1*todo.txt* For Vim version 7.3. Last change: 2010 Aug 15 2 3 4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar 5 6 7 TODO list for Vim *todo* 8 9This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired 10improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by 11subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able 12to look for "the next thing to do": 13 14Priority classification: 159 next point release 168 next release 177 as soon as possible 186 soon 195 should be included 204 nice to have 213 consider including 222 maybe not 231 probably not 24- unclassified 25 26 *votes-for-changes* 27See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should 28be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|. 29 30 *known-bugs* 31-------------------- Known bugs and current work ----------------------- 32 33":find e" completion, editing a file in the Vim source directory, 'path' set 34to "./proto", does not shorten ./proto/eval.pro, probably because of 35./proto/ex_eval.pro. 36 37Problem with \NL in Ex script. (Ray Frish, 2010 Aug 10) 38 39Bug: E685 error for func_unref(). (ZyX, 2010 Aug 5) 40 41CTRL-] on help tag |/[\n]| doesn't jump to the right place. (Tony Mechelynck, 422010 Aug 8) 43 44":command Print echo 'print'" works, but ":Print" doesn't. Builtin Print 45should be overruled. (Aaron Thoma) 46 47GTK: drawing a double-width combining character over single-width characters 48doesn't look right. (Dominique Pelle, 2010 Aug 8) 49 50Editing a file with a ^M with 'ff' set to "mac", opening a help file, then the 51^M is displayed as ^J sometimes. Getting 'ff' value from wrong window/buffer? 52 53Problem producing tags file when hebrew.frx is present. It has a BOM. 54Results in E670. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 May 2) 55 56setpos() does not restore cursor position after :normal. (Tyru, 2010 Aug 11) 57 58Test 73 fails on MS-Windows when compiled with DJGPP and run twice. How to 59delete the Xfind directory? Add an rmdir() function, just like we have 60mkdir(). 61 62'cindent' not correct when 'list' is set. (Zdravi Korusef, 2010 Apr 15) 63 64":helpgrep" does not put the cursor in the correct column when preceded by 65accented character. (Tony Mechelynck, 2010 Apr 15) 66 67Echo starts in the wrong column: 68 while 1 | let s = input('A') | echo 'R' | endw 69(Boyko Bantchev, 2010 Aug 9) 70 71Patch: Let rare word highlighting overrule good word highlighting. 72(Jakson A. Aquino, 2010 Jul 30) 73 74Patch to make more characters work in dialogs. (Yankwei Jia, 2010 Aug 4) 75 76":drop" does not respect 'autochdir'. (Peter Odding, 2010 Jul 24) 77 78Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11) 79Additional info by Dominique Pelle. (also on 2010 Apr 10) 80 81Is ~/bin (literally) in $PATH supposed to work? (Paul, 2010 March 29) 82Looks like only bash can do it. (Yakov Lerner) 83 848 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once 85 after typing something. 86Need for CursorHold that retriggers. Use a key that doesn't do anything, or a 87function that resets did_cursorhold. 88 89Cscope "cs add" stopped working somewhat before 7.2.438. (Gary Johnson, 2010 90Jun 29) Caused by 7.2.433? 91 92I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice. 93Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running 94an external command). 95 96Jumplist doesn't work properly in Insert mode? (Jean Johner, 2010 Mar 20) 97 98Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with 99non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7) 100 101iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009 102Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail 103or replace with a character and continue? 104 105Add local time at start of --startuptime output. 106Requires configure check for localtime(). 107Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec. 108 109Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3) 110Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in 111path. 112 113":function f(x) keepjumps" creates a function where every command is executed 114like it has ":keepjumps" before it. 115 116Coverity: ask someone to create new user: Dominique. 117Check if there are new reported defects: http://scan.coverity.com/rung2.html 118 119When setting 'undofile' while the file is already loaded, but unchanged, try 120to read the undo file. Requires computing a checksum of the text. (Andy 121Wokula) 122 123Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17) 124Only with "vim -u NONE". 125 126Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8) 127 128Display error when 'tabline' that includes a file name with double-width 129characters. (2010 Aug 14, bootleq) 130 131Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26) 132 133Undo problem: line not removed as expected when using setline() from Insert 134mode. (Israel Chauca, 2010 May 13, more in second msg) 135Break undo when CTRL-R = changes the text? Or save more lines? 136 137Change to C syntax folding to make it work much faster, but a bit less 138reliable. (Lech Lorens, 2009 Nov 9) Enable with an option? 139Most time is spent in in_id_list(). 140 141Slow combination of folding and PHP syntax highlighting. Script to reproduce 142it. Caused by "syntax sync fromstart" in combination with patch 7.2.274. 143(Christian Brabandt, 2010 May 27) 144 145When completion inserts the first match, it may trigger the line to be folded. 146Disable updating folds while completion is active? (Peter Odding, 2010 Jun 9) 147 148In command line window ":close" doesn't work properly. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 149Jun 1) 150 151When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number, 152not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a 153string value. 154 155There is no command line completion for ":lmap". 156 157Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2) 158 159For running gvim on an USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command 160line argument -noregister. 161 162When a mapping exists both for insert mode and lang-insert mode, the last one 163doesn't work. (Tyru, 2010 May 6) Or is this intended? 164 165Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo". 166(Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15. 167Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ? 168There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view. 169Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work? 170 171":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax 172highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier 173to avoid changing 'eventignore'? 174 175Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6) 176Probably needs a bit of work. 177 178List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiware, 2009 Jul 18) 179Are they all OK? Update Jul 22. 180 181Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15) 182 183Putting a Visual block while 'visualedit' is "all" does not leave the cursor 184on the first character. (John Beckett, 2010 Aug 7) 185 186Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong, 1872009 Jul 18) 188 189Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2) 190Added test, updates, June 23. 191 192Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in 193window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12) 194Needs more work. 195 196Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8) 197 198When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a 199few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28) 200 201'cmdwinheight is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value. 202(Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15) 203 204Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark 205J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31) 206 207When $VIMRUNTIME is set in .vimrc, need to reload lang files. Already done 208for GTK, how about others? (Ron Aaron, 2010 Apr 10) 209 210Patch for GTK buttons X1Mouse and X2Mouse. (Christian J. Robinson, 2010 Aug 9) 211 212Motif: Build on Ubuntu can't enter any text in dialog text fields. 213 214When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line. 215 216":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window, 217because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in 218ex_docmd.c. 219 220Space before comma in function definition not allowed: "function x(a , b)" 221Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs. 222 223string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used 224for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv. 225 226Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed. 227 228'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul 22920) 230 231Unwanted file name escaping: ":echo input('file:' , '', 'file')" 232And use file name completion on a file with spaces. (Frederic Hardy, 2009 Mar 23323) 234 235Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron, 2362009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14. 237 238Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview(). 239 240Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with 241SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18) 242 243When 'foldmethod' is "indent", using >> on a line just above a fold makes the 244cursor line folded. (Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17) 245 246When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then 247indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one. 248(Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17) 249 250Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands 251are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11) 252Ignore window options when not in the right window? 253Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer 254that doesn't have a window. 255 256When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo 257doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6) 258 259getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not 260displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer. 261 262":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u". 263 264There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what 265was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted 266perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo. 267 268Diff mode out of sync. (Gary Johnson, 2010 Aug 4) 269 270Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't 271work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery 272Kondakoff, 2009 May 13) 273 274Win32 GUI: Changing manifest helps for dpi changes (Joe Castro, 2009 Mar 27) 275 276Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr 277command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13) 278 279Win32: use different args for SearchPath()? (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2009 Jan 30) 280 281Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which 282does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22) 283 284opening/closing window causes other window with 'winfixheight' to change 285height. Also happens when there is another window in the frame, if it's not 286very high. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2010 Jul 22, Michael Peeters, 2010 Jul 22) 287 288Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand. 289(Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3) 290 291maparg() doesn't return the flags, such as <buffer>, <script>, <silent>. 292These are needed to save and restore a mapping. 293Also: the rhs string is not always correct. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2009 Sept 29) 294 295Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing 296char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4) 297 298Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish 299messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages 300es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle, 3012009 Jan 26) 302 303When $HOME contains special characters, sich as a comma, escape them when used 304in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5) 305Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped. 306 307Can 'undolevels' be a buffer-local option? Helps for making big changes in 308one file only, set 'ul' to -1 only for that buffer. 309 310Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from 311a modeline. 312 313Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by 314Sergey Khorev) 315 316Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text 317part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient. 318 319netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row 320number to be below last visible line. 321 322After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not 323correct. Don't use it in the swap file. 324 325Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off. 326(Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29) 327 328Allow patches to add something to version.c, like with an official patch, so 329that :version output shows which patches have been applied. 330 331Bug: in Ex mode (after "Q") backslash before line break, when yanked into a 332register and executed, results in <Nul>: instead of line break. 333(Konrad Schwarz, 2010 Apr 16) 334 335Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23) 336Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/ 337 338Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we 339make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24) 340 341When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can 342still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names? 343 344"gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text. 345(Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2) 346 347Update src/testdir/main.aap. 348 349"vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7) 350 351Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way 352that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the 353ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1) 354Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...". 355 356Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6) 357 358Runtime files for Clojure. (Toralf Wittner, 2008 Jun 25) 359 360MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew" 361doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer 362probably causes this. 363 364'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura, 3652009 Jan 16) 366 367Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources: 368 XtDefaultFont: "9x15" 369 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15" 370(Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12) 371 372Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for 373":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the 374option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument 375is executed. 376 377Crash with dragn-n-drop of file combined with netrw (Marius Gedminas, 2008 Jun 37811) I can't reproduce it. It's probably caused by a handle_drop() call 379in combination with autocommands that invoke a ":redraw" command. 380Another valgrind output Jun 30. 381 382":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the 383first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this. 384 385Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3 386laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1) 387Works OK with Vim in an xterm. 388 389Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change 390anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7) 391 392On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it 393doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9) 394Shell expansion returns unexpanded string? 395Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start? 396 397":unlet $VAR" doesn't work. 398 399When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with 400'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the 401fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for 402the buffer to be unmodified. 403Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have 404another look at it. 405 406Patch for c.vim and cpp.vim syntax files. (Chung-chieh Shan, 2008 Nov 26) 407 408c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0". 409(Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7) 410 411Win32: ":dis +" shows nothing, but "+p does insert text. Problem with "* and 412"+ being the same thing? 413 414You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an 415error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008 416Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is 417at the other match for 0xBF. 418 419Fix for matchparen HL doesn't work. beep. 420 421When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the 422argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19) 423 424Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a 425backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5) 426 427After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33 428(no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the 429command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling? 430 431":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim 432Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14. 433 434Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 435Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl. 436 437When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work 438either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses 439put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice? 440 4418 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Turn 442 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME into an option, at least for completion. 443 444Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly: 445Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?') 446Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', ''] 447Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails? 448(Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8) 449 450Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12) 451 452ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value. 453 454Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[". 455(Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid 456escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for 457an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c. 458This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008 459July 7) 460 461The str2special() function doesn't handle multi-byte characters properly. 462Patch from Vladimir Vichniakov, 2007 Apr 24. 463Should clean up the whole function. Also allow modifiers like <S-Char-32>? 464find_special_key() also has this problem. 465 466Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull, 4672008 May 14) 468 469Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21) 470Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c". 471'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27) 472 473Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008 474Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately? 475 476Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23) 477Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2. 478 479Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable. 480 481The utf class table is missing some entries: 482 0x2212, minus sign 483 0x2217, star 484 0x2500, bar 485 0x26ab, circle 486 487Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the 488line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1) 489 490GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this? 491Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode. 492 493Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen, 494try the Cocoa version. 495 496Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is 497changed or the window is resized. 498 499Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008 500Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7. 501 502Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug 5031) Reply by Ben Schmidt. 504 505C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL 506with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one. 507Try to reproduce at work. 508 509Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19) 510Is there a way to list all the files first? 511 512When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may 513result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr 51416) 515 516Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19) 517Await response to question to make the register writable. 518 519src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a 520remark why. 521 522Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct 5231) 524 525In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what 526each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices" 527 528try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15) 529 530Recognize and ignore BOM in error file. (Aleksey Baibarin) 531 532":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window. 533Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck) 534 535":tab drop filename" doesn't work nicely when "filename" is open in a window 536in another tab. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Feb 13) 537 538Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold. 539 540Including NFA regexp code: 541Use "\%#= to set the engine: 0 = automatic, 1 = backtracking, 2 = new. 542Useful in tests. 543Performance tests: 544- ~/vim/test/veryslow.js (file from Daniel Fetchinson) 545- ~/vim/test/slowsearch 546- ~/vim/test/rgb.vim 547- ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune) 548- search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use 549 'hlsearch'. 550 551Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences. 552Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html 553 554Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26) 555Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007 556Jul 31) 557 558C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error. 559(Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1) 560 561Can't easily close the help window, like ":pc" closes the preview window and 562":ccl" closes the quickfix window. Add ":hclose". (Chris Gaal) 563 564When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge 565and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31) 566 567Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7 568 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs 569 570New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge) 571 572'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu 573Likonen, March 19) 574 575Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some 576other way to test buffer-local autocommands. 577 578The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it 579appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding 580matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24. 581 582When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every 583character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for 584'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which 585(ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE. 586 587Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11) 588Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org. 589 590More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9) 591 592Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes 593back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24) 594Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6. 595 596Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6) 597No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix. 598 599Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the 600terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7) 601 602Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18) 603 604Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib, 605but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument, 606that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21) 607 608When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking? 609 610Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul 611Coronado, 2008 Oct 30) 612 613Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the 614popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and 615size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu. 616This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22. 617 618When the popup menu is close to the edge of the window it is truncated. Patch 619to anchor the popup menu in a different way. (James Vega, 2008 Jul 30) 620 621Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has 622a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT 623isn't right? 624 625When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading 626it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer) 627 628Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and 629then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include 630files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15) 631Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs 632indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in 633":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like 634in ":1find /**/file". This is for a files that unix "find" can find very 635quick. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian 636Kelling, 2008 July 4) 637 638When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the 639parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape 640neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on 641particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008 642Jun 3) 643However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if 644the user put quotes around the expanded item? 645 646Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory. 647Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp). 648 649Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a 650switch list is noticed: 651 switch (i) 652 { 653 case 1: 654 foobar: 655 } 656 657Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation. 658 659Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim 660with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then 661go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time 662moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25) 663 664Patch to use Modern UI 2.0 for the Nsis installer. (Guopeng Wen, 2010 Jul 30) 665 666Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov, 6672007 Feb 8) 668 669Patch for Win32 clipboard under Cygwin. (Frodak Baksik, Feb 15) 670 Sutcliffe says it works well. 671 Update 2007 May 22 for Vim 7.1 672 Update 2008 Dec 2008 for Vim 7.2.xx (Sharonov) 673 674Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in 675set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME? 676 677Win32: Patch for convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2) 678 679Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7) 680 681Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias 682Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31. 683New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other 684patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22) 685 686Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias 687Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4. 688 689Win32: echo doesn't work for gvim.exe.mnf. Use inline file. Patch by Mathias 690Michaelis. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/43765 691Patch that includes this and does more by George Reilly, 2007 Feb 12 692 693Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22) 694 695Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis, 6962007 Feb 18) 697Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems. 698 699Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages 700label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6. 701 702Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen 703with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael 704Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17) 705 706Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing 707pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var. 708 709Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17) 710 711Win32: When 'shell' is cmd.exe this command fails: 712 echo system('"c:/path/echo.exe" "foo bar"') 713Should we set the default for 'shellxquote' to a double quote, when 'shell' 714contains "cmd" in the tail? (Benjamin Fritz, 2008 Oct 13) 715Also set 'shellcmdflag' to include /s. 716 717Win32: When there is 4 Gbyte of memory mch_avail_mem() doesn't work properly. 718Unfinished patch by Jelle Geerts, 2008 Aug 24. 719Let mch_avail_mem() return Kbyte instead? 720 721Win32: With two monitors, gvim partly on both, and adding/removing a scrollbar 722Vim resizes and moves to one of the monitors. (Chris Monkiewicz, 2008 Oct) 723 724Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing. 725Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape() 726only takes 'shellslash' into account. 727 728Pressing the 'pastetoggle' key doesn't update the statusline. (Jan Christoph 729Ebersbach, 2008 Feb 1) 730 731Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16. 732Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12) 733Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'filenecodings' is set 734properly? 735 736Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega, 7372007 Jun 21) 738 739When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008 740Jun 18) 741 742If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work. 743 744Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for 745windows. (Adam George) 746 747When using input() in a loop and then ":echo" the display column isn't right. 748(Benjamin Fritz, 2008 Aug 28) Patch by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Sep 2. 749 750F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a 751modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like 752K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2) 753 754UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear 755to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2) 756 757In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through 758the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28) 759 760C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26) 761 762":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop. 763 764When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479 765error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20) 766 767Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then 768use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no". 769 770Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for 771if_ruby.c. 772 773":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'. 774 775Patch to dynamically load Python on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2009 Feb 16) 776Needs more work. 777 778The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put 779it in keep_msg? 780 781Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match" 782error. Should only happen when there are wildcards, not when giving the file 783name literally, and esp. if there is only one name. 784 785Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes 786longer than 2 seconds. 787 788Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow. 789Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24) 790Also for ":w" without a file name. 791The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand. 792 793"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script. 794Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7. 795 796VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first 797directory of the path and not to the original location of the file. 798(Zoltan Arpadffy) 799 800VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy) 801 802input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file 803name? 804 805getpos()/setpos() don't include curswant. getpos() could return a fifth 806element. setpos() could accept an optional fifth element. 807 808Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed? 809 810When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped. 811(patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right) 812Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\(" 813will be seen as a path separator plus "\(". 814 815gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (. 816This also fails with --remote. 817 818When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye, 8192008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in 820all places where buf_freeall() is called? 821 822":python os.chdir('/tmp')" makes short buffer names invalid. (Xavier de Gaye) 823Check directory and call shorten_fnames()? 824 825aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page. 826 827When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset? 828(Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27) 829 830Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change 831the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15) 832 833Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry. 834Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry. 835Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an 836argument list or opening each file in a separate tab. 837(Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26) 838 839GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal. 840 841Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the 842superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079. 843 844Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first 845character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list". 846 847Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006 848Jun 5) 849 850Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov 8512008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip 852Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list. 853 854In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error, 855but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 856Jul 22) 857 858There should be something about spell checking in the user manual. 859 860Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word, 861":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z=" 862somehow? Or use a new function. 863 864Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21) 865 866Mac: OS/X 10.4 with Python 2.5 installed: configure finds an extra argument 867that breaks the build. (Brian Victor, 2008 Sep 1) 868 869Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is 870moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check 871that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars'). 872 873The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3) 874 875Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after 876loading all files. 877 878Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command 879line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only 880after starting up? 881 882When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the 883cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change 884the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27) 885 886Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page 887has been created. 888 889Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the 890shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the 891fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake", 892background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it. 893A.Politz may work on this. 894 895These two abbreviations don't give the same result: 896 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>" 897 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR> 898 cabbr YYY xyz<Left> 899 900Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command 901partly. (2006 Dec 7) 902 903In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another 904buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to 905reload it then? 906 907New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did 908previous version. 909 910For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg. 911 912Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set, 913only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors. 914 915Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory 916tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that 917doesn't contain other directories. 918 919Linux distributions: 920- Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is 921 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help 922 xfree-xterm". 923- Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc. 924 925Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the 926start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to 927show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the 928middle? 929 930When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it 931(using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the 932connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of 933dying? Also relevant when running in a console. 934 935Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended. 936 937When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the 938current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where 939the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis) 940 941When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened. 942Only skip shortening for ":cc"? 943 944Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice* 945 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim 946 - setting 'mouse' to "a" 947 - getting colors in xterm 948 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc. 949 950Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles 951Campbell 2006 Jul 06. 952 953Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6) 954 955A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy 956Wokula, 2007 Aug 25) 957 958Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna 959Dara, 2006 June 21) 960 961Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large 962number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6) 963 964After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center 965the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands. 966 967Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing? 968Does multi-byte printing with ":hardcopy" work? Add remark in documentation 969about this. 970 971Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for 972copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X 973error and stop using the connection to the server. 974 975Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006 976Jul 26, Gary Johnson) 977 978Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wozniski, 9792008 Sep 29) 980 981In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can 982check the result of has("patch13"). 983 984Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and 985restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25) 986 987Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to 988put backslashes before special chars, only for white space. 989 990Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window, 991resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other. 992 993In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way, 994can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects? 995 996Win32: When the GUI tab pages line is displayed Vim jumps from the secondary 997to the primary monitor. (Afton Lewis, 2007 Mar 9) Old resizing problem? 998 999GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is 1000maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but 1001doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5. 1002Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not 1003visible. 1004 1005GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit" 1006the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars. 1007 1008The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should 1009be only one. 1010 1011"vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup 1012script. Do "set compatible" after startup? 1013 1014It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print 1015the function name before resolving it to a number? 1016 let d = {} 1017 fun! d.foo() 1018 echo "here" 1019 endfun 1020 call d.foo(9) 1021 1022Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are 1023only set after Visual moded is ended. 1024Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be 1025used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt) 1026 1027Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the 1028output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu) 1029Should we use 'termencoding' for this? 1030 1031Win32, NTFS: When editing a specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is 1032"auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File 1033name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex 1034Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1) 1035 1036Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script. 1037(David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 ) 1038 1039Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir 1040as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen) 1041 1042Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007 1043Jan 1) 1044 1045Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr 104623) 1047 1048":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using 1049tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007 1050Jun 18) 1051 1052xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for 1053buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow(). 1054Xterm 224 supports it! 1055 1056When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion 1057text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is 1058latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24. 1059 1060Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function? 1061 1062Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is 1063no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11) 1064 1065In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the 1066VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas, 10672007 Oct 16) 1068 1069When entering a C /* comment, after typing <Enter> for 70 times the indent 1070disappears. (Vincent Beffara, 2008 Jul 3) 1071 1072TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron 1073Griffis, 2007 Sep 19) 1074 1075Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it. 1076 1077When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously 1078typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 1079Sep 3, 11) 1080 1081When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't 1082respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing 1083the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like 1084what happens for the GUI. 1085 1086X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and 1087pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23) 1088clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length. 1089Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection. 1090Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before 1091clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code. 1092 1093":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect 1094this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)? 1095 1096When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle. 1097Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are 1098restored. (Luc St-Louis) 1099 1100Patch to support horizontal scroll wheel in GTK. Untested. (Bjorn Winckler, 11012010 Jun 30) 1102 1103 1104More patches: 1105- Another patch for Javascript indenting. (Hari Kumar, 2010 Jul 11) 1106 Needs a few tests. 1107- Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3) 1108- Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct 1109 21) 1110- Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs 1111 patch May 10) 1112- Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric 1113 Arnold, 2006 May 22) 1114- 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file. 1115 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14) 1116- Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30) 1117- Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16) 1118- ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad 1119 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a 1120 character at a time? 1121- recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13) 1122- Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana 1123 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17) 1124- Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and 1125 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18) 1126- Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul 1127 21) 1128- Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in 1129 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20) 1130- When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben 1131 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22. 1132- testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008 1133 Sep 13) 1134- Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29, 1135 Docs patch Oct 30) 1136- Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520 by 1137 Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott) Asked Vissale to make the scripts 1138 more friendly for the Vim distribution. 1139 New version received 2008 Jan 6. 1140 No maintenance in two years... 1141- Patch to access screen under Python. (Marko Mahni, 2010 Jul 18) 1142- Patch to open dropped files in new tabs. (Michael Trim, 2010 Aug 3) 1143 1144Awaiting updated patches: 11459 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns): 1146 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac? 1147 New patch 2004 Jun 16 1148 - selecting proportional font breaks display 1149 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this. 1150 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt) 1151 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work. 1152 (Alan Schmitt) 1153 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed. 1154 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore 1155 'termencoding'? 11569 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search() 1157 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution. 11588 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24) 11598 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible. 1160 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3. 11617 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto. 1162 Update 2004 Sep 6. 1163 How does this work? Missing comments. 1164- Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav 1165 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31, update 2007 May 30) 1166 Version for latest MacVim: Tobia Conforto, 2009 Nov 23 11678 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina 1168 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations... 11697 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears 1170 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3. 1171- Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work 1172 for multi-byte characters. 1173- Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind. 1174- Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5) 1175 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not 1176 been given values. 1177 Add section in help files for these highlight groups? 11788 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm 1179 with an ESC sequence. 1180 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor: 1181 <Esc>]12;?<Bel> 1182 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit. 11837 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin 1184 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon) 1185- Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a 1186 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth'). 1187 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20. 11888 Add functions: 1189 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 1190 Update 2004 Sep 10 1191 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24) 1192 Search in 'runtimepath'? 1193 More docs needed about how to use this. 1194 How to get the messages into the .po files? 1195 strchars() Like strlen() and strwidth() but counting characters 1196 instead of bytes. 1197 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical 1198 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg) 1199 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag 1200 (2003 May 13) 1201 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for 1202 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ ) 1203 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches. 1204 useful for interactive things or completion. 1205 col('^') column of first non-white character. 1206 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', '')) 1207 + 1", but that's ugly. 12087 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions 1209 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10) 1210- Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the 1211 quickfix window (2004 dec 2) 12127 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right 1213 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli) 12148 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk 1215 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock. 12167 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie) 12178 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's 1218 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1. 12197 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David 1220 Kotchan has a patch for it) 12218 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See 1222 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface. 1223 Or use emacs server kind of thing? 12247 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25. 1225- findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at 1226 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram, 1227 incomplete patch Mar 18) 1228- For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif 1229 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18). 1230- Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work. 1231 1232 1233Vi incompatibility: 1234- Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7) 1235 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal) 12368 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other 1237 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it 1238 is deleted or restored. (Webb) 1239 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo. 1240 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the '' 1241 position is one line down. (Veselinovic) 12428 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should 1243 make Vim exit. 12447 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line 1245 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway). 1246 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input. 12478 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips 1248 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument 1249 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded) 12506 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but 1251 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag 1252 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off. 12538 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another 1254 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one. 1255 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file 1256 names in one buffer??? 1257 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and 1258 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not 1259 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer. 12607 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some 1261 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual" 1262 command was one command. 1263 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last 1264 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo). 12657 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep 1266 the ":map" when it's used without arguments? 12677 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option. 12687 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty. 12697 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a 1270 flag in 'cpoptions' for this. 12717 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when 1272 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing 1273 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either 1274 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file). 12757 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode). 12767 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines. 12777 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go 1278 to the match with the tag? Option? 12797 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option. 12807 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del> 1281 (Sayre). 12827 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the 1283 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible). 12847 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual". 1285 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next 1286 match. Nvi can do it too. 12877 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking) 1288 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\ 1289 line 1\ line 2\\ 1290 line 2\ line 3\\ 1291 . line4/ 12926 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of 1293 the way the shell is started? 12946 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange 1295 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line). 1296 1297 1298GTK+ GUI known bugs: 12999 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6) 13008 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj 1301 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in 1302 creating a label? 13038 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly. 1304 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do 1305 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it? 13069 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim 1307 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and 1308 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works. 1309 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again. 1310- Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes 1311 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been 1312 blocked for now. 1313 1314 1315Win32 GUI known bugs: 1316- Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than 1317 the screen. 13188 non-ASCII font names don't work. Need to convert from 'encoding' and use 1319 the wide functions. 13208 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2 1321 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically? 13228 When the primary monitor is below or right of the secondary monitor and 1323 Vim is on the secondary monitor it will often move to the primary monitor. 1324 Window position coordinates can be negative. (James Harvey) 13258 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications. 1326 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs. 1327 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html 13288 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be 1329 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp) 13307 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow 1331 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to 1332 "lucida_console:h8"). 13336 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":" 1334 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis) 13358 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide 1336 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both 1337 type of characters. 13387 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason 1339 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible 1340 to use an opaque background in most places? 13418 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that 1342 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly. 1343 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters. 13448 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font 1345 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the 1346 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono. 13477 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan, 1348 2004 May 9) 13498 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces 1350 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim 1351 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with 1352 MS-Windows 98? 1353 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a 1354 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed 1355 file: Window moves with the cursor! 1356 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it? 13578 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it 1358 appear. (Sami Salonen) 13598 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that 1360 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win 1361 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also 1362 doesn't work properly. 13638 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops 1364 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it 1365 appears in the right position. (Webb) 13669 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse 1367 button doesn't give popup menu. 1368 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless 1369 selection. 1370 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button. 1371 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the 1372 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text. 13738 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the 1374 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore) 1375 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error 1376 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code. 13778 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg. 1378 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not 1379 be read. 13807 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida 1381 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char). 1382 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'. 13837 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the 1384 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to 1385 scroll? 13867 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance. 1387 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar. 13887 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using 1389 "/min" as the command name. (Rogall) 13906 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor). 13918 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work 1392 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because 1393 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr? 13948 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we 1395 know which keyboard is being used? 13967 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern 1397 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn 1398 area (Koloseike). 13998 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might 1400 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first, 1401 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in 1402 the font name). 1403 1404 1405Athena and Motif: 14066 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki: 1407 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black. 1408 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file. 1409 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled 1410 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color. 14119 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is 1412 required and it's missing? 14138 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned 1414 wrong. 14159 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can 1416 be off by default. 14179 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now, 1418 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting 1419 flag. 14208 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character. 1421 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1. 1422 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this. 14238 Perhaps use fontsets for everything? 14246 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting 1425 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all 1426 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of 1427 the tooltips work though... 14287 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not 1429 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory). 14308 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the 1431 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the 1432 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'. 1433 1434 1435Athena GUI: 14369 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in 1437 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving 1438 through files. 14397 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to 1440 read long file names. (Schroeder) 14414 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go 1442 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the 1443 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets" 1444 problem during a refresh. 14455 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing 1446 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the 1447 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors. 1448 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes 1449 colors as it should. 1450 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the 1451 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug? 1452 1453 1454Motif GUI: 1455- gui_mch_browsedir() is missing. 14567 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()? 1457 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2). 14588 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes 1459 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes. 1460 (Phillipps) 1461 1462 1463GUI: 14649 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no 1465 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy) 14669 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C. 1467 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on 1468 Solaris 2.6. (Marley) 14699 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim 1470 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf) 14718 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key 1472 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version). 14738 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both 1474 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate 1475 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed. 14768 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling 1477 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state 1478 of where it is processing the output. 1479 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code. 14808 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font 1481 doesn't work. 14828 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS. 14838 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So 1484 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are 1485 still translated. 14868 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS. 14878 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for 1488 browse(). 14898 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this, 1490 use that code? Or use console dialog. 14918 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the 1492 error message disappears too quick. 14937 More features in the find/replace dialog: 1494 - regexp on/off 1495 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory 1496 when all buffers/directory is used: 1497 - filter for file name 1498 when directory is used: 1499 - subdirectory on/off 1500 - top directory browser 15018 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later, 1502 to avoid problems. 15038 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there 1504 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for 1505 input. Or maybe every 100 ms? 15068 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank 1507 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0". 1508 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works. 15098 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed 1510 up. Set erase character somehow? 15118 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character 1512 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this. 1513 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling. 1514 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya) 15158 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11. 15167 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not 1517 visible. 15187 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is 1519 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey) 15207 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it 1521 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw. 15228 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the 1523 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek) 15248 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not 1525 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32. 1526 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the 1527 remaining part of the window (Phillipps). 1528- Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun. 15294 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times 1530 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times 1531 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486. 1532 1533 1534MSDOS/DJGPP: 15359 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao) 1536 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the 1537 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem. 15388 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists. 1539 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error? 15409 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused 1541 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to 1542 write a file. 15439 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C. 1544 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since 1545 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting 1546 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work. 15479 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work. 1548 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67 1549 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71 1550 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2) 1551 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>. 1552 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream? 1553 Make this work like in Win32 console. 1554 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended 1555 key code. Use a translation table? 15569 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used. 1557 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself. 15588 Use DJGPP 2.03. 15598 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT. 1560 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip). 15618 setlocale() is bogus. 15628 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some 1563 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched 1564 Windows 95 system! 15658 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe) 15667 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088 1567 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin). 15687 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.: 1569 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley) 1570 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem). 15718 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add 1572 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt. 15737 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen. 1574 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a 1575 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are 1576 "[New file]". 15777 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode 1578 that is supported? 15798 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them. 15808 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter 1581 Briscoe) 1582 1583 1584MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32: 15858 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use 1586 gen_expand_wildcards(). 15878 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander 1588 Wagner. 15898 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL. 15908 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt, 1591 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name. 15928 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's 1593 a good fallback, thus use: 1594 $HOME 1595 $HOMEDRIVE$HOMEPATH 1596 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE); 1597 $USERPROFILE 1598 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE); 1599 $ALLUSERSPROFILE 1600 $SYSTEMDRIVE\ 1601 C:\ 16028 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have 1603 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key. 16048 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift. 1605 Should work like in the GUI version. 16068 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for 1607 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names. 16088 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when 1609 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command? 16108 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file" 1611 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be 1612 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc. 16138 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going 1614 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to 1615 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth) 1616 1617 1618Windows 95: 16198 Editing a file by its short file name and writing it, makes the long file 1620 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps. 1621 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly). 16228 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the 1623 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32). 1624 1625 1626Win32 console: 16279 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its 1628 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister) 1629 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor. 1630 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable. 1631 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1 1632 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name. 1633 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file. 1634 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed 1635 and the file is not saved. 1636 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its 1637 long name. 16388 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at 1639 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT. 16407 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals, 1641 besides the console. 16428 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes) 16439 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with 1644 <C-S-i>? 16459 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on 1646 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI? 16478 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__ 1648 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around? 16497 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'? 1650 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when 1651 exiting. 1652 1653 1654Amiga: 16558 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte 1656 sequences. 16579 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove 1658 backslashes in result. 16598 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do 1660 all options, using white space separation. 1661 1662 1663Macintosh: 1664- GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing. 16657 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard 1666 Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff 1667 Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it. 16687 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both. 1669 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac 1670 (Jack) 1671 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html 16728 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear 1673 to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17) 16748 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI. 16758 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn, 1676 2006 Sept 28) 16779 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher) 1678 - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost. 16798 The Vim/About menu doesn't work. 16808 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV. 16818 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh. 16828 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh. 16839 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be 1684 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone) 16859 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when 1686 scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher) 16879 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two 1688 seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher) 16899 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly. 16908 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige) 16918 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige) 1692 1693 1694"Small" problems: 1695- Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and 1696 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it? 1697- When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed, 1698 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from. 1699- When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the 1700 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing. 1701 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1) 1702 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the 1703 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text. 1704 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing 1705 the command. 17069 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_ 1707 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz) 17089 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't 1709 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't, 1710 file isn't readonly, etc. 17118 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used, 1712 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited 1713 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure 1714 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this. 17158 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the 1716 error number, it's not a regular error message. 17177 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to 1718 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) 17198 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and 1720 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column 1721 for redirection. 17227 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use 1723 'termencoding'. 1724- Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the 1725 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed. 17268 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor 1727 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor 1728 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when 1729 using the horizontal scrollbar. 17307 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed 1731 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the 1732 invocations belong together. 17338 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this 1734 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams) 17358 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the 1736 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the 1737 UnxUtils.zip archive. 1738 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter 1739 Briscoe says it's not as good. 17408 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters. 17418 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call 1742 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in 1743 an allocated structure? 17446 Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack) 17458 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing 1746 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly) 17477 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names: 1748 use "~/" when possible. 17497 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte 1750 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail 1751 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[] 1752 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8). 17538 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when 1754 defined. 17557 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an 1756 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found. 1757 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions. 17587 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode 1759 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second 1760 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel) 17617 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the 1762 bottom window only bigger as much as needed. 17637 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere. 1764 Remove? (Dan Sharp) 17659 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This 1766 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining 1767 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command": 1768 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining 1769 script can be called. 17708 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po, 1771 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still 1772 works. 17738 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with 1774 CTRL-C. 17757 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X 1776 server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp 1777 of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK 1778 doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it 1779 won't work for GTK anyway. 17808 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error 1781 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid. 17828 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line() 1783 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this 1784 configurable? 17858 'hkmap' should probably be global-local. 17869 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes 1787 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work 1788 then. (Pritesh Mistry) 17898 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save 1790 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()? 17918 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+" 1792 is a multi-byte character. 17938 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is 1794 always written, even when the original file already exists. 17957 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter, 1796 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space. 17979 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file 1798 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being 1799 written. 18007 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer. 18018 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose 1802 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when 1803 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'. 18048 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose", 1805 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values. 1806 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when 1807 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'. 18088 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global 1809 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez) 18109 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing 1811 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give 1812 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating 1813 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14. 18147 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes. 1815 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs. 18167 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed 1817 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's 1818 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y 1819 direction, not horizontally? 18208 ":hardcopy": 1821 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16. 1822 - Need to handle unprintable characters. 1823 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform 1824 dithering to make grey text? 1825 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total 1826 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams) 1827 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'? 1828 - Should interpret CTRL-L as a page break. 1829 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'. 1830 Default to black when no syntax highlighting. 1831 - Be able to print a window in diff mode. 1832 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate 1833 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected). 18348 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the 1835 text in following lines where the linebreak changes. 18369 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on 1837 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect 1838 that Windows NT is being used? 18398 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a 1840 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it. 18418 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert 1842 in lines that don't extend into the block? 18438 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O 1844 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev) 1845 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work. 18468 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from 1847 'linebreak'. 18488 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection 1849 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab. 1850 (Helmut Stiegler) 18519 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When 1852 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending 1853 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of 1854 'magic' in history. (Margo) 18559 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for 1856 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc". 18579 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern 1858 isn't updated). 18599 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga). 18609 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled 1861 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which 1862 cause another redraw, etc. 18638 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path() 1864 must escape special characters in the pattern. 18658 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an 1866 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use 1867 ":w!!" for that. 1868 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and 1869 restore file to readonly afterwards. 1870 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue. 18717 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get 1872 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the 1873 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as 1874 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from 1875 clipboard) 18767 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal 1877 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark 1878 Waggoner) 18798 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window 1880 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no 1881 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\". 18826 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is 1883 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of 1884 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout. 18858 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a 1886 way to avoid using the builtin termcap. 18878 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also 1888 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm. 1889 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style. 18908 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert. 18918 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator 1892 (e.g., ":w"). 18938 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for 1894 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long. 18958 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column 1896 for ">>". 18978 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long 1898 script in do_cmdline(). 18998 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the 1900 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that 1901 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have 1902 changes. 19038 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT 1904 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim". 19058 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to 1906 check for file marks. This can be slow. 19077 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change 1908 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's 1909 needed. 1910 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key. 19118 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option 1912 to skip catch_signals()? 19139 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the 1914 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert 1915 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of 1916 text? 19178 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts 1918 all the text. Add ":rmenu"? 19198 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of 1920 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>. 19219 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are 1922 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7, 1923 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed. 1924 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or 1925 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate(). 19267 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/". 1927 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and 1928 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings 1929 in the list? 19308 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking 1931 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up, 1932 instead of on button down. 19338 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw. 19349 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for 1935 reaching the end of the available buffer. 1936 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006 1937 May 14) 19388 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a 1939 character is typed. 19408 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this. 1941 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it. 19428 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not 1943 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure 19448 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an 1945 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template 1946 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp". 1947 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for 1948 cygwin bash. 19497 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}". 1950 Remember flags for backreferences. 19517 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been 1952 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT? 19537 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names 1954 that contain a '$' after all have been found. 19558 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about 1956 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX. 19577 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting 1958 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name. 19597 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing. 1960 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and 1961 "initdir" is the default path to be used. 19627 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of 1963 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols) 19648 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo 1965 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so 1966 that the user knows he has to delete the files. 19677 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func 1968 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this. 1969 1970 1971I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!): 19729 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file 1973 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three 1974 files. (McCollister) 1975 1976 1977Problems that will (probably) not be solved: 1978- GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the 1979 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the 1980 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this. 1981- GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become 1982 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes 1983 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main 1984 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the 1985 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This 1986 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated. 1987 (2008 Jul 31) This appears to be fixed in Vim 7.3. 1988- xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim 1989 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to 1990 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title 1991 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window 1992 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be 1993 worked around with a delay. 1994- In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering 1995 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the 1996 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like 1997 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external 1998 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text. 1999- X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access 2000 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message. 2001 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it. 2002- X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim. 2003 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim. 2004- Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin. 2005- Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will 2006 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which 2007 character gets the highlighting. 2008- Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm 2009 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly. 2010- In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem. 2011 (Jennings) 2012- Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino). 2013- Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25 2014 errors. How do we get the rest? 2015- Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why? 2016- Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The 2017 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong. 2018- MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a 2019 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy 2020 first? 2021- MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for 2022 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names. 2023- When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy 2024 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim, 2025 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK. 2026- An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The 2027 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working. 2028 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p". 2029 (Benzinger). 2030- When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that 2031 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim 2032 can't get back what the external command didn't use. 2033- Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error. 2034 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code. 2035- Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being 2036 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar. 2037- Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer 2038 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when 2039 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted. 2040 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library. 2041 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn) 2042 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)? 2043- Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles 2044 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE. 2045 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134. 2046- SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal 2047 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif 2048 libraries, get a patch from Sun. 2049- Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X 2050 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash. 2051- VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks 2052 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff. 2053- VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim 2054 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy) 2055- Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive 2056 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used. 2057- GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up: 2058 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library 2059 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to 2060 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the 2061 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem. 2062- GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the 2063 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line: 2064 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr> 2065- GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a 2066 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert 2067 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard) 2068- GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar. 2069 This is a GTK 2.4.x bug, fixed in GTK 2.4.2. (Thomas de Grenier de Latour) 2070- When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co' 2071 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the 2072 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the 2073 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined 2074 in the vimrc file to be lost. 2075- On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and 2076 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars. 2077 2078--------------------- extensions and improvements ---------------------- 2079 *extensions-improvements* 2080 2081Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed: 2082- Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)". 2083 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if 2084 calling a function. 2085 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)". 2086 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit(). 2087- Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block 2088 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2. 2089- Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye. 2090 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here: 2091 http://clewn.sf.net. 2092 And the idevim plugin/script. 2093 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program 2094 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the 2095 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the 2096 other window. 2097 Wishes for NetBeans commands: 2098 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors. 2099 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?) 2100 in terminal mode. 2101- ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to 2102 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru 2103 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR 2104 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198. 2105 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine) 2106 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net 2107 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php 2108- STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is. 2109 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command 2110 scrolls back to where the cursor is. 2111- Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the 2112 first line to be able to start halfway. 2113- Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how 2114 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help: 2115 http://vimshell.wana.at 21168 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify 2117 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m". 2118 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of 2119 taglist() can be used. 2120- X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program. 2121 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly? 2122 2123 2124Documentation: 21258 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007 2126 Feb 20. 21278 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link 2128 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind". 21298 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded 2130 or not. 21318 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth) 21327 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual. 21339 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention: 2134 - change to cursor position and curswant 2135 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.) 2136 - how it works for folded lines 2137 - how it works with multi-byte characters 21389 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would 2139 work too. 21408 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag" 2141 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double 2142 text. 21438 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running". 21447 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to 2145 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'. 21467 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and 2147 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag. 2148 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz. 2149- Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks. 2150 2151 2152Help: 2153- First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a 2154 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag. 2155- When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go 2156 to the other matches. 2157- Support a way to view (and edit) .info files. 2158- Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|. 2159- Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always 2160 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file, 2161 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a 2162 default contents. 2163- Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal 2164 height for the help window (and other windows). 2165- ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute". 2166- Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive? 2167- Learn mode: show short help while typing commands. 2168 2169 2170User Friendlier: 21718 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see 2172 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12 21738 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for 2174 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter 2175 Briscoe) 21768 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types? 21778 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that 2178 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if 2179 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf". 21808 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc, 2181 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu. 2182- Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file. 2183 ":mkplugin <file>"? 21848 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that 2185 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from 2186 'runtimepath'. 2187 " Vim plugin 2188 <main plugin code> 2189 " >>> plugin help start <<< 2190 <plugin docs> 2191- Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."? 21929 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or 2193 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty 2194 item?). 2195 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands. 21968 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems. 21977 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output? 21987 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session 2199 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim 2200 window can be displayed. (Eduard) 22018 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do 2202 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The 2203 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest. 2204 global_event_filter() for GTK. 2205 2206 2207Tab pages: 22089 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems. 22097 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color, 2210 font, etc.) 22118 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu. 22128 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path. 22138 :tabmove +N move tab page N pages forward 22148 :tabmove -N move tab page N pages backward 22157 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows. 22167 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify 2217 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output. 22187 Add local variables for each tab page? 22198 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between 2220 tab pages. 22217 Add local highlighting for each tab page? 22227 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with 2223 window-local directories? 2224 2225 2226Spell checking: 2227- have some way not to give spelling errors for a range of characters. 2228 E.g. for Chinese and other languages with specific characters for which we 2229 don't have a spell file. Useful when there is also text in other 2230 languages in the file. 2231- Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX. 2232 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777 2233- Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent 2234 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match 2235 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote. 2236- Could filter é things for HTML before doing spell checking. 2237 Similarly for TeX. 2238- The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW 2239 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes 2240 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this. 2241- Considering Hunspell 1.1.4: 2242 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do? 2243 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes? 2244- Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words. 2245 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox) 2246- There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now 2247 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/ 2248 (Teemu Likonen) 22498 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from 2250 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes. 22518 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG. 2252 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID 22538 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file: 2254 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP 2255 items and check if the result is a valid word. 2256 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP 2257 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE 2258 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case. 2259 How is it supposed to work? 2260- Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its 2261 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file. 2262- suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase. 2263- For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of 2264 the word are not used. 2265- Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to 2266 use same wordlist for hyphenation. 2267- Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of 2268 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file? 2269- NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now? 2270 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end? 2271- Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following 2272 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words? 2273- New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/ 2274 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that. 2275 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism 2276 in the affix file separately. 2277 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting 2278 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value. 2279 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX 2280 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word 2281 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc. 2282- CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then 2283 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a 2284 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching 2285 specific prefixes with suffixes. 2286 Alternative: 2287 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond} 2288 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the 2289 affix which is required. 2290- When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for 2291 COMPOUNDWORDMAX. 2292- Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2, 2293 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word 2294 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3 2295- MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after 2296 word/flags and affix. 2297- Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item? 2298 Await comments from other spell checking authors. 2299- Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/ 23008 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing 2301 syntax items (to add @Spell). 2302 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn 2303 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items. 2304- References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org). 2305 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html 2306 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/ 2307 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca> 23088 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and 2309 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"? 23108 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell. 23118 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their 2312 use of words with a dash. 23137 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists. 23148 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'? 2315 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath 2316 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments 2317 in English, strings in German (po file). 2318 2319 2320Diff mode: 23219 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be 2322 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c 2323 It's quite big and badly documented though. 23248 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file). 2325 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing: 2326 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis 2327 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what 2328 can be undone. (Tom Popovich) 23297 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also 2330 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same 2331 location. 2332 2333 2334Folding: 2335 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY; 2336 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=) 23378 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves 2338 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling. 23398 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only. 23409 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold 2341 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds. 23427 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----". 23438 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the 2344 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the 2345 user aware of this? 23468 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which 2347 commands skip over a closed fold. 23488 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt) 23498 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB. 23507 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds. 2351- Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an 2352 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the 2353 missing line goes unnoticed. 2354 How to implement this? 2355- When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll 2356 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds 2357 smoother? 2358- When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list, 2359 using the wininfo in wi_folds. 2360- When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session 2361 file can contain: 2362 args version.c main.c 2363 edit version.c 2364 Can editing version.c twice be avoided? 2365- 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects. 2366- "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How 2367 to implement this? 2368- "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the 2369 cursor. 2370- 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or 2371 match. 2372- Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt) 23738 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like 2374 searches. 2375 2376 2377Multi-byte characters: 2378- When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back 2379 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8? 2380 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename 2381 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8. 23829 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the 2383 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal 2384 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single 2385 byte). 23869 'fenc' in modeline problem: add option to reload the file when 'fenc' is 2387 set to a different value in a modeline? Option can be default on. Could 2388 it be done with an autocommand? 23898 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for 2390 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html. 2391 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like: 2392 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-" 2393 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first 2394 item. 23958 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for 2396 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"? 2397 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8". 23988 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an 2399 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for 2400 ":grep" and ":helpgrep". 2401 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function). 24028 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search 2403 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka) 24048 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g., 2405 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a 2406 different fileencoding for filter output? 24077 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted, 2408 so that the user can fix the problem. 24098 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo 2410 Schweigert) 24119 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El) 24128 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters. 24138 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters. 24148 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes. 24157 Searching and composing characters: 2416 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored? 2417 Add special item to match with a composing character, zero-width, so that 2418 one can replace a base character and keep the composing characters. 2419 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing 2420 characters can be manipulated. 2421 Add a modifier to ignore composing characters, only compare base 2422 characters. Useful for Hebrew (Ron Aaron) 24238 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing. 24248 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes. 24258 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte 2426 characters. 24278 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters. 24288 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead 2429 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example. 24307 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead. 2431 'display' option to specify this. 24327 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default(): 2433 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c) 2434- GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the 2435 fontselector somehow. 2436- GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it 2437 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale. 2438- dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for 2439 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong. 2440- Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset, 2441 depending on the default value of 'encoding'. 2442 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used. 2443 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know 2444 if a font exists? 2445- Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with 2446 convert_input() for Mac GUI and RiscOS GUI. 2447- Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters. 2448 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_ 24497 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of 2450 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky) 2451- Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup 2452 table anymore (breakat_flags[]). 2453 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line 2454 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100. 2455- Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text 2456 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort 2457 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command? 2458- When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into 2459 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it: 2460 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz 2461 But it's very complicated... 2462 2463 2464Printing: 24657 Implement "undercurl" for printing. 2466- Add "page width" to wrap long lines. 2467- Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for 2468 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function. 2469- Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George 2470 Reilly) 2471- Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'. 2472- Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer 2473 name, portrait/landscape, etc). 2474- PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit 2475 character set. How to support Unicode fully? 2476- Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same 2477 units as for the margins. 2478- Support right-to-left text? 24798 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the 2480 color. 2481 2482 2483Syntax highlighting: 24848 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson) 2485 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual". 24868 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined 2487 cluster can be added to existing syntax items. 24888 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this: 2489 "({ something })", often used in GCC code. 24907 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region, 2491 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell) 24928 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing 2493 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for 2494 ":wq file". 24957 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be 2496 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax 2497 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27) 24988 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script). 24999 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is 2500 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it... 25017 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and 2502 Search highlighting. 25037 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line. 2504 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating. 25058 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to 2506 change this for each release. 25078 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end 2508 pattern, but not in the body. 25098 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this 2510 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item, 2511 instead of the containing item. 25128 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside (). 25138 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype 2514 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules? 2515 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples, 2516 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax. 25178 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a 2518 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained] 25198 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey 2520 background) when on one of the parens or in between them. 2521 Option for the matchparen plugin? 25228 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error". 25238 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop 2524 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be 2525 used. 25268 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will 2527 allow spell checking. (Fleiner) 25288 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And 2529 re-insert the [] if possible. 25308 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for 2531 the Cursor). 25328 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then 2533 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what 2534 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a 2535 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull) 2536 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern' 25378 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like 2538 using "\1" in a ":s" command. 25398 Support for deleting syntax items: 2540 :syn keyword cTodo remove this 2541 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern" 2542 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that" 25438 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way 2544 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for 2545 a '<'. (Fleiner) 25467 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification? 2547 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or 2548 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern. 25497 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be 2550 detected. 25518 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original 2552 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this). 25538 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to 2554 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible. 25558 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group. 25568 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values. 25577 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to 2558 ":mkvimrc". 25598 Improve c.vim: 2560 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on: 2561 "c_strict_ansi". 2562 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way... 25638 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the 2564 current line while in Insert mode. 25658 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been 2566 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again? 25678 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current 2568 display position. 25698 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to 2570 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern. 2571 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()". 25728 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until 2573 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when 2574 highlighting starts. 25758 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use 2576 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape 2577 sequence. 25787 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item 2579 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the 2580 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would 2581 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai 2582 Weibull) 25837 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the 2584 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow. 2585 E.g. for this html: 2586 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I> 25877 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed 2588 (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"): 2589 :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display="" 25907 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is. 25917 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled 2592 words. 25938 Add more command line completion for :syntax. 25948 Add more command line completion for :highlight. 25957 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands. 2596 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and 2597 completion? 25988 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their 2599 highlighting. (Salman Halim) 26007 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to 2601 select one of the sets. 26028 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1 2603 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch 2604 2, etc. 26058 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the 2606 highlighting (for "." command). 26078 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /. 2608 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /? 26098 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing. 26107 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs": 2611 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c". 26126 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of 2613 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall) 2614- Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful 2615 when extending an already existing syntax file. 2616- Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too? 2617- Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin 2618 (for comment blocks). 2619- Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags: 2620 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor. 2621 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match. 2622 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match. 2623 Also for {}, <>, etc.? 2624 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?) 2625 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the 2626 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it. 2627 (Campbell) 2628 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around 2629 the cursor. (Iain Truskett) 26307 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword. 2631 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow). 26327 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should 2633 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set). 2634 And allows for sections with different highlighting. 26357 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it 2636 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from 2637 messages. And external commands? 26388 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for 2639 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim? 26407 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an 2641 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line. 2642 2643 2644Built-in script language: 26458 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that 2646 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal. 26477 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and 2648 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how 2649 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)? 26508 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and 2651 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings. 2652- Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum, 2653 2006 Dec 11. 2654- range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb) 26558 ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file. 2656 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them. 2657 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function. 2658 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling. 2659 Requires copying the lines into a list and then creating a function to 2660 execute lines from the list. Similar to getnextac(). 26617 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID? 2662 Will be tricky for the list of script names. 26638 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham) 26648 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When 2665 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an 2666 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same 2667 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle 2668 nested packages? 2669 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}(). 2670 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from 2671 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path). 26727 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode. 2673 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if 2674 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that 2675 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an 2676 autocommand. 2677 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a 2678 .vim file. Problem: distribution. 2679 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached 2680 file belongs to a sourced script? 26817 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn', 2682 signs and/or 'number'. 26836 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to 2684 implement this? 26858 Add functions: 2686 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function 2687 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt". 2688 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use 2689 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand) 2690 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with. 2691 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the 2692 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things. 2693 realname() Get user name (first, last, full) 2694 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov 2695 3 2002 2696 Only add this when also implemented for 2697 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could 2698 be used. 2699 get_user_name() gets login name. 2700 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what}) 2701 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}. 2702 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File". 2703 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu 2704 File.Open..." argument. 2705 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22 2706 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary 2707 with properties instead. 2708 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping. 2709 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4. 2710 Return a list instead. 2711 char2hex() convert char string to hex string. 2712 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx" 2713 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file 2714 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace() 2715 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string 2716 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left 2717 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to 2718 find out what happened) 2719 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in 2720 Visual block mode. 2721 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard) 2722 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer 2723 appendbufline() append line in any buffer 2724 libcall() Allow more than one argument. 2725 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function 2726 to allow the library to execute a command or 2727 evaluate an expression. 27287 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the 2729 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero. 27308 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was 2731 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file. 27328 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args 2733 List? Or extra parameter to argv()? 27348 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts. 27357 Add optional arguments to user functions: 2736 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17) 27376 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"? 27388 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var" 2739 just ignore. 27408 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable, 2741 option or environment variable. 27428 ":let &option" should list the value of the option. 27438 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist. 2744 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List. 27457 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack 2746 available as a List. 27478 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed: 2748 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands} 27498 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started. 27508 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default), 2751 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0, 2752 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and 2753 charwise({expr}). 27547 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer 2755 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch 2756 buffer for this? 2757 result = scratch(string, command) 2758 result = apply(string, command) 2759 result = execute(string, command) 2760 "command" would use <> notation. 2761 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number? 27627 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds). 27637 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an 2764 option for the search path. (Sekera) 2765 2766 2767Robustness: 27686 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or 2769 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing 2770 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking . 2771 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf). 2772 Andy doesn't have time to work on it. 2773 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a 2774 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded? 2775 2776 2777Performance: 27787 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list 2779 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string). 27807 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before 2781 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this 2782 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where 2783 you only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it. 27848 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a 2785 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked 2786 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(), 2787 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7) 2788 With a patch, but does it work? 27898 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it 2790 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid 2791 repeating it in various system files. 27928 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags. 27939 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster? 27948 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result? 27957 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when 2796 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start? 27978 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same 2798 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines 2799 when starting up in a color terminal. 28008 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on 2801 Win16. 28028 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this 2803 function be improved? 28048 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the 2805 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap 2806 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can 2807 this be improved? 28088 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up 2809 MS-DOS version. (Negri) 28107 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax". 2811 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman) 28127 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying 2813 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang) 28147 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a 2815 lot of abbreviations). 28167 DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster. 28177 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file 2818 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line 2819 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>. 2820 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat. 2821 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place. 2822 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase. 2823 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc. 28248 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the 2825 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was 2826 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating 2827 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)? 28288 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to 2829 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid 2830 using strcmp() too often? 28317 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file? 2832 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating 2833 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a 2834 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another 2835 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from 2836 the two blocks to the memfile block. 28377 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory 2838 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called 2839 with an argument that can be messed with. 2840 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that 2841 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced. 28427 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)". 2843- Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek() 28448 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in 2845 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim. 2846- "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of 2847 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation? 2848- Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki) 2849- Do profiling on: 2850 - :g/pat/normal cmd 2851 - 1000ii<Esc> 2852 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary) 2853 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan) 2854 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u". 2855 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and 2856 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl". 2857 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary. 2858 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim). 28597 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were 2860 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it 2861 changed). 2862 - On each change, remember start and end of the change. 2863 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count. 2864- Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest! 2865- When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still 2866 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"? 2867- Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to 2868 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from 2869 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg(). 2870- Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of 2871 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing). 2872- Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height. 2873- After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if 2874 cursor is right of the screen. 28758 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a 2876 CTRL-C (it's slow). 2877 2878 2879Code size: 28808 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded. 2881- Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be 2882 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions. 28838 Make a GUI-only version for Unix? 28848 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using 2885 it. 28867 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be 2887 left out. 28888 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals 2889 can be removed. 28908 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed? 2891 2892 2893Messages: 28948 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the 2895 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!". 28968 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip 2897 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()? 28988 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a 2899 script. 2900- Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key. 2901 Perhaps after ten seconds? 2902- Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9. 29038 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin" 2904 message. 29059 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays: 2906 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop. 2907 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long 2908 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before 2909 redrawing. 29108 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more 2911 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text. 29128 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another 2913 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option 2914 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off". 2915 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts 2916 typing, error messages must be switched back on. 2917 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings). 2918- Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed? 2919 Sleep before second message? 29208 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is 2921 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers", 2922 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the 2923 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall) 2924 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and 2925 error messages, printing text, etc. 29268 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt. 2927 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when 2928 a prompt is present (with a callback function?). 2929 2930 2931Screen updating: 29327 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one 2933 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the 2934 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit). 2935- screen_line(): 2936 - insert/delete character stuff. 2937 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line). 2938- When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when 2939 dragging the status line with the mouse). 2940- When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when 2941 waiting for a character. 29428 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from 2943 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when 2944 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping. 29457 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together. 2946 2947 2948Scrolling: 29498 Add "zm" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle. 29506 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi) 2951- extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc.. 2952 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound 2953 windows. 29547 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next 2955 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it 2956 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer. 2957- Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it 2958 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this? 2959 (Goldfarb) 2960- Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all 2961 bound windows. 2962- Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to 2963 be bound by regexp searches 2964- Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell) 2965- Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the 2966 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number 2967 of lines but not with a single line). 2968 2969 2970Autoconf: 29718 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader. 29728 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb) 2973 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically? 2974- Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the 2975 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner). 2976- Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4(). 2977- Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it? 2978- Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf. 2979 2980 2981Perl interface: 29828 Rename typemap file to something else? 29837 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark) 29847 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C? 29856 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll). 2986 2987 2988Shared libraries: 29896 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it. 2990 :libload internal-name libname 2991 :libunload internal-name 2992 :liblist 2993 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...) 2994 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...) 2995 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment. 29966 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries. 2997 2998 2999Tags: 30009 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is 3001 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found 3002 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in 3003 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When 3004 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all. 30058 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path. 3006 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to 3007 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better 3008 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originally (Erik Falor, 2008 3009 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4) 30108 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab 3011 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are 3012 several). 3013 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses 3014 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so 3015 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb) 30167 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the 3017 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members. 3018 (Flemming Madsen) 30198 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis. 30208 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able 3021 to type the tag number directly. 30227 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a 3023 window for each tag. 30247 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting? 30257 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit 3026 bottom" search message. 30277 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry, 3028 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were 3029 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb) 3030- When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack. 3031- Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush". 3032- Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch 3033 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to 3034 what you were working on. 30357 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and 3036 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod". 3037 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func" 3038 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx. 30397 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields: 3040 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c 3041 :tagargs clear 3042 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag 3043 matching). 30447 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command? 3045 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi. 3046 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi) 3047 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way. 30487 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With 3049 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again. 30507 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use 3051 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add 3052 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect". 3053 3054 3055Win32 GUI: 30568 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for 3057 the message and input? 30587 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at 3059 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2 3060 dynamically? 30617 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu. 3062 (Mike McCollister) 30638 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several 3064 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't 3065 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all 3066 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest 3067 common part of the path. 30688 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik) 30698 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that 3070 gettext and menus work. 30718 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit 3072 return in every console. 3073 Also: Look at how Emacs does run external commands: 3074 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html. 30758 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands: 3076 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text). 30778 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF. 3078 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands? 30797 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme. 3080 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser) 30817 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog). 30827 <Esc> should close a dialog. 30837 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be 3084 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended 3085 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any 3086 prompts. 30877 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that 3088 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have 3089 the file added into an already running Vim. 30907 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide 3091 functions to find the window title. 3092 3093 3094GUI: 30958 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS. 3096- <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a 3097 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier. 30987 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows. 30998 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI. 31006 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu. 31018 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When 3102 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position. 31039 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze) 31047 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype? 31058 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the 3106 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide". 31078 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text 3108 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine 3109 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated. 31108 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim) 3111 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front. 31128 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more 3113 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c. 3114 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow 3115 running them in separate processes. 31167 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument. 31178 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask 3118 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code. 31197 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw 3120 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font 3121 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda) 31228 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default). 31238 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to 3124 select one. 31258 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.). 31268 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all? 31278 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a 3128 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this 3129 portable (X11, Win32, ..)? 31307 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items. 3131 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The 3132 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything. 31337 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back. 3134 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim). 31357 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can 3136 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors. 3137 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For 3138 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs. 31397 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the 3140 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas) 31417 Should support multi-column menus. 3142- Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far 3143 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right). 3144- Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode". 31458 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus. 31466 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a 3147 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui". 31487 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'? 31497 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos', 3150 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>. 3151 Or add a command, like ":winsize"? 31527 Add toolbar for more GUIs. 31538 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item 3154 name can be chosen free. 31557 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of 3156 the window? Allows for softkey-like use. 31576 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the 3158 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a 3159 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is 3160 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to 3161 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks 3162 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI 3163 things. 31647 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default 3165 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog. 31667 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks 3167 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated. 3168- Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal 3169 where it was started from? 31707 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument. 3171 3172 3173Autocommands: 3174- Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup? 31758 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the 3176 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc. 3177 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete 3178 the swap file. (Marc Merlin) 31798 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand 3180 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS. 31817 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g., 3182 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific 3183 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or 3184 changing the buffer name. 31858 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g. 3186 "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc". 31877 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag. 31888 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag. 3189 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found. 31908 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two 3191 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more 3192 difficult). 31937 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the 3194 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the 3195 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient? 31968 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input 3197 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus). 3198 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ... 31997 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option 3200 name? 32018 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist? 3202 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things. 32038 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc". 32046 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be 3205 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron) 32067 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event. 32077 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link, 3208 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate 3209 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type 3210 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard) 32115 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the 3212 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will 3213 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas) 32147 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for 3215 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the 3216 file. 32178 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at 3218 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read 3219 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'. 3220- Add events to autocommands: 3221 Error - When an error happens 3222 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode 3223 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode 3224 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow 3225 different mapping) 3226 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode 3227 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter) 3228 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled 3229 when exiting isn't a good idea. 3230 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing 3231 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J" 3232 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands. 3233 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M") 3234 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged 3235 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the 3236 window title) 3237 BufReadAction - replaces reading a file 3238 BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file 3239 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down 3240 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the 3241 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor. 3242 Set v:char to the character, can be changed. 3243 (not triggered when 'paste' is set). 3244 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting 3245 the char. 3246 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for 3247 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the 3248 file from CVS). 3249 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be 3250 used to do a :preserve for remote files. 3251 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate 3252 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so 3253 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add 3254 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah) 3255 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size 3256 changes. 3257 WinResized - After a window has been resized 3258 WinClose - Just before closing a window 3259- Write the file now and then ('autosave'): 3260 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'* 3261 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0) 3262 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the 3263 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set. 3264 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer. 3265 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make 3266 them save the file itself besides the swapfile. 3267 3268 3269Omni completion: 3270- Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and 3271 mix it with other kinds of completion). 3272- Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE: 3273 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information. 3274 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc. 3275 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java. 3276 - Check Readline for its completion interface. 3277- Ideas from others: 3278 http://www.wholetomato.com/ 3279 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747 3280 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim 3281 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net 3282 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C# 3283 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet 3284 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries. 3285 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var. 3286 Uses Perl for C++. 3287 Uses ctags to find the info: 3288 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files 3289 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang) 3290 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265 3291 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/ 3292 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs) 3293 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java. 3294 Emacs: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html 3295 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net 3296- Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match? 3297 3298 3299Insert mode completion/expansion: 3300- GUI implementation of the popup menu. 33017 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only 3302 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep". 33037 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with 3304 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and 3305 "$HOME/tmp" 33068 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete 3307 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages. 33089 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with 3309 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended. 3310 (Webb) 33118 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion: 3312 - ignore/match case 3313 - different characters than 'iskeyword' 33148 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that 3315 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb) 3316 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-]. 3317 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'. 3318 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be 3319 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc. 33208 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text. 33217 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant 3322 text does: www.textware.com 33238 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive 3324 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of 3325 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo. 3326 Should work for C++ and Java. 3327 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc. 33287 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?). 33297 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS 3330 instead of words. 33318 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents. 33328 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does). 3333 Requires remembering a number of insertions. 33348 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names. 3335 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion. 3336- Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system 3337 header files. (Andri Moell) 3338- Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the 3339 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use 3340 wildcards in the file name)? 3341- Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted). 3342- Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?). 3343- Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could 3344 be in another file). 3345- Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches. 3346- Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option? 3347- Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string 3348 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W) 3349- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions. 3350- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows? 3351- CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly) 3352- Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list). 3353 3354 3355Command line editing: 33567 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command 3357 line. 33588 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion 3359 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of 3360 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc. 3361- Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of 3362 lines wraps to start of line). 3363- Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view 3364 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many 3365 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run 3366 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012). 3367 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history. 3368 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the 3369 cmdwin does now already. 3370 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal 3371 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T? 3372 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the 3373 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid 3374 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines? 3375 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate 3376 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode 3377 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh. 3378 Problems: 3379 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar' 3380 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations 3381 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches 3382 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands 3383 - Normal: no ":" commands? 3384 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line. 3385 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of 3386 character in first column? 3387 - Implementation ideas: 3388 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer. 3389 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum. 3390 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line. 3391 - sync undo after entering a command line? 3392 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line 3393 Mode. 3394 3395 3396Command line completion: 33978 Completing ":r ~br" should find matching user names. 33988 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument. 33998 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate 3400 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h". 34018 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list 3402 them with the optional part inside []. 34038 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that 3404 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches). 34057 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be 3406 edited. (Sven Guckes) 3407- For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible. 3408- When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the 3409 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>". 34108 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting 3411 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp? 34127 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the 3413 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb) 3414- Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching 3415 identifiers (Webb). 34168 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>" 3417 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit. 34187 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion. 3419 Useful for ":s/word/xx/". 3420- Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started. 3421 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line. 3422- Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for 3423 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut) 3424 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D. 3425 3426 3427Command line history: 34289 Remember which command lines were actually typed and were not loaded from 3429 viminfo. When writing viminfo append only these lines, so that lines from 3430 other Vim's are not overwritten. 3431- Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a 3432 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a 3433 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't 3434 completely resulted from one mapping. 3435- When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history, 3436 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel) 3437 3438 3439Insert mode: 34409 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after 3441 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line. 3442 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug. 34438 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command 3444 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink) 3445 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do 3446 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing. 3447 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode. 34488 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with 3449 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the 3450 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert. 34517 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a 3452 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y. 3453- Make 'revins' work in Replace mode. 34547 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it 3455 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'. 3456- In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed 3457 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and 3458 also for characters that wrap to the next line. 3459 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register). 3460 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that 3461 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>. 3462- Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in 3463 Normal mode. 3464- Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their 3465 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands 3466 are used. 3467- When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits. 3468- Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b. 3469- Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y. 3470 3471 3472'cindent', 'smartindent': 34739 ") :" confuses continuation line: (Colin Bennett, 2007 Dec 14) 3474 cout << "a" 3475 << ") :" 3476 << "y"; 34779 "} else" causes following lines to be indented too much. (Rouben 3478 Rostamian, 2008 Aug 30) 34798 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17) 34808 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.: 3481 long_type foo = 3482 value; 34838 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is 3484 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer) 3485 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then. 34868 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna) 3487 func( 3488 new String[] { 3489 "asdf", 3490 "asdf" 3491 } 3492 ); 34938 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace: 3494 (Chow Loong Jin) 3495 namespace { 3496 int 3497 func(int arg) { 3498 } 3499 } 35006 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer) 3501 func( arg1 3502 , arg2 3503 , arg3 3504 ); 35057 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner): 3506 func( 3507 int x) // indent like "(4" 3508 { 3509 if (a 3510 && b) // indent like "(0" 35119 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler) 3512 if (a) 3513 { 3514 if (b) 3515 { 3516 // { 3517 } 3518 } <-- this is indented incorrect 3519 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in 3520 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to 3521 findmatchlimit(). 3522- Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the 3523 indent to 0 should be switched on/off. 35247 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line. 3525- "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first 3526 line). 3527- Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}? 3528- Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous 3529 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically? 35307 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines. 3531- When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It 3532 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb) 3533- Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out 3534 code), unless the line starts with "*". 3535- Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"? 3536- When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line 3537 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted). 35388 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the 3539 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more 3540 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment. 3541- For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'. 3542- 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where 3543 lines start with "\item". 3544- Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown) 3545 /* here is a comment that 3546 is just autoindented, and 3547 nothing else */ 3548- Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi". 35497 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for 3550 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the 3551 indents. 3552 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and spaces used for indent, 3553 when the indent remains the same or increases. 3554 3555 3556Java: 35578 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve 3558 Odendahl? 35598 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for 3560 "[i" commands and friends. 3561- For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java. 3562 (Jason) 3563- How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be 3564 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy) 3565 3566 3567'comments': 35688 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated 3569 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping. 3570 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader 3571 when it's "#" or "//". 3572 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated 3573 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition? 35747 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line. 3575 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed. 35767 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item. 35776 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more 3578 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a 3579 regexp is used. 35808 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line 3581 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'? 3582 3583 3584Virtual edit: 35858 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left. 35867 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line? 3587 3588 3589Text objects: 35908 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open. 35918 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc. 35928 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word. 3593 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"? 35948 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte 3595 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all) 3596 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like 3597 'matchpairs'? 35988 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones. 35997 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it 3600 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area. 36018 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires 3602 changing the starting position in oap->start. 36038 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single 3604 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at 3605 the end of the line or before a ".". 36067 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs" 3607 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus) 36087 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph 3609 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}"). 36106 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email. 36115 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For 3612 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one. 3613 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the 3614 cursor is on. 3615 3616 3617Select mode: 36188 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block, 3619 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall) 36207 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word. 3621 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743 36227 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line. 3623 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse' 3624 contains 'C' or 'A'. 3625 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in 3626 normal_cmd(). 3627 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info. 3628 - Typing text replaces the selection. 3629 3630 3631Visual mode: 3632- When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero, 3633 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer 3634 is in the top line. 3635- Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display. 3636 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the 3637 characters. 36388 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new 3639 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding 3640 where needed. 36417 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width, 3642 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc. 36437 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start 3644 of each selected line. 36458 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode? 36468 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer. 3647 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any 3648 other buffer. (Ron Aaron) 36498 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron, 3650 Ben Godfrey) 36517 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and 3652 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey) 36537 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of 3654 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area. 36557 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David 3656 Young is working on this) 36577 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines. 3658 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with 3659 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line. 36608 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text? 3661 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful. 36627 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should 3663 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an 3664 option! 36657 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position 3666 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select 3667 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen 3668 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap. 3669 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to 3670 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line, 3671 without changing the column. 36726 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode. 36737 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the 3674 current buffer. 36757 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area. 36766 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line, 3677 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1. 36786 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line. 36796 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed 3680 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB 3681 or other special character. 36826 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting. 3683 3684 3685More advanced repeating commands: 3686- Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt"). 36877 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember 3688 the command line so that it can be repeated? 3689- Add "gn": repeat last movement command. Including count. 3690- Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g. 3691 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb). 3692 "y." will repeat last yank. 3693 "c2." will repeat the last but one change? 3694 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history 3695 and/or pick an older command. 3696- History stack for . command? Use "g." command. 3697 3698 3699Mappings and Abbreviations: 37008 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be 3701 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell) 3702 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command? 37038 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work? 37047 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte". 3705 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway? 37068 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the 3707 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&. 37088 Add ":amap", like ":amenu". 37097 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard. 37108 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to 3711 entering search strings. 37128 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the 3713 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and 3714 not the <Space>. 37158 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS). 37168 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never 3717 (?) work. 37188 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function 3719 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is 3720 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings? 37217 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation? 37227 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q", 3723 that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger' 3724 option. 37257 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try 3726 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy". 37277 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character 3728 (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for 3729 mapping a key to do something and then completion. 37306 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the 3731 abbreviations are to be used. 3732- Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For 3733 example, for a mouse escape sequence: 3734 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l 3735- Add optional <Number> argument for mappings: 3736 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G 3737 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l 3738 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g 3739 Or implicit: 3740 :map q <Register>d<Number>$ 3741- Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping. 3742- Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in 3743 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings 3744 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording? 3745- Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in 3746 <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this? 3747- Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings 3748 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does). 3749- Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and 3750 mappings off for :unab and :unmap. 37516 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete 3752 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids 3753 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you 3754 hit another character. 3755- Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for 3756 non-replace Insert mode? 3757- Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode? 3758- Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings. 3759- List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key 3760 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself. 3761- List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as 3762 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command? 3763- When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they 3764 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>. 3765- Allow multiple arguments to :unmap. 3766- Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping 3767 ":freekeys". 3768- Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm). 3769 3770 3771Incsearch: 3772- Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'? 3773- When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn 3774 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled 3775 up every time. 3776- Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the 3777 folds when going to another line. 3778- When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many 3779 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?) 3780 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match 3781 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872. 3782- With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other 3783 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid). 3784 3785 3786Searching: 37878 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text? 3788 "g?" is already used for rot13. 3789 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this. 3790 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area. 3791 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area? 37929 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the 3793 matching text. 37948 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands 3795 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part. 3796 Perl does it this way: 3797 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x; 3798 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp 3799 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be: 3800 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\) 38018 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C 3802 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the 3803 number? 38048 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v: 3805 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number 3806 before each line. 38077 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep 3808 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html). 38098 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a 3810 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234]. 38117 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on 3812 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of 3813 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"? 3814 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)* 38157 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for 3816 search(). (Brett) 38177 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping 3818 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset). 38197 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's 3820 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference. 38218 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in 3822 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax? 38238 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current 3824 line. 38257 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an 3826 example. 38278 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in 3828 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif. 3829- For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that 3830 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */). 3831 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back. 3832 Alternative: use matchit.vim 38338 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care? 38348 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that 3835 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it. 3836 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$". 38377 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and 3838 "\d". 38397 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be 3840 \%<C-M>. 38418 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example, 3842 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line. 38438 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji 3844 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set? 38458 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g" 3846 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command. 3847 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing 3848 search pattern. 3849- Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some 3850 of the windows. 3851- Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group. 3852 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group. 3853- Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade) 3854 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one. 3855 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's 3856 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities. 38578 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/". 3858 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop. 3859- Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it. 3860 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling) 38618 Flags that apply to the whole pattern. 3862 This works for all places where a regexp is used. 3863 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern? 3864- Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?): 3865 i ignore case 3866 I use case 3867 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?) 3868 v use Vi regexp syntax 3869 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command 3870 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command 3871 Perl uses these too: 3872 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only) 3873 m multiple line expression (we don't need it) 3874 o compile only once (Perl only) 3875 s single line expression (we don't need it) 3876 x extended regexp (we don't need it) 3877 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the 3878 following command. 3879 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault'). 3880- Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used 3881 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/ 3882 for search string)? 38837 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special 3884 characters. See C't article, August 1997. 3885- Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are 3886 equivalent (for Unix filenames). 3887- Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text 3888 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin) 3889- Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this". 3890- Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer, 3891 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern: 3892 a for the next file in the argument list 3893 f for file in the buffer list 3894 w for file edited in a window. 3895 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for 3896 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask 3897 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No 3898 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ". 3899- ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler) 39007 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search 3901 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark. 39027 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after 3903 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe 3904 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in 3905 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always). 39066 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side 3907 effects. 39087 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete 3909 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc. 3910 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary. 39117 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner) 3912 Also ":dselect". 3913 3914 3915Undo: 39169 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or 3917 not. 39188 Use timestamps for undo, so that a version a certain time ago can be found 3919 and info before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum 3920 time to keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc. 39218 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text 3922 state, so that you can jump to it. 39238 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway) 3924 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the 3925 timestamp? 3926 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more 3927 indent? 39288 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the 3929 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file 3930 was changed outside of Vim. 3931 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and 3932 storing the differences. 3933 Alternative: before reloading a buffer, store it somewhere. Keep a list 3934 of about 10 last reloaded buffers. 3935- Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a 3936 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r". 3937- When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not 3938 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a", 3939 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted? 39408 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo 3941 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new 3942 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing. 3943 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things. 39448 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change, 3945 only remember the lines that really changed. 39467 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous 3947 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a 3948 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need 3949 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone. 3950- For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and ']. 3951 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb). 3952- In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the 3953 number of undo levels (with confirmation). 3954- Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123]. 3955 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number: 3956 [-99]. 3957- With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating. 3958- When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once. 3959- When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed, 3960 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file?? 3961 3962 3963Buffer list: 39647 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}". 3965 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that 3966 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the 3967 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only". 39688 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files. 3969 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim. 39708 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check 3971 inode too. 39727 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When 3973 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest 3974 number in use plus one?). 39757 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and 3976 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann) 3977- When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the 3978 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb) 3979- Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the 3980 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"? 39817 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list. 3982 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson) 39837 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer 3984 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc. 39858 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected. 39868 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$' 3987 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel". 39887 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for 3989 internal use and for when executing an external program? 3990 3991 3992Swap (.swp) files: 39938 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another 3994 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when 3995 there are short file name problems. 39968 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap 3997 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions. 39988 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su. 39998 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same 4000 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file 4001 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup 4002 file the same as the actual file? 4003 Use the code for resolve()? 40047 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another 4005 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible. 40067 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere 4007 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'? 4008 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not 4009 enough room. 40107 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp 4011 or /var/preserve. 4012- Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to 4013 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only. 4014- Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen). 4015 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'? 4016- When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the 4017 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do 4018 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a 4019 cached list of which line is where. 4020 4021 4022Viminfo: 40237 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file, 4024 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone 4025 else's viminfo file. 40268 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a 4027 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this? 4028 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root? 40298 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file 4030 name. (Schild) 40318 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu). 40328 Remember the last used register for "@@". 40338 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting. 40348 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the 4035 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so. 4036 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display 4037 this? 40387 Also store the ". register (last inserted text). 40397 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some 4040 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron) 40416 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting 4042 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the 4043 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code? 4044- Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of 4045 "last visited files" and select one to jump to. 4046 4047 4048Modelines: 40498 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid 4050 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it. 4051 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ". 4052- Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This 4053 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing 4054 'shiftwidth'. 4055- Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones 4056 such as 'encoding'. 4057- When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to 4058 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the 4059 modeline setting. 4060- Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings, 4061 no function calls, to avoid a security problem. 4062- Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for 4063 .cpp files. 4064- Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for 4065 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak. 4066- Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed 4067 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir. 4068 4069 4070Sessions: 40718 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means 4072 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth) 40737 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that 4074 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back. 40758 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when 4076 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant) 40778 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to 4078 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their 4079 default value. 40807 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal 4081 Malecki) 40827 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files. 4083 4084 4085Options: 40867 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and 4087 restore it after the command has executed. 40887 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only 4089 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the 4090 side effect. 40918 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string 4092 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should 4093 also be supported. 40948 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag 4095 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting 4096 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used. 40977 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas) 40987 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the 4099 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway) 4100 4101 4102External commands: 41038 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen 4104 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd". 41054 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls" 4106 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g. 4107 -f). 41084 Allow direct execution, without using a shell. 41094 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI? 4110 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell! 41114 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands. 4112 4113 4114Multiple Windows: 41157 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits. 41168 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window. 4117 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window. 41187 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab> 4119 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to 4120 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer. 41217 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can 4122 then fill it with something. ":popen"? 41237 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be 4124 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov) 41256 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window. 4126 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new 4127 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would 4128 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel) 41297 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows 4130 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with 4131 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE 4132 too. Requires some form of inter process communication. 4133- Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer 4134 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command. 4135 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer 4136 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made. 4137 4138 4139Marks: 41408 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file. 41418 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this 4142 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-. 41438 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m? 41448 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times. 4145 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file. 41468 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle 4147 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when 4148 the mark was set. 41497 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers, 4150 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands 4151 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with 4152 ":browse marks"? 41536 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige) 41547 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the 4155 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark. 41567 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group). 4157 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does. 41587 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m 4159 command). 41607 Try to keep marks in the same position when: 4161 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the 4162 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo) 4163 - inserting/deleting characters in a line. 41645 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in 4165 mappings. 41666 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and 4167 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines. 4168 Highlight the marked lines somehow. 4169 4170 4171Digraphs: 41727 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists. 4173 Also the keymap? 4174- Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line 4175 below/above). 4176- Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special 4177 characters? 41788 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown) 41797 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At 4180 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32). 4181 4182 4183Writing files: 4184- In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for 4185 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to 4186 shortname conversion. 41878 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc. 41888 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode' 4189 file. 41908 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some 4191 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another 4192 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'? 41937 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make 4194 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski) 41956 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like 4196 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'. 41976 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory. 4198 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas) 41996 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#". 4200 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name? 42018 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids 4202 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman) 42037 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations 4204 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition). 42057 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more 4206 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is 4207 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before 4208 waiting for a character to be typed). 42098 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status 4210 line of the window, like "[time]". 4211 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes. 4212 Automatic and/or with a command. 4213 4214 4215Substitute: 42168 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like 4217 "\%uabcd" in search pattern. 42188 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.: 4219 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w". 4220- :s///p prints the line after a substitution. 4221- With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern. 42228 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective. 4223 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys. 4224- Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or: 4225 :s///N substitutes N times. 4226- Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.: 4227 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do 4228 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution. 42297 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex 4230 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the 4231 last line column 5. 42325 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks, 4233 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the 4234 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands. 4235 (Stanislav Sitar) 4236 4237 4238Mouse support: 42398 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'? 42407 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu. 42418 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic 4242 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you 4243 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar) 4244- Implement mouse support for the Amiga console. 4245- Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to 4246 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners). 4247- Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!? 4248- When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to. 4249 4250 4251Argument list: 42526 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list. 4253 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches 4254 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match. 42556 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers? 4256 4257 4258Registers: 42598 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne) 42608 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping 4261 around in windows. 42628 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for 4263 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r" 4264 for every line. 42656 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the 4266 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What 4267 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.? 4268- When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of 4269 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more". 4270- When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment 4271 leader when line wraps? 4272- The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each 4273 line in the range. 4274- Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text 4275 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo") 42768 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register. 4277 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)? 4278 4279 4280Debug mode: 42817 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received. 42828 Add breakpoints for setting an option 42838 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable. 42847 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution 4285 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when 4286 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item, 4287 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell) 42887 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo. 42897 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al. 4290 4291 4292Various improvements: 42938 ":sign unplace * file={filename}" should work. Also: ":sign unplace * 4294 buffer={bufnr}". So one can remove all signs for one file/buffer. 42957 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on 4296 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.). 4297 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the 4298 "format/chinese.vim" plugin. 4299 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called. 4300 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages. 4301 (2005 Nov 24) 4302 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23) 43037 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next 4304 ("vatv"). 43057 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to 4306 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>. 43078 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename 4308 the buffer. Buffer may be modified. 43097 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to 4310 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes 4311 from the 'makeprg'? 4312- Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh 4313 Govindachar) 43147 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the 4315 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"? 43167 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a 4317 window as a buffer-tab selection. 43188 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner) 43196 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5) 43207 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>. 4321 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"? 4322 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command. 4323 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command. 4324 Assign them to a v: variable? 43257 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want 4326 to manipulate text without changing the window layout. 43278 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until 4328 all changes are gone. 43296 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri) 43308 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim. 4331 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim. 4332 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it 4333 in this Vim. 43348 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as 4335 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"? 43368 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes 4337 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and 4338 have it apply to the following command. 43398 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other 4340 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the 4341 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up. 4342 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'? 43437 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a 4344 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files. 43457 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>, 4346 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize 4347 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key 4348 without modifier (unless mapped). 43496 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line. 43508 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map". 43519 Support ACLs on more systems. 43527 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be 4353 highlighted differently. 43547 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above 4355 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message 4356 (truncated to fit in the space). 43577 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner) 43588 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout) 43598 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise 4360 Visual mode. 43617 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use 4362 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV. 43637 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping 4364 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0". 43657 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name. 43667 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently. 43677 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines? 43688 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney) 43698 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in 4370 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for 4371 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef 4372 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do? 43738 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down. 43746 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain 4375 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron) 4376 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better? 43778 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists. 43788 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file 4379 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would 4380 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist 4381 does something like this. (Shah) 43827 Use growarray for replace stack. 43837 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution 4384 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis). 43853 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"? 43867 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same 4387 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers? 4388- Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode. 4389- Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file. 4390- Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c 4391- Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window. 43927 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive 4393 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used. 4394- Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home 4395 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc. 4396- Remove mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this. 4397- When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set, 4398 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert) 4399- Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to 4400 call "play newbeep.au"). 4401- Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or 4402 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function. 4403 (Bhatt). 4404- "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for 4405 blockwise registers). 4406- Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the 4407 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt). 4408- Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps 4409 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed, 4410 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't 4411 noticeable. 4412- Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb). 44137 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters. 4414 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code. 4415- Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs 4416 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between 4417 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent 4418 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new 4419 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change. 44208 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do 4421 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting. 44228 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the 4423 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for 4424 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a 4425 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line). 4426 ":set autoformat=\\s$". 4427- Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern? 4428- Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson. 44297 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the 4430 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt) 4431- Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is 4432 not in column 1. 44336 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a 4434 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext". 44357 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined? 4436- Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator? 4437- Add more redirecting of Ex commands: 4438 :redir #> bufname 4439 :redir #>> bufname (append) 4440- Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no 4441 redirection was active. 4442- Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with 4443 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set". 4444 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit". 44456 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32 4446 console? (Klaus Hast) 4447- Add :delcr command: 4448 *:delcr* 4449 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines 4450 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is 4451 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range]. 4452 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If 4453 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all 4454 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi} 4455- Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat(). 4456- When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta 4457 characters from 'isprint'. 4458- Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName(). 4459- In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area. 4460 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn. 4461- That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but 4462 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More 4463 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion. 4464- Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()). 4465- Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like 4466 Nvi). 4467- Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the 4468 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define. 44697 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position. 4470- Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that 4471 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'? 44726 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file. 4473- For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the 4474 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13 4475 macro). 4476- Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files. 4477- ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also 4478 expanded. Is there a better way to do this? 4479- Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source". 44808 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set. 4481- Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null". 4482- Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty. 4483- ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible! 4484- CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down 4485 if it is not the first or last window. 4486- Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if 4487 there is one) instead of the file itself. 44887 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example: 4489 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0 4490 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files. 4491- 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion. 4492- When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as 4493 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so 4494 many percent down the windows). 4495- Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the 4496 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the 4497 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'. 4498- Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g. 4499 'dictionary' when it is "*.h". 4500- Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to 4501 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit). 4502- Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent) 4503- Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends. 4504- Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the 4505 passwd file? (Antwerpen) 45068 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw", 4507 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is 4508 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack? 4509 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when 4510 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping? 4511- Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time 4512 t_bs is set? (Webb) 4513- "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also 4514 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert). 4515- When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store 4516 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window 4517 (Webb). 4518- Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the 4519 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al. 4520- Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering 4521 hex codes like 0xff). 4522- Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command 4523 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo 4524 the last TYPED command. 4525- Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf". 4526- Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows. 4527- Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/" 4528 should also work? 4529- Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL? 45308 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file 4531 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine 4532 name. 4533- When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a 4534 trailing '.'. 4535- Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a 4536 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use 4537 find_file_in_path(). 4538- Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between 4539 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon). 4540- Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion. 4541- Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a 4542 form usable by Vim on the current machine. 4543- Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have 4544 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags. 4545- Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one 4546 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains 4547 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline. 4548- Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine 4549 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz) 4550- Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments. 4551- Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt) 4552- When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back 4553 to the minimal size. 4554- Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */). 4555- Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline(). 4556- ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb). 4557- Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file. 4558- Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers. 4559- Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw'). 4560- Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line: 4561 "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ??? 4562- When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line 4563 entered)? 4564- Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible 4565 as an output filter. 4566- In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this. 4567- Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line. 4568- Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file. 4569- V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc. 4570- Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char. 4571- Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long 4572 lines. 4573- Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase? 45748 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"), 4575 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option 4576 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex 4577 or in octal. 45787 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more 4579 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument? 4580- How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source. 4581 After ":w !command" a wait_return? 4582- Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()). 4583- With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without 4584 insert line command). 4585- Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it. 4586- Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals. 4587- Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000). 4588- Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying. 4589- In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace 4590 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>. 4591- Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work 4592 yet. 4593- Implement 'redraw' option. 4594- Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or 4595 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right). 45967 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs 4597 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin. 4598 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal 4599 I/O. 46008 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can 4601 do it. 4602- Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to. 4603- When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts, 4604 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list. 4605- Add text justification option. 4606- Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on". 4607- After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is 4608 off". 4609- Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR. 4610- When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message. 4611- Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but 4612 gives read errors. Check protection before opening. 4613- When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied". 4614- If file does not exist, check if directory exists. 4615- MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor. 4616- Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex 4617 commands. 4618- ":set -w all": list one option per line. 4619- Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file. 4620- :table command (Webb) 4621- Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ". 4622- Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?). 4623- Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb). 4624- Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files. 4625- Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel). 4626- Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited 4627 (Demirel). 4628- Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc. 4629- Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore", 4630 for use in macro's and the like. 4631- Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while 4632 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window? 4633- Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for 4634 ":set all". ":r :set all"? 4635- 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really 4636 read-only mode). 4637- When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not 4638 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in 4639 a window to become smaller (Webb). 4640- When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized 4641 proportionally (Webb). 4642- Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use 4643 mkopttab to make option table? 4644- When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current 4645 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)? 4646- Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster 4647 (Haritsis). 4648- Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used 4649 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev) 4650- Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the 4651 cursor? 4652- Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton). 4653- Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)? 46545 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names. 4655 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix. 46568 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore 4657 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in 4658 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams: 4659 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another 4660 option name. 46618 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to 4662 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places. 4663 (Netherton) 46646 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a 4665 space after "(", for example. 46665 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs 4667 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit'). 4668 (Servatius Brandt) 4669 4670 4671From Elvis: 4672- Use "instman.sh" to install manpages? 4673- Add ":alias" command. 4674- Search patterns: 4675 \@ match word under cursor. 4676 but do: 4677 \@w match the word under the cursor? 4678 \@W match the WORD under the cursor? 46798 ":window" command: 4680 :win + next window (up) 4681 :win ++ idem, wrapping 4682 :win - previous window (down) 4683 :win -- idem, wrapping 4684 :win nr to window number "nr" 4685 :win name to window editing buffer "name" 46867 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is 4687 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"? 4688 4689 4690From xvi: 4691- CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character. 4692- Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet) 4693 4694 4695From vile: 4696- When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window. 4697- Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files 4698 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files. 4699 4700 4701Far future and "big" extensions: 4702- Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to 4703 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something 4704 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python, 4705 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it 4706 would also work on MS-Windows. 4707- Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice 4708 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,... 4709- Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in 4710 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac). 4711 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the 4712 current layout mirrored. 4713- Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer. 4714- Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords, 4715 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.). 4716- Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent). 4717- Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different 4718 font in each top-level window. 4719- Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit'). 4720- Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them. 4721- Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning. 4722- Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to. 4723 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim). 4724- Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all 4725 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files 4726 mentioned in the tags file. 4727 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???) 4728 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."? 4729- Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other 4730 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter). 4731- Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five 4732 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc.. 47334 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands: 4734 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format. 4735 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted. 4736 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list, 4737 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags 4738 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples: 4739 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list 4740- Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes 4741 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but 4742 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/. 4743 4744When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra 4745empty line would appear. 4746 4747vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl: 4748vim: set fo+=n : 4749