Insert mode: -9 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after - the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line. - (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug. -8 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command - "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink) - Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do - "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing. - ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode. -8 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with - the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the - same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert. -7 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a - character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y. -- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode. -9 Can't use multi-byte characters for 'matchpairs'. -7 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it - appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'. -- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed - character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and - also for characters that wrap to the next line. - Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register). - Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that - inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>. -- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in - Normal mode. -- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their - value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands - are used. -- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits. -- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b. -- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y. - - -'cindent', 'smartindent': -9 Wrapping a variable initialization should have extra indent: - char * veryLongName = - "very long string" - Also check if "cino=+10" is used correctly. -8 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17) -8 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.: - long_type foo = - value; -8 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is - too small. (Vincent Bergbauer) - Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then. -8 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna) - func( - new String[] { - "asdf", - "asdf" - } - ); -8 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace: - (Chow Loong Jin) - namespace { - int - func(int arg) { - } - } -6 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer) - func( arg1 - , arg2 - , arg3 - ); -7 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner): - func( - int x) // indent like "(4" - { - if (a - && b) // indent like "(0" -9 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler) - if (a) - { - if (b) - { - // { - } - } <-- this is indented incorrect - Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in - a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to - findmatchlimit(). -- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the - indent to 0 should be switched on/off. -7 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line. -- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first - line). -- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}? -- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous - comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically? -- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It - looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb) -- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out - code), unless the line starts with "*". -- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"? -- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line - (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted). -8 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the - 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more - matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment. -- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'. -- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where - lines start with "\item". -- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown) - /* here is a comment that - is just autoindented, and - nothing else */ -- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi". -7 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for - continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the - indents. - Patch by Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar. Update by James McCoy, 2014 Mar 15. - - -Java: -8 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve - Odendahl? -8 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for - "[i" commands and friends. -- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java. - (Jason) -- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be - searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy) - - -'comments': -8 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated - like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping. - Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader - when it's "#" or "//". - Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated - while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition? -7 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line. - When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed. -7 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item. -6 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more - complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a - regexp is used. -8 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line - when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'? - - -Virtual edit: -8 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left. -7 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line? - - -Text objects: -8 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open. -8 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc. -8 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word. - (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"? -8 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte - characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all) - use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like - 'matchpairs'? -8 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones. -7 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it - possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area. -8 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires - changing the starting position in oap->start. -8 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single - space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at - the end of the line or before a ".". -7 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs" - deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus) -7 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph - (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}"). -6 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email. -5 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For - example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one. - Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the - cursor is on. - - -Select mode: -8 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block, - backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall) -7 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word. - See http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_Alt-Mouse_to_select_blockwise. -7 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line. - - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse' - contains 'C' or 'A'. - - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in - normal_cmd(). - - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info. - - Typing text replaces the selection. - - -Visual mode: -8 Support using "." in Visual mode. Use the operator applied to the Visual - selection, if possible. -- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero, - behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer - is in the top line. -- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display. - When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the - characters. -8 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new - text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding - where needed. -7 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width, - "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc. -7 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start - of each selected line. -8 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode? -8 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer. - When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any - other buffer. (Ron Aaron) -8 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron, - Ben Godfrey) -7 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and - receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey) -7 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of - a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area. -7 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David - Young is working on this) -7 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines. - When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with - spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line. -8 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text? - Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful. -7 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should - stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an - option! -7 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position - that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select - part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen - position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap. - Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to - the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line, - without changing the column. -6 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode. -7 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the - current buffer. -7 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area. -6 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line, - before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1. -6 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line. -6 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed - right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB - or other special character. -6 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting. - - -More advanced repeating commands: -- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt"). -7 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember - the command line so that it can be repeated? -- Add command to repeat last movement. Including count. -- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g. - "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb). - "y." will repeat last yank. - "c2." will repeat the last but one change? - Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history - and/or pick an older command. -- History stack for . command? Use "g." command. - - -Mappings and Abbreviations: -8 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be - used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell) - Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command? -8 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work? -7 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte". - This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway? -8 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the - last _typed_ register name and access it with "&. -8 Add ":amap", like ":amenu". -7 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard. -8 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to - entering search strings. -8 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the - abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and - not the <Space>. -8 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never - (?) work. -8 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function - that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is - not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings? -7 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation? -7 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try - unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy". -6 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the - abbreviations are to be used. -- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For - example, for a mouse escape sequence: - :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l -- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings: - :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G - :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l - :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g - Or implicit: - :map q <Register>d<Number>$ -- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in - a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings - that it included. Sort-of automatic recording? -- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings - not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does). -- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and - mappings off for :unab and :unmap. -6 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete - mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids - that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you - hit another character. -- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for - non-replace Insert mode? -- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode? -- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings. -- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key - for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself. -- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as - <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command? -- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they - are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>. -- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap. -- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping - ":freekeys". -- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm). - - -Incsearch: -- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'? -- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn - anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled - up every time. -- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the - folds when going to another line. -- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many - cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?) - When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match - (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872. -- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other - key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid). - - -Searching: -9 Should have an option for :vimgrep to find lines without a match. -8 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text? - "g?" is already used for rot13. - The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this. - Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area. - Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area? -9 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the - matching text. -8 Add a modifier to interpret a space like "\_s\+" to make it much easier to - search for a phrase. -8 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands - for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part. - Perl does it this way: - $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x; - Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp - inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be: - \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\) -8 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C - to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the - number? -8 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v: - variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number - before each line. -7 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep - http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html). -8 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a - chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234]. -7 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on - the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of - stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"? - Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)* -7 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for - search(). (Brett) -7 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping - when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset). -7 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's - "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference. -8 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in - lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax? -8 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current - line. -7 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an - example. -8 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in - #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif. -- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that - should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */). - Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back. - Alternative: use matchit.vim -8 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care? -8 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that - the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it. - This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$". -7 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and - "\d". -7 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be - \%<C-M>. -8 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example, - ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line. -8 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji - Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set? -8 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g" - commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command. - Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing - search pattern. -- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some - of the windows. -- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group. - Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group. -- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade) - Or translate the pattern to a Vim one. - Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's - too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities. -8 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/". - Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop. -- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it. - Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling) -8 Flags that apply to the whole pattern. - This works for all places where a regexp is used. - Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern? -- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?): - i ignore case - I use case - p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?) - v use Vi regexp syntax - f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command - F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command - Perl uses these too: - e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only) - m multiple line expression (we don't need it) - o compile only once (Perl only) - s single line expression (we don't need it) - x extended regexp (we don't need it) - When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the - following command. - Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault'). -- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used - pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/ - for search string)? -7 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special - characters. See C't article, August 1997. -- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are - equivalent (for Unix filenames). -- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text - as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin) -- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this". -- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer, - they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern: - a for the next file in the argument list - f for file in the buffer list - w for file edited in a window. - e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for - ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask - before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No - Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ". -- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler) -7 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search - first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark. -7 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after - search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe - specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in - the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always). -6 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side - effects. -7 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete - newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc. - [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary. -7 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner) - Also ":dselect". - - -Undo: -9 ":gundo" command: global undo. Undoes changes spread over multiple files - in the order they were made. Also ":gredo". Both with a count. Useful - when tests fail after making changes and you forgot in which files. -9 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or - not. -8 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found - and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum - time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc. -8 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text - state, so that you can jump to it. -8 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway) - Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the - timestamp? - Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more - indent? -8 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the - undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file - was changed outside of Vim. - Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and - storing the differences. - Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list - of about 10 last reloaded buffers. -- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a - trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r". -- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not - possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a", - etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted? -8 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo - sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new - word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing. - Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things. -8 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change, - only remember the lines that really changed. -7 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous - version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a - change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need - to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone. -- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and ']. - And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb). -- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the - number of undo levels (with confirmation). -- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123]. - When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number: - [-99]. -- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating. -- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once. -- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed, - undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file?? - - -Buffer list: -7 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}". - Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that - this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the - current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only". -8 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files. - Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim. -8 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check - inode too. -7 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When - creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest - number in use plus one?). -7 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and - asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann) -- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the - file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb) -- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the - buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"? -7 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list. - E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson) -7 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer - names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc. -8 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected. -8 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$' - should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel". -7 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for - internal use and for when executing an external program? -8 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Besides - 'wildignorecase' there might be more parts inside - CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME that are useful on Unix. - - -Swap (.swp) files: -8 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another - directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when - there are short file name problems. -8 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap - file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions. -8 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su. -8 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same - dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file - twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup - file the same as the actual file? - Use the code for resolve()? -7 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another - field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible. -7 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere - else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'? - Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not - enough room. -7 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp - or /var/preserve. -- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to - the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only. -- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen). - 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'? -- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the - original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do - need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a - cached list of which line is where. - - -Viminfo: -7 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file, - because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone - else's viminfo file. -8 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a - root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this? - Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root? -8 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file - name. (Schild) -8 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu). -8 Remember the last used register for "@@". -8 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting. -8 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the - "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so. - Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display - this? -7 Also store the ". register (last inserted text). -7 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some - directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron) -6 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting - Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the - same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code? -- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of - "last visited files" and select one to jump to. - - -Modelines: -8 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid - option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it. - Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ". -- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This - would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing - 'shiftwidth'. -- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones - such as 'encoding'. -- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to - another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the - modeline setting. -- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings, - no function calls, to avoid a security problem. -- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for - .cpp files. -- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for - characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak. -- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed - or not. Same for .exrc in local dir. - - -Sessions: -8 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means - directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth) -7 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that - session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back. -8 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when - "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant) -8 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to - their default value, before setting the options that are not at their - default value. -7 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal - Malecki) -7 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files. - - -Options: -7 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and - restore it after the command has executed. -8 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string - options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should - also be supported. -8 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag - that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting - 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used. -7 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas) -7 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the - quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway) - Also do 'sidescrolloff'. - - -External commands: -8 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen - and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd". -4 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls" - and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g. - -f). -4 Allow direct execution, without using a shell. -4 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI? - Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell! -4 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands. - - -Multiple Windows: -7 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits. -8 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window. - And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window. -7 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab> - to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to - select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer. -7 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can - then fill it with something. ":popen"? -7 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be - several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov) -6 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window. - ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new - window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would - shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel) -7 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows - communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with - multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE - too. Requires some form of inter process communication. -- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer - automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command. - Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer - to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made. - - -Marks: -8 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file. -8 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this - position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-. -8 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m? -8 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times. - Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file. -8 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle - of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when - the mark was set. -7 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers, - matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands - to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with - ":browse marks"? -6 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige) -7 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the - text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark. -7 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group). - Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does. -7 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m - command). -7 Try to keep marks in the same position when: - - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the - line break column to the next line. (Acevedo) - - inserting/deleting characters in a line. -5 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in - mappings. -6 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and - unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines. - Highlight the marked lines somehow. - - -Digraphs: -7 Make "ga" show the keymap for a character, if it exists. - Also show the code of the character after conversion to 'fileencoding'. -- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special - characters? -8 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown) -7 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At - least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32). - - -Writing files: -- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file. -8 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode' - file. -8 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some - applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another - directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'? -6 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like - 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'. -6 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory. - E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas) -6 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#". - Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name? -8 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids - losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman) -7 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations - (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition). -7 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more - often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is - flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before - waiting for a character to be typed). -8 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status - line of the window, like "[time]". - Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes. - Automatic and/or with a command. - - -Substitute: -8 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like - "\%uabcd" in search pattern. -8 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.: - ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w". -- :s///p prints the line after a substitution. -- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern. -8 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective. - Also allow a count before the scrolling keys. -- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or: - :s///N substitutes N times. -- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.: - ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do - any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution. -7 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex - range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the - last line column 5. -5 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks, - operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the - possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands. - (Stanislav Sitar) - - -Mouse support: -8 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'? -7 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu. -8 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic - yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you - out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar) -- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to - the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners). -- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!? -- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to. - - -Argument list: -6 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list. - When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches - (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match. -6 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers? - - -Registers: -8 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne) -8 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for - blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r" - for every line. -6 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the - previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What - register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.? -- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of - lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more". -- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment - leader when line wraps? -- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each - line in the range. -- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text - to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo") -8 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register. - How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)? - - -Debug mode: -7 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received. -8 Add breakpoints for setting an option -8 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable. -7 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution - when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when - the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item, - ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell) -7 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo. -7 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al. - - -Various improvements: -7 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on - the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.). - Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the - "format/chinese.vim" plugin. - The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called. - Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages. - (2005 Nov 24) - Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23) -7 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next - ("vatv"). -7 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to - next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>. -8 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename - the buffer. Buffer may be modified. -7 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to - do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes - from the 'makeprg'? -- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh - Govindachar) -7 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the - first quickfix location. ":cbefore"? -7 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a - window as a buffer-tab selection. -8 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner) -7 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>. - Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"? - For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command. - More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command. - Assign them to a v: variable? -7 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want - to manipulate text without changing the window layout. -8 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until - all changes are gone. -6 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri) -8 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim. - Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim. - Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it - in this Vim. -8 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as - if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"? -8 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes - them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and - have it apply to the following command. -8 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other - CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the - end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up. - To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'? -7 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a - path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files. -7 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>, - etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize - these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key - without modifier (unless mapped). -6 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line. -8 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map". -9 Support ACLs on more systems. -7 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be - highlighted differently. -7 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above - the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message - (truncated to fit in the space). -7 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner) -8 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout) -8 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise - Visual mode. -7 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use - regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV. -7 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping - and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0". -7 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name. -7 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently. -7 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines? -8 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney) -8 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in - feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for - non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef - CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do? -8 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down. -6 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain - interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron) - Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better? - Patch to add async functionality. (Geoff Greer, 2013 Sep 1 and later) -8 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists. -8 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file - and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would - then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist - does something like this. (Shah) -7 Use growarray for replace stack. -7 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution - outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis). -3 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"? -7 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same - buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers? -7 Make it possible to set the size of the jumplist (also to a smaller number - than the default). (Nikolai Weibull) -- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode. -- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file. -- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c -- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window. -7 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive - (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used. -- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home - dir, append a string, delete a string, etc. -- Remove using mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this. -- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set, - turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert) -- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to - call "play newbeep.au"). -- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or - less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function. - (Bhatt). -- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for - blockwise registers). -- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the - timestamp warning and question. (Dodt). -- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps - of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed, - mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't - noticeable. -- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb). -7 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters. - Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code. -- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs - (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between - paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent - starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new - paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change. -8 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do - auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting. -8 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the - next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for - continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a - regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line). - ":set autoformat=\\s$". -- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern? -- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson. -7 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the - end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt) -- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is - not in column 1. -6 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a - stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext". -7 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined? -- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator? -- Add more redirecting of Ex commands: - :redir #> bufname - :redir #>> bufname (append) -- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no - redirection was active. -- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with - ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set". - Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit". -6 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32 - console? (Klaus Hast) -- Add :delcr command: - *:delcr* - :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines - ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is - used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range]. - A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If - [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all - lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. -- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat(). -- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta - characters from 'isprint'. -- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName(). -- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area. - Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn. -- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but - may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More - general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion. -- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()). -- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like - Nvi). -- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the - SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define. -7 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position. -- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that - Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'? -6 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file. -- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the - changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13 - macro). -- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files. -- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also - expanded. Is there a better way to do this? -- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source". -8 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set. -- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty. -- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible! -- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down - if it is not the first or last window. -- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if - there is one) instead of the file itself. -7 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example: - nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0 - Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files. -- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion. -- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as - the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so - many percent down the windows). -- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the - line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the - line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'. - Make 'showbreak' local to a window. -- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g. - 'dictionary' when it is "*.h". -- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to - change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit). -- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent) -- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends. -- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the - passwd file? (Antwerpen) -8 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw", - ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is - sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack? - How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when - mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping? -- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also - counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert). -- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store - cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window - (Webb). -- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the - column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al. -- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering - hex codes like 0xff). -- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command - executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo - the last TYPED command. -- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf". -- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows. -- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/" - should also work? -- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL? -8 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file - (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine - name. -- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a - trailing '.'. -- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a - file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use - find_file_in_path(). -- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between - CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon). -- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion. -- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a - form usable by Vim on the current machine. -- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have - a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags. -- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one - character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains - several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline. -- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments. -- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt) -- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back - to the minimal size. -- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */). -- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline(). -- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb). -- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file. -- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers. -- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line - entered)? -- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible - as an output filter. -- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this. -- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line. -- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file. -- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc. -- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char. -- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long - lines. -- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase? -8 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"), - hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option - to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex - or in octal. -7 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more - easy/obvious to use. Command line argument? -- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source. - After ":w !command" a wait_return? -- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()). -- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without - insert line command). -- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it. -- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals. -- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000). -- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying. -- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace - and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>. -- Implement 'redraw' option. -- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or - '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right). -7 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs - implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin. - Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal - I/O. -8 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can - do it. -- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to. -- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts, - delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list. -- Add text justification option. -- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on". -- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is - off". -- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR. -- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message. -- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied". -- If file does not exist, check if directory exists. -- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor. -- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex - commands. -- ":set -w all": list one option per line. -- :table command (Webb) -- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ". -- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?). -- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb). -- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files. -- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel). -- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited - (Demirel). -- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc. -- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore", - for use in macro's and the like. -- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while - working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window? -- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for - ":set all". ":r :set all"? -- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not - result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in - a window to become smaller (Webb). -- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized - proportionally (Webb). -- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use - mkopttab to make option table? -- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current - file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)? -- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster - (Haritsis). -- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used - instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev) -- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the - cursor? -- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton). -- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)? -5 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names. - ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix. -8 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore - case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in - filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams: - ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another - option name. -8 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to - where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places. - (Netherton) -6 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a - space after "(", for example. -5 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs - when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit'). - (Servatius Brandt) - - -From Elvis: -- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages? -- Add ":alias" command. -- Search patterns: - \@ match word under cursor. - but do: - \@w match the word under the cursor? - \@W match the WORD under the cursor? -8 ":window" command: - :win + next window (up) - :win ++ idem, wrapping - :win - previous window (down) - :win -- idem, wrapping - :win nr to window number "nr" - :win name to window editing buffer "name" -7 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is - program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"? - - -From xvi: -- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character. -- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet) - - -From vile: -- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window. -- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files - from /tmp to some directory before deleting files. - - -Far future and "big" extensions: -- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to - find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something - like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python, - thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it - would also work on MS-Windows. -- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice - Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,... -- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in - between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac). - Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the - current layout mirrored. -- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer. -- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords, - set indent, define other highlighting, etc.). -- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent). -- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different - font in each top-level window. -- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit'). -- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them. -- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning. -- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to. - Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim). -- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all - windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files - mentioned in the tags file. - Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???) - Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."? -- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other - standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter). -- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five - lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc.. -4 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands: - :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format. - :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted. - POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list, - number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags - shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples: - :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list -- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes - are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but - also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/. - -When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra -empty line would appear. - -vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl: -vim: set fo+=n : |