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See |sponsor|. + + *known-bugs* +-------------------- Known bugs and current work ----------------------- + +'cursorline' is displayed too short when there are concealed characters and +'list' is set, 'listchars' at default value. (Dennis Preiser, 2010 Aug 15) + +When running external command with ":make", cursor line is redrawn on top of +external output. + +Conceal: using Tab for cchar causes problems. Should reject it. (ZyX, 2010 +Aug 25) + +Problems with building after 7.3.050, -as-needed does not work for gcc 4.4.1? +(Charles Campbell, 2010 Nov 7) Or is the problem that we should use -ltinfo, +because nothing is used from ncurses? + +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) + +Bug in repeating Visual "u". (Lawrence Kesteloot, 2010 Dec 20) + +Windows keys not set properly on Windows 7? (cncyber, 2010 Aug 26) + +This line hangs Vim, because of syntax HL: +call append(line, "INFO ....12....18....24....30....36....42....48....54....60....66....72....78%$") + +Building the MingW version without clipboard but with multi-byte doesn't +work. (Bill Lam, 2010 Sep 18) + +Bug: E685 error for func_unref(). (ZyX, 2010 Aug 5) + +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) + +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. + +Patch to improve mf_hash, dynamic sizing. (Ivan Krasilnikov, 2010 Dec 17) +Needs tests. + +string() can't parse back "inf" and "nan". Fix documentation or fix code? +(ZyX, 2010 Aug 23) + +maparg() does not show the <script> flag. When temporarily changing a +mapping, how to restore the script ID? + +Patch to fix \%V item in regexp. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Nov 8) +Update Nov 19. James Vega: still not right. Christian: it's difficult. + +Patch to add up to 99 match groups. (Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 22) +Also add named groups: \%{name}(re) and \%{name}g + +Highlighting stops working after changing it many times. Script to reproduce +it: Pablo Contreras, 2010 Oct 12 Windows XP and 7. Font is never freed? + +Loading autoload script even when usage is inside "if 0". (Christian Brabandt, +2010 Dec 18) + +When 'cursorcolumn' is set locally to a window, ":new" opens a window with the +same highlighting but 'cursorcolumn' is empty. (Tyru, 2010 Nov 15) + +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". + +GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters +doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8) + +GTK: tear-off menu does not work. (Kurt Sonnenmoser, 2010 Oct 25) + +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? + +":find" completion does not escape space in directory name. (Isz, 2010 Nov 2) + +Searching mixed with Visual mode doesn't redraw properly. (James Vega, 2010 Nov +22) + +Patch to support ":!start /b cmd". (Xaizek, 2010 Dec 22) + +Copy/paste between Vim and Google chrome doesn't work well for multi-byte +characters. (Ben Haskell, 2010 Sep 17) +When putting text in the cut buffer (when exiting) and conversion doesn't work +properly, Prepend "ENC==={value of 'enc'}:" to the text and don't convert? +Then it should at least work from Vim to Vim and in other applications it's +clear why it doesn't work. + +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? + +Since patch 7.2.46 Yankring plugin has become very slow, eventually make Vim +crash? (Raiwil, 2010 Nov 17) + +Patch to disallow fork() when __APPLE__ is defined. (Hisashi T Fujinaka, 2010 +Nov 25) + +GTK: Patch to fix menu popping down. (Hong Xu, 2010 Dec 4, Dec 5) + +Python: Adding line to buffer other than the current one doesn't work +correctly. (Rozbujnik, 2010 Dec 19) + +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). + +Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM. +Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2) + +Patch to support sorting on floating point number. (Alex Jakushev, 2010 Oct +30) + +Ruby: ":ruby print $buffer.number" returns zero. + +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. + +getpos()/setpos() don't include curswant. getpos() could return a fifth +element. setpos() could accept an optional fifth element. +Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6. Check that new argument is optional +and that it's documented. + +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". + +Test 73 fails on MS-Windows when compiled with DJGPP and run twice. How to +delete the Xfind directory? Add an rmdir() function, just like we have +mkdir(). + +":echo "\x85" =~# '[\u0085]'" returns 1 instead of 0. (ZyX, 2010 Oct 3) + +'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15) + +When 'paste' is changed with 'pastetoggle', the ruler doesn't reflect this +right away. (Samuel Ferencik, 2010 Dec 7) + +Windows installer: licence text should not use indent, causes bad word wrap. +(Benjamin Fritz, 2010 Aug 16) + +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(). + +Echo starts in the wrong column: + while 1 | let s = input('A') | echo 'R' | endw +(Boyko Bantchev, 2010 Aug 9) + +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) + +Patch to make more characters work in dialogs. (Yankwei Jia, 2010 Aug 4) + +Patch for VisVim, pass file name to VimOpenFile. (Jiri Sedlak, 2010 Nov 12) + +When 'lines' is 25 and 'scrolloff' is 12, "j" scrolls zero or two lines +instead of one. (Constantin Pan, 2010 Sep 10) + +Crash in setqflist(). (Benoit Mortgat, 2010 Nov 18) + +Patch to handle resizing when tab is opened, when at full size. (Yukihiro +Nakadaira, 2010 Jan 6) + +Writing nested List and Dict in viminfo gives error message and can't be read +back. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2010 Nov 13) + +Can 'undolevels' be a buffer-local option? Helps for making big changes in +one file only, set 'ul' to -1 only for that buffer. +Patch by Christian Brabandt, 2010 Dec 17. Needs test. + +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* + +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) + +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. + +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. + +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. + +":sort n" treats empty line as higher than zero. (Beeyawned, 2010 Oct 13) + +":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) + +When setting 'undofile' while the file is already loaded, but unchanged, try +to read the undo file. Requires computing a checksum of the text. (Andy +Wokula) + +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) + +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) + +Undo problem: line not removed as expected when using setline() from Insert +mode. (Israel Chauca, 2010 May 13, more in second msg) +Break undo when CTRL-R = changes the text? Or save more lines? + +Patch for static code analysis errors in riscOS. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Dec 3) + +Change to C syntax folding to make it work much faster, but a bit less +reliable. (Lech Lorens, 2009 Nov 9) Enable with an option? +Most time is spent in in_id_list(). + +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. + +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) + +In command line window ":close" doesn't work properly. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 +Jun 1) + +Cannot use getchar() inside :normal and using an expression mapping. Is this +supposed to work? (XyX, 2010 Sep 22) + +When using an expression mapping with a multi-byte character each byte is +converted to a utf-8 character. (ZyX, 2011 Jan 4) +Patch for possible solution. (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2011 Jan 5) + +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. + +There is no command line completion for ":lmap". + +":e ~br<Tab>" does not complete to ":e /home/bram/". Would need to use +getpwent() to find all the matches. + +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. + +List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiware, 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) + +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 farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2) +Added test, updates, June 23. + +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) + +Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields. + +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) + +Unwanted file name escaping: ":echo input('file:' , '', 'file')" +And use file name completion on a file with spaces. (Frederic Hardy, 2009 Mar +23) + +Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron, +2009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14. + +Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview(). + +Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with +SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18) + +When 'foldmethod' is "indent", using >> on a line just above a fold makes the +cursor line folded. (Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17) + +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: 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) + +Win32 GUI: Changing manifest helps for dpi changes (Joe Castro, 2009 Mar 27) + +Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr +command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13) + +Win32: use different args for SearchPath()? (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2009 Jan 30) + +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 bu --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) + +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 'shellshash' 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? + +Allow patches to add something to version.c, like with an official patch, so +that :version output shows which patches have been applied. + +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. + +"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7) + +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) + +Runtime files for Clojure. (Toralf Wittner, 2008 Jun 25) + +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) + +Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources: + XtDefaultFont: "9x15" + XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15" +(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 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. + +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. + +Patch for c.vim and cpp.vim syntax files. (Chung-chieh Shan, 2008 Nov 26) + +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. + +Fix for matchparen HL doesn't work. beep. + +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) + +Win32: bold font doesn't work when 'guifontwide' has been set. (Yue Wu, 2010 +Aug 23) + +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) + +The str2special() function doesn't handle multi-byte characters properly. +Patch from Vladimir Vichniakov, 2007 Apr 24. +Should clean up the whole function. Also allow modifiers like <S-Char-32>? +find_special_key() also has this problem. + +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. + +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) + +GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this? +Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode. + +Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen, +try the Cocoa version. + +Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is +changed or the window is resized. + +GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit" +the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars. + +Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008 +Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7. + +Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug +1) Reply by Ben Schmidt. + +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) + +Searching for composing char works, but not when inside []. (ZyX, Benjamin R. +Haskell, 2010 Aug 24) + +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) + +Recognize and ignore BOM in error file. (Aleksey Baibarin) + +":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) + +":tab drop filename" doesn't work nicely when "filename" is open in a window +in another tab. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Feb 13) + +Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold. + +Including NFA regexp code: +Use "\%#= to set the engine: 0 = automatic, 1 = backtracking, 2 = new. +Useful in tests. +Performance tests: +- ~/vim/test/veryslow.js (file from Daniel Fetchinson) +- ~/vim/test/slowsearch +- ~/vim/test/rgb.vim +- ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune) +- search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use + 'hlsearch'. + +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) + +Can't easily close the help window, like ":pc" closes the preview window and +":ccl" closes the quickfix window. Add ":hclose". (Chris Gaal) +Patch for :helpclose, Christian Brabandt, 2010 Sep 6. + +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) + +'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. + +More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9) + +Amiga patches with vbcc. (Adrien Destugues, 2010 Aug 30) +http://pulkomandy.ath.cx/drop/vim73_vbcc_amiga.diff + +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. + +When the popup menu is close to the edge of the window it is truncated. Patch +to anchor the popup menu in a different way. (James Vega, 2008 Jul 30) + +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 a files that unix "find" can find very +quick. 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? + +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) + +Patch to use Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen, 2010 Jul 30) +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) + +Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov, +2007 Feb 8) + +Patch for Win32 clipboard under Cygwin. (Frodak Baksik, Feb 15) + Sutcliffe says it works well. + Update 2007 May 22 for Vim 7.1 + Update 2008 Dec 2008 for Vim 7.2.xx (Sharonov) + +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 convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2) + +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: echo doesn't work for gvim.exe.mnf. Use inline file. Patch by Mathias +Michaelis. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/43765 +Patch that includes this and does more by George Reilly, 2007 Feb 12 + +Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22) + +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. + +Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17) + +Win32: When 'shell' is cmd.exe this command fails: + echo system('"c:/path/echo.exe" "foo bar"') +Should we set the default for 'shellxquote' to a double quote, when 'shell' +contains "cmd" in the tail? (Benjamin Fritz, 2008 Oct 13) +Also set 'shellcmdflag' to include /s. + +Win32: When there is 4 Gbyte of memory mch_avail_mem() doesn't work properly. +Unfinished patch by Jelle Geerts, 2008 Aug 24. +Let mch_avail_mem() return Kbyte instead? + +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. + +Pressing the 'pastetoggle' key doesn't update the statusline. (Jan Christoph +Ebersbach, 2008 Feb 1) + +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 'filenecodings' is set +properly? + +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) + +When using input() in a loop and then ":echo" the display column isn't right. +(Benjamin Fritz, 2008 Aug 28) Patch by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Sep 2. + +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". + +Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for +if_ruby.c. + +":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'. + +Patch to dynamically load Python on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2009 Feb 16) +Needs more work. + +Python3 interface doesn't handle utf-8 correctly? (Nov 2010, lilydjwg) + +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. + +"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script. +Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7. + +VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first +directory of the path and not to the original location of the file. +(Zoltan Arpadffy) + +VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy) + +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? + +":python os.chdir('/tmp')" makes short buffer names invalid. (Xavier de Gaye) +Check directory and call shorten_fnames()? + +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) + +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) + +GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal. + +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) + +Mac: OS/X 10.4 with Python 2.5 installed: configure finds an extra argument +that breaks the build. (Brian Victor, 2008 Sep 1) + +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) + +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? + +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. + +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? +Does multi-byte printing with ":hardcopy" work? Add remark in documentation +about this. + +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 after saving view and +restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25) + +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? + +GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is +maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but +doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5. +Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not +visible. + +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. + +"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup +script. Do "set compatible" after startup? + +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) + +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) + +When entering a C /* comment, after typing <Enter> for 70 times the indent +disappears. (Vincent Beffara, 2008 Jul 3) + +TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron +Griffis, 2007 Sep 19) + +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) + +When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't +respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing +the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like +what happens for the GUI. + +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) + +Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler, +2010 Jun 30) + + +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) +- 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 access screen under Python. (Marko Mahni, 2010 Jul 18) +- 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) + - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed. + - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore + 'termencoding'? +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. +- Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav + Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31, update 2007 May 30) + Version for latest MacVim: Tobia Conforto, 2009 Nov 23 +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) +- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif + and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18). +- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work. + + +Vi incompatibility: +- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7) + Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal) +8 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other + marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it + is deleted or restored. (Webb) + Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo. + Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the '' + position is one line down. (Veselinovic) +8 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should + make Vim exit. +7 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line + (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway). + Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input. +8 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips + loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument + given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded) +6 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but + only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag + in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off. +8 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another + symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one. + Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file + names in one buffer??? + Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and + then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not + logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer. +7 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some + changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual" + command was one command. + On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last + change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo). +7 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep + the ":map" when it's used without arguments? +7 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option. +7 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty. +7 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a + flag in 'cpoptions' for this. +7 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when + making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing + the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either + all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file). +7 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode). +7 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines. +7 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go + to the match with the tag? Option? +7 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option. +7 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del> + (Sayre). +7 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the + cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible). +7 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual". + In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next + match. Nvi can do it too. +7 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking) + g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\ + line 1\ line 2\\ + line 2\ line 3\\ + . line4/ +6 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of + the way the shell is started? +6 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange + thing. (only repeat insert for the first line). + + +GTK+ GUI known bugs: +9 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6) +8 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj + Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in + creating a label? +8 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly. + Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do + everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it? +9 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim + when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and + vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works. + It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again. +- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes + floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been + blocked for now. + + +Win32 GUI known bugs: +- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than + the screen. +8 non-ASCII font names don't work. Need to convert from 'encoding' and use + the wide functions. +8 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2 + file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically? +8 Win32: With two monitors, gvim partly on both, and adding/removing a + scrollbar Vim resizes and moves to one of the monitors. (Chris Monkiewicz, + 2008 Oct) +8 When the primary monitor is below or right of the secondary monitor and + Vim is on the secondary monitor it will often move to the primary monitor. + Window position coordinates can be negative. (James Harvey) + When the primary monitor is on the right, coordinates on the left monitor + are negative. Clamping to zero means gvim jups to the primary monitor. + (Michael Wookey, 2010 Aug 17) + Probably the same issue: When the GUI tab pages line is displayed Vim + jumps from the secondary to the primary monitor. (Afton Lewis, 2007 Mar 9) + Possible solution using GetSystemMetrics() (Sergey Khorev, 2010 Aug 18) +8 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications. + The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs. + Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html +8 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be + WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp) +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"). +6 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":" + of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis) +8 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide + characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both + type of characters. +7 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason + appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible + to use an opaque background in most places? +8 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that + when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly. + Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters. +8 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font + in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the + UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono. +7 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan, + 2004 May 9) +8 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces + a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim + window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with + MS-Windows 98? + Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a + console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed + file: Window moves with the cursor! + Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it? +8 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it + appear. (Sami Salonen) +8 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that + comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win + NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also + doesn't work properly. +8 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops + up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it + appears in the right position. (Webb) +9 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse + button doesn't give popup menu. + At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless + selection. + On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button. + Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the + non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text. +8 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the + user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore) + Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error + occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code. +8 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg. + Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not + be read. +7 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida + Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char). + Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'. +7 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the + keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to + scroll? +7 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance. + Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar. +6 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor). +8 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work + for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because + CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr? +8 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we + know which keyboard is being used? +7 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern + doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn + area (Koloseike). +8 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might + still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first, + then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in + the font name). + + +Athena and Motif: +6 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki: + - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black. + Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file. + - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled + with grey instead of the current toolbar background color. +9 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is + required and it's missing? +8 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned + wrong. +9 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can + be off by default. +9 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now, + keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting + flag. +8 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character. + Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1. + Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this. +8 Perhaps use fontsets for everything? +6 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting + the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all + menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of + the tooltips work though... +7 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not + always used (when specifying a filter or another directory). +8 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the + menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the + current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'. + + +Athena GUI: +9 The first event for any button in the menu or toolbar appears to get lost. + The second click on a menu does work. +9 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in + the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving + through files. +7 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to + read long file names. (Schroeder) +4 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go + through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the + window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets" + problem during a refresh. +5 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing + ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the + pullright pixmap doesn't change colors. + If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes + colors as it should. + Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the + pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug? + + +Motif GUI: +- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing, browsedir() doesn't work nicely. +7 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()? + David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2). +8 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes + very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes. + (Phillipps) + + +GUI: +9 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no + longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy) +9 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C. + e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on + Solaris 2.6. (Marley) +9 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim + is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf) +8 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key + should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version). +8 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both + the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate + the translation when 'langmenu' has changed. +8 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling + gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state + of where it is processing the output. + Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code. +8 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font + doesn't work. +8 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS. +8 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So + that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are + still translated. +8 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS. +8 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for + browse(). +8 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this, + use that code? Or use console dialog. +8 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the + error message disappears too quick. +7 More features in the find/replace dialog: + - regexp on/off + - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory + when all buffers/directory is used: + - filter for file name + when directory is used: + - subdirectory on/off + - top directory browser +8 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later, + to avoid problems. +8 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there + are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for + input. Or maybe every 100 ms? +8 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank + lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0". + When the "+0+0" is omitted it works. +8 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed + up. Set erase character somehow? +8 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character + (Rommel). Look how xterm does this. + Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling. + Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya) +8 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11. +7 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not + visible. +7 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is + hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey) +7 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it + doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw. +8 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the + bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek) +8 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not + redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32. + When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the + remaining part of the window (Phillipps). +- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun. +4 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times + when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times + currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486. + + +MSDOS/DJGPP: +9 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao) + When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the + BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem. +8 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists. + change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error? +9 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused + code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to + write a file. +9 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C. + Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since + the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting + 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work. +9 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work. + CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67 + ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71 + Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2) + to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>. + Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream? + Make this work like in Win32 console. + Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended + key code. Use a translation table? +9 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used. + At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself. +8 Use DJGPP 2.03. +8 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT. + Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip). +8 setlocale() is bogus. +8 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some + sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched + Windows 95 system! +8 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe) +7 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088 + machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin). +7 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.: + COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley) + Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem). +8 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add + modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt. +7 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen. + The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a + crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are + "[New file]". +7 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode + that is supported? +8 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them. +8 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter + Briscoe) + + +MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32: +8 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use + gen_expand_wildcards(). +8 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander + Wagner. +8 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL. +8 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt, + writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name. +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) + + +Windows 95: +8 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file + name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps. + Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly). +8 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the + long filename (both DJGPP and Win32). + + +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. +8 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at + how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT. +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. + + +Amiga: +8 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte + sequences. +9 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove + backslashes in result. +8 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do + all options, using white space separation. + + +Macintosh: +- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing. +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. +8 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the + error number, it's not a regular error message. +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 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters. +8 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call + edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in + an allocated structure? +6 Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack) +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 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names: + use "~/" when possible. +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). +8 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when + defined. +7 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$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 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error + message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid. +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. +7 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter, + nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space. +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. +9 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on + Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect + that Windows NT is being used? +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 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga). +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 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get + error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the + background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as + the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from + clipboard) +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: +- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the + right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the + right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this. +- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become + slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes + ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main + loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the + file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This + needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated. + (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3. +- 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. +- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim. + This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim. +- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin. +- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will + be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which + character gets the highlighting. +- 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). +- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25 + errors. How do we get the rest? +- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why? +- 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). +- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that + program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim + can't get back what the external command didn't use. +- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error. + It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code. +- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being + used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar. +- 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. + DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) 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. +- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal + scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif + libraries, get a patch from Sun. +- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X + input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash. +- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks + different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff. +- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim + does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy) +- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive + in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used. +- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up: + Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library + This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to + "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the + error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem. +- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the + screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line: + :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr> +- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a + ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert + always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard) +- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar. + This is a GTK 2.4.x bug, fixed in GTK 2.4.2. (Thomas de Grenier de Latour) +- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co' + termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the + termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the + highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined + in the vimrc file to be lost. +- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and + "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars. + +--------------------- extensions and improvements ---------------------- + *extensions-improvements* + +Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed: +- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)". + Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if + calling a function. + With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)". + Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit(). +- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block + can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (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. +- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how + the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help: + http://vimshell.wana.at +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 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link + to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind". +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. +8 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems. +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) +8 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do + ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The + gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest. + global_event_filter() for GTK. + + +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. +8 :tabmove +N move tab page N pages forward +8 :tabmove -N move tab page N pages backward +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: +- have some way not to give spelling errors for a range of characters. + E.g. for Chinese and other languages with specific characters for which we + don't have a spell file. Useful when there is also text in other + languages in the file. +- 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 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. +7 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----". +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 special item to match with a composing character, zero-width, so that + one can replace a base character and keep the composing characters. + Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing + characters can be manipulated. + Add a modifier to ignore composing characters, only compare base + characters. Useful for Hebrew (Ron Aaron) +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) +- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the + fontselector somehow. +- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it + possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale. +- 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 and RiscOS 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. +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 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error". +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. +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. + 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 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on + Win16. +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? +8 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up + MS-DOS version. (Negri) +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 editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the + "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was + read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating + memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)? +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) +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) +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". + + +Win32 GUI: +8 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for + the message and input? +7 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? +7 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu. + (Mike McCollister) +8 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several + files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't + changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all + files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest + common part of the path. +8 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik) +8 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that + gettext and menus work. +8 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit + return in every console. + Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands: + http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html. +8 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands: + Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text). +8 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF. + Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands? +7 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme. + Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser) +7 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog). +7 <Esc> should close a dialog. +7 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be + hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended + command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any + prompts. +7 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that + is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have + the file added into an already running Vim. +7 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide + functions to find the window title. + + +GUI: +8 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS. +- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a + normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier. +7 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows. +8 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI. +6 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu. +8 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When + moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position. +9 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze) +7 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype? +8 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the + current window, splits the window or uses ":hide". +8 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text + scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine + specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated. +8 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim) + window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front. +8 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more + explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c. + If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow + running them in separate processes. +7 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument. +8 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask + to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code. +7 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw + each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font + is not exactly double-width. (Maeda) +8 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default). +8 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to + select one. +8 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.). +8 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all? +8 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a + command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this + portable (X11, Win32, ..)? +7 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items. + For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The + menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything. +7 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back. + Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim). +7 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can + use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors. + Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For + the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs. +7 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the + inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas) +7 Should support multi-column menus. +- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far + right, or with the other menus (but still at the right). +- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode". +8 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus. +6 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a + lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui". +7 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'? +7 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos', + which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>. + Or add a command, like ":winsize"? +7 Add toolbar for more GUIs. +8 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item + name can be chosen free. +7 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of + the window? Allows for softkey-like use. +6 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the + GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a + pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is + reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to + the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks + like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI + things. +7 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default + button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog. +7 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks + simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated. +- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal + where it was started from? +7 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument. + + +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. <&xxx> for Risc OS. 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" + CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands. + 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 + InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the + char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor. + Set v:char to the character, can be changed. + (not triggered when 'paste' is set). + 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: +- GUI implementation of the popup menu. +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 Completing ":r ~br" should find matching user names. +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: +9 Remember which command lines were actually typed and were not loaded from + viminfo. When writing viminfo append only these lines, so that lines from + other Vim's are not overwritten. +- 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. +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 ") :" confuses continuation line: (Colin Bennett, 2007 Dec 14) + cout << "a" + << ") :" + << "y"; +9 "} else" causes following lines to be indented too much. (Rouben + Rostamian, 2008 Aug 30) +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? +7 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines. +- 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. + 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and spaces used for indent, + when the indent remains the same or increases. + + +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://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743 +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: +- 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 "gn": repeat last movement command. 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: +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 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 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. +7 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only + required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the + side effect. +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) + + +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 digraph for a character, if it exists. + Also the keymap? +- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line + below/above). +- 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 for + systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to + shortname conversion. +8 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc. +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) +- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console. +- 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 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping + around in windows. +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: +9 Python: be able to define a Python function that can be called directly + from Vim script. Requires converting the arguments and return value. +8 ":sign unplace * file={filename}" should work. Also: ":sign unplace * + buffer={bufnr}". So one can remove all signs for one file/buffer. +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'? +9 Add %F to 'errorformat': file name without spaces. Useful on Unix to + avoid matching something up to a time 11:22:33. +- 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) +6 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5) +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? +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. {not in Vi} +- 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'. +- 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? +- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time + t_bs is set? (Webb) +- "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. +- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine + the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz) +- 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>. +- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work + yet. +- 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. +- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but + gives read errors. Check protection before opening. +- 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. +- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file. +- :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 : |