1 *todo.txt* For Vim version 7.2. Last change: 2010 Mar 17
4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
7 TODO list for Vim *todo*
9 This is a veeeery long list of known bugs, current work and desired
10 improvements. To make it a little bit accessible, the items are grouped by
11 subject. In the first column of the line a classification is used to be able
12 to look for "the next thing to do":
14 Priority classification:
27 See |develop.txt| for development plans. You can vote for which items should
28 be worked on, but only if you sponsor Vim development. See |sponsor|.
31 -------------------- Known bugs and current work -----------------------
33 ":s" summary in :folddo is not correct. (Jean Johner, 2010 Feb 20)
34 Patch from Lech Lorens, 2010 Mar 13.
36 Vim tries to set the background or foreground color in a terminal to -1.
37 (Graywh) Appears to happen with ":hi Normal ctermbg=NONE".
38 Possible solution from Matt Wozniski, 2010 Mar 17.
40 Problem with cursor in the wrong column. (SungHyun Nam, 2010 Mar 11)
41 Additional info by Dominique Pelle.
43 I often see pasted text (from Firefox, to Vim in xterm) appear twice.
44 Also, Vim in xterm sometimes loses copy/paste ability (probably after running
47 Problem with transparent cmdline. Also: Terminal title is wrong with
48 non-ASCII character. (Lily White, 2010 Mar 7)
50 iconv() doesn't fail on an illegal character, as documented. (Yongwei Wu, 2009
51 Nov 15, example Nov 26) Add argument to specify whether iconv() should fail
52 or replace with a character and continue?
54 Add local time at start of --startuptime output.
55 Requires configure check for localtime().
56 Use format year-month-day hr:min:sec.
58 Shell not recognized properly if it ends in "csh -f". (James Vega, 2009 Nov 3)
59 Find tail? Might have a / in argument. Find space? Might have space in
62 Patch to support netbeans in Unix console Vim. (Xavier de Gaye, 2009 Apr 26)
63 Now with Mercurial repository (2010 Jan 2)
65 Crash when assigning s: to variable, pointer becomes invalid later.
66 (Yukihiro Nakadaira, 2009 Oct 12, confirmed by Dominique Pelle)
68 Test 69 breaks on MS-Windows, both 32 and 64 builds. (George Reilly, 2010 Feb
71 Coverity: ask someone to create new user: Dominique.
72 look into reported defects: http://scan.coverity.com/rung2.html
74 Bug with 'incsearch' going to wrong line. (Wolfram Kresse, 2009 Aug 17)
75 Only with "vim -u NONE".
77 Problem with editing file in binary mode. (Ingo Krabbe, 2009 Oct 8)
79 Support .xz with the xz program, like with lzma.
81 Perl runtime files update. (Andy Lester, 2009 Aug 25)
83 Gvimext patch to support wide file names. (Szabolcs Horvat 2008 Sep 10)
85 Problem with stop directory in findfile(). (Adam Simpkins, 2009 Aug 26)
87 Patch to support :browse for more commands. (Lech Lorens, 2009 Jul 18)
89 Change to C syntax folding to make it work much faster, but a bit less
90 reliable. (Lech Lorens, 2009 Nov 9) Enable with an option?
91 Most time is spent in in_id_list().
93 New wordlist for Dutch: http://www.opentaal.org/bestanden/1_10/nl_NL-Pack
95 Check for unused functions, idea:
96 http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2008/01/17/today-how-to-identify-unused-exported-functions-and-variables
98 In command line window ":close" doesn't work properly. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
101 When a:base in 'completefunc' starts with a number it's passed as a number,
102 not a string. (Sean Ma) Need to add flag to call_func_retlist() to force a
105 Reproducible crash in syntax HL. (George Reilly, Dominique Pelle, 2009 May 9)
107 Invalid read error in Farsi mode. (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Aug 2)
109 Patch to add diff functionality to 2html.vim. (Christian Brabandt, 2009 Dec
112 For running gvim on an USB stick: avoid the OLE registration. Use a command
113 line argument -noregister.
115 submatch() may remove backslash. (Sergey Goldgaber, 2009 Jul 6)
117 Still a problem with ":make" in the wrong directory. Caused by ":bufdo".
118 (Ajit Thakkar, 2009 Jul 1) More information Jul 9, Jul 15.
119 Caused by "doautoall syntaxset BufEnter *" in syntax/nosyntax.vim ?
120 There also is a BufLeave/BufEnter aucmd to save/restore view.
121 Does the patch to save/restore globaldir work?
123 ":bufdo normal gg" while 'hidden' is set leaves buffers without syntax
124 highlighting. Don't disable Syntax autocommands then? Or add a flag/modifier
125 to avoid changing 'eventignore'?
127 Patch for displaying 0x200c and 0x200d. (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 6)
128 Probably needs a bit of work.
130 List of encoding aliases. (Takao Fujiware, 2009 Jul 18)
131 Are they all OK? Update Jul 22.
133 Patch for completion of ":find" arguments. (Nazri Ramliy, 2009 Feb 22, 26)
134 8 For ":find" and ":sfind" expand files found in 'path'.
137 Win32: Expanding 'path' runs into a maximum size limit. (bgold12, 2009 Nov 15)
139 Setting 'tags' to "tagsdir/*" does not find "tagsdir/tags". (Steven K. Wong,
142 Patch to add farsi handling to arabic.c (Ali Gholami Rudi, 2009 May 2)
143 Added test, updates, June 23.
145 Patch to add "focusonly" to 'scrollopt', so that scrollbind also applies in
146 window that doesn't have focus. (Jonathon Mah, 2009 Jan 12)
149 Problem with <script> mappings (Andy Wokula, 2009 Mar 8)
151 Patch to support netbeans for Mac. (Kazuki Sakamoto, 2009 Jun 25)
153 Patch to support clipboard for Mac terminal. (Jjgod Jiang, 2009 Aug 1)
155 When starting Vim with "gvim -f -u non_existent_file > foo.txt" there are a
156 few control characters in the output. (Dale Wiles, 2009 May 28)
158 'cmdwinheight is only used in last window when 'winheight' is a large value.
159 (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Apr 15)
161 Status line containing winnr() isn't updated when splitting the window (Clark
162 J. Wang, 2009 Mar 31)
164 Patch for vertical line at certain column position, 'guidecolumn' option.
165 (Pankaj Garg, 2009 Apr 14, aka Lone, Apr 15)
166 Update 2009 May 2, 'margincolumn'
167 Alternative patch. (2010 Feb 2, Gregor Uhlenheuer)
169 Add different highlighting for a fold line depending on the fold level.
170 Patch. (Noel Henson, 2009 Sep 13)
172 When 'ft' changes redraw custom status line.
174 ":tab split fname" doesn't set the alternate file in the original window,
175 because win_valid() always returns FALSE. Below win_new_tabpage() in
178 Space before comma in function defenition not allowed: "function x(a , b)"
179 Give a more appropriate error message. Add a remark to the docs.
181 string_convert() should be able to convert between utf-8 and utf-16le. Used
182 for GTK clipboard. Avoid requirement for iconv.
184 Now that colnr_T is int instead of unsigned, more type casts can be removed.
186 'delcombine' does not work for the command line. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jul
189 Unwanted file name escaping: ":echo input('file:' , '', 'file')"
190 And use file name completion on a file with spaces. (Frederic Hardy, 2009 Mar
193 Don't load macmap.vim on startup, turn it into a plugin. (Ron Aaron,
194 2009 Apr 7) Reminder Apr 14.
196 Add "no_hlsearch" to winsaveview().
198 Cursorline highlighting combines with Search ('hlsearch') but not with
199 SpellBad. (Jim Karsten, 2009 Mar 18)
201 When 'foldmethod' is "indent", using >> on a line just above a fold makes the
202 cursor line folded. (Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
204 When 'foldmethod' is "indent", adding an empty line below a fold and then
205 indented text, creates a new fold instead of joining it with the previous one.
206 (Evan Laforge, 2009 Oct 17)
208 Bug: When reloading a buffer changed outside of Vim, BufRead autocommands
209 are applied to the wrong buffer/window. (Ben Fritz, 2009 Apr 2, May 11)
210 Ignore window options when not in the right window?
211 Perhaps we need to use a hidden window for applying autocommands to a buffer
212 that doesn't have a window.
214 When using "ab foo bar" and mapping <Tab> to <Esc>, pressing <Tab> after foo
215 doesn't trigger the abbreviation like <Esc> would. (Ramana Kumar, 2009 Sep 6)
217 getbufvar() to get a window-local option value for a buffer that's not
218 displayed in a window should return the value that's stored for that buffer.
220 ":he ctrl_u" can be auto-corrected to ":he ctrl-u".
222 Patch to make synIDattr() work for GUI attributes in Vim without GUI feature.
223 (Matt Wozniski, 2009 Apr 15)
225 There should be a way after an abbreviation has expanded to go back to what
226 was typed. CTRL-G h ? Would also undo last word or line break inserted
227 perhaps. And undo CTRL-W. CTRL-G l would redo.
229 Win32: A --remote command that has a directory name starting with a ( doesn't
230 work, the backslash is removed, assuming that it escapes the (. (Valery
231 Kondakoff, 2009 May 13)
233 Win32 GUI: Changing manifest helps for dpi changes (Joe Castro, 2009 Mar 27)
235 Win32: patch for better font scaling. (George Reilly, 2009 Mar 26)
237 Win32 GUI: last message from startup doesn't show up when there is an echoerr
238 command. (Cyril Slobin, 2009 Mar 13)
240 Win32: use different args for SearchPath()? (Yasuhiro Matsumoto, 2009 Jan 30)
242 Win32: completion of file name ":e c:\!test" results in ":e c:\\!test", which
243 does not work. (Nieko Maatjes, 2009 Jan 8, Ingo Karkat, 2009 Jan 22)
245 Directory wrong in session file, caused by ":lcd" in BufEnter autocommand.
246 (Felix Kater, 2009 Mar 3)
248 maparg() doesn't return the flags, such as <buffer>, <script>, <silent>.
249 These are needed to save and restore a mapping.
250 Also: the rhs string is not always correct. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2009 Sept 29)
252 Using ~ works OK on 'a' with composing char, but not on 0x0418 with composing
253 char 0x0301. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Mar 4)
255 6 In the quickfix window statusline add the command used to get the list of
256 errors, e.g. ":make foo", ":grep something *.c".
257 Patch by Lech Lorens, 2009 Mar 23.
258 Comments from Andreas Bernauer 24th, Dominique Pelle 24th
259 Docs patch by Dominique Pelle, Mar 25
261 Fix for invalid memory access. (Lech Lorens, 2009 Apr 17)
263 Inconsistent: starting with $LANG set to es_ES.utf-8 gives Spanish
264 messages, even though locale is not supported. But ":lang messages
265 es_ES.utf-8" gives an error and doesn't switch messages. (Dominique Pelle,
268 When $HOME contains special characters, sich as a comma, escape them when used
269 in an option. (Michael Hordijk, 2009 May 5)
270 Turn "esc" argument of expand_env_esc() into string of chars to be escaped.
272 Can 'undolevels' be a buffer-local option? Helps for making big changes in
273 one file only, set 'ul' to -1 only for that buffer.
275 Should make 'ignorecase' global-local, so that it makes sense setting it from
278 Add cscope target to Makefile. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Jun 18, replies by
281 Consider making YankRing or something else that keeps a list of yanked text
282 part of standard Vim. The "1 to "9 registers are not sufficient.
284 netrw: dragging status line causes selection of entry. Should check row
285 number to be below last visible line.
287 Make do_do_join() work faster. Could at least do a binary search way of doing
288 this. Hint from Dominique Pelle, Dec 10; Lee Naish, Dec 11.
289 Patch from Milan Vancura, 2008 Dec 22. Update 2009 Jan 7 in two parts.
291 After doing "su" $HOME can be the old user's home, thus ~root/file is not
292 correct. Don't use it in the swap file.
294 Completion for ":buf" doesn't work properly on Win32 when 'shellslash' is off.
295 (Henrik Ohman, 2009, Jan 29)
297 Allow patches to add something to version.c, like with an official patch, so
298 that :version output shows which patches have been applied.
300 Have a look at patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Mar 1, Mar 23)
301 Now at: http://vimgadgets.sourceforge.net/liblinebreak/
303 Greek sigma character should be lower cased depending on the context. Can we
304 make this work? (Dominique Pelle, 2009 Sep 24)
306 Disable setting 'encoding' from a modeline? It usually causes problems, can't
307 do any good. (Patch from Patrick Texier, 2008 Dec 9)
309 When changing 'encoding' convert all the swap file names, so that we can
310 still delete them. Also convert all buffer file names?
312 "gqip" in Insert mode has an off-by-one error, causing it to reflow text.
313 (Raul Coronado, 2009 Nov 2)
315 Update src/testdir/main.aap.
317 "vim -c 'sniff connect'" hangs Vim. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Dec 7)
319 Something wrong with session that has "cd" commands and "badd", in such a way
320 that Vim doesn't find the edited file in the buffer list, causing the
321 ATTENTION message? (Tony Mechelynck, 2008 Dec 1)
322 Also: swap files are in ~/tmp/ One has relative file name ".mozilla/...".
324 Add v:motion_force. (Kana Natsuno, 2008 Dec 6)
326 Redraw problem when appending digraph causes line to wrap. (James Vega, 2007
327 Sep 18) Patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 8.
329 Runtime files for Clojure. (Toralf Wittner, 2008 Jun 25)
331 MS-Windows: editing the first, empty buffer, 'ffs' set to "unix,dos", ":enew"
332 doesn't set 'ff' to "unix". (Ben Fritz, 2008 Dec 5) Reusing the old buffer
333 probably causes this.
335 'scrollbind' is not respected when deleting lines or undo. (Milan Vancura,
338 Document that default font in Athena can be set with resources:
339 XtDefaultFont: "9x15"
340 XtDefaultFontSet: "9x15"
341 (Richard Sherman, 2009 Apr 12)
343 Having "Syntax" in 'eventignore' for :bufdo may cause problems, e.g. for
344 ":bufdo e" when buffers are open in windows. ex_listdo(eap) could set the
345 option only for when jumping to another buffer, not when the command argument
348 Crash with dragn-n-drop of file combined with netrw (Marius Gedminas, 2008 Jun
349 11) I can't reproduce it. It's probably caused by a handle_drop() call
350 in combination with autocommands that invoke a ":redraw" command.
351 Another valgrind output Jun 30.
353 ":pedit %" with a BufReadPre autocommand causes the cursor to move to the
354 first line. (Ingo Karkat, 2008 Jul 1) Ian Kelling is working on this.
356 Wildmenu not deleted: "gvim -u NONE", ":set nocp wildmenu cmdheight=3
357 laststatus=2", CTRL-D CTRL-H CTRL-H CTRL-H. (A.Politz, 2008 April 1)
358 Works OK with Vim in an xterm.
360 Cursor line moves in other window when using CTRL-W J that doesn't change
361 anything. (Dasn, 2009 Apr 7)
363 On Unix "glob('does not exist~')" returns the string. Without the "~" it
364 doesn't. (John Little, 2008 Nov 9)
365 Shell expansion returns unexpanded string?
366 Don't use shell when "~" is not at the start?
368 ":unlet $VAR" doesn't work.
370 When using ":e ++enc=foo file" and the file is already loaded with
371 'fileencoding' set to "bar", then do_ecmd() uses that buffer, even though the
372 fileencoding differs. Reload the buffer in this situation? Need to check for
373 the buffer to be unmodified.
374 Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 11. Followup Jul 14, need to have
377 Patch for c.vim and cpp.vim syntax files. (Chung-chieh Shan, 2008 Nov 26)
379 c.vim: XXX in a comment is colored yellow, but not when it's after "#if 0".
380 (Ilya Dogolazky, 2009 Aug 7)
382 Win32: ":dis +" shows nothing, but "+p does insert text. Problem with "* and
383 "+ being the same thing?
385 You can type ":w ++bad=x fname", but the ++bad argument is ignored. Give an
386 error message? Or is this easy to implement? (Nathan Stratton Treadway, 2008
387 Aug 20) This is in ucs2bytes(), search for 0xBF. Using the ++bad argument is
388 at the other match for 0xBF.
390 Fix for matchparen HL doesn't work. beep.
392 When adding "-complete=file" to a user command this also changes how the
393 argument is processed for <f-args>. (Ivan Tishchenko, 2008 Aug 19)
395 Win32: associating a type with Vim doesn't take care of space after a
396 backslash? (Robert Vibrant, 2008 Jun 5)
398 After using <Tab> for command line completion after ":ta blah" and getting E33
399 (no tags file), further editing the command to e.g., ":echo 'blah'", the
400 command is not executed. Fix by Ian Kelling?
402 ":help s/~" jumps to *s/\~*, while ":help s/\~" doesn't find anything. (Tim
403 Chase) Fix by Ian Kelling, 2008 Jul 14.
405 ":colorscheme" without arguments should echo the current color scheme name.
407 After using ":recover" or recovering a file in another way, ":x" doesn't save
408 what you see. Mark the buffer as modified? Only when the text is actually
409 different from the original file?
411 Use "\U12345678" for 32 bit Unicode characters? (Tony Mechelynck, 2009
412 Apr 6) Or use "\u(123456)", similar to Perl.
414 When mapping : to ; and ; to :, @; doesn't work like @: and @: doesn't work
415 either. Matt Wozniski: nv_at() calls do_execreg() which uses
416 put_in_typebuf(). Char mapped twice?
418 Patch for colorscheme submenu. (Juergen Kraemer, 2008 Aug 20)
420 Patch for Python 3 support. (Roland Puntaier, 2009 Sep 22)
421 Includes changes for omnicompletion.
424 8 Some file systems are case-sensitive, some are not. Turn
425 CASE_INSENSITIVE_FILENAME into an option, at least for completion.
427 9 Make it possible to drag a tab page label to another position with the
429 Patch by Paul B. Mahol, 2008 Aug 29.
431 Despite adding save_subexpr() this still doesn't work properly:
432 Regexp: matchlist('12a4aaa', '^\(.\{-}\)\(\%5c\@<=a\+\)\(.\+\)\?')
433 Returns ['12a4', 'aaa', '4aaa'], should be ['12a4', 'aaa', '']
434 Backreference not cleared when retrying after \@<= fails?
435 (Brett Stahlman, 2008 March 8)
437 Problem with remote_send(). (Charles Campbell, 2008 Aug 12)
439 ftplugin for help file should set 'isk' to help file value.
441 Win32: remote editing fails when the current directory name contains "[".
442 (Ivan Tishchenko, Liu Yubao) Suggested patch by Chris Lubinski: Avoid
443 escaping characters where the backslash is not removed later. Asked Chris for
444 an alternate solution, also for src/ex_getln.c.
445 This also fails when the file or directory name contains "%". (Thoml, 2008
448 Win32: The "4913" file is sometimes not deleted. Perhaps another program has
449 opened it? Use FILE_FLAG_DELETE_ON_CLOSE? (Craig Barkhouse, 2009 Nov 6)
451 The str2special() function doesn't handle multi-byte characters properly.
452 Patch from Vladimir Vichniakov, 2007 Apr 24.
453 Should clean up the whole function. Also allow modifiers like <S-Char-32>?
454 find_special_key() also has this problem.
456 Problem with 'langmap' parsing. (James Vega, 2008 Jan 27)
457 Problem with 'langmap' being used on the rhs of a mapping. (Nikolai Weibull,
460 Problem with CTRL-F. (Charles Campbell, 2008 March 21)
461 Only happens with "gvim -geometry "160x26+4+27" -u NONE -U NONE prop.c".
462 'lines' is 54. (2008 March 27)
464 Problem with pointer wrapping around in getvcol(). (Wolfgang Kroworsch, 2008
465 Oct 19) Check for "col" being "MAXCOL" separately?
467 Unexpectedly inserting a double quote. (Anton Woellert, 2008 Mar 23)
468 Works OK when 'cmdheight' is 2.
470 Test54 should not use shell commands. Make it portable.
472 The utf class table is missing some entries:
478 Visual line mode doesn't highlight properly when 'showbreak' is used and the
479 line doesn't fit. (Dasn, 2008 May 1)
481 GUI: In Normal mode can't yank the modeless selection. Make "gy" do this?
482 Works like CTRL-Y in Command line mode.
484 Mac: Move Carbon todo items to os_mac.txt. Note that this version is frozen,
485 try the Cocoa version.
487 Mac: Patch to disable antialias. (LC Mi, 2008 Aug 23) Tested on 10.5 and
490 Mac: After a ":vsplit" the left scrollbar doesn't appear until 'columns' is
491 changed or the window is resized.
493 Mac: Patch for configure: remove arch from ruby link args. (Knezevic, 2008
494 Mar 5) Alternative: Kazuki Sakamoto, Mar 7.
496 Mac: trouble compiling with Motif, requires --disable-darwin. (Raf, 2008 Aug
497 1) Reply by Ben Schmidt.
499 ":emenu" works with the translated menu name. Should also work with the
500 untranslated name. Would need to store both the English and the translated
501 name. Patch by Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Mar 30.
503 C't: On utf-8 system, editing file with umlaut through Gnome results in URL
504 with %nn%nn, which is taken as two characters instead of one.
505 Try to reproduce at work.
507 Patch for default choice in file changed dialog. (Bjorn Winckler, 2008 Oct 19)
508 Is there a way to list all the files first?
510 When 'smartcase' is set and using CTRL-L to add to the search pattern it may
511 result in no matches. Convert chars to lower case? (Erik Wognsen, 2009 Apr
514 Patch for redo register. (Ben Schmidt, 2007 Oct 19)
515 Await response to question to make the register writable.
517 src/testdir/Make_dos.mak: not all tests are included, e.g., test49, without a
520 Problem with 'ts' set to 9 and 'showbreak' to ">>>". (Matthew Winn, 2007 Oct
523 In the swapfile dialog, add a H(elp) option that gives more info about what
524 each choice does. Similar to ":help swap-exists-choices"
526 try/catch not working for argument of return. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Sep 15)
528 Recognize and ignore BOM in error file. (Aleksey Baibarin)
530 ":tab help" always opens a new tab, while ":help" re-uses an existing window.
531 Would be more consistent when an existing tab is re-used. (Tony Mechelynck)
533 ":tab drop filename" doesn't work nicely when "filename" is open in a window
534 in another tab. (Tony Mechelynck, 2009 Feb 13)
536 Add ":nofold". Range will apply without expanding to closed fold.
538 Including NFA regexp code:
539 Use "\%#= to set the engine: 0 = automatic, 1 = backtracking, 2 = new.
542 - ~/vim/test/veryslow.js (file from Daniel Fetchinson)
543 - ~/vim/test/slowsearch
545 - ~/vim/text/FeiqCfg.xml (file from Netjune)
546 - search for a.*e*exn in the vim executable. Go to last line to use
549 Using Aap to build Vim: add remarks about how to set personal preferences.
550 Example on http://www.calmar.ws/tmp/aap.html
552 Syntax highlighting wrong for transparent region. (Doug Kearns, 2007 Feb 26)
553 Bug in using a transparent syntax region. (Hanlen in vim-dev maillist, 2007
556 C syntax: {} inside () causes following {} to be highlighted as error.
557 (Michalis Giannakidis, 2006 Jun 1)
559 Can't easily close the help window, like ":pc" closes the preview window and
560 ":ccl" closes the quickfix window. Add ":hclose". (Chris Gaal)
562 When 'diffopt' has "context:0" a single deleted line causes two folds to merge
563 and mess up syncing. (Austin Jennings, 2008 Jan 31)
565 Gnome improvements: Edward Catmur, 2007 Jan 7
566 Also use Save/Discard for other GUIs
568 New PHP syntax file, use it? (Peter Hodge)
570 Patch go make gui highlight settings work in Vim without +gui feature.
571 (Matt Wozniski, 2009 Mar 27)
573 'foldcolumn' in modeline applied to wrong window when using a session. (Teemu
576 Test 54 uses shell commands, that doesn't work on non-Unix systems. Use some
577 other way to test buffer-local autocommands.
579 The documentation mentions the priority for ":2match" and ":3match", but it
580 appears the last one wins. (John Beckett, 2008 Jul 22) Caused by adding
581 matchadd()? Suggested patch by John, 2008 Jul 24.
583 When 'encoding' is utf-8 the command line is redrawn as a whole on every
584 character typed. (Tyler Spivey, 2008 Sep 3) Only redraw cmdline for
585 'arabicshape' when there is a character on the command line for which
586 (ARABIC_CHAR(u8c)) is TRUE.
588 Replace ccomplete.vim by cppcomplete.vim from www.vim.org? script 1520
589 by Vissale Neang. (Martin Stubenschrott)
590 Asked Vissale to make the scripts more friendly for the Vim distribution.
591 New version received 2008 Jan 6.
593 Cheng Fang made javacomplete. (2007 Aug 11)
594 Asked about latest version: 0.77.1 is on www.vim.org.
596 More AmigaOS4 patches. (Peter Bengtsson, Nov 9)
598 Insert mode completion: When editing the text and pressing CTRL-N again goes
599 back to originally completed text, edited text is gone. (Peng Yu, 2008 Jul 24)
600 Suggestion by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Aug 6.
602 Problem with compound words? (Bert, 2008 May 6)
603 No warning for when flags are defined after they are used in an affix.
605 Screen redrawing when continuously updating the buffer and resizing the
606 terminal. (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Sept 7)
608 Add option settings to help ftplugin. (David Eggum, 2006 Dec 18)
610 Autoconf problem: when checking for iconv library we may add -L/usr/local/lib,
611 but when compiling further tests -liconv is added without the -L argument,
612 that may fail (e.g., sizeof(int)). (Blaine, 2007 Aug 21)
614 When opening quickfix window, disable spell checking?
616 Problem with ".add" files when using two languages and restarting Vim. (Raul
617 Coronado, 2008 Oct 30)
619 Popup menu redraw: Instead of first redrawing the text and then drawing the
620 popup menu over it, first draw the new popup menu, remember its position and
621 size and then redraw the text, skipping the characters under the popup menu.
622 This should avoid flicker. Other solution by A.Politz, 2007 Aug 22.
624 When the popup menu is close to the edge of the window it is truncated. Patch
625 to anchor the popup menu in a different way. (James Vega, 2008 Jul 30)
627 Windows 98: pasting from the clipboard with text from another application has
628 a trailing NUL. (Joachim Hofmann) Perhaps the length specified for CF_TEXT
631 When a register contains illegal bytes, writing viminfo in utf-8 and reading
632 it back doesn't result in utf-8. (Devin Bayer)
634 Command line completion: Scanning for tags doesn't check for typed key now and
635 then? Hangs for about 5 seconds. Appears to be caused by finding include
636 files with "foo/**" in 'path'. (Kalisiak, 2006 July 15)
637 Additional info: When using the |wildcards| ** globing, vim hangs
638 indefinitely on lots of directories. The |file-searching| globing, like in
639 ":set path=/**" does not hang as often as with globing with |wildcards|, like
640 in ":1find /**/file". This is for a files that unix "find" can find very
641 quick. Merging the 2 kinds of globing might make this an easier fix. (Ian
642 Kelling, 2008 July 4)
644 When the file name has parenthesis, e.g., "foo (bar).txt", ":!ls '%'" has the
645 parenthesis escaped but not the space. That's inconsistent. Either escape
646 neither or both. No escaping might be best, because it doesn't depend on
647 particularities of the shell. (Zvi Har'El, 2007 Nov 10) (Teemu Likonen, 2008
649 However, for backwards compatibility escaping might be necessary. Check if
650 the user put quotes around the expanded item?
652 Error E324 can be given when a cron script has wiped out our temp directory.
653 Give a clear error message about this (and tell them not to wipe out /tmp).
655 Color for cUserLabel should differ from case label, so that a mistake in a
656 switch list is noticed:
663 Look at http://www.gtk-server.org/ . It has a Vim script implementation.
665 Netbeans problem. Use "nc -l 127.0.0.1 55555" for the server, then run gvim
666 with "gvim -nb:localhost:55555:foo". From nc do: '1:editFile!0 "foo"'. Then
667 go to Insert mode and add a few lines. Then backspacing every other time
668 moves the cursor instead of deleting. (Chris Kaiser, 2007 Sep 25)
670 Changes for Win32 makefile. (Mike Williams, 2007 Jan 22, Alexei Alexandrov,
673 Patch for Win32 clipboard under Cygwin. (Frodak Baksik, Feb 15)
674 Sutcliffe says it works well.
675 Update 2007 May 22 for Vim 7.1
676 Update 2008 Dec 2008 for Vim 7.2.xx (Sharonov)
678 Win32: Can't complete shell command names. Why is setting xp_context in
679 set_one_cmd_context() inside #ifndef BACKSLASH_IN_FILENAME?
681 Win32: Patch for convert_filterW(). (Taro Muraoka, 2007 Mar 2)
683 Win32: Patch for cscope external command. (Mike Williams, 2007 Aug 7)
685 Win32: XPM support only works with path without spaces. Patch by Mathias
686 Michaelis, 2006 Jun 9. Another patch for more path names, 2006 May 31.
687 New version: http://members.tcnet.ch/michaelis/vim/patches.zip (also for other
688 patches by Mathias, see mail Feb 22)
690 Win32: compiling with normal features and OLE fails. Patch by Mathias
691 Michaelis, 2006 Jun 4.
693 Win32: echo doesn't work for gvim.exe.mnf. Use inline file. Patch by Mathias
694 Michaelis. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimdev/message/43765
695 Patch that includes this and does more by George Reilly, 2007 Feb 12
697 Win16: include patches to make Win16 version work. (Vince Negri, 2006 May 22)
699 Win32: after "[I" showing matches, scroll wheel messes up screen. (Tsakiridis,
701 Patch by Alex Dobrynin, 2007 Jun 3. Also fixes other scroll wheel problems.
703 Win32: using CTRL-S in Insert mode doesn't remove the "+" from the tab pages
704 label. (Tsakiridis, 2007 Feb 18) Patch from Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 6.
706 Win32: using "gvim --remote-tab-silent fname" sometimes gives an empty screen
707 with the more prompt. Caused by setting the guitablabel? (Thomas Michael
708 Engelke, 2007 Dec 20 - 2008 Jan 17)
710 Win64: diff.exe crashes on Win64. (Julianne Bailey, 2006 Dec 12)
711 Build another diff.exe somehow?
713 Win64: Seek error in swap file for a very big file (3 Gbyte). Check storing
714 pointer in long and seek offset in 64 bit var.
716 Win32: patch for fullscreen mode. (Liushaolin, 2008 April 17)
718 Win32: When 'shell' is cmd.exe this command fails:
719 echo system('"c:/path/echo.exe" "foo bar"')
720 Should we set the default for 'shellxquote' to a double quote, when 'shell'
721 contains "cmd" in the tail? (Benjamin Fritz, 2008 Oct 13)
722 Also set 'shellcmdflag' to include /s.
724 Win32: When there is 4 Gbyte of memory mch_avail_mem() doesn't work properly.
725 Unfished patch by Jelle Geerts, 2008 Aug 24.
726 Let mch_avail_mem() return Kbyte instead?
728 Win32: With two monitors, gvim partly on both, and adding/removing a scrollbar
729 Vim resizes and moves to one of the monitors. (Chris Monkiewicz, 2008 Oct)
731 Win32: When 'shell' is bash shellescape() doesn't always do the right thing.
732 Depends on 'shellslash', 'shellquote' and 'shellxquote', but shellescape()
733 only takes 'shellslash' into account.
735 When file b is a link to file a and editing b twice you get the correct
736 warning for existing swap file, but when trying to recover it doesn't find the
737 swapfile. (Matt Wozniski, 2008 Aug 5) Patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 Aug 11.
738 Another patch by James Vega, 2008 Aug 20, again 2008 Sep 3.
739 Also solves: Problem finding swap file for recovery. (Gautam Iyer, 2006 May 16)
741 Pressing the 'pastetoggle' key doesn't update the statusline. (Jan Christoph
742 Ebersbach, 2008 Feb 1)
744 Menu item that does "xxd -r" doesn't work when 'fileencoding' is utf-16.
745 Check for this and use iconv? (Edward L. Fox, 2007 Sep 12)
746 Does the conversion in the other direction work when 'filenecodings' is set
749 Cursor displayed in the wrong position when using 'numberwidth'. (James Vega,
752 When $VAR contains a backslash expand('$VAR') removes it. (Teemu Likonen, 2008
755 If the variable "g:x#y#z" exists completion after ":echo g:x#" doesn't work.
757 Feature request: Command to go to previous tab, like what CTRL-W p does for
758 windows. (Adam George)
760 When using input() in a loop and then ":echo" the display column isn't right.
761 (Benjamin Fritz, 2008 Aug 28) Patch by Ben Schmidt, 2008 Sep 2.
763 F1 - F4 in an xterm produce a different escape sequence when used with a
764 modifier key. Need to catch three different sequences. Use K_ZF1, like
765 K_ZHOME? (Dickey, 2007 Dec 2)
767 UTF-8: mapping a multi-byte key where the second byte is 0x80 doesn't appear
768 to work. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 March 2)
770 In debug mode, using CTRL-R = to evaluate a function causes stepping through
771 the function. (Hari Krishna Dara, 2006 Jun 28)
773 C++ indenting wrong with "=". (James Kanze, 2007 Jan 26)
775 ":lockvar" should use copyID to avoid endless loop.
777 When using --remote-silent and the file name matches 'wildignore' get an E479
778 error. without --remote-silent it works fine. (Ben Fritz, 2008 Jun 20)
780 Gvim: dialog for closing Vim should check if Vim is busy writing a file. Then
781 use a different dialog: "busy saving, really quit? yes / no".
783 Check other interfaces for changing curbuf in a wrong way. Patch like for
786 ":helpgrep" should use the directory from 'helpfile'.
788 Patch to dynamically load Python on Solaris. (Danek Duvall, 2009 Feb 16)
791 The need_fileinfo flag is messy. Instead make the message right away and put
794 Editing a file remotely that matches 'wildignore' results in a "no match"
795 error. Should only happen when there are wildards, not when giving the file
796 name literally, and esp. if there is only one name.
798 Test 61 fails sometimes. This is a timing problem: "sleep 2" sometimes takes
799 longer than 2 seconds.
801 Using ":au CursorMoved * cmd" invokes mch_FullName(), which can be slow.
802 Can this be avoided? (Thomas Waba, 2008 Aug 24)
803 Also for ":w" without a file name.
804 The buffer has the full path in ffname, should pass this to the autocommand.
806 "vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set in some startup script.
807 Set 'compatible' after startup is done? Patch by James Vega, 2008 Feb 7.
809 VMS: while editing a file found in complex, Vim will save file into the first
810 directory of the path and not to the original location of the file.
813 VMS: VFC files are in some cases truncated during reading (Zoltan Arpadffy)
815 input() completion should not insert a backslash to escape a space in a file
818 getpos()/setpos() don't include curswant. getpos() could return a fifth
819 element. setpos() could accept an optional fifth element.
821 Ruby completion is insecure. Can this be fixed?
823 When 'backupskip' is set from $TEMP special characters need to be escaped.
824 (patch by Grembowietz, 2007 Feb 26, not quite right)
825 Another problem is that file_pat_to_reg_pat() doesn't recognize "\\", so "\\("
826 will be seen as a path separator plus "\(".
828 gvim d:\path\path\(FILE).xml should not remove the \ before the (.
829 This also fails with --remote.
831 When doing ":quit" the Netbeans "killed" event isn't sent. (Xavier de Gaye,
832 2008 Nov 10) call netbeans_file_closed() at the end of buf_freeall(), or in
833 all places where buf_freeall() is called?
835 ":python os.chdir('/tmp')" makes short buffer names invalid. (Xavier de Gaye)
836 Check directory and call shorten_fnames()?
838 aucmd_prepbuf() should also use a window in another tab page.
840 When unloading a buffer in a BufHidden autocommand the hidden flag is reset?
841 (Bob Hiestand, 2008 Aug 26, Aug 27)
843 Substituting an area with a line break with almost the same area does change
844 the Visual area. Can this be fixed? (James Vega, 2006 Sept 15)
846 Windows installer could add a "open in new tab of existing Vim" menu entry.
847 Gvimext: patch to add "Edit with single Vim &tabbed" menu entry.
848 Just have two choices, always using one Vim and selecting between using an
849 argument list or opening each file in a separate tab.
850 (Erik Falor, 2008 May 21, 2008 Jun 26)
852 GUI: When combining fg en bg make sure they are not equal.
854 Spell checking: Add a way to specify punctuation characters. Add the
855 superscript numbers by default: 0x2070, 0xb9, 0xb2, 0xb3, 0x2074 - 0x2079.
857 Spell checking in popup menu: If the only problem is the case of the first
858 character, don't offer "ignore" and "add to word list".
860 Use different pt_br dictionary for spell checking. (Jackson A. Aquino, 2006
863 Use different romanian dictionary for spell checking. (Andrei Popescu, Nov
864 2008) Use http://downloads.sourceforge.net/rospell/ro_RO.3.2.zip
865 Or the hunspell-ro.3.2.tar.gz file, it also has a iso-8859-2 list.
867 In a C file with spell checking, in "% integer" "nteger" is seen as an error,
868 but "]s" doesn't find it. "nteger" by itself is found. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008
871 There should be something about spell checking in the user manual.
873 Spell menu: When using the Popup menu to select a replacement word,
874 ":spellrepeat" doesn't work. SpellReplace() uses setline(). Can it use "z="
875 somehow? Or use a new function.
877 Mac: Using gvim: netrw window disappears. (Nick Lo, 2006 Jun 21)
879 Mac: OS/X 10.4 with Python 2.5 installed: configure finds an extra argument
880 that breaks the build. (Brian Victor, 2008 Sep 1)
882 Add an option to specify the character to use when a double-width character is
883 moved to the next line. Default '>', set to a space to blank it out. Check
884 that char is single width when it's set (compare with 'listchars').
886 The generated vim.bat can avoid the loop for NT. (Carl Zmola, 2006 Sep 3)
888 Session file creation: 'autochdir' causes trouble. Keep it off until after
891 Win32: When 'autochdir' is on and 'encoding' is changed, files on the command
892 line are opened again, but from the wrong directory. Apply 'autochdir' only
895 When showing a diff between a non-existent file and an existing one, with the
896 cursor in the empty buffer, the other buffer only shows the last line. Change
897 the "insert" into a change from one line to many? (Yakov Lerner, 2008 May 27)
899 Add autocommand for when a tabpage is being closed. Also for when a tab page
902 Using ":make" blocks Vim. Allow running one make in the background (if the
903 shell supports it), catch errors in a file and update the error list on the
904 fly. A bit like "!make > file&" and repeating ":cf file". ":bgmake",
905 background make. ":bgcancel" interrupts it.
906 A.Politz may work on this.
908 These two abbreviations don't give the same result:
909 let asdfasdf = "xyz\<Left>"
910 cabbr XXX <C-R>=asdfasdf<CR>
913 Michael Dietrich: maximized gvim sometimes displays output of external command
916 In FileChangedShell command it's no longer allowed to switch to another
917 buffer. But the changed buffer may differ from the current buffer, how to
920 New syntax files for fstab and resolv from Radu Dineiu, David Necas did
923 For Aap: include a config.arg.example file with hints how to use config.arg.
925 Command line completion when 'cmdheight' is maximum and 'wildmenu' is set,
926 only one buffer line displayed, causes display errors.
928 Completing with 'wildmenu' and using <Up> and <Down> to move through directory
929 tree stops unexpectedly when using ":cd " and entering a directory that
930 doesn't contain other directories.
933 - Suggest compiling xterm with --enable-tcap-query, so that nr of colors is
934 known to Vim. 88 colors instead of 16 works better. See ":help
936 - Suggest including bare "vi" and "vim" with X11, syntax, etc.
938 Completion menu: For a wrapping line, completing a long file name, only the
939 start of the path is shown in the menu. Should move the menu to the right to
940 show more text of the completions. Shorten the items that don't fit in the
943 When running inside screen it's possible to kill the X server and restart it
944 (using pty's the program can keep on running). Vim dies because it loses the
945 connection to the X server. Can Vim simply quit using the X server instead of
946 dying? Also relevant when running in a console.
948 Accessing file#var in a function should not need the g: prepended.
950 When exiting detects a modified buffer, instead of opening the buffer in the
951 current tab, use an existing tab, if possible. Like finding a window where
952 the buffer is displayed. (Antonios Tsakiridis)
954 When ":cn" moves to an error in the same line the message isn't shortened.
955 Only skip shortening for ":cc"?
957 Write "making vim work better" for the docs (mostly pointers): *nice*
958 - sourcing $VIMRUNTIME/vimrc_example.vim
959 - setting 'mouse' to "a"
960 - getting colors in xterm
961 - compiling Vim with X11, GUI, etc.
963 Problem with ":call" and dictionary function. Hari Krishna Dara, Charles
964 Campbell 2006 Jul 06.
966 Syntax HL error caused by "containedin". (Peter Hodge, 2006 Oct 6)
968 A custom completion function in a ":command" cannot be a Funcref. (Andy
971 Problem with using :redir in user command completion function? (Hari Krishna
974 Another resizing problem when setting 'columns' and 'lines' to a very large
975 number. (Tony Mechelynck, 2007 Feb 6)
977 After starting Vim, using '0 to jump somewhere in a file, ":sp" doesn't center
978 the cursor line. It works OK after some other commands.
980 Win32: Is it possible to have both postscript and Win32 printing?
981 Does multi-byte printing with ":hardcopy" work? Add remark in documentation
984 Check: Running Vim in a console and still having connect to the X server for
985 copy/paste: is stopping the X server handled gracefully? Should catch the X
986 error and stop using the connection to the server.
988 Problem with 'cdpath' on MS-Windows when a directory is equal to $HOME. (2006
989 Jul 26, Gary Johnson)
991 Using UTF-8 character with ":command" does not work properly. (Matt Wosniski,
994 In the Netbeans interface add a "vimeval" function, so that the other side can
995 check the result of has("patch13").
997 Cursor line at bottom of window instead of halfway after saving view and
998 restoring. Only with 'nowrap'. (Robert Webb, 2008 Aug 25)
1000 Add command modifier that skips wildcard expansion, so that you don't need to
1001 put backslashes before special chars, only for white space.
1003 Syntax HL: open two windows on the same C code, delete a ")" in one window,
1004 resulting in highlighted "{" in that window, not in the other.
1006 In mswin.vim: Instead of mapping <C-V> for Insert mode in a complicated way,
1007 can it be done like ":imap <C-V> <MiddleMouse>" without negative side effects?
1009 Win32: When the GUI tab pages line is displayed Vim jumps from the secondary
1010 to the primary monitor. (Afton Lewis, 2007 Mar 9) Old resizing problem?
1012 GTK: when the Tab pages bar appears or disappears while the window is
1013 maximized the window is no longer maximized. Patch that has some idea but
1014 doesn't work from Geoffrey Antos, 2008 May 5.
1015 Also: the window may no longer fit on the screen, thus the command line is not
1018 GTK: when setting 'columns' in a startup script and doing ":vertical diffsplit"
1019 the window isn't redrawn properly, see two vertical bars.
1021 GTK: file chooser is disabled. Patch by Tim Starling, 2009 Nov 13.
1023 The magic clipboard format "VimClipboard2" appears in several places. Should
1026 "vim -C" often has 'nocompatible', because it's set somewhere in a startup
1027 script. Do "set compatible" after startup?
1029 It's difficult to debug numbered functions (function in a Dictionary). Print
1030 the function name before resolving it to a number?
1037 Add a mark for the other end of the Visual area (VIsual pos). '< and '> are
1038 only set after Visual moded is ended.
1039 Also add a variable for the Visual mode. So that this mode and '< '> can be
1040 used to set what "gv" selects. (Ben Schmidt)
1042 Win32: When running ":make" and 'encoding' differs from the system locale, the
1043 output should be converted. Esp. when 'encoding' is "utf-8". (Yongwei Wu)
1044 Should we use 'termencoding' for this?
1046 Win32, NTFS: When editing an specific infostream directly and 'backupcopy' is
1047 "auto" should detect this situation and work like 'backupcopy' is "yes". File
1048 name is something like "c:\path\foo.txt:bar", includes a colon. (Alex
1049 Jakushev, 2008 Feb 1)
1051 Small problem displaying diff filler line when opening windows with a script.
1052 (David Luyer, 2007 Mar 1 ~/Mail/oldmail/mool/in.15872 )
1054 Is it allowed that 'backupext' is empty? Problems when backup is in same dir
1055 as original file? If it's OK don't compare with 'patchmode'. (Thierry Closen)
1057 Patch for supporting count before CR in quickfix window. (AOYAMA Shotaro, 2007
1060 Patch for adding ":lscscope". (Navdeep Parhar, 2007 Apr 26; update 2008 Apr
1063 ":mkview" isn't called with the right buffer argument. Happens when using
1064 tabs and the autocommand "autocmd BufWinLeave * mkview". (James Vega, 2007
1067 xterm should be able to pass focus changes to Vim, so that Vim can check for
1068 buffers that changed. Perhaps in misc.c, function selectwindow().
1069 Xterm 224 supports it!
1071 When completing from another file that uses a different encoding completion
1072 text has the wrong encoding. E.g., when 'encoding' is utf-8 and file is
1073 latin1. Example from Gombault Damien, 2007 Mar 24.
1075 Is it possible to use "foo#var" instead of "g:foo#var" inside a function?
1077 Syntax HL: When using "nextgroup" and the group has an empty match, there is
1078 no search at that position for another match. (Lukas Mai, 2008 April 11)
1080 In gvim the backspace key produces a backspace character, but on Linux the
1081 VERASE key is Delete. Set VERASE to Backspace? (patch by Stephane Chazelas,
1084 When entering a C /* comment, after typing <Enter> for 70 times the indent
1085 disappears. (Vincent Beffara, 2008 Jul 3)
1087 TermResponse autocommand isn't always triggered when using vimdiff. (Aron
1088 Griffis, 2007 Sep 19)
1090 Patch for supporting #rrggbb in color terminals. (Matt Wozniski)
1092 Create a gvimtutor.1 file and change Makefiles to install it.
1094 When 'encoding' is utf-8 typing text at the end of the line causes previously
1095 typed characters to be redrawn. Caused by patch 7.1.329. (Tyler Spivey, 2008
1098 When Vim in an xterm owns the selection and the user does ":shell" Vim doesn't
1099 respond to selection requests. Invoking XtDisownSelection() before executing
1100 the shell doesn't help. Would require forking and doing a message loop, like
1101 what happens for the GUI.
1103 X11: Putting more than about 262040 characters of text on the clipboard and
1104 pasting it in another Vim doesn't work. (Dominique Pelle, 2008 Aug 21-23)
1105 clip_x11_request_selection_cb() is called with zero value and length.
1106 Also: Get an error message from free() in the process that owns the selection.
1107 Seems to happen when the selection is requested the second time, but before
1108 clip_x11_convert_selection_cb() is invoked, thus in X library code.
1110 Add 'lazysize' option: Above this size Vim doesn't load everything before
1111 starting to edit a file. Things like 'fileencodings' only work up to this
1112 size, modelines only work at the top. Useful for large log files where you
1113 only want to look at the first few pages. Use zero to disable it.
1115 ":vimgrep" does not recognize a recursive symlink. Is it possible to detect
1116 this, at least for Unix (using device/inode)?
1118 When switching between windows the cursor is often put in the middle.
1119 Remember the relative position and restore that, just like lnum and col are
1120 restored. (Luc St-Louis)
1122 Patch for adding "J" flag to 'cinoptions': placement of jump label.
1123 (Manuel Konig, 2010 Feb 19) Update by Lech Lorens, Feb 22.
1127 - Use latest autoconf (2.65)
1128 - Use NSIS 2.45, it includes Windows 7 support.
1129 - Include all files in distro, no "extra" and "lang" package.
1130 - Create Mercurial repository.
1131 - Easier/standard way to disable default plugins.
1132 - Add patch for 'relativenumber' option? Markus Heidelberg, 2008 Jun 27.
1133 - Add blowfish encryption. Openssl has an implementation. Also by Paul
1134 Kocher (LGPL), close to original. Mohsin also has some ideas.
1135 Take four bytes and turn them into unsigned to avoid byte-order problems.
1136 Need to buffer up to 7 bytes to align on 8 byte boundaries.
1137 Patch from Moshin, 2010 Mar 15.
1138 - ":{range}source": source the lines from the current file.
1139 You can already yank lines and use :@" to execute them.
1140 Most of do_source() would not be used, need a new function.
1141 It's easy when not doing breakpoints or profiling.
1142 - Patch for Lisp support with ECL (Mikael Jansson, 2008 Oct 25)
1146 - Add 'cscopeignorecase' option. (Liang Wenzhi, 2006 Sept 3)
1147 - Argument for feedkeys() to prepend to typeahead (Yakov Lerner, 2006 Oct
1149 - Load intl.dll too, not only libintl.dll. (Mike Williams, 2006 May 9, docs
1151 - Extra argument to strtrans() to translate special keys to their name (Eric
1152 Arnold, 2006 May 22)
1153 - 'threglookexp' option: only match with first word in thesaurus file.
1154 (Jakson A. Aquino, 2006 Jun 14)
1155 - Mac: indicate whether a buffer was modified. (Nicolas Weber, 2006 Jun 30)
1156 - Allow negative 'nrwidth' for left aligning. (Nathan Laredo, 2006 Aug 16)
1157 - ml_append_string(): efficiently append to an existing line. (Brad
1158 Beveridge, 2006 Aug 26) Use in some situations, e.g., when pasting a
1159 character at a time?
1160 - gettabvar() and settabvar() functions. (Yegappan Lakshmanan, 2007 Sep 13,
1162 - recognize hex numbers better. (Mark Manning, 2006 Sep 13)
1163 - Add <AbbrExpand> key, to expand an abbreviation in a mapping. (Kana
1164 Natsuno, 2008 Jul 17)
1165 - Add 'wspara' option, also accept blank lines like empty lines for "{" and
1166 "}". (Mark Lundquist, 2008 Jul 18)
1167 - Patch to add CTRL-T to delete part of a path on cmdline. (Adek, 2008 Jul
1169 - Instead of creating a copy of the tutor in all the shell scripts, do it in
1170 vimtutor.vim. (Jan Minar, 2008 Jul 20)
1171 - When fsync() fails there is no hint about what went wrong. Patch by Ben
1172 Schmidt, 2008 Jul 22.
1173 - testdir/Make_dos_sh.mak for running tests with MingW. (Bill Mccarthy, 2008
1175 - Patch for adding "space" item in 'listchars'. (Jérémie Roquet, 2009 Oct 29,
1179 Awaiting updated patches:
1180 9 Mac unicode patch (Da Woon Jung, Eckehard Berns):
1181 8 Add patch from Muraoka Taro (Mar 16) to support input method on Mac?
1182 New patch 2004 Jun 16
1183 - selecting proportional font breaks display
1184 - UTF-8 text causes display problems. Font replacement causes this.
1185 - Command-key mappings do not work. (Alan Schmitt)
1186 - With 'nopaste' pasting is wrong, with 'paste' Command-V doesn't work.
1188 - remove 'macatsui' option when this has been fixed.
1189 - when 'macatsui' is off should we always convert to "macroman" and ignore
1191 9 HTML indenting can be slow. Caused by using searchpair(). Can search()
1192 be used instead? A.Politz is looking into a solution.
1193 8 Win32: Add minidump generation. (George Reilly, 2006 Apr 24)
1194 8 Add ":n" to fnamemodify(): normalize path, remove "../" when possible.
1195 Aric Blumer has a patch for this. He will update the patch for 6.3.
1196 7 Completion of network shares, patch by Yasuhiro Matsumoto.
1198 How does this work? Missing comments.
1199 - Patch for 'breakindent' option: repeat indent for wrapped line. (Vaclav
1200 Smilauer, 2004 Sep 13, fix Oct 31, update 2007 May 30)
1201 Version for latest MacVim: Tobia Conforto, 2009 Nov 23
1202 8 Add a few more command names to the menus. Patch from Jiri Brezina
1203 (28 feb 2002). Will mess the translations...
1204 7 ATTENTION dialog choices are more logical when "Delete it' appears
1205 before "Quit". Patch by Robert Webb, 2004 May 3.
1206 - Include flipcase patch: ~/vim/patches/wall.flipcase2 ? Make it work
1207 for multi-byte characters.
1208 - Win32: add options to print dialog. Patch from Vipin Aravind.
1209 - Patch to add highlighting for whitespace. (Tom Schumm, 2003 Jul 5)
1210 use the patch that keeps using HLF_8 if HLF_WS has not
1212 Add section in help files for these highlight groups?
1213 8 "fg" and "bg" don't work in an xterm. Get default colors from xterm
1214 with an ESC sequence.
1215 xterm can send colors for many things. E.g. for the cursor:
1217 Can use this to get the background color and restore the colors on exit.
1218 7 Add "DefaultFG" and "DefaultBG" for the colors of the menu. (Marcin
1219 Dalecki has a patch for Motif and Carbon)
1220 - Add possibility to highlight specific columns (for Fortran). Or put a
1221 line in between columns (e.g., for 'textwidth').
1222 Patch to add 'hlcolumn' from Vit Stradal, 2004 May 20.
1224 gettext() Translate a message. (Patch from Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
1226 Another patch from Edward L. Fox (2005 Nov 24)
1227 Search in 'runtimepath'?
1228 More docs needed about how to use this.
1229 How to get the messages into the .po files?
1230 charlen() Like strlen() but counting characters instead of
1232 confirm() add "flags" argument, with 'v' for vertical
1233 layout and 'c' for console dialog. (Haegg)
1234 Flemming Madsen has a patch for the 'c' flag
1236 raisewin() raise gvim window (see HierAssist patch for
1237 Tcl implementation ~/vim/HierAssist/ )
1238 taglist() add argument to specify maximum number of matches.
1239 useful for interactive things or completion.
1240 col('^') column of first non-white character.
1241 Can use "len(substitute(getline('.'), '\S.*', '', ''))
1242 + 1", but that's ugly.
1243 7 Add patch from Benoit Cerrina to integrate Vim and Perl functions
1244 better. Now also works for Ruby (2001 Nov 10)
1245 - Patch from Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto for better formatting of the
1246 quickfix window (2004 dec 2)
1247 7 When 'rightleft' is set, the search pattern should be displayed right
1248 to left as well? See patch of Dec 26. (Nadim Shaikli)
1249 8 Option to lock all used memory so that it doesn't get swapped to disk
1250 (uncrypted). Patch by Jason Holt, 2003 May 23. Uses mlock.
1251 7 Support a stronger encryption. Jason Holt implemented AES (May 6 2003).
1252 7 Add ! register, for shell commands. (patch from Grenie)
1253 8 In the gzip plugin, also recognize *.gz.orig, *.gz.bak, etc. Like it's
1254 done for filetype detection. Patch from Walter Briscoe, 2003 Jul 1.
1255 7 Add a "-@ filelist" argument: read file names from a file. (David
1256 Kotchan has a patch for it)
1257 8 Include a connection to an external program through a pipe? See
1258 patches from Felbinger for a mathematica interface.
1259 Or use emacs server kind of thing?
1260 7 Add ":justify" command. Patch from Vit Stradal 2002 Nov 25.
1261 - findmatch() should be adjusted for Lisp. See remark at
1262 get_lisp_indent(). Esp. \( and \) should be skipped. (Dorai Sitaram,
1263 incomplete patch Mar 18)
1264 - For GUI Find/Replace dialog support using a regexp. Patch for Motif
1265 and GTK by degreneir (nov 10 and nov 18).
1266 - Patch for "paranoid mode" by Kevin Collins, March 7. Needs much more work.
1270 - Try new POSIX tests, made after my comments. (Geoff Clare, 2005 April 7)
1271 Version 1.5 is in ~/src/posix/1.5. (Lynne Canal)
1272 8 With undo/redo only marks in the changed lines should be changed. Other
1273 marks should be kept. Vi keeps each mark at the same text, even when it
1274 is deleted or restored. (Webb)
1275 Also: A mark is lost after: make change, undo, redo and undo.
1276 Example: "{d''" then "u" then "d''": deletes an extra line, because the ''
1277 position is one line down. (Veselinovic)
1278 8 When stdin is not a tty, and Vim reads commands from it, an error should
1280 7 Unix Vim (not gvim): Typing CTRL-C in Ex mode should finish the line
1281 (currently you can continue typing, but it's truncated later anyway).
1282 Requires a way to make CTRL-C interrupt select() when in cooked input.
1283 8 When loading a file in the .exrc, Vi loads the argument anyway. Vim skips
1284 loading the argument if there is a file already. When no file argument
1285 given, Vi starts with an empty buffer, Vim keeps the loaded file. (Bearded)
1286 6 In Insert mode, when using <BS> or <Del>, don't wipe out the text, but
1287 only move back the cursor. Behaves like '$' in 'cpoptions'. Use a flag
1288 in 'cpoptions' to switch this on/off.
1289 8 When editing a file which is a symbolic link, and then opening another
1290 symbolic link on the same file, Vim uses the name of the first one.
1291 Adjust the file name in the buffer to the last one used? Use several file
1292 names in one buffer???
1293 Also: When first editing file "test", which is symlink to "test2", and
1294 then editing "test2", you end up editing buffer "test" again. It's not
1295 logical that the name that was first used sticks with the buffer.
1296 7 The ":undo" command works differently in Ex mode. Edit a file, make some
1297 changes, "Q", "undo" and _all_ changes are undone, like the ":visual"
1298 command was one command.
1299 On the other hand, an ":undo" command in an Ex script only undoes the last
1300 change (e.g., use two :append commands, then :undo).
1301 7 The ":map" command output overwrites the command. Perhaps it should keep
1302 the ":map" when it's used without arguments?
1303 7 CTRL-L is not the end of a section? It is for Posix! Make it an option.
1304 7 Implement 'prompt' option. Init to off when stdin is not a tty.
1305 7 CTRL-T in Insert mode inserts 'shiftwidth' of spaces at the cursor. Add a
1306 flag in 'cpoptions' for this.
1307 7 Add a way to send an email for a crashed edit session. Create a file when
1308 making changes (containing name of the swap file), delete it when writing
1309 the file. Supply a program that can check for crashed sessions (either
1310 all, for a system startup, or for one user, for in a .login file).
1311 7 Vi doesn't do autoindenting when input is not from a tty (in Ex mode).
1312 7 "z3<CR>" should still use the whole window, but only redisplay 3 lines.
1313 7 ":tag xx" should move the cursor to the first non-blank. Or should it go
1314 to the match with the tag? Option?
1315 7 Implement 'autoprint'/'ap' option.
1316 7 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes <BS> after a count work like <Del>
1318 7 Add flag in 'cpoptions' that makes operator (yank, filter) not move the
1319 cursor, at least when cancelled. (default Vi compatible).
1320 7 This Vi-trick doesn't work: "Q" to go to Ex mode, then "g/pattern/visual".
1321 In Vi you can edit in visual mode, and when doing "Q" you jump to the next
1322 match. Nvi can do it too.
1323 7 Support '\' for line continuation in Ex mode for these commands: (Luebking)
1324 g/./a\ g/pattern1/ s/pattern2/rep1\\
1328 6 ":e /tmp/$tty" doesn't work. ":e $uid" does. Is $tty not set because of
1329 the way the shell is started?
1330 6 Vi compatibility (optional): make "ia<CR><ESC>10." do the same strange
1331 thing. (only repeat insert for the first line).
1334 GTK+ 1 (OK in GTK 2):
1335 8 When using "gvim -geom 40x30" or setting 'columns' in .gvimrc or with a
1336 GUIEnter autocommand, the width is still set to fit the toolbar. Also
1337 happens when changing the font. How to avoid that the toolbar specifies
1338 the minimal window width?
1339 8 When using a theme with different scrollbars (gtkstep), the scrollbars can
1340 be too narrow. (Drazen Kacar)
1341 8 Font "7x14" has a bold version "7x14bold". Try to find the bold font by
1342 appending "bold" when there are not 14 dashes.
1344 GTK+ GUI known bugs:
1345 9 Crash with X command server over ssh. (Ciaran McCreesh, 2006 Feb 6)
1346 8 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters not displayed properly in menus (Mikolaj
1347 Machowski) They are displayed as separate characters. Problem in
1349 8 GTK 2: Combining UTF-8 characters are sometimes not drawn properly.
1350 Depends on the font size, "monospace 13" has the problem. Vim seems to do
1351 everything right, must be a GTK bug. Is there a way to work around it?
1352 9 Can't paste a Visual selection from GTK-gvim to vim in xterm or Motif gvim
1353 when it is longer than 4000 characters. Works OK from gvim to gvim and
1354 vim to vim. Pasting through xterm (using the shift key) also works.
1355 It starts working after GTK gvim loses the selection and gains it again.
1356 - Gnome2: When moving the toolbar out of the dock, so that it becomes
1357 floating, it can no longer be moved. Therefore making it float has been
1361 Win32 GUI known bugs:
1362 - Win32: tearoff menu window should have a scrollbar when it's taller than
1364 8 non-ASCII font names don't work. Need to convert from 'encoding' and use
1366 8 On Windows 98 the unicows library is needed to support functions with UCS2
1367 file names. Can we load unicows.dll dynamically?
1368 8 When the primary monitor is below or right of the secondary monitor and
1369 Vim is on the secondary monitor it will often move to the primary monitor.
1370 Window position coordinates can be negative. (James Harvey)
1371 8 The -P argument doesn't work very well with many MDI applications.
1372 The last argument of CreateWindowEx() should be used, see MSDN docs.
1373 Tutorial: http://win32assembly.online.fr/tut32.html
1374 8 In eval.c, io.h is included when MSWIN32 is defined. Shouldn't this be
1375 WIN32? Or can including io.h be moved to vim.h? (Dan Sharp)
1376 7 Windows XP: When using "ClearType" for text smoothing, a column of yellow
1377 pixels remains when typing spaces in front of a "D" ('guifont' set to
1378 "lucida_console:h8").
1379 6 Win32 GUI: With "-u NONE -U NONE" and doing "CTRL-W v" "CTRL-W o", the ":"
1380 of ":only" is highlighted like the cursor. (Lipelis)
1381 8 When 'encoding' is "utf-8", should use 'guifont' for both normal and wide
1382 characters to make Asian languages work. Win32 fonts contain both
1384 7 When font smoothing is enabled, redrawing can become very slow. The reason
1385 appears to be drawing with a transparent background. Would it be possible
1386 to use an opaque background in most places?
1387 8 Use another default for 'termencoding': the active codepage. Means that
1388 when 'encoding' is changed typing characters still works properly.
1389 Alternative: use the Unicode functions to obtain typed characters.
1390 8 Win32: Multi-byte characters are not displayed, even though the same font
1391 in Notepad can display them. (Srinath Avadhanula) Try with the
1392 UTF-8-demo.txt page with Andale Mono.
1393 7 The cursor color indicating IME mode doesn't work properly. (Shizhu Pan,
1395 8 Win32: When clicking on the gvim title bar, which gives it focus, produces
1396 a file-changed dialog, after clicking on a button in that dialog the gvim
1397 window follows the mouse. The button-up event is lost. Only with
1399 Try this: ":set sw ts", get enter-prompt, then change the file in a
1400 console, go back to Vim and click "reload" in the dialog for the changed
1401 file: Window moves with the cursor!
1402 Put focus event in input buffer and let generic Vim code handle it?
1403 8 Win32: When mouse is hidden and in the toolbar, moving it won't make it
1404 appear. (Sami Salonen)
1405 8 Win32 GUI: With maximized window, ":set go-=r" doesn't use the space that
1406 comes available. (Poucet) It works OK on Win 98 but doesn't work on Win
1407 NT 4.0. Leaves a grey area where the scrollbar was. ":set go+=r" also
1408 doesn't work properly.
1409 8 When Vim is minimized and when maximizing it a file-changed dialog pops
1410 up, Vim isn't maximized. It should be done before the dialog, so that it
1411 appears in the right position. (Webb)
1412 9 When selecting at the more-prompt or hit-enter-prompt, the right mouse
1413 button doesn't give popup menu.
1414 At the hit-enter prompt CTRL-Y doesn't work to copy the modeless
1416 On the command line, don't get a popup menu for the right mouse button.
1417 Let the middle button paste selected text (not the clipboard but the
1418 non-Visual selection)? Otherwise CTRL-Y has to be used to copy the text.
1419 8 When 'grepprg' doesn't execute, the error only flashes by, the
1420 user can hardly see what is wrong. (Moore)
1421 Could use vimrun with an "-nowait" argument to only wait when an error
1422 occurs, but "command.com" doesn't return an error code.
1423 8 When the 'shell' cannot be executed, should give an appropriate error msg.
1424 Esp. for a filter command, currently it only complains the file could not
1426 7 Add an option to add one pixel column to the character width? Lucida
1427 Console italic is wider than the normal font ("d" overlaps with next char).
1428 Opposite of 'linespace': 'columnspace'.
1429 7 At the hit-enter prompt scrolling now no longer works. Need to use the
1430 keyboard to get around this. Pretend <CR> was hit when the user tries to
1432 7 Scrollbar width doesn't change when selecting other windows appearance.
1433 Also background color of Toolbar and rectangle below vert. scrollbar.
1434 7 "!start /min cmd" should run in a minimized window, instead of using
1435 "/min" as the command name. (Rogall)
1436 6 Drawing text transparently doesn't seem to work (when drawing part cursor).
1437 8 CTRL key doesn't always work in combination with ALT key. It does work
1438 for function keys, not for alphabetic characters. Perhaps this is because
1439 CTRL-ALT is used by Windows as AltGr?
1440 8 CTRL-- doesn't work for AZERTY, because it's CTRL-[ for QWERTY. How do we
1441 know which keyboard is being used?
1442 7 When scrolling, and a background color is dithered, the dither pattern
1443 doesn't always join correctly between the scrolled area and the new drawn
1445 8 When gui_init_font() is called with "*", p_guifont is freed while it might
1446 still be used somewhere. This is too tricky, do the font selection first,
1447 then set the new font by name (requires putting all logfont parameters in
1452 6 New Motif toolbar button from Marcin Dalecki:
1453 - When the mouse pointer is over an Agide button the red becomes black.
1454 Something with the way colors are specified in the .xpm file.
1455 - The pixmap is two pixels smaller than it should be. The gap is filled
1456 with grey instead of the current toolbar background color.
1457 9 Can configure be changed to disable netbeans if the Xpm library is
1458 required and it's missing?
1459 8 When using the resource "Vim*borderwidth 2" the widgets are positioned
1461 9 XIM is disabled by default for SGI/IRIX. Fix XIM so that 'imdisable' can
1463 9 XIM doesn't work properly for Athena/Motif. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) For now,
1464 keep XIM active at all times when the input method has the preediting
1466 8 X11: A menu that contains an umlaut is truncated at that character.
1467 Happens when the locale is "C", which uses ASCII instead of IS0-8859-1.
1468 Is there a way to use latin1 by default? Gnome_init() seems to do this.
1469 8 Perhaps use fontsets for everything?
1470 6 When starting in English and switching the language to Japanese, setting
1471 the locale with ":lang", 'guifontset' and "hi menu font=", deleting all
1472 menus and setting them again, the menus don't use the new font. Most of
1473 the tooltips work though...
1474 7 Motif: when using a file selection dialog, the specified file name is not
1475 always used (when specifying a filter or another directory).
1476 8 When 'encoding' is different from the current locale (e.g., utf-8) the
1477 menu strings don't work. Requires conversion from 'encoding' to the
1478 current locale. Workaround: set 'langmenu'.
1482 9 When dragging the scrollbar thumb very fast, focus is only obtained in
1483 the scrollbar itself. And the thumb is no longer updated when moving
1485 7 The file selector is not resizable. With a big font it is difficult to
1486 read long file names. (Schroeder)
1487 4 Re-write the widget attachments and code so that we will not have to go
1488 through and calculate the absolute position of every widget every time the
1489 window is refreshed/changes size. This will help the "flashing-widgets"
1490 problem during a refresh.
1491 5 When starting gvim with all the default colors and then typing
1492 ":hi Menu guibg=cyan", the menus change color but the background of the
1493 pullright pixmap doesn't change colors.
1494 If you type ":hi Menu guibg=cyan font=anyfont", then the pixmap changes
1495 colors as it should.
1496 Allocating a new pixmap and setting the resource doesn't change the
1497 pullright pixmap's colors. Why? Possible Athena bug?
1501 - gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
1502 7 Use XmStringCreateLocalized() instead of XmStringCreateSimple()?
1503 David Harrison says it's OK (it exists in Motif 1.2).
1504 8 Lesstif: When deleting a menu that's torn off, the torn off menu becomes
1505 very small instead of disappearing. When closing it, Vim crashes.
1510 9 On Solaris, creating the popup menu causes the right mouse button no
1511 longer to work for extending the selection. (Halevy)
1512 9 When running an external program, it can't always be killed with CTRL-C.
1513 e.g., on Solaris 5.5, when using "K" (Keech). Other 'guipty' problems on
1514 Solaris 2.6. (Marley)
1515 9 On Solaris: Using a "-geometry" argument, bigger than the window where Vim
1516 is started from, causes empty lines below the cmdline. (raf)
1517 8 X11 GUI: When menu is disabled by excluding 'm' from 'guioptions', ALT key
1518 should not be used to trigger a menu (like the Win32 version).
1519 8 When setting 'langmenu', it should be effective immediately. Store both
1520 the English and the translated text in the menu structure. Re-generate
1521 the translation when 'langmenu' has changed.
1522 8 Basic flaw in the GUI code: NextScreen is updated before calling
1523 gui_write(), but the GUI code relies on NextScreen to represent the state
1524 of where it is processing the output.
1525 Need better separation of Vim core and GUI code.
1526 8 When fontset support is enabled, setting 'guifont' to a single font
1528 8 Menu priority for sub-menus for: Amiga, BeOS.
1529 8 When translating menus ignore the part after the Tab, the shortcut. So
1530 that the same menu item with a different shortcut (e.g., for the Mac) are
1532 8 Add menu separators for Amiga, RISCOS.
1533 8 Add way to specify the file filter for the browse dialog. At least for
1535 8 Add dialog for search/replace to other GUIs? Tk has something for this,
1536 use that code? Or use console dialog.
1537 8 When selecting a font with the font dialog and the font is invalid, the
1538 error message disappears too quick.
1539 7 More features in the find/replace dialog:
1541 - search in selection/buffer/all buffers/directory
1542 when all buffers/directory is used:
1543 - filter for file name
1544 when directory is used:
1545 - subdirectory on/off
1546 - top directory browser
1547 8 gui_check_colors() is not called at the right moment. Do it much later,
1549 8 gui_update_cursor() is called for a cursor shape change, even when there
1550 are mappings to be processed. Only do something when going to wait for
1551 input. Or maybe every 100 ms?
1552 8 X11: When the window size is reduced to fit on screen, there are blank
1553 lines below the text and bottom scrollbar. "gvim -geometry 80x78+0+0".
1554 When the "+0+0" is omitted it works.
1555 8 When starting an external command, and 'guipty' set, BS and DEL are mixed
1556 up. Set erase character somehow?
1557 8 A dead circumflex followed by a space should give the '^' character
1558 (Rommel). Look how xterm does this.
1559 Also: Bednar has some code for dead key handling.
1560 Also: Nedit 5.0.2 with USE_XMIM does it right. (Gaya)
1561 8 The compose key doesn't work properly (Cepas). Both for Win32 and X11.
1562 7 The cursor in an inactive window should be hollow. Currently it's not
1564 7 GUI on Solaris 2.5.1, using /usr/dt/..: When gvim starts, cursor is
1565 hollow, after window lowered/raised it's OK. (Godfrey)
1566 7 When starting GUI with ":gui", and window is made smaller because it
1567 doesn't fit on the screen, there is an extra redraw.
1568 8 When setting font with .Xdefaults, there is an extra empty line at the
1569 bottom, which disappears when using ":set guifont=<Tab>". (Chadzelek)
1570 8 When font shape changes, but not the size, doing ":set font=" does not
1571 redraw the screen with the new font. Also for Win32.
1572 When the size changes, on Solaris 2.5 there isn't a redraw for the
1573 remaining part of the window (Phillipps).
1574 - Flashes really badly in certain cases when running remotely from a Sun.
1575 4 Re-write the code so that the highlighting isn't changed multiple times
1576 when doing a ":hi clear". The color changes happen three or more times
1577 currently. This is very obvious on a 66Mhz 486.
1581 9 Pressing CTRL-C often crashes the console Vim runs in. (Ken Liao)
1582 When 'bioskey' isn't set it doesn't happen. Could be a problem with the
1583 BIOS emulation of the console. Version 5.6 already had this problem.
1584 8 DJGPP: "cd c:" can take us to a directory that no longer exists.
1585 change_drive() doesn't check this. How to check for this error?
1586 9 The 16 bit version runs out of memory very quickly. Should find unused
1587 code and reduce static data. Resetting 'writebackup' helps to be able to
1589 9 Crash when running on Windows 98 in a console window and pressing CTRL-C.
1590 Happens now and then. When debugging Vim in gdb this also happens. Since
1591 the console crashes, might be a bug in the DOS console. Resetting
1592 'bioskey' avoids it, but then CTRL-C doesn't work.
1593 9 DOS: Make CTRL-Fx and ALT-Fx work.
1594 CTRL-F1 = CE-5E, CTRL-F2 = CE-5F, .., CTRL-F10 = CE-67
1595 ALT-F1 = CE-68, ALT-F2 = CE-69, .., ALT-F10 = CE-71
1596 Shifted cursor keys produce same codes as unshifted keys. Use bioskey(2)
1597 to get modifier mask for <S-C-M-Fx>.
1598 Use K_SPECIAL/KS_MODIFIER codes to insert modifier mask in input stream?
1599 Make this work like in Win32 console.
1600 Mapping things like <M-A> doesn't work, because it generates an extended
1601 key code. Use a translation table?
1602 9 Can't read an opened swap file when the "share" command has not been used.
1603 At least ignore the swap files that Vim has opened itself.
1605 8 The Dos32 version (DJGPP) can't use long file names on Windows NT.
1606 Check if new package can be used (v2misc/ntlfn08[bs].zip).
1607 8 setlocale() is bogus.
1608 8 Vim busy waits for new characters or mouse clicks. Should put in some
1609 sort of sleep, to avoid eating 50% of the CPU time. Test on an unpatched
1611 8 DJGPP: when shell is bash, make fails. (Donahoe)
1612 7 Hitting CTRL-P twice quickly (e.g., in keyword completion) on a 8088
1613 machine, starts printer echo! (John Mullin).
1614 7 MSDOS 16 bit version can't work with COMSPEC that has an argument, e.g.:
1615 COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM /E:4096 (Bradley)
1616 Caused by BCC system() function (Borland "make" has the same problem).
1617 8 Mouse: handle left&right button pressed as middle button pressed. Add
1618 modifier keys shift, ctrl and alt.
1619 7 When too many files are open (depends on FILES), strange things happen.
1620 The Dos16 version runs out of memory, in the Dos32 version "!ls" causes a
1621 crash. Another symptom: .swp files are not deleted, existing files are
1623 7 DJGPP version doesn't work with graphics display mode. Switch to a mode
1625 8 DJGPP: ":mode" doesn't work for many modes. Disable them.
1626 8 DJGPP: When starting in Ex mode, shouldn't clear the screen. (Walter
1630 MSDOS, OS/2 and Win32:
1631 8 OS/2: Add backtick expansion. Undefine NO_EXPANDPATH and use
1632 gen_expand_wildcards().
1633 8 OS/2: Add clipboard support? See example clipbrd.exe from Alexander
1635 8 OS/2: Add Extended Attributes support and define HAVE_ACL.
1636 8 OS/2: When editing a file name "foo.txt" that is actually called FOO.txt,
1637 writing uses "foo.txt". Should obtain the real file name.
1638 8 Should $USERPROFILE be preferred above $HOMEDRIVE/$HOMEPATH? No, but it's
1639 a good fallback, thus use:
1642 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_APPDATA, FALSE);
1644 SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL, lpzsPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, FALSE);
1648 8 Win32 console: <M-Up> and <M-Down> don't work. (Geddes) We don't have
1649 special keys for these. Should use modifier + key.
1650 8 Win32 console: caps-lock makes non-alpha keys work like with shift.
1651 Should work like in the GUI version.
1652 8 Environment variables in DOS are not case sensitive. Make a define for
1653 STRCMP_ENV(), and use it when comparing environment var names.
1654 8 Setting 'shellslash' has no immediate effect. Change all file names when
1655 it is set/reset? Or only use it when actually executing a shell command?
1656 8 When editing a file on a Samba server, case might matter. ":e file"
1657 followed by ":e FILE" will edit "file" again, even though "FILE" might be
1658 another one. Set last used name in buflist_new()? Fix do_ecmd(), etc.
1659 8 When a buffer is editing a file like "ftp://mach/file", which is not going
1660 to be used like a normal file name, don't change the slashes to
1661 backslashes. (Ronald Hoellwarth)
1665 8 Editing a file by it's short file name and writing it, makes the long file
1666 name disappear. Setting 'backupcopy' helps.
1667 Use FindFirstFile()->cAlternateFileName in fname_case() (George Reilly).
1668 8 Doing wildcard expansion, will match the short filename, but result in the
1669 long filename (both DJGPP and Win32).
1673 9 When editing a file by its short file name, it should be expanded into its
1674 long file name, to avoid problems like these: (Mccollister)
1675 1) Create a file called ".bashrc" using some other editor.
1676 2) Drag that file onto a shortcut or the actual executable.
1677 3) Note that the file name is something like BASHRC~1
1678 4) Go to File->Save As menu item and type ".bashrc" as the file name.
1679 5) Press "Yes" to indicate that I want to overwrite the file.
1680 6) Note that the message "File exists (add ! to override)" is displayed
1681 and the file is not saved.
1682 Use FindFirstFile() to expand a file name and directory in the path to its
1684 8 Also implement 'conskey' option for the Win32 console version? Look at
1685 how Xvi does console I/O under Windows NT.
1686 7 Re-install the use of $TERM and support the use of different terminals,
1687 besides the console.
1688 8 Use of <altgr> modifier doesn't work? 5.3 was OK. (Garcia-Suarez/Guckes)
1689 9 Mapping <C-S-Tab> doesn't work correctly. How to see the difference with
1691 9 tmpnam() uses file in root of file system: "\asdf". That doesn't work on
1692 a Netware network drive. Use same function as for Win32 GUI?
1693 8 In os_win32.h, HAVE_STRICMP and HAVE_STRNICMP are defined only if __GNUC__
1694 is not defined. Shouldn't that be the other way around?
1695 7 Use SetConsoleCP() and SetConsoleOutputCP() to implement 'termencoding'?
1696 Avoids that input and output work differently. Need to be restored when
1701 8 In mch_inchar() should use convert_input_safe() to handle incomplete byte
1703 9 In mch_expandpath() a "*" is to be expanded, but "\*" isn't. Remove
1704 backslashes in result.
1705 8 Executing a shell, only one option for 'shell' is separated. Should do
1706 all options, using white space separation.
1710 - GUI: gui_mch_browsedir() is missing.
1711 7 Patch to add 'transparency' option. Disadvantage: it's slow. (Eckehard
1712 Berns, 2004 May 9) http://ecki.to/vim/TransBack-2004-05-09.diff
1713 Needs more work. Add when someone really wants it.
1714 7 Loading the Perl library only works on OS/X 10.2 or 10.3, never on both.
1715 Load the Perl library dynamically see Python sources file dynload_mac
1717 dynamic linking: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2064.html
1718 8 Inputting Unicode characters does not work in the terminal. They appear
1719 to arrive as upper and lower bytes. (David Brown, 2004 April 17)
1720 8 Typing Unicode characters doesn't work at all in the GUI.
1721 8 inputdialog() doesn't resize when giving more text lines. (David Fishburn,
1723 9 Problems in Carbon version for OS X: (Benji Fisher)
1724 - keyboard shortcuts in the menus get lost.
1725 8 The Vim/About menu doesn't work.
1726 8 ":gui" doesn't fork. Enabling the code in gui.c to fork causes a SEGV.
1727 8 Define vim_mkdir() for Macintosh.
1728 8 Define mch_writable() for Macintosh.
1729 9 When DiskLock is running, using a swap file causes a crash. Appears to be
1730 a problem with writing a file that starts with a dot. (Giacalone)
1731 9 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, control strip causes characters messed up when
1732 scrolling (CTRL-L cleans it up). (Benji Fisher)
1733 9 On G3 Mac, OS version 8, variable-speed scrolling doesn't work, after two
1734 seconds of scrolling the screen freezes. (Benji Fisher)
1735 9 In mac_expandpath() check that handling of backslashes is done properly.
1736 8 Standard Mac shortcuts are missing. (Amerige)
1737 8 Handling of non-fixed width fonts is wrong. (Amerige)
1741 - Can't disable terminal flow control, to enable the use of CTRL-S and
1742 CTRL-Q. Add an option for it?
1743 - When using e_secure in do_one_cmd() mention the command being executed,
1744 otherwise it's not clear where it comes from.
1745 - When the quickfix window is open and executing ":echo 'hello'" using the
1746 Command-line window, the text is immediately removed by the redrawing.
1747 (Michael Henry, 2008 Nov 1)
1748 Generic solution: When redrawing while there is a message on the
1749 cmdline, don't erase the display but draw over the existing text.
1750 Other solution, redraw after closing the cmdline window, before executing
1752 9 For Turkish vim_tolower() and vim_toupper() also need to use utf_
1753 functions for characters below 0x80. (Sertacyildiz)
1754 9 When the last edited file is a help file, using '0 in a new Vim doesn't
1755 edit the file as a help file. 'filetype' is OK, but 'iskeyword' isn't,
1756 file isn't readonly, etc.
1757 8 When an ":edit" is inside a try command and the ATTENTION prompt is used,
1758 the :catch commands are always executed, also when the file is edited
1759 normally. Should reset did_emsg and undo side effects. Also make sure
1760 the ATTENTION message shows up. Servatius Brandt works on this.
1761 8 ":g//" gives "Pattern not found error" with E486. Should not use the
1762 error number, it's not a regular error message.
1763 7 Vimtutor leaves escape sequence in terminal. This is the xterm response to
1764 requesting the version number. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto)
1765 8 When redirecting and using ":silent" the current column for displaying and
1766 redirection can be different. Use a separate variable to hold the column
1768 7 The messages for "vim --help" and "vim --version" don't use
1770 - Could the hit-enter prompt be avoided when a message only overlaps the
1771 'showcmd' area? Clear that area when the next cmd is typed.
1772 8 When 'scrollbind' is set, a window won't scroll horizontally if the cursor
1773 line is too short. Add a word in 'scrollopt' to allow moving the cursor
1774 to longer line that is visible. A similar thing is done for the GUI when
1775 using the horizontal scrollbar.
1776 7 VisVim can only open one file. Hard to solve: each opened file is passed
1777 with a separate invocation, would need to use timestamps to know the
1778 invocations belong together.
1779 8 When giving a ":bwipeout" command a file-changed dialog may popup for this
1780 buffer, which is pointless. (Mike Williams)
1781 8 On MS-Windows ":make" doesn't show output while it is working. Use the
1782 tee.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ ? About 16 Kbyte in the
1783 UnxUtils.zip archive.
1784 Alternate one: http://www.pramodx.20m.com/tee_for_win32.htm, but Walter
1785 Briscoe says it's not as good.
1786 8 "stl" and "stlnc" in 'fillchars' don't work for multi-byte characters.
1787 8 When doing Insert mode completion a mapping cannot recursively call
1788 edit(), because the completion information is global. Put everything in
1789 an allocated structure?
1790 6 Python: ":py raw_input('prompt')" doesn't work. (Manu Hack)
1791 8 Command line completion: buffers "foo.txt" and "../b/foo.txt", completing
1792 ":buf foo<Tab>" doesn't find the second one. (George V. Reilly)
1793 7 Output for ":scriptnames" and ":breaklist" should shorten the file names:
1794 use "~/" when possible.
1795 7 mb_off2cells() doesn't work correctly on the tail byte of a double-byte
1796 character. (Yasuhiro Matsumoto) It should return 1 when used on a tail
1797 byte, like for utf-8. Store second byte of double-byte in ScreenLines2[]
1798 (like for DBCS_JPNU) and put a zero in the second byte (like for UTF-8).
1799 8 'backupdir' and 'directory' should use $TMPDIR, $TMP and/or $TEMP when
1801 7 Inside a function with "perl <<EOF" a line with "$i++" is recognized as an
1802 ":insert" command, causing the following "endfunction" not to be found.
1803 Add skipping this perl construction inside function definitions.
1804 7 When 'ttimeoutlen' is 10 and 'timeoutlen' is 1000, there is a keycode
1805 "<Esc>a" and a mapping <Esc>x", when typing "<Esc>a" with half a second
1806 delay should not be interpreted as a keycode. (Hans Ginzel)
1807 7 ":botright 1 new" twice causes all window heights to be changed. Make the
1808 bottom window only bigger as much as needed.
1809 7 The Cygwin and MingW makefiles define "PC", but it's not used anywhere.
1811 9 User commands use the context of the script they were defined in. This
1812 causes a "s:var" argument to unexpectedly use a variable in the defining
1813 script, not the calling script. Add an argument to ":command":
1814 "-keepcontext". Do replace <SID>, so that a function in the defining
1815 script can be called.
1816 8 The Japanese message translations for MS-Windows are called ja.sjis.po,
1817 but they use encoding cp932. Rename the file and check that it still
1819 8 A very long message in confirm() can't be quit. Make this possible with
1821 7 clip_x11_own_selection() uses CurrentTime, that is not allowed. VNC X
1822 server has a problem with this. (Mark Waggoner) Remembering the timestamp
1823 of events isn't always possible. We don't get them in an xterm. GTK
1824 doesn't obtain the selection again when the timestamp differs, thus it
1825 won't work for GTK anyway.
1826 8 When the clipboard isn't supported: ":yank*" gives a confusing error
1827 message. Specifically mention that the register name is invalid.
1828 8 "gf" always excludes trailing punctuation characters. file_name_in_line()
1829 is currently fixed to use ".,:;!". Add an option to make this
1831 8 'hkmap' should probably be global-local.
1832 9 When "$" is in 'cpoptions' and folding is active, a "C" command changes
1833 the folds and resets w_lines_valid. The display updating doesn't work
1834 then. (Pritesh Mistry)
1835 8 Using ":s" in a function changes the previous replacement string. Save
1836 "old_sub" in save_search_patterns()?
1837 8 Should allow multi-byte characters for the delimiter: ":s+a+b+" where "+"
1838 is a multi-byte character.
1839 8 When appending to a file and 'patchmode' isn't empty, a backup file is
1840 always written, even when the original file already exists.
1841 7 When using "daw" on the last word in a file and this is a single letter,
1842 nothing is deleted. Should delete the letter and preceding white space.
1843 9 When getting focus while writing a large file, could warn for this file
1844 being changed outside of Vim. Avoid checking this while the file is being
1846 7 The message in bt_dontwrite_msg() could be clearer.
1847 8 The script ID that is stored with an option and displayed with ":verbose
1848 set" isn't reset when the option is set internally. For example when
1849 'foldlevel' is set from 'foldlevelstart'.
1850 8 Also store the line number with the script ID and use it for ":verbose",
1851 so that "set nocompatible" is found when it changes other option values.
1852 When an option is set indirectly mention the command? E.g. when
1853 ":diffsplit" sets 'foldmethod'.
1854 8 In the fileformat dialog, "Cancel" isn't translated. Add a global
1855 variable for this. (Eduardo Fernandez)
1856 9 When editing a file with 'readonly' set, there is no check for an existing
1857 swap file. Then using ":write" (without making any changes) doesn't give
1858 a warning either. Should check for an existing swap file without creating
1859 one. Unfinished patch by Ian Kelling, 2008 July 14.
1860 7 When 'showbreak' is set, the amount of space a Tab occupies changes.
1861 Should work like 'showbreak' is inserted without changing the Tabs.
1862 7 When 'mousefocus' is set and switching to another window with a typed
1863 command, the mouse pointer may be moved to a part of the window that's
1864 covered by another window and we lose focus. Only move in the y
1865 direction, not horizontally?
1867 - Using the cterm_color[] table is wrong when t_colors is > 16.
1868 - Need to handle unprintable characters.
1869 - Win32: On a B&W printer syntax highlighting isn't visible. Perform
1870 dithering to make grey text?
1871 - Add a flag in 'printoptions' to add an empty page to make the total
1872 number even. "addempty"? (Mike Williams)
1873 - Respect 'linebreak'. Perhaps also 'showbreak'?
1874 - Should interpreted CTRL-L as a page break.
1875 - Grey line numbers are not always readable. Add field in 'printoptions'.
1876 Default to black when no syntax highlighting.
1877 - Be able to print a window in diff mode.
1878 - Be able to specify a colorscheme to use for printing. And a separate
1879 one for B&W printing (if that can be detected).
1880 8 In Visual block mode with 'lbr' set, a change command doesn't insert the
1881 text in following lines where the linebreak changes.
1882 9 dosinst.c: The DJGPP version can't uninstall the Uninstall registry key on
1883 Windows NT. How to install a .inf file on Windows NT and how to detect
1884 that Windows NT is being used?
1885 8 When 'virtualedit' is "block,insert" and encoding is "utf-8", selecting a
1886 block of one double-wide character, then "d" deletes only half of it.
1887 8 When 'virtualedit' is set, should "I" in blockwise visual mode also insert
1888 in lines that don't extend into the block?
1889 8 With 'virtualedit' set, in Insert mode just after the end of line, CTRL-O
1890 yh does not yank the last character of the line. (Pavel Papushev)
1891 Doing "hl" first appears to make it work.
1892 8 With 'virtualedit' set it's possible to move into the blank area from
1894 8 With 'virtualedit' set and 'selection' "exclusive", a Visual selection
1895 that ends in or after a tab, "d" doesn't delete (part of) the tab.
1897 9 When jumping to a tag, the search pattern is put in the history. When
1898 'magic' is on, the pattern may not work. Translate the pattern depending
1899 on p_magic when putting it in the history? Alternative: Store value of
1900 'magic' in history. (Margo)
1901 9 optwin.vim: Restoring a mapping for <Space> or <CR> is not correct for
1902 ":noremap". Add "mapcmd({string}, {mode})? Use code from ":mkexrc".
1903 9 incsearch is incorrect for "/that/<Return>/this/;//" (last search pattern
1905 9 term_console is used before it is set (msdos, Amiga).
1906 9 Get out-of-memory for ":g/^/,$s//@/" on 1000 lines, this is not handled
1907 correctly. Get many error messages while redrawing the screen, which
1908 cause another redraw, etc.
1909 8 [<C-I> doesn't work when '*' is in 'iskeyword'. find_pattern_in_path()
1910 must escape special characters in the pattern.
1911 8 Vim can overwrite a read-only file with ":w!". ":w" can't overwrite an
1912 existing file, "w!" can, but perhaps not a read-only file? Then use
1914 Or ask for permission to overwrite it (if file can be made writable) and
1915 restore file to readonly afterwards.
1916 Overwriting a file for which a swap file exists is similar issue.
1917 7 When compiled with "xterm_clipboard", startup can be slower and might get
1918 error message for invalid $DISPLAY. Try connecting to the X server in the
1919 background (forked), so that Vim starts up quicker? Connect as soon as
1920 the clipboard is to be used (Visual select mode starts, paste from
1922 7 X11: Some people prefer to use CLIPBOARD instead of PRIMARY for the normal
1923 selection. Add an "xclipboard" argument to the 'clipboard' option? (Mark
1925 8 For xterm need to open a connection to the X server to get the window
1926 title, which can be slow. Can also get the title with "<Esc>[21t", no
1927 need to use X11 calls. This returns "<Esc>]l{title}<Esc>\".
1928 6 When the xterm reports the number of colors, a redraw occurs. This is
1929 annoying on a slow connection. Wait for the xterm to report the number of
1930 colors before drawing the screen. With a timeout.
1931 8 When the builtin xterm termcap contains codes that are not wanted, need a
1932 way to avoid using the builtin termcap.
1933 8 Xterm sends ^[[H for <Home> and ^[[F for <End> in some mode. Also
1934 recognize these keys? Mostly useful for xterm simulators, like gnometerm.
1935 See http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html#xterm_pc_style.
1936 8 For xterm also recognize keypad up/down/left/right and insert.
1937 8 '[ and '] should be set to start/end of line when using a linewise operator
1939 8 CTRL-A can't handle big "long" numbers, they become negative. Check for
1940 "-" character, if not present, use unsigned long.
1941 8 Make it possible to disable the special meaning of "#" in the first column
1943 8 Add suspending with CTRL-Z at the "more" prompt, and when executing a long
1944 script in do_cmdline().
1945 8 When using 'hidden', many swap files will be open. When Vim runs into the
1946 maximum number of open files, error messages will appear. Detect that
1947 this problem is present, and close any hidden files that don't have
1949 8 With 'viminfo' set such that the ".viminfo" file is written on a FAT
1950 filesystem, an illegal file name may be created: ".vim".
1951 8 For each buffer that is opened, the viminfo file is opened and read to
1952 check for file marks. This can be slow.
1953 7 In xterm, recognize both vt100 and vt220 cursor keys. Change
1954 add_termcode() to not remove an existing entry for a name, when it's
1956 Need a generic solution to recognize different codes for the same key.
1957 8 Core dump within signal function: gdb doesn't show stack backtrace! Option
1958 to skip catch_signals()?
1959 9 Repeating a "cw" with "." doesn't work if the text was pasted from the
1960 clipboard. (Thomas Jones) It's because the menu/toolbar item exits Insert
1961 mode and uses "gP". How to fix this without breaking inserting a block of
1963 8 In Replace mode pasting from the clipboard (using menu or toolbar) inserts
1964 all the text. Add ":rmenu"?
1965 8 Pasting with the mouse in Replace mode inserts the text, instead of
1966 overwriting, when it is more than one line. Same for using <C-R>.
1967 9 CTRL-E and CTRL-Y don't work in small window when 'so' is 4 and lines are
1968 wrapping (Acevedo/in.226). E.g., when using CTRL-E, window height 7,
1969 window might actually scroll down when last line of buffer is displayed.
1970 --> Remember if the previous command was "cursor follows screen" or
1971 "screen follow cursor" and use this in cursupdate().
1972 7 tilde_replace() can only handle "~/", should also do "~user/".
1973 Get the list of home directories (from /etc/passwd? Use getpwent()) and
1974 use some clever algorithm to match a path with that. Find common strings
1976 8 When dragging status line with mouse, sometimes a jump when first clicking
1977 on the status line (caused by 'winheight'). Select window on button up,
1978 instead of on button down.
1979 8 Dragging the status line doesn't scroll but redraw.
1980 9 Evaluating 'statusline' in build_stl_str_hl() does not properly check for
1981 reaching the end of the available buffer.
1982 Patch to dynamically allocate the buffer for % items. (Eric Arnold, 2006
1984 8 When performing incremental search, should abort searching as soon as a
1986 8 When the value of $MAKE contains a path, configure can't handle this.
1987 It's an autoconf bug. Remove the path from $MAKE to work around it.
1988 8 How to set VIMRC_FILE to \"something\" for configure? Why does this not
1989 work: CFLAGS='-DVIMRC_FILE=\"/mydir/myfile\"' ./configure
1990 8 The temporary file is sometimes not writable. Check for this, and use an
1991 alternate name when it isn't. Or add the 'temptemplate' option: template
1992 for the temp file name ":set temptemplate=/usr/tmp/?????.tmp".
1993 Also: Win32 version uses Windows temp directory, which might not work for
1995 7 Get error "*, \+ or \( operand could be empty" for pattern "\(.\)\1\{3}".
1996 Remember flags for backreferences.
1997 7 When switching to Daylight Saving Time, Vim complains that a file has been
1998 changed since last read. Can we use a function that uses GMT?
1999 7 When completing an environment variable after a '$', check for file names
2000 that contain a '$' after all have been found.
2001 8 When "cm" termcap entry is missing, starting gvim shouldn't complain about
2002 it. (Lohner) Try out with "vt100" entry, cm replaced with cX.
2003 7 When an include file starts with "../", the check for already visiting
2004 this file doesn't work. Need to simplify the file name.
2005 7 The names and comments for the arguments of do_browse() are confusing.
2006 "dflt" isn't the default file name when "initdir" is not NULL and
2007 "initdir" is the default path to be used.
2008 7 When 'scrolloff' is exactly half the window height, "j" causes a scroll of
2009 two lines at a time. "k" doesn't do this. (Cory T. Echols)
2010 8 When write_viminfo() is used while there are many orphaned viminfo
2011 tempfiles writing the viminfo file fails. Give a clear error message so
2012 that the user knows he has to delete the files.
2013 7 It's possible to redefine a script-local function with ":func
2014 <SNR>123_Test()". (Krishna) Disallow this.
2017 I can't reproduce these (if you can, let me know how!):
2018 9 NT 4.0 on NTFS file system: Editing ".bashrc" (drag and drop), file
2019 disappears. Editing ".xyz" is OK. Also, drag&drop only works for three
2020 files. (McCollister)
2023 Problems that will (probably) not be solved:
2024 - GTK: when using the popup menu with spelling suggestions and releasing the
2025 right mouse button before the menu appears selecting an item with the
2026 right mouse button has no effect. GTK does not produce an event for this.
2027 - GTK 2: Cannot use the file selector. When using it many things become
2028 slow. This is caused by some code in GTK that writes
2029 ~/.recently-used.xbel every time an event is handled. It assumes the main
2030 loop is never quit, which is a wrong assumption. Also, it overwrites the
2031 file with different file permissions, which is a privacy issue. This
2032 needs to be fixed in GTK. A solution in Vim would be really complicated.
2034 - xterm title: The following scenario may occur (esp. when running the Vim
2035 test script): Vim 1 sets the title to "file1", then restores the title to
2036 "xterm" with an ESC sequence when exiting. Vim 2 obtains the old title
2037 with an X library call, this may result in "file1", because the window
2038 manager hasn't processed the "xterm" title yet. Can apparently only be
2039 worked around with a delay.
2040 - In a terminal with 'mouse' set such that the mouse is active when entering
2041 a command line, after executing a shell command that scrolls up the
2042 display and then pressing ":": Selecting text with the mouse works like
2043 the display wasn't scrolled. Vim doesn't know how much the external
2044 command scrolled up the display. Use Shift to select text.
2045 - X windows: When $DISPLAY points to a X server where there is no access
2046 permission, trying to connect to the X server causes an error message.
2047 XtOpenDisplay() prints this directly, there is no way to avoid it.
2048 - X windows: Setting 'guifontset' to an illegal value sometimes crashes Vim.
2049 This is caused by a fault in a X library function, can't be solved in Vim.
2050 - Win32 tcl: has("tcl") hangs when the tcl84.dll is from cygwin.
2051 - Motif: When adding a menu item "Find this &Symbol", the "s" in "this" will
2052 be underlined, instead of in "Symbol". Motif doesn't let us specify which
2053 character gets the highlighting.
2054 - Moving the cursor removes color in color-xterm. This is a color-xterm
2055 problem! color-xterm ver. 6.1 beta 3 and later work properly.
2056 - In zsh, "gvim&" changes the terminal settings. This is a zsh problem.
2058 - Problem with HPterm under X: old contents of window is lost (Cosentino).
2059 - Amiga: When using quickfix with the Manx compiler we only get the first 25
2060 errors. How do we get the rest?
2061 - Amiga: The ":cq" command does not always abort the Manx compiler. Why?
2062 - Linux: A file with protection r--rw-rw- is seen readonly for others. The
2063 access() function in GNU libc is probably wrong.
2064 - MSDOS: When using smartdrive with write-back buffering, writing to a
2065 readonly floppy will cause problems. How to test for a writable floppy
2067 - MSDOS: Both 16 and 32 bit versions: File name expansion doesn't work for
2068 names that start with a dot. These used to be illegal file names.
2069 - When doing a CTRL-Z and typing a command for the shell, while Vim is busy
2070 (e.g. writing a file), the command for the shell is sometimes eaten by Vim,
2071 because the terminal mode is changed from RAW to CBREAK.
2072 - An old version of GNU tgoto can't handle the terminfo code for "AF". The
2073 "%p1" is interpreted as "%p" and "1", causing color not to be working.
2074 Fix: Change the "%p1" in the "AF" and "AB" terminfo entries to "%p".
2076 - When running an external command from the GUI, typeahead is going to that
2077 program, not to Vim. It looks like the shell eats the characters, Vim
2078 can't get back what the external command didn't use.
2079 - Win32 GUI: Error code from external command not returned in shell_error.
2080 It appears that cmd.exe and command.com don't return an error code.
2081 - Win32 GUI: The Toolbar is a bit too high when the flat style is being
2082 used. We don't have control over the height of the Toolbar.
2083 - Win32: All files created on the day of switching from winter to summer
2084 time cause "changed since editing started" messages. It goes away when
2085 the file is written again the next day, or the timezone is adjusted.
2086 DJGPP version is OK. (Zaimi) Looks like a problem with the Win32 library.
2087 Rebooting doesn't help. Time stamps look OK in directory. (Penn)
2088 Is this on FAT (stores wall clock time) or NTFS (stores UTS)?
2089 - Win32, MS-Windows XP: $HOME uses the wrong drive when the user profiles
2090 are not on the boot disk. This is caused by a wrong value of $HOMEDRIVE.
2091 This is a bug in XP, see MSKB article 818134.
2092 - SunOS 5.5.1 with Motif: The file open dialog does not have a horizontal
2093 scroll bar for the "files" selection. This is a problem in the Motif
2094 libraries, get a patch from Sun.
2095 - Solaris 2.6 with GTK and Perl: gvim crashes when started. Problem with X
2096 input method called from GDK code. Without Perl it doesn't crash.
2097 - VMS: Vimdiff doesn't work with the VMS diff, because the output looks
2098 different. This makes test 47 fail. Install a Unix-compatible diff.
2099 - VMS v7.1 and older: Tests 21 and 32 fail. From VMS v7.1-2 and newer Vim
2100 does not have this behavior. (Zoltan Arpadffy)
2101 - Win32 GUI: mouse wheel always scrolls rightmost window. The events arrive
2102 in Vim as if the rightmost scrollbar was used.
2103 - GTK with Gnome: Produces an error message when starting up:
2104 Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
2105 This is caused by the gnome library gnome_init() setting $LC_CTYPE to
2106 "en_US". Not all systems support this locale name, thus causing the
2107 error. Hopefully a newer version of GTK/Gnome fixes this problem.
2108 - GTK 2: With this mapping the hit-enter prompt is _sometimes_ below the
2109 screen, at other times there is a grey area below the command line:
2110 :nmap <F11> :if &guioptions=~'m' \| set guioptions-=m \| else \| set guioptions+=m \| endif<cr>
2111 - GTK: When pasting a selection from Vim to xclipboard gvim crashes with a
2112 ABRT signal. Probably an error in the file gdkselection.c, the assert
2113 always fails when XmbTextListToTextProperty() fails. (Tom Allard)
2114 - GTK 2: gives an assertion error for every non-builtin icon in the toolbar.
2115 This is a GTK 2.4.x bug, fixed in GTK 2.4.2. (Thomas de Grenier de Latour)
2116 - When using an xterm that supports the termresponse feature, and the 't_Co'
2117 termcap option was wrong when Vim started, it will be corrected when the
2118 termresponse is received. Since the number of colors changes, the
2119 highlighting needs to be initialized again. This may cause colors defined
2120 in the vimrc file to be lost.
2121 - On Windows NT 4.0 the number of files passed to Vim with drag&drop and
2122 "Edit with Vim" is limited. The maximum command line length is 255 chars.
2124 --------------------- extensions and improvements ----------------------
2125 *extensions-improvements*
2127 Most interesting new features to be added when all bugs have been fixed:
2128 - Using ":exe edit fname" has escaping problems. Use ":edit ++(fname)".
2129 Thus use "++=" to give arguments as expressions, comma separated as if
2131 With options: ":edit ++(['!', '++enc=abc'], ['+/pat'], fname)".
2132 Alternative: Make a function for Ex commands: cmd_edit().
2133 - Add COLUMN NUMBERS to ":" commands ":line1,line2[col1,col2]cmd". Block
2134 can be selected with CTRL-V. Allow '$' (end of line) for col2.
2135 - Add DEBUGGER INTERFACE. Implementation for gdb by Xavier de Gaye.
2136 Should work like an IDE. Try to keep it generic. Now found here:
2137 http://clewn.sf.net.
2138 And the idevim plugin/script.
2139 To be able to start the debugger from inside Vim: For GUI run a program
2140 with a netbeans connection; for console: start a program that splits the
2141 terminal, runs the debugger in one window and reconnect Vim I/O to the
2143 Wishes for NetBeans commands:
2144 - make it possible to have 'defineAnnoType' also handle terminal colors.
2145 - send 'balloonText' events for the cursor position (using CursorHold ?)
2147 - ECLIPSE plugin. Problem is: the interface is very complicated. Need to
2148 implement part in Java and then connect to Vim. Some hints from Alexandru
2149 Roman, 2004 Dec 15. Should then also work with Oracle Jdeveloper, see JSR
2150 198 standard http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=198.
2151 Eclim does it: http://eclim.sourceforge.net/ (Eric Van Dewoestine)
2152 Plugin that uses a terminal emulator: http://vimplugin.sf.net
2153 And another one: http://www.satokar.com/viplugin/index.php
2154 - STICKY CURSOR: Add a way of scrolling that leaves the cursor where it is.
2155 Especially when using the scrollbar. Typing a cursor-movement command
2156 scrolls back to where the cursor is.
2157 - Scroll commands by screen line. g CTRL-E and g CTRL-Y ? Requires the
2158 first line to be able to start halfway.
2159 - Running a shell command from the GUI still has limitations. Look into how
2160 the terminal emulator of the Vim shell project can help:
2161 http://vimshell.wana.at
2162 - Add Lua interface? (Wolfgang Oertl) patch by Luis Carvalho, 2008 Sep 5
2163 Patch for Make_ming.mak from Paul Moore (2008 Sep 1)
2164 8 Add a command to jump to a certain kind of tag. Allow the user to specify
2165 values for the optional fields. E.g., ":tag size type=m".
2166 Also allow specifying the file and command, so that the result of
2167 taglist() can be used.
2168 - X11: Make it possible to run Vim inside a window of another program.
2169 This can be done with XReparentWindow(). But how exactly?
2173 8 List of Vim runtime directories. dotvim.txt from Charles Campbell, 2007
2175 8 The GUI help should explain the Find and Find/Replace dialogs. Add a link
2176 to it from ":promptrepl" and ":promptfind".
2177 8 List of options should mention whether environment variables are expanded
2179 8 Extend usr_27.txt a bit. (Adam Seyfarth)
2180 7 Add a section on debugging scripts in the user manual.
2181 9 Make the Reference Manual more precise. For each command mention:
2182 - change to cursor position and curswant
2183 - if it can be undone (u/CTRL-R) and redone (.)
2184 - how it works for folded lines
2185 - how it works with multi-byte characters
2186 9 In change.txt, remark about Javadoc isn't right. Right alignment would
2188 8 Spread the windows commands over the other files. For example, ":stag"
2189 should be with ":tag". Cross-link with tags to avoid too much double
2191 8 Add tags for all features, e.g. "gui_running".
2192 7 MS-Windows: When a wrong command is typed with an ALT key, give a hint to
2193 look at the help for 'winaltkeys'.
2194 7 Add a help.vim plugin that maps <Tab> to jump to the next tag in || and
2195 <C-Tab> (and <S-Tab>) to the previous tag.
2196 Patch by Balazs Kezes, 2007 Dec 30. Remark from A. Politz.
2197 - Check text editor compendium for vi and Vim remarks.
2201 - First try using the ":help" argument literally, before using it as a
2202 pattern. And then match it as part of a tag.
2203 - When a help item has multiple matches make it possible to use ":tn" to go
2204 to the other matches.
2205 - Support a way to view (and edit) .info files.
2206 - Default mapping for help files: <Tab> to position cursor on next |:tag|.
2207 - Implement a "sticky" help window, some help text lines that are always
2208 displayed in a window with fixed height. (Guckes) Use "~/.vimhelp" file,
2209 user can edit it to insert his favorite commands, new account can contain a
2211 - Make 'winminheight' a local option, so that the user can set a minimal
2212 height for the help window (and other windows).
2213 - ":help :s^I" should expand to ":help :substitute".
2214 - Make the help key (<F1>) context sensitive?
2215 - Learn mode: show short help while typing commands.
2219 8 Windows install with NSIS: make it possible to do a silent install, see
2220 http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html#4.12
2221 8 Windows install with install.exe: Use .exe instead of .bat files for
2222 links, so that command line arguments are passed on unmodified? (Walter
2224 8 Windows install: Be able to associate Vim with a selection of file types?
2225 8 Windows uninstall: Have uninstal.c delete the vimfiles directories that
2226 dosinst.c creates. List the contents of the directory (recursively) if
2227 the user asks for it. Requires an implementation of "rm -rf".
2228 8 Remember the name of the vimrc file that was used (~/.vimrc, $VIM/_vimrc,
2229 $HOME/_vimrc, etc.) and add "edit vimrc" to the File menu.
2230 - Add a way to save local settings and mappings into a new plugin file.
2232 8 Add ":plugininstall" command. Can be used to install a plugin file that
2233 includes documentation. Let the user select a directory from
2237 " >>> plugin help start <<<
2239 - Add mappings local to a window: ":map <window> ..."?
2240 9 Add buffer-local menu. Should offer a choice between removing the menu or
2241 disabling it. Be careful that tear-offs don't disappear (keep one empty
2243 Alternative: use BufEnter and BufLeave autocommands.
2244 8 make a vimtutor script for Amiga and other systems.
2245 7 Add the arguments for configure to the ":version" output?
2246 7 When Vim detects a file is being edited elsewhere and it's a gvim session
2247 of the same user it should offer a "Raise" button, so that the other gvim
2248 window can be displayed. (Eduard)
2249 8 Support saving and restoring session for X windows? It should work to do
2250 ":mksession" and use "-S fname" for the restart command. The
2251 gui_x11_wm_protocol_handler() already takes care of the rest.
2252 global_event_filter() for GTK.
2256 9 GUI implementation for the tab pages line for other systems.
2257 7 GUI: Control over the appearance of the text in the labels (bold, color,
2259 8 Make GUI menu in tab pages line configurable. Like the popup menu.
2260 8 balloons for the tab page labels that are shortened to show the full path.
2261 8 :tabmove +N move tab page N pages forward
2262 8 :tabmove -N move tab page N pages backward
2263 7 :tabdup duplicate the tab with all its windows.
2264 7 Option to put tab line at the left or right? Need an option to specify
2265 its width. It's like a separate window with ":tabs" output.
2266 7 Add local variables for each tab page?
2267 8 Add local options for each tab page? E.g., 'diffopt' could differ between
2269 7 Add local highlighting for each tab page?
2270 7 Add local directory for tab pages? How would this interfere with
2271 window-local directories?
2275 - have some way not to give spelling errors for a range of characters.
2276 E.g. for Chinese and other languages with specific characters for which we
2277 don't have a spell file. Useful when there is also text in other
2278 languages in the file.
2279 - Support more regions? Caolan McNamara argues it's needed for es_XX.
2280 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219777
2281 - Unicode defines another quote character: 0x2019. Use it as an equivalent
2282 of a single quote, thus use it as a word character like a quote and match
2283 with words, replacing the curly quote with a single quote.
2284 - Could filter é things for HTML before doing spell checking.
2286 - The Hungarian spell file uses four extra characters in the FOL/UPP/LOW
2287 items than other spell files with the ISO-8859-2 encoding, that causes
2288 problem when changing 'spelllang'. There is no obvious way to fix this.
2289 - Considering Hunspell 1.1.4:
2290 What does MAXNGRAMSUGS do?
2291 Is COMPLEXPREFIXES necessary when we have flags for affixes?
2292 - Support spelling words in CamelCase as if they were two separate words.
2293 Requires some option to enable it. (Timothy Knox)
2294 - There is no Finnish spell checking file. For openoffice Voikko is now
2295 used, which is based on Malaga: http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
2297 8 ":mkspell" still takes much too long in Hungarian dictionary from
2298 hunspell. Only solution appears to be to postpone secondary suffixes.
2299 8 Handle postponed prefix with COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG or COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG.
2300 WFP_COMPPERMIT and WFP_COMPFORBID
2301 8 implement use of <compoptions> in .spl file:
2302 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDREP: when a compound word seems to be OK apply REP
2303 items and check if the result is a valid word.
2304 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP
2305 implement CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE
2306 Add CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE: when compounding make leading capital lower case.
2307 How is it supposed to work?
2308 - Add a command the repeats ]s and z=, showing the misspelled word in its
2309 context. Thus to spell-check a whole file.
2310 - suggestion for "KG" to "kg" when it's keepcase.
2311 - For flags on affixes: Use a "AFFCOMPSET" flag; means the compound flags of
2312 the word are not used.
2313 - Support breakpoint character ? 0xb7 and ignore it? Makes it possible to
2314 use same wordlist for hyphenation.
2315 - Compound word is accepted if nr of words is <= COMPOUNDWORDMAX OR nr of
2316 syllables <= COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Specify using AND in the affix file?
2317 - NEEDCOMPOUND also used for affix? Or is this called ONLYINCOMPOUND now?
2318 Or is ONLYINCOMPOUND only for inside a compound, not at start or end?
2319 - Do we need a flag for the rule that when compounding is done the following
2320 word doesn't have a capital after a word character, even for Onecap words?
2321 - New hunspell home page: http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
2322 - Version 1.1.0 is out now, look into that.
2323 - Lots of code depends on LANG, that isn't right. Enable each mechanism
2324 in the affix file separately.
2325 - Example with compounding dash is bad, gets in the way of setting
2326 COMPOUNDMIN and COMPOUNDWORDMAX to a reasonable value.
2327 - PSEUDOROOT == NEEDAFFIX
2328 - COMPOUNDROOT -> COMPOUNDED? For a word that already is a compound word
2329 Or use COMPOUNDED2, COMPOUNDED3, etc.
2330 - CIRCUMFIX: when a word uses a prefix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag, then
2331 the word must also have a suffix marked with the CIRCUMFIX flag. It's a
2332 bit primitive, since only one flag is used, which doesn't allow matching
2333 specific prefixes with suffixes.
2335 PSFX {flag} {pchop} {padd} {pcond} {schop} {sadd}[/flags] {scond}
2336 We might not need this at all, you can use the NEEDAFFIX flag and the
2337 affix which is required.
2338 - When a suffix has more than one syllable, it may count as a word for
2340 - Add flags to count extra syllables in a word. SYLLABLEADD1 SYLLABLEADD2,
2341 etc.? Or make it possible to specify the syllable count of a word
2342 directly, e.g., after another slash: /abc/3
2343 - MORPHO item in affix file: ignore TAB and morphological field after
2344 word/flags and affix.
2345 - Implement multiple flags for compound words and CMP item?
2346 Await comments from other spell checking authors.
2347 - Also see tklspell: http://tkltrans.sourceforge.net/
2348 8 Charles Campbell asks for method to add "contained" groups to existing
2349 syntax items (to add @Spell).
2350 Add ":syntax contains {pattern} add=@Spell" command? A bit like ":syn
2351 cluster" but change the contains list directly for matching syntax items.
2352 - References: MySpell library (in OpenOffice.org).
2353 http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/source.html
2354 http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/source/browse/whiteboard/lingucomponent/source/spellcheck/myspell/
2355 author: Kevin Hendricks <kevin.hendricks@sympatico.ca>
2356 8 It is currently not possible to mark "can not" as rare, because "can" and
2357 "not" are good words. Find a way to let "rare" overrule "good"?
2358 8 Make "en-rare" spell file? Ask Charles Campbell.
2359 8 The English dictionaries for different regions are not consistent in their
2360 use of words with a dash.
2361 7 Insert mode completion mechanism that uses the spell word lists.
2362 8 Add hl groups to 'spelllang'?
2363 :set spelllang=en_us,en-rare/SpellRare,en-math/SpellMath
2364 More complicated: Regions with different languages? E.g., comments
2365 in English, strings in German (po file).
2369 9 Instead invoking an external diff program, use builtin code. One can be
2370 found here: http://www.ioplex.com/~miallen/libmba/dl/src/diff.c
2371 8 Use diff mode to show the changes made in a buffer (compared to the file).
2372 Use an unnamed buffer, like doing:
2373 new | set bt=nofile | r # | 0d_ | diffthis | wincmd p | diffthis
2374 Also show difference with the file when editing started? Should show what
2375 can be undone. (Tom Popovich)
2376 7 Add cursor-binding: when moving the cursor in one diff'ed buffer, also
2377 move it in other diff'ed buffers, so that CTRL-W commands go to the same
2382 (commands still available: zI zJ zK zp zP zq zQ zV zy zY;
2383 secondary: zB zS zT zZ, z=)
2384 8 Vertical folds: looks like vertically split windows, but the cursor moves
2385 through the vertical separator, separator moves when scrolling.
2386 8 Add "z/" and "z?" for searching in not folded text only.
2387 9 Add search pattern item to only match in closed or open fold and/or fold
2388 with certain level. Allows doing ":g/pat/cmd" to work on closed folds.
2389 7 Use "++--", "+++--" for different levels instead of "+---" "+----".
2390 8 When a closed fold is displayed open because of 'foldminlines', the
2391 behavior of commands is still like the fold is closed. How to make the
2393 8 Add an option 'foldskip' with values like 'foldopen' that specifies which
2394 commands skip over a closed fold.
2395 8 "H" and "L" count buffer lines instead of window lines. (Servatius Brandt)
2396 8 Add a way to add fold-plugins. Johannes Zellner has one for VB.
2397 7 When using manual folding, the undo command should also restore folds.
2398 - Allow completely hiding a closed fold. E.g., by setting 'foldtext' to an
2399 empty string. Require showing a character in 'foldcolumn' to avoid the
2400 missing line goes unnoticed.
2401 How to implement this?
2402 - When pressing the down arrow of a scrollbar, a closed fold doesn't scroll
2403 until after a long time. How to make scrolling with closed folds
2405 - When creating a session, also store folds for buffers in the buffer list,
2406 using the wininfo in wi_folds.
2407 - When currently editing the first file in the argument list the session
2409 args version.c main.c
2411 Can editing version.c twice be avoided?
2412 - 'foldmethod' "textobject": fold on sections and paragraph text objects.
2413 - Add 'hidecomment' option: don't display comments in /* */ and after //.
2414 Or is the conceal patch from Vince Negri a more generic solution?
2415 - "zuf": undo change in manual fold. "zUf" redo change in manual fold. How
2417 - "zJ" command: add the line or fold below the fold in the fold under the
2419 - 'foldmethod' "syntax": "fold=3" argument: set fold level for a region or
2421 - Apply a new foldlevel to a range of lines. (Steve Litt)
2422 8 Have some way to restrict commands to not folded text. Also commands like
2426 Multi-byte characters:
2427 - When editing a file with both utf-8 and latin1 text Vim always falls back
2428 to latin1. Add a command to convert the latin1 characters to utf-8?
2429 :unmix utf-8,latin1 filename
2430 Would only work when 'encoding' is utf-8.
2431 9 When the tail byte of a double-byte character is illegal (e.g., a CR), the
2432 display is messed up (Yasuhiro Matsumoto). Should check for illegal
2433 double-byte characters and display them differently (display each single
2435 8 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first lines of a file for
2436 the encoding. See Python PEP: http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html.
2437 To avoid getting a wrong encoding only accept something Emacs-like:
2438 "-*- coding: enc-na_me.foo -*-" and "-*- coding= enc-na_me.foo -*-"
2439 Match with "-\*-\s*coding[:=]\s*\([::word::-_.]\+\)\s*-\*-" and use first
2441 8 Add an item in 'fileencodings' to check the first line of an XML file for
2442 the encoding. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Or "charset=UTF-8"?
2443 For HTML look for "charset=utf-8".
2444 8 The quickfix file is read without conversion, thus in 'encoding'. Add an
2445 option to specify the encoding of the errorfile and convert it. Also for
2446 ":grep" and ":helpgrep".
2447 More generic solution: support a filter (e.g., by calling a function).
2448 8 When a file was converted from 'fileencoding' to 'encoding', a tag search
2449 should also do this on the search pattern. (Andrzej M. Ostruszka)
2450 8 When filtering changes the encoding 'fileencoding' may not work. E.g.,
2451 when using xxd and 'fileencoding' is "utf-16". Add an option to set a
2452 different fileencoding for filter output?
2453 7 When converting a file fails, mention which byte could not be converted,
2454 so that the user can fix the problem.
2455 8 Add configure option to be able to disable using the iconv library. (Udo
2457 9 'aleph' should be set to 1488 for Unicode. (Zvi Har'El)
2458 8 Should add test for using various commands with multi-byte characters.
2459 8 'infercase' doesn't work with multi-byte characters.
2460 8 toupper() function doesn't handle byte count changes.
2461 7 Searching and composing characters:
2462 When searching, should order of composing characters be ignored?
2463 Add special item to match with a composing character, zero-width, so that
2464 one can replace a base character and keep the composing characters.
2465 Add a special item to match with a composing character, so that composing
2466 characters can be manipulated.
2467 Add a modifier to ignore composing characters, only compare base
2468 characters. Useful for Hebrew (Ron Aaron)
2469 8 Should implement 'delcombine' for command line editing.
2470 8 Detect overlong UTF-8 sequences and handle them like illegal bytes.
2471 8 ":s/x/\u\1/" doesn't work, making uppercase isn't done for multi-byte
2473 8 UTF-8: "r" in Visual mode doesn't take composing characters.
2474 8 UTF-8: When there is a precomposed character in the font, use it instead
2475 of a character and a composing character. See xterm for an example.
2476 7 When a character can't be displayed, display its digraph instead.
2477 'display' option to specify this.
2478 7 Use ideas for nl_langinfo() from Markus Kuhn in enc_default():
2479 (www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/langinfo.c)
2480 - GTK and Win32: Allow selecting fonts for 'guifontset' with the
2481 fontselector somehow.
2482 - GTK and Win32: make it possible to set the font for the menu to make it
2483 possible to have 'encoding' different from the current locale.
2484 - dbcs_class() only works for Japanese and Korean. Implement this for
2485 other encodings. The "euc-jp" and "euc-kr" choices might be wrong.
2486 - Find some way to automatically select the right GUI font or fontset,
2487 depending on the default value of 'encoding'.
2488 Irrelevant in the GTK+ 2 GUI so long as UTF-8 is used.
2489 For Windows, the charset_pairs[] table could be used. But how do we know
2491 - Do keyboard conversion from 'termencoding' to 'encoding' with
2492 convert_input() for Mac GUI and RiscOS GUI.
2493 - Add mnemonics from RFC1345 longer than two characters.
2494 Support CTRL-K _{mnemonic}_
2495 7 In "-- INSERT (lang) --" show the name of the keymap used instead of
2496 "lang". (Ilya Dogolazky)
2497 - Make 'breakat' accept multi-byte characters. Problem: can't use a lookup
2498 table anymore (breakat_flags[]).
2499 Simplistic solution: when 'formatoptions' contains "m" also break a line
2500 at a multi-byte character >= 0x100.
2501 - Add the possibility to enter mappings which are used whenever normal text
2502 could be entered. E.g., for "f" command. But not in Normal mode. Sort
2503 of opposite of 'langmap'. Use ":tmap" command?
2504 - When breaking a line, take properties of multi-byte characters into
2505 account. The "linebreak" program from Bruno Haible can do it:
2506 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/linebreak-0.1.tar.gz
2507 But it's very complicated...
2511 7 Implement "undercurl" for printing.
2512 - Add "page width" to wrap long lines.
2513 - Win32: use a font dialog for setting 'printfont'. Can reuse the code for
2514 the 'guifont' dialog, put the common code in a separate function.
2515 - Add the file timestamp to the page header (with an option). (George
2517 - Win32: when 'printfont' is empty use 'guifont'.
2518 - Unix: Use some dialog box to do the obvious settings (paper size, printer
2519 name, portrait/landscape, etc).
2520 - PostScript: Only works for text that can be converted to an 8-bit
2521 character set. How to support Unicode fully?
2522 - Allow specifying the paper size, instead of using a standard size. Same
2523 units as for the margins.
2524 - Support right-to-left text?
2525 8 Make the foreground color darkening function preserve the hue of the
2529 Syntax highlighting:
2530 8 Make ":syn off" use 'runtimepath' instead of $VIMRUNTIME. (Gary Johnson)
2531 Should do the same for ":syn on" and ":syn manual".
2532 8 Support "containedin" argument for ":syn include", so that the defined
2533 cluster can be added to existing syntax items.
2534 8 C syntax: Don't highlight {} as errors inside () when used like this:
2535 "({ something })", often used in GCC code.
2536 7 Add a "startgroup" to a region. Used like "nextgroup" inside the region,
2537 preferred item at the start of the region. (Charles Campbell)
2538 8 When editing a new file without a name and giving it a name (by writing
2539 it) and 'filetype' is not set, detect the filetype. Avoid doing it for
2541 7 For "nextgroup" we have skipwhite, skipnl and skipempty. It would be
2542 really nice to be able to skip with a pattern. Or skip with a syntax
2543 group. (Nikolai Weibull, 2007 Feb 27)
2544 8 Make conversion to HTML faster (Write it in C or pre-compile the script).
2545 9 There is still a redraw bug somewhere. Probably because a cached state is
2546 used in a wrong way. I can't reproduce it...
2547 7 Be able to change only the background highlighting. Useful for Diff* and
2548 Search highlighting.
2549 7 When 'number' is set highlight the number of the current line.
2550 Must be enabled with an option, because it slows down display updating.
2551 8 Allow the user to add items to the Syntax menu sorted, without having to
2552 change this for each release.
2553 8 Add a "matchcontains" for regions: items contained in the start or end
2554 pattern, but not in the body.
2555 8 Add a "keepend-contained" argument: Don't change the end of an item this
2556 one is contained in. Like "keepend" but specified on the contained item,
2557 instead of the containing item.
2558 8 cpp.vim: In C++ it's allowed to use {} inside ().
2559 8 Some syntax files set 'iskeyword'. When switching to another filetype
2560 this isn't reset. Add a special keyword definition for the syntax rules?
2561 When this is done, use vim.vim syntax highlighting for help file examples,
2562 but without ":" in 'iskeyword' for syntax.
2563 8 Add specific syntax item to match with parens/braces that don't have a
2564 "%" match. :syntax nomatch cMatchError (,{,[,),},] [contained]
2565 8 Highlight the text between two matching parens (e.g., with a grey
2566 background) when on one of the parens or in between them.
2567 Option for the matchparen plugin?
2568 8 Add a command to jump to the next character highlighted with "Error".
2569 8 When using a cterm, and no ctermfg or ctermbg are defined, use start/stop
2570 sequences. Add remark in docs that :if 'term' == "term-name" should be
2572 8 Add @spell cluster to String and Comment groups for many languages. Will
2573 allow spell checking. (Fleiner)
2574 8 When listing syntax items, try to sort the keywords alphabetically. And
2575 re-insert the [] if possible.
2576 8 Make it possible to use color of text for Visual highlight group (like for
2578 8 It would be useful to make the highlight group name an expression. Then
2579 when there is a match, the expression would be evaluated to find out what
2580 highlight group to use. Could be used to check if the shell used in a
2581 password file appears in /etc/shells. (Nikolai Weibull)
2582 syn match =s:checkShell(v:match) contained 'pattern'
2583 8 Make it possible to only highlight a sub-expression of a match. Like
2584 using "\1" in a ":s" command.
2585 8 Support for deleting syntax items:
2586 :syn keyword cTodo remove this
2587 :syn match cTodo remove "pattern"
2588 :syn region cString remove start="this" end="that"
2589 8 Add possibility to sync on something else, when the syncing in one way
2590 doesn't find match. For HTML: When no {script} is found, try looking for
2592 7 Replace the synchronizing method with a state machine specification?
2593 Should be able to start at any line in the file, search forwards or
2594 backwards, and use the result of matching a pattern.
2595 7 Use parsing like awk, so that e.g., a ( without a matching ) can be
2597 8 Make it possible to use "inverted" highlighting, invert the original
2598 character. For Visual mode. (xterm-selection already does this).
2599 8 Highlight non-printable characters with "SpecialChar", linked to
2600 "Special". Display them with the digraph characters, if possible.
2601 8 Highlight the clipboard-selection with a highlight group.
2602 8 Be able to reset highlighting to its original (default) values.
2603 7 Be able to write current highlighting to a file as commands, similar to
2606 - Add check for unterminated strings, with a variable to switch it on:
2608 - Detect unbalanced "#endif". Requires looking back a long way...
2609 8 Add an option to restrict the updating of syntax highlighting to the
2610 current line while in Insert mode.
2611 8 When guessing value of 'background', the syntax file has already been
2612 loaded (from the .gvimrc). After changing 'background', load it again?
2613 8 Add ":syn resync" command, to re-parse the whole file until the current
2615 8 Should support "me" offset for a region start pattern. To be used to
2616 allow searching for the end pattern inside the match of the end pattern.
2617 Example: syn region pikeXX start="([^{]" end=")" should work on "()".
2618 8 When using a regexp for "contains=", should delay matching with it until
2619 redrawing happens. Set a flag when a group is added, check this flag when
2620 highlighting starts.
2621 8 Some terminals can display colors like the GUI. Add some setting to use
2622 GUI colors for the terminal? With something to define the escape
2624 7 It's possible for an item to be transparent, so that the colors of an item
2625 lower on the stack is used. Also do this with highlighting, so that the
2626 user can set transparent highlighting? E.g. a number in a C comment would
2627 get the color of a comment, a number in an assignment Normal. (Nikolai
2629 7 Add "semitrans": Add highlighting. E.g., make the text bold, but keep the
2630 colors. And add colors, so that Green+Red becomes Yellow.
2632 <B> bold text <I> italic+bold text </B> italic text </I>
2633 7 Wild idea: Not only set highlighting, but also change what is displayed
2634 (e.g., remove characters, so that "<B>bold</B>" can be shown as "bold"):
2635 :syn region boldstuff start="<B>" display="" end="</B>" display=""
2636 7 CTRL-] checks the highlight group for finding out what the tag is.
2637 7 Add an explanation how a list of words can be used to highlight misspelled
2639 8 Add more command line completion for :syntax.
2640 8 Add more command line completion for :highlight.
2641 7 Should find a better way to parse the :syntax and :highlight commands.
2642 Use tables or lists that can be shared by parsing for execution and
2644 8 Add ColorSchemePost autocommand event, so that scripts can set up their
2645 highlighting. (Salman Halim)
2646 7 Add a few sets of colors (e.g. Borland Turbo C one). With a menu to
2647 select one of the sets.
2648 8 Add offsets to sub-matches: "\(a*\) *"he=e1-1
2649 'e' is end of match 'e1' is end of sub-match 1, 's2' is start of submatch
2651 8 In Insert mode, when there are typeahead characters, postpone the
2652 highlighting (for "." command).
2653 8 Syncing on comments isn't 100% correct when / / lines mix with / * and * /.
2654 For example: What about a line that starts with / / and contains * /?
2655 8 Ignore / * and * / inside strings, when syncing.
2656 7 Build a few more syntax files from the file "/usr/share/misc/vgrindefs":
2657 ISP, LDL, Icon, ratfor. And check "nedit/source/highlight.c".
2658 6 Add possibility to have background color continue until the right edge of
2659 the window. Useful for comment blocks and function headings. (Rogall)
2660 - Make it possible to add "contains" items for all items in a group. Useful
2661 when extending an already existing syntax file.
2662 - Add line-continuation pattern for non-syncing items too?
2663 - Add possibility to highlight the whole line, including the right margin
2664 (for comment blocks).
2665 - Add 'hlmatch' option: List of flags:
2666 'c': highlight match for character under the cursor.
2667 'b': highlight the previous (, and its match.
2668 'a': highlight all text from the previous ( until its match.
2669 Also for {}, <>, etc.?
2670 'e': highlight all braces without a match (slow?)
2671 OR: add an argument "cursor" to the syntax command, which means that the
2672 region/match/keyword is only highlighted when the cursor is on it.
2674 Or do it like Elvis: define text objects and how to highlight them around
2675 the cursor. (Iain Truskett)
2676 7 Make it possible to use all words in the tags files as Keyword.
2677 Can also be done with a script (but it's slow).
2678 7 Make it possible to call a ":" command when a match is found. Should
2679 allow for adding keywords from the text (e.g. variables that are set).
2680 And allows for sections with different highlighting.
2681 7 Add highlight group for commandline: "Commandline". Make sure it
2682 highlights the command line while typing a command, and any output from
2683 messages. And external commands?
2684 8 Make a version that works like less, but with highlighting: read stdin for
2685 text, exit at end of file, don't allow editing, etc. moreim? lessim?
2686 7 SpecialKey highlighting overrules syntax highlighting. Can't give an
2687 unprintable char another color. Would be useful for ^M at end of line.
2690 Built-in script language:
2691 8 Make the filename and line number available to script functions, so that
2692 they can give useful debugging info. The whole call stack would be ideal.
2693 7 Execute a function with standard option values. No need to save and
2694 restore option values. Especially useful for new options. Problem: how
2695 to avoid a performance penalty (esp. for string options)?
2696 8 Add referring to key options with "&t_xx". Both for "echo &t_xx" and
2697 ":let &t_xx =". Useful for making portable mappings.
2698 - Add ":let var ?= value", conditional assignment. Patch by Dave Eggum,
2700 - range for ":exec", pass it on to the executed command. (Webb)
2701 7 ":include" command: just like ":source" but doesn't start a new scriptID?
2702 Will be tricky for the list of script names.
2703 8 Have a look at VSEL. Would it be useful to include? (Bigham)
2704 8 Add ":fungroup" command, to group function definitions together. When
2705 encountered, all functions in the group are removed. Suggest using an
2706 obscure name to avoid name clashes. Require a ":fungroup END" in the same
2707 sourced file? Assume the group ends at the end of the file. Handle
2709 Alternative: Support packages. {package-name}:{function-name}().
2710 Packages are loaded automatically when first used, from
2711 $VIMRUNTIME/packages (or use a search path).
2712 7 Pre-parse or compile Vim scripts into a bytecode.
2713 1. Put the bytecode with the original script, with an ":if
2714 has('bytecode')" around it, so that it's only used with a Vim that
2715 supports it. Update the code with a command, can be used in an
2717 2. Use a ".vic" file (like Python use .pyc). Create it when writing a
2718 .vim file. Problem: distribution.
2719 3. Use a cache directory for each user. How to recognize which cached
2720 file belongs to a sourced script?
2721 7 Add argument to winwidth() to subtract the space taken by 'foldcolumn',
2722 signs and/or 'number'.
2723 6 Add ++ and -- operators? They only work on variables (lvals), how to
2726 has(":command") Check if ":command" works. compare function
2727 with "ex_ni". E.g. for ":simalt".
2728 system() With a List argument. Bypasses the shell, use
2729 exec() directly. (Bob Hiestand)
2730 escape() Add argument to specify what to escape with.
2731 modestack() Instead of just the current mode return the
2732 stack of Insert / CTRL-O / :normal things.
2733 realname() Get user name (first, last, full)
2734 user_fullname() patch by Nikolai Weibull, Nov
2736 Only add this when also implemented for
2737 non-Unix systems, otherwise a shell cmd could
2739 get_user_name() gets login name.
2740 menuprop({name}, {idx}, {what})
2741 Get menu property of menu {name} item {idx}.
2742 menuprop("", 1, "name") returns "File".
2743 menuprop("File", 1, "n") returns "nmenu
2744 File.Open..." argument.
2745 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Apr 22
2746 Return a list of menus and/or a dictionary
2747 with properties instead.
2748 mapname({idx}, mode) return the name of the idx'th mapping.
2749 Patch by Ilya Sher, 2004 Mar 4.
2750 Return a list instead.
2751 char2hex() convert char string to hex string.
2752 attributes() return file protection flags "drwxrwxrwx"
2753 filecopy(from, to) Copy a file
2754 shorten(fname) shorten a file name, like home_replace()
2755 perl(cmd) call Perl and return string
2756 inputrl() like input() but right-to-left
2757 typed() return the characters typed and consumed (to
2758 find out what happened)
2759 virtualmode() add argument to obtain whether "$" was used in
2761 getacp() Win32: get codepage (Glenn Maynard)
2762 deletebufline() delete line in any buffer
2763 appendbufline() append line in any buffer
2764 libcall() Allow more than one argument.
2765 libcallext() Like libcall(), but using a callback function
2766 to allow the library to execute a command or
2767 evaluate an expression.
2768 7 Make bufname("'0") return the buffer name from mark '0. How to get the
2769 column and line number? col("'0") currently returns zero.
2770 8 argc() returns 0 when using "vim -t tag". How to detect that no file was
2771 specified in any way? To be able to jump to the last edited file.
2772 8 Pass the command line arguments to Vim scripts in some way. As v:args
2773 List? Or extra parameter to argv()?
2774 8 Add command arguments with three dashes, passed on to Vim scripts.
2775 7 Add optional arguments to user functions:
2776 :func myFunc(arg1, arg2, arg3 = "blah", arg4 = 17)
2777 6 User functions: Functions local to buffer "b:func()"?
2778 8 For Strings add ":let var[{expr}] = {expr}". When past the end of "var"
2780 8 The "= register should be writable, if followed by the name of a variable,
2781 option or environment variable.
2782 8 ":let &option" should list the value of the option.
2783 8 ":let Func().foo = value" should work, also when "foo" doesn't exist.
2784 Also: ":let Func()[foo] = value" should work. Same for a List.
2785 7 Add synIDlist(), making the whole list of syntax items on the syntax stack
2786 available as a List.
2787 8 Add autocommand-event for when a variable is changed:
2788 :au VarChanged {varname} {commands}
2789 8 Add "has("gui_capable")", to check if the GUI can be started.
2790 8 Add possibility to use variables like registers: characterwise (default),
2791 linewise (when ending in '\n'), blockwise (when ending in '\001'). reg0,
2792 rega, reg%, etc. Add functions linewise({expr}), blockwise({expr}) and
2794 7 Make it possible to do any command on a string variable (make a buffer
2795 with one line, containing the string). Maybe add an (invisible) scratch
2797 result = scratch(string, command)
2798 result = apply(string, command)
2799 result = execute(string, command)
2800 "command" would use <> notation.
2801 Does scratch buffer have a number? Or re-use same number?
2802 7 Add function to generate unique number (date in milliseconds).
2803 7 Automatically load a function from a file when it is called. Need an
2804 option for the search path. (Sekera)
2808 6 Add file locking. Lock a file when starting to edit it with flock() or
2809 fcntl(). This patch has advisory file locking while reading/writing
2810 the file for Vim 5.4: ~/vim/patches/kahn_file_locking .
2811 The patch is incomplete (needs support for more systems, autoconf).
2812 Andy doesn't have time to work on it.
2813 Disadvantage: Need to find ways to gracefully handle failure to obtain a
2814 lock. When to release a lock: When buffer is unloaded?
2818 7 For string variables up to 3 bytes don't allocate memory, use v_list
2819 itself as a character array. Use VAR_SSTRING (short string).
2820 8 move_lines() copies every line into allocated memory, making reloading a
2821 buffer a lot slower than re-editing the file. Can the memline be locked
2822 so that we don't need to make a copy? Or avoid invoking ml_updatechunk(),
2823 that is taking a lot of time. (Ralf Wildenhues, 2008 Jul 7)
2824 8 Instead of loading rgb.txt every time a color wasn't recognized load it
2825 once and keep it in memory. Move the code to a common place to avoid
2826 repeating it in various system files.
2827 8 Turn b_syn_ic and b_syn_containedin into b_syn_flags.
2828 9 Loading menu.vim still takes quite a bit of time. How to make it faster?
2829 8 in_id_list() takes much time for syntax highlighting. Cache the result?
2830 7 setpcmark() shifts the jumplist, this takes quite a bit of time when
2831 jumping around. Instead use an index for the start?
2832 8 When displaying a space with only foreground highlighting, it's the same
2833 as a space without attributes. Avoid displaying spaces for the "~" lines
2834 when starting up in a color terminal.
2835 8 Avoid alloc() for scratch buffer use, esp. in syntax.c. It's very slow on
2837 8 Profiling shows that in_id_list() is used very often for C code. Can this
2838 function be improved?
2839 8 For an existing file, the page size of the swap file is always the
2840 default, instead of using the block size of the device, because the swap
2841 file is created only after setting the block size in mf_open(). How can
2843 8 Set default for 'ttyscroll' to half a screen height? Should speed up
2844 MS-DOS version. (Negri)
2845 7 C syntax highlighting gets a lot slower after ":set foldmethod=syntax".
2846 (Charles Campbell) Inserting a "{" is very slow. (dman)
2847 7 HTML syntax highlighting is slow for long lines. Try displaying
2848 http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/22908.html. (Andre Pang)
2849 7 Check how performance of loading the wordlist can be improved (adding a
2850 lot of abbreviations).
2851 7 DOS console: Add t_DL support, to make scrolling faster.
2852 7 Compile Ex commands to byte codes. Store byte codes in a vim script file
2853 at the end, after "compiled:. Make it look like a single comment line
2854 for old Vim versions. Insert first line "Vim script compiled <timestamp>.
2855 Only used compiled code when timestamp matches the file stat.
2856 Add command to compile a vim script and add it to the file in-place.
2857 Split Ex command executing into a parsing and executing phase.
2858 Use compiled code for functions, while loops, etc.
2859 8 When editing a file with extremely long lines (e.g., an executable), the
2860 "linerest" in readfile() is allocated twice to be able to copy what was
2861 read so far. Use realloc() instead? Or split the line when allocating
2862 memory fails and "linerest" is big (> 100000)?
2863 8 When defining autocommands (e.g., from $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim), need to
2864 compare each pattern with all existing patterns. Use a hash code to avoid
2865 using strcmp() too often?
2866 7 Include turbo_loader patches, speeding up reading a file?
2867 Speed up reading a file by reading it into a fixed-size buffer, creating
2868 the list of indexes in another buffer, and then copying the result into a
2869 memfile block with two copies. Then read the next block into another
2870 fixed-size buffer, create the second list of indexes and copy text from
2871 the two blocks to the memfile block.
2872 7 do_cmdline(): Avoid that the command line is copied to allocated memory
2873 and freed again later all the time. For while loops, and for when called
2874 with an argument that can be messed with.
2875 Generic solution: Make a struct that contains a pointer and a flag that
2876 indicates if the pointer should be freed when replaced.
2877 7 Check that the file size is not more than "sizeof(long)".
2878 - Further improve finding mappings in maphash[] in vgetorpeek()
2879 8 Syntax highlighting is slow when deleting lines. Try in
2880 $VIMRUNTIME/filetype.vim.
2881 - "out of memory" after deleting (1,$d) and changing (:%s/^/> /) a lot of
2882 lines (27000) a few times. Memory fragmentation?
2883 - Have a look at how pdksh does memory allocation (alloc.c). (Dalecki)
2887 - deleting 10Mbyte worth of lines (netscape binary)
2888 - "[i" and "[d" (Yegappan Lakshmanan)
2889 - ":g/^/m0" on a 450Kbyte file. And the "u".
2890 - highlighting "~/vim/test/longline.tex", "~/vim/test/scwoop.tcl" and
2891 "~/vim/test/lockup.pl".
2892 - loading a syntax file to highlight all words not from a dictionary.
2893 - editing a Vim script with syntax highlighting on (loading vim.vim).
2894 7 Screen updating can be further improved by only redrawing lines that were
2895 changed (and lines after them, when syntax highlighting was used, and it
2897 - On each change, remember start and end of the change.
2898 - When inserting/deleting lines, remember begin, end, and line count.
2899 - Use macros/duarte/capicua for profiling. Nvi 1.71 is the fastest!
2900 - When using a file with one long line (1Mbyte), then do "$hhhh", is still
2901 very slow. Avoid calling getvcol() for each "h"?
2902 - Executing a register, e.g. "10000@@" is slow, because ins_typebuf has to
2903 move the previous commands forward each time. Pass count from
2904 normal_cmd() down to do_execreg().
2905 - Repeating insert "1000i-<Esc>" displays --INSERT-- all the time, because of
2906 the <Esc> at the end. Make this work faster (disable redrawing).
2907 - Avoid calls to plines() for cursor line, use w_cline_height.
2908 - After ":set nowrap" remove superfluous redraw with wrong hor. offset if
2909 cursor is right of the screen.
2910 8 Make CTRL-C on Unix generate a signal, avoid using select() to check for a
2915 8 GUI: When NO_CONSOLE is defined, more code can be excluded.
2916 - Put getline() and cookie in a struct, so only one argument has to be
2917 passed to do_cmdline() and other functions.
2918 8 Make a GUI-only version for Unix?
2919 8 In buf_write _() isn't needed when setting errmsg, do it once when using
2921 7 When compiling with a GUI-only version, the code for cterm colors can be
2923 8 When compiled with a GUI-only version, the termcap entries for terminals
2925 8 Can the check for libelf in configure.in be removed?
2929 8 When using ":q" in a changed file, the error says to "add !". Add the
2930 command so that beginners understand it: "use :q!".
2931 8 For 'verbose' level 12 prints commands from source'ed files. How to skip
2932 lines that aren't executed? Perhaps move the echoing to do_cmdline()?
2933 8 Use 'report' for ":bdel"? (Krishna) To avoid these messages when using a
2935 - Delete message after new command has been entered and have waited for key.
2936 Perhaps after ten seconds?
2937 - Make message history available in "msg" variables: msg1, msg2, .. msg9.
2938 8 When reading from stdin allow suppressing the "reading from stdin"
2940 9 Check handling of overwriting of messages and delays:
2941 Very wrong: errors while redrawing cause endless loop.
2942 When switching to another file and screen scrolls because of the long
2943 message and return must be typed, don't scroll the screen back before
2945 8 When address range is wrong you only get "Invalid range". Be a bit more
2946 specific: Negative, beyond last line, reverse range? Include the text.
2947 8 Make it possible to ignore errors for a moment ('errorignore'?). Another
2948 option to switch off giving error messages ('errorquiet'?). Also an option
2949 not to give any messages ('quiet')? Or ":quiet on", ":quiet off".
2950 Careful: For a severe error (out of memory), and when the user starts
2951 typing, error messages must be switched back on.
2952 Also a flag to ignore error messages for shell commands (for mappings).
2953 - Option to set time for emsg() sleep. Interrupt sleep when key is typed?
2954 Sleep before second message?
2955 8 In Ex silent mode or when reading commands from a file, what exactly is
2956 not printed and what is? Check ":print", ":set all", ":args", ":vers",
2957 etc. At least there should be no prompt. (Smulders) And don't clear the
2958 screen when reading commands from stdin. (Kendall)
2959 --> Make a difference between informative messages, prompts, etc. and
2960 error messages, printing text, etc.
2961 8 Window should be redrawn when resizing at the hit-enter prompt.
2962 Also at the ":tselect" prompt. Find a generic solution for redrawing when
2963 a prompt is present (with a callback function?).
2967 7 Add a string to the 'display' option to make CTRL-E and CTRL-Y scroll one
2968 screen line, also if this means the first line doesn't start with the
2969 first character (like what happens with a single line that doesn't fit).
2971 - insert/delete character stuff.
2972 - improve delete rest of line (spaces at end of line).
2973 - When moving or resizing window, try to avoid a complete redraw (esp. when
2974 dragging the status line with the mouse).
2975 - When 'lazyredraw' set, don't echo :ex commands? Need a flag to redraw when
2976 waiting for a character.
2977 8 Add a ":refresh [winnr]" command, to force updating a window. Useful from
2978 an event handler where ":normal" can't be used. Also useful when
2979 'lazyredraw' is set in a mapping.
2980 7 Make 'list' and 'linebreak' work together.
2984 8 Add "zm" command: scroll horizontally to put the cursor in the middle.
2985 6 Add option to set the overlap for CTRL-F and CTRL-B. (Garhi)
2986 - extend 'scrollbind' option: 'scrollopt' words "search", "relative", etc..
2987 Also 'e'xecute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all bound
2989 7 Add 'scrollbind' feature to make the offset of one window with the next
2990 one equal to the window height. When editing one file in both windows it
2991 looks like each window displays a page of the buffer.
2992 - Allow scrolling by dragging with the mouse (grab a character and move it
2993 up/down). Like the "hand" in Acrobat reader. Use Alt-LeftMouse for this?
2995 - Add command to execute some commands (search, vertical movements) in all
2997 - Add 'search' option to 'scrollopt' to allow 'scrollbind' windows to
2998 be bound by regexp searches
2999 - Add "z>" and "z<": scroll sideways one screenful. (Campbell)
3000 - Add option to set the number of lines when not to scroll, instead of the
3001 fixed number used now (for terminals that scroll slow with a large number
3002 of lines but not with a single line).
3006 8 Should use acconfig.h to define prototypes that are used by autoheader.
3007 8 Some compilers don't give an error for "-OPT:Olimit" but a warning. (Webb)
3008 Add a check for the warning, so that "Olimit" can be added automatically?
3009 - Autoconf: Use @datadir@ for the system independent files. Make sure the
3010 system dependent and system independent files are separated. (Leitner).
3011 - Add autoconf check for waitpid()/wait4().
3012 - Remove fcntl() from autoconf, all systems have it?
3013 - Set default for 'dictionary', add search for dictionary to autoconf.
3017 8 Rename typemap file to something else?
3018 7 Make buffers accessed as Perl arrays. (Clark)
3019 7 Make it possible to compile with non-ANSI C?
3020 6 Tcl/Tk has the "load" command: load a shared library (.so or .dll).
3024 6 Add support for loading shared libraries, and calling functions in it.
3025 :libload internal-name libname
3026 :libunload internal-name
3028 :libcall internal-name function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3029 :libcall function(arg1, arg2, ...)
3030 libcall() can have only one integer or String argument at the moment.
3031 6 Have a look on how Perl handles loading dynamic libraries.
3035 9 With ":set tags=./tags,../tags" and a tag appears in both tags files it is
3036 added twice. Requires figuring out the actual file name for each found
3037 match. Remove tag_fname from the match and combine it with the fname in
3038 the match (without expanding or other things that take time). When
3039 'tagrelative' is off tag_fname isn't needed at all.
3040 8 For 'tags' wildcard in the file name is not supported, only in the path.
3041 This is due to it using |file-searching|. Suboptimal solution would be to
3042 make the filename or the whole option use |wildcards| globing, better
3043 would be to merge the 2 kinds of globing. originall (Erik Falor, 2008
3044 April 18), updated (Ian Kelling, 2008 July 4)
3045 8 Use a mechanism similar to omni completion to figure out the kind of tab
3046 for CTRL-] and jump to the appropriate matching tag (if there are
3048 Alternative: be able to define a function that takes the tag name and uses
3049 taglist() to find the right location. With indication of using CTRL-] so
3050 that the context can be taken into account. (Robert Webb)
3051 7 Can CTRL-] (jump to tag) include a following "." and "->" to restrict the
3052 number of possible matches? Check tags file for an item that has members.
3054 8 Scope arguments for ":tag", e.g.: ":tag class:cPage open", like Elvis.
3055 8 When output of ":tselect" is long, getting the more-prompt, should be able
3056 to type the tag number directly.
3057 7 Add the possibility to use the "-t {tag}" argument multiple times. Open a
3058 window for each tag.
3059 7 Make output of ":tselect" a bit nicer. Use highlighting?
3060 7 Highlight the "tag 1 of >2" message. New highlight group, or same as "hit
3061 bottom" search message.
3062 7 When using ":tag" at the top of the tag stack, should add another entry,
3063 so CTRL-T can bring you back to where you are now AND to where you were
3064 before the previous ":tag" command. (Webb)
3065 - When doing "[^I" or "[^D" add position to tag stack.
3066 - Add command to put current position to tag stack: ":tpush".
3067 - Add functions to save and restore the tag stack? Or a command to switch
3068 to another tag stack? So that you can do something else and come back to
3069 what you were working on.
3070 7 When using CTRL-] on someClass::someMethod, separate class from method and
3071 use ":ta class:someClass someMethod".
3072 Include C++ tags changes (Bertin). Change "class::func" tag into "func"
3073 with "class=class"? Docs in oldmail/bertin/in.xxx.
3074 7 Add ":tagargs", to set values for fields:
3075 :tagargs class:someclass file:version.c
3077 These are then the default values (changes the order of priority in tag
3079 7 Support for "gtags" and "global"? With ":rtag" command?
3080 There is an example for how to do this in Nvi.
3081 Or do it like Elvis: 'tagprg' and 'tagprgonce' options. (Yamaguchi)
3082 The Elvis method is far more flexible, do it that way.
3083 7 Support "col:99" extra field, to position the cursor in that column. With
3084 a flag in 'cpoptions' to switch it off again.
3085 7 Better support for jumping to where a function or variable is used. Use
3086 the id-utils, with a connection to "gid" (Emacs can do it too). Add
3087 ":idselect", which uses an "ID" database (made by "mkid") like "tselect".
3091 8 Make debug mode work while starting up (vim -D). Open console window for
3092 the message and input?
3093 7 The Python interface only works with one version of Python, selected at
3094 compile time. Can this be made to work with version 2.1 and 2.2
3096 7 GvimExt: when there are several existing Vims, move the list to a submenu.
3098 8 When using "Edit with Vim" for one file it changes directory, when several
3099 files are selected and using "Edit with single Vim" the directory isn't
3100 changed. At least change directory when the path is the same for all
3101 files. Perhaps just use the path of the first file or use the longest
3102 common part of the path.
3103 8 Add font argument to set the lfCharSet. (Bobcik)
3104 8 Somehow automatically detect the system language and set $LANG, so that
3105 gettext and menus work.
3106 8 Could keep console open to run multiple commands, to avoid the need to hit
3107 return in every console.
3108 Also: Look at how Emacs does runs external commands:
3109 http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/voelker/ntemacs.html.
3110 8 Need a separate PopUp menu for modeless selection. Need two new commands:
3111 Copy selection to clipboard, Paste selection (as typed text).
3112 8 Support copy/paste for other file formats. At least HTML, perhaps RTF.
3113 Add "copy special" and "paste special" commands?
3114 7 Use different default colors, to match the current Windows color scheme.
3115 Sys_WindowText, Sys_Window, etc. (Lionel Schaffhauser)
3116 7 Use <C-Tab> to cycle through open windows (e.g., the find dialog).
3117 7 <Esc> should close a dialog.
3118 7 Keep the console for external commands open. Don't wait for a key to be
3119 hit. Re-open it when the user has closed it anyway. Or use a prepended
3120 command: ":nowait {cmd}", or ":quiet", which executes {cmd} without any
3122 7 Should be able to set an option so that when you double click a file that
3123 is associated with Vim, you can either get a new instance of Vim, or have
3124 the file added into an already running Vim.
3125 7 The "-P" argument only works for the current codepage. Use wide
3126 functions to find the window title.
3130 8 Make inputdialog() work for Photon, Amiga, RiscOS.
3131 - <C--> cannot be mapped. Should be possible to recognize this as a
3132 normal "-" with the Ctrl modifier.
3133 7 Implement ":popup" for other systems than Windows.
3134 8 Implement ":tearoff" for other systems than Win32 GUI.
3135 6 Implement ":untearoff": hide a torn-off menu.
3136 8 When using the scrollbar to scroll, don't move the cursor position. When
3137 moving the cursor: scroll to the cursor position.
3138 9 Make <S-Insert> paste from the clipboard by default. (Kunze)
3139 7 Menu local to a buffer, like mappings. Or local to a filetype?
3140 8 In Buffers menu, add a choice whether selecting a buffer opens it in the
3141 current window, splits the window or uses ":hide".
3142 8 Dragging the mouse pointer outside of a Vim Window should make the text
3143 scroll. Return a value from gui_send_mouse_event() to the machine
3144 specific code to indicate the time in which the event should be repeated.
3145 8 Make it possible to ignore a mouse click when it's used to give Vim (gvim)
3146 window focus. Also when a mouse click is used to bring a window to front.
3147 8 Make the split into system independent code and system specific code more
3148 explicit. There are too many #ifdefs in gui.c.
3149 If possible, separate the Vim code completely from the GUI code, to allow
3150 running them in separate processes.
3151 7 X11: Support cursorColor resource and "-cr" argument.
3152 8 X11 (and others): CTRL-; is not different from ';'. Set the modifier mask
3153 to include CTRL for keys where CTRL produces the same ASCII code.
3154 7 Add some code to handle proportional fonts on more systems? Need to draw
3155 each character separately (like xterm). Also for when a double-width font
3156 is not exactly double-width. (Maeda)
3157 8 Should take font from xterm where gvim was started (if no other default).
3158 8 Selecting font names in X11 is difficult, make a script or something to
3160 8 Visual highlighting should keep the same font (bold, italic, etc.).
3161 8 Add flag to 'guioptions' to not put anything in the clipboard at all?
3162 8 Should support a way to use keys that we don't recognize yet. Add a
3163 command that adds entries to special_keys somehow. How do we make this
3164 portable (X11, Win32, ..)?
3165 7 Add a flag to 'guioptions' that tells not to remove inactive menu items.
3166 For systems where greying-out or removing menu items is very slow. The
3167 menu items would remain visibly normally, but not do anything.
3168 7 Add ":minimize" and ":maximize", which iconize the window and back.
3169 Useful when using gvim to run a script (e.g. 2html.vim).
3170 7 X11: Is it possible to free allocated colors, so that other programs can
3171 use them again? Otherwise, allow disabling allocating the default colors.
3172 Or allocate an own colormap (check UAE). With an option to use it. For
3173 the commandline, "-install" is mostly used for X11 programs.
3174 7 Add command line argument for "gvim" not to start the GUI. Sort of the
3175 inverse of "vim -g". (Vikas)
3176 7 Should support multi-column menus.
3177 - Should add option for where to put the "Help" menu: like Motif at the far
3178 right, or with the other menus (but still at the right).
3179 - Add menu item to "Keep Insert mode".
3180 8 ":mkgvimrc" command, that includes menus.
3181 6 Big change: Move GUI to separate program "vimgui", to make startup of vim a
3182 lot faster, but still be able to do "vim -g" or ":gui".
3183 7 More explicit mouse button binding instead of 'mousemodel'?
3184 7 Add option to set the position of the window on the screen. 'windowpos',
3185 which has a value of "123,456": <x>,<y>.
3186 Or add a command, like ":winsize"?
3187 7 Add toolbar for more GUIs.
3188 8 Make it possible to use "amenu icon=BuiltIn##", so that the toolbar item
3189 name can be chosen free.
3190 7 Make it possible to put the toolbar on top, left, right and/or bottom of
3191 the window? Allows for softkey-like use.
3192 6 Separate the part of Vim that does the editing from the part that runs the
3193 GUI. Communicate through a pseudo-tty. Vim starts up, creates a
3194 pty that is connected to the terminal. When the GUI starts, the pty is
3195 reconnected to the GUI process. When the GUI stops, it is connected to
3196 the terminal again. Also use the pty for external processes, it looks
3197 like a vt100 terminal to them. Vim uses extra commands to communicate GUI
3199 7 Motif: For a confirm() dialog <Enter> should be ignored when no default
3200 button selected, <Esc> should close the dialog.
3201 7 When using a pseudo-tty Vim should behave like some terminal (vt52 looks
3202 simple enough). Terminal codes to/from shell should be translated.
3203 - Would it be useful to be able to quit the GUI and go back to the terminal
3204 where it was started from?
3205 7 Support "-visual <type>" command line argument.
3209 - Put autocommand event names in a hashtable for faster lookup?
3210 8 When the SwapExists event is triggered, provide information about the
3211 swap file, e.g., whether the process is running, file was modified, etc.
3212 Must be possible to check the situation that it's probably OK to delete
3213 the swap file. (Marc Merlin)
3214 8 When all the patterns for an event are "*" there is no need to expand
3215 buffer names to a full path. This can be slow for NFS.
3216 7 For autocommand events that trigger multiple times per buffer (e.g.,
3217 CursorHold), go through the list once and cache the result for a specific
3218 buffer. Invalidate the cache when adding/deleting autocommands or
3219 changing the buffer name.
3220 8 Add ScriptReadCmd event: used to load remote Vim scripts, e.g.
3221 "vim -u http://mach/path/vimrc".
3222 7 Add TagJump event: do something after jumping to a tag.
3223 8 Add "TagJumpFile" autocommand: When jumping to another file for a tag.
3224 Can be used to open "main.c.gz" when "main.c" isn't found.
3225 8 Use another option than 'updatetime' for the CursorHold event. The two
3226 things are unrelated for the user (but the implementation is more
3228 8 Add an event like CursorHold that is triggered repeatedly, not just once
3229 after typing something.
3230 7 Add autocommand event for when a buffer cannot be abandoned. So that the
3231 user can define the action taking (autowrite, dialog, fail) based on the
3232 kind of file. (Yakov Lerner) Or is BufLeave sufficient?
3233 8 Autocommand for when modified files have been found, when getting input
3234 focus again (e.g., FileChangedFocus).
3235 Check when: getting focus, jumping to another buffer, ...
3236 7 Autocommand for when an option is changed. Match buffer name or option
3238 8 Autocommands should not change registers. And marks? And the jumplist?
3239 And anything else? Add a command to save and restore these things.
3240 8 Add autocommands, user functions and user commands to ":mkvimrc".
3241 6 Add KeymapChanged event, so that the effects of a different keymap can be
3242 handled (e.g., other font) (Ron Aaron)
3243 7 When trying to open a directory, trigger an OpenDirectory event.
3244 7 Add file type in front of file pattern: <d> for directory, <l> for link,
3245 <x> for executable, etc. <&xxx> for Risc OS. With commas to separate
3246 alternatives. The autocommand is only executed when both the file type
3247 AND the file pattern match. (Leonard)
3248 5 Add option that specifies extensions which are to be discarded from the
3249 file name. E.g. 'ausuffix', with ".gz,.orig". Such that file.c.gz will
3250 trigger the "*.c" autocommands. (Belabas)
3251 7 Add something to break the autocommands for the current event, and for
3252 what follows. Useful for a "BufWritePre" that wants to avoid writing the
3254 8 When editing "tt.gz", which is in DOS format, 'fileformat' stays at
3255 "unix", thus writing the file changes it. Somehow detect that the read
3256 command used dos fileformat. Same for 'fileencoding'.
3257 - Add events to autocommands:
3258 Error - When an error happens
3259 NormalEnter - Entering Normal mode
3260 ReplaceEnter - Entering Replace mode
3261 CmdEnter - Entering Cmdline mode (with type of cmdline to allow
3263 VisualEnter - Entering Visual mode
3264 *Leave - Leaving a mode (in pair with the above *Enter)
3265 VimLeaveCheck - Before Vim decides to exit, so that it can be cancelled
3266 when exiting isn't a good idea.
3267 CursorHoldC - CursorHold while command-line editing
3268 WinMoved - when windows have been moved around, e.g, ":wincmd J"
3269 CmdUndefined - Like FuncUndefined but for user commands.
3270 SearchPost - After doing a search command (e.g. to do "M")
3271 PreDirChanged/PostDirChanged
3272 - Before/after ":cd" has been used (for changing the
3274 BufReadAction - replaces reading a file
3275 BufWriteAction - replaces writing a file
3276 ShutDown - when the system is about to shut down
3277 InsertCharPre - user typed character Insert mode, before inserting the
3278 char. Pattern is matched with text before the cursor.
3279 Set v:char to the character, can be changed.
3280 (not triggered when 'paste' is set).
3281 InsertCharPost - user typed a character in Insert mode, after inserting
3283 BufModified - When a buffer becomes modified, or unmodified (for
3284 putting a [+] in the window title or checking out the
3286 BufFirstChange - When making a change, when 'modified' is set. Can be
3287 used to do a :preserve for remote files.
3288 BufChange - after a change was made. Set some variables to indicate
3289 the position and number of inserted/deleted lines, so
3290 that marks can be updated. HierAssist has patch to add
3291 BufChangePre, BufChangePost and RevertBuf. (Shah)
3292 ViewChanged - triggered when the text scrolls and when the window size
3294 WinResized - After a window has been resized
3295 WinClose - Just before closing a window
3296 - Write the file now and then ('autosave'):
3297 *'autosave'* *'as'* *'noautosave'* *'noas'*
3298 'autosave' 'as' number (default 0)
3299 Automatically write the current buffer to file N seconds after the
3300 last change has been made and when |'modified'| is still set.
3301 Default: 0 = do not autosave the buffer.
3302 Alternative: have 'autosave' use 'updatetime' and 'updatecount' but make
3303 them save the file itself besides the swapfile.
3307 - Add a flag to 'complete' to be able to do omni completion with CTRL-N (and
3308 mix it with other kinds of completion).
3309 - Ideas from the Vim 7 BOF at SANE:
3310 - For interpreted languages, use the interpreter to obtain information.
3311 Should work for Java (Eclipse does this), Python, Tcl, etc.
3312 Richard Emberson mentioned working on an interface to Java.
3313 - Check Readline for its completion interface.
3314 - Ideas from others:
3315 http://www.wholetomato.com/
3316 http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=747
3317 http://sourceforge.net/projects/insenvim
3318 or http://insenvim.sourceforge.net
3319 Java, XML, HTML, C++, JSP, SQL, C#
3320 MS-Windows only, lots of dependencies (e.g. Perl, Internet
3321 explorer), uses .dll shared libraries.
3322 For C++ uses $INCLUDE environment var.
3324 Uses ctags to find the info:
3325 ctags -f $allTagsFile --fields=+aiKmnsSz --language-force=C++ --C++-kinds=+cefgmnpsut-dlux -u $files
3326 www.vim.org script 1213 (Java Development Environment) (Fuchuan Wang)
3327 IComplete: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1265
3328 and http://stud4.tuwien.ac.at/~e0125672/icomplete/
3329 http://cedet.sourceforge.net/intellisense.shtml (for Emacs)
3330 Ivan Villanueva has something for Java.
3331 Emads: http://www.xref-tech.com/xrefactory/more_c_completion.html
3332 Completion in .NET framework SharpDevelop: http://www.icsharpcode.net
3333 - Pre-expand abbreviations, show which abbrevs would match?
3336 Insert mode completion/expansion:
3337 - GUI implementation of the popup menu.
3338 7 When searching in other files the name flash by, too fast to read. Only
3339 display a name every second or so, like with ":vimgrep".
3340 7 When expanding file names with an environment variable, add the match with
3341 the unexpanded var. So $HOME/tm expands to "/home/guy/tmp" and
3343 8 When there is no word before the cursor but something like "sys." complete
3344 with "sys.". Works well for C and similar languages.
3345 9 ^X^L completion doesn't repeat correctly. It uses the first match with
3346 the last added line, instead of continuing where the last match ended.
3348 8 Add option to set different behavior for Insert mode completion:
3350 - different characters than 'iskeyword'
3351 8 Add option 'isexpand', containing characters when doing expansion (so that
3352 "." and "\" can be included, without changing 'iskeyword'). (Goldfarb)
3353 Also: 'istagword': characters used for CTRL-].
3354 When 'isexpand' or 'istagword' are empty, use 'iskeyword'.
3355 Alternative: Use a pattern so that start and end of a keyword can be
3356 defined, only allow dash in the middle, etc.
3357 8 Add a command to undo the completion, go back to the original text.
3358 7 Completion of an abbreviation: Can leave letters out, like what Instant
3359 text does: www.textware.com
3360 8 Use the class information in the tags file to do context-sensitive
3361 completion. After "foo." complete all member functions/variables of
3362 "foo". Need to search backwards for the class definition of foo.
3363 Should work for C++ and Java.
3364 Even more context would be nice: "import java.^N" -> "io", "lang", etc.
3365 7 When expanding $HOME/dir with ^X^F keep the $HOME (with an option?).
3366 7 Add CTRL-X command in Insert mode like CTRL-X CTRL-N, that completes WORDS
3368 8 Add CTRL-X CTRL-R: complete words from register contents.
3369 8 Add completion of previously inserted texts (like what CTRL-A does).
3370 Requires remembering a number of insertions.
3371 8 Add 'f' flag to 'complete': Expand file names.
3372 Also apply 'complete' to whole line completion.
3373 - Add a flag to 'complete' to only scan local header files, not system
3374 header files. (Andri Moell)
3375 - Make it possible to search include files in several places. Use the
3376 'path' option? Can this be done with the dictionary completion (use
3377 wildcards in the file name)?
3378 - Make CTRL-X CTRL-K do a binary search in the dictionary (if it's sorted).
3379 - Speed up CTRL-X CTRL-K dictionary searching (don't use a regexp?).
3380 - Set a mark at the position where the match was found (file mark, could
3381 be in another file).
3382 - Add CTRL-A command in CTRL-X mode: show all matches.
3383 - Make CTRL-X CTRL-L use the 'complete' option?
3384 - Add command in CTRL-X mode to add following words to the completed string
3385 (e.g. to complete "Pointer->element" with CTRL-X CTRL-P CTRL-W CTRL-W)
3386 - CTRL-X CTRL-F: Use 'path' to find completions.
3387 - CTRL-X CTRL-F: Option to use forward slashes on MS-Windows?
3388 - CTRL-X CTRL-F: Don't replace "$VIM" with the actual value. (Kelly)
3389 - Allow listing all matches in some way (and picking one from the list).
3392 Command line editing:
3393 7 Add commands (keys) to delete from the cursor to the end of the command
3395 8 Custom completion of user commands can't use the standard completion
3396 functions. Add a hook to invoke a user function that returns the type of
3397 completion to be done: "file", "tag", "custom", etc.
3398 - Add flags to 'whichwrap' for command line editing (cursor right at end of
3399 lines wraps to start of line).
3400 - Make editing the command line work like Insert mode in a single-line view
3401 on a buffer that contains the command line history. But this has many
3402 disadvantages, only implement it when these can be solved. Elvis has run
3403 into these, see remarks from Steve (~/Mail/oldmail/kirkendall/in.00012).
3404 - Going back in history and editing a line there would change the history.
3405 Would still need to keep a copy of the history elsewhere. Like the
3406 cmdwin does now already.
3407 - Use CTRL-O to execute one Normal mode command. How to switch to normal
3408 mode for more commands? <Esc> should cancel the command line. CTRL-T?
3409 - To allow "/" and "= need to recursively call getcmdline(), overwrite the
3410 cmdline. But then we are editing a command-line again. How to avoid
3411 that the user gets confused by the stack of command lines?
3412 - Use edit() for normal cmdline editing? Would have to integrate
3413 getcmdline() into edit(). Need to solve conflicts between Insert mode
3414 and Command-line mode commands. Make it work like Korn shell and tcsh.
3416 - Insert: completion with 'wildchar'
3417 - Insert: use cmdline abbreviations
3418 - Insert: CTRL-D deletes indent instead of listing matches
3419 - Normal: no CTRL-W commands
3420 - Normal: no ":" commands?
3421 - Normal: allow Visual mode only within one line.
3422 - where to show insert/normal mode message? Change highlighting of
3423 character in first column?
3424 - Implementation ideas:
3425 - Set "curwin" and "curbuf" to the command line window and buffer.
3426 - curwin->w_topline is always equal to curwin->w_cursor.lnum.
3427 - never set 'number', no folding, etc. No status line.
3428 - sync undo after entering a command line?
3429 - use NV_NOCL flag for commands that are not allowed in Command-line
3433 Command line completion:
3434 8 Completing ":r ~br" should find matching user names.
3435 8 Change expand_interactively into a flag that is passed as an argument.
3436 8 With command line completion after '%' and '#', expand current/alternate
3437 file name, so it can be edited. Also with modifiers, such as "%:h".
3438 8 When completing command names, either sort them on the long name, or list
3439 them with the optional part inside [].
3440 8 Add an option to ignore case when doing interactive completion. So that
3441 ":e file<Tab>" also lists "Filelist" (sorted after matching case matches).
3442 7 Completion of ":map x ": fill in the current mapping, so that it can be
3443 edited. (Sven Guckes)
3444 - For 'wildmenu': Simplify "../bar" when possible.
3445 - When using <Up> in wildmenu mode for a submenu, should go back to the
3446 current menu, not the first one. E.g., ":emenu File.Save<Up>".
3447 8 When using backtick expansion, the external command may write a greeting
3448 message. Add an option or commands to remove lines that match a regexp?
3449 7 When listing matches of files, display the common path separately from the
3450 file names, if this makes the listing shorter. (Webb)
3451 - Add command line completion for ":ilist" and friends, show matching
3453 8 Add command line completion for "old value" of a command. ":args <key>"
3454 would result in the current list of arguments, which you can then edit.
3455 7 Add command line completion with CTRL-X, just like Insert mode completion.
3456 Useful for ":s/word/xx/".
3457 - Add command to go back to the text as it was before completion started.
3458 Also to be used for <Up> in the command line.
3459 - Add 'wildlongest' option: Key to use to find longest common match for
3460 command line completion (default CTRL-L), like 'wildchar'. (Cregut)
3461 Also: when there are several matches, show them line a CTRL-D.
3464 Command line history:
3465 9 Remember which command lines were actually typed and were not loaded from
3466 viminfo. When writing viminfo append only these lines, so that lines from
3467 other Vim's are not overwritten.
3468 - Add "KeyWasTyped" flag: It's reset before each command and set when a
3469 character from the keyboard is consumed. Value is used to decide to put a
3470 command line in history or not. Put line in history if it didn't
3471 completely resulted from one mapping.
3472 - When using ":browse", also put the resulting edit command in the history,
3473 so that it can be repeated. (Demirel)
3477 9 When 'autoindent' is set, hitting <CR> twice, while there is text after
3478 the cursor, doesn't delete the autoindent in the resulting blank line.
3479 (Rich Wales) This is Vi compatible, but it looks like a bug.
3480 8 When using CTRL-O in Insert mode, then executing an insert command
3481 "a" or "i", should we return to Insert mode after <Esc>? (Eggink)
3482 Perhaps it can be allowed a single time, to be able to do
3483 "<C-O>10axyz<Esc>". Nesting this further is confusing.
3484 ":map <F2> 5aabc<Esc>" works only once from Insert mode.
3485 8 When using CTRL-G CTRL-O do like CTRL-\ CTRL-O, but when returning with
3486 the cursor in the same position and the text didn't change continue the
3487 same change, so that "." repeats the whole insert.
3488 7 Use CTRL-G <count> to repeat what follows. Useful for inserting a
3489 character multiple times or repeating CTRL-Y.
3490 - Make 'revins' work in Replace mode.
3491 7 Use 'matchpairs' for 'showmatch': When inserting a character check if it
3492 appears in the rhs of 'matchpairs'.
3493 - In Insert mode (and command line editing?): Allow undo of the last typed
3494 character. This is useful for CTRL-U, CTRL-W, delete and backspace, and
3495 also for characters that wrap to the next line.
3496 Also: be able to undo CTRL-R (insert register).
3497 Possibly use 'backspace'="whole" for a mode where at least a <CR> that
3498 inserts autoindent is undone by a single <BS>.
3499 - Use CTRL-G in Insert mode for an extra range of commands, like "g" in
3501 - Make 'paste' work without resetting other options, but override their
3502 value. Avoids problems when changing files and modelines or autocommands
3504 - When typing CTRL-V and a digit higher than 2, only expect two digits.
3505 - Insert binary numbers with CTRL-V b.
3506 - Make it possible to undo <BS>, <C-W> and <C-U>. Bash uses CTRL-Y.
3509 'cindent', 'smartindent':
3510 9 ") :" confuses continuation line: (Colin Bennett, 2007 Dec 14)
3514 9 "} else" causes following lines to be indented too much. (Rouben
3515 Rostamian, 2008 Aug 30)
3516 8 Lisp indenting: "\\" confuses the indenter. (Dorai Sitaram, 2006 May 17)
3517 8 Why are continuation lines outside of a {} block not indented? E.g.:
3520 8 Java: Inside an anonymous class, after an "else" or "try" the indent is
3521 too small. (Vincent Bergbauer)
3522 Problem of using {} inside (), 'cindent' doesn't work then.
3523 8 In C++ it's possible to have {} inside (): (Kirshna)
3530 8 In C++ a function isn't recognized inside a namespace:
3537 6 Add 'cino' flag for this function argument layout: (Spencer Collyer)
3542 7 Add separate "(0" option into inside/outside a function (Zellner):
3544 int x) // indent like "(4"
3547 && b) // indent like "(0"
3548 9 Using "{" in a comment: (Helmut Stiegler)
3555 } <-- this is indented incorrect
3556 Problem is that find_start_brace() checks for the matching brace to be in
3557 a comment, but not braces in between. Requires adding a comment check to
3559 - Make smartindenting configurable. Add 'sioptions', e.g. '#' setting the
3560 indent to 0 should be switched on/off.
3561 7 Support ANSI style function header, with each argument on its own line.
3562 - "[p" and "]p" should use 'cindent' code if it's on (only for the first
3564 - Add option to 'cindent' to set indent for comments outside of {}?
3565 - Make a command to line up a comment after a code line with a previous
3566 comment after a code line. Can 'cindent' do this automatically?
3567 7 Add 'j' flag to 'formatoptions': Remove comment leader when joining lines.
3568 - When 'cindent'ing a '}', showmatch is done before fixing the indent. It
3569 looks better when the indent is fixed before the showmatch. (Webb)
3570 - Add option to make indenting work in comments too (for commented-out
3571 code), unless the line starts with "*".
3572 - Don't use 'cindent' when doing formatting with "gq"?
3573 - When formatting a comment after some text, insert the '*' for the new line
3574 (indent is correct if 'cindent' is set, but '*' doesn't get inserted).
3575 8 When 'comments' has both "s1:/*,mb:*,ex:*/" and "s1:(*,mb:*,ex:*)", the
3576 'x' flag always uses the first match. Need to continue looking for more
3577 matches of "*" and remember all characters that could end the comment.
3578 - For smartindent: When typing 'else' line it up with matching 'if'.
3579 - 'smartindent': allow patterns in 'cinwords', for e.g. TeX files, where
3580 lines start with "\item".
3581 - Support this style of comments (with an option): (Brown)
3582 /* here is a comment that
3583 is just autoindented, and
3585 - Add words to 'cinwords' to reduce the indent, e.g., "end" or "fi".
3586 7 Use Tabs for the indent of starting lines, pad with spaces for
3587 continuation lines. Allows changing 'tabstop' without messing up the
3589 'keeptabs': when set don't change the tabs and spaces used for indent,
3590 when the indent remains the same or increases.
3594 8 Can have {} constructs inside parens. Include changes from Steve
3596 8 Recognize "import java.util.Vector" and use $CLASSPATH to find files for
3597 "[i" commands and friends.
3598 - For files found with 'include': handle "*" in included name, for Java.
3600 - How to make a "package java.util" cause all classes in the package to be
3601 searched? Also for "import java.util.*". (Mark Brophy)
3605 8 When formatting C comments that are after code, the "*" isn't repeated
3606 like it's done when there is no code. And there is no automatic wrapping.
3607 Recognize comments that come after code. Should insert the comment leader
3608 when it's "#" or "//".
3609 Other way around: when a C command starts with "* 4" the "*" is repeated
3610 while it should not. Use syntax HL comment recognition?
3611 7 When using "comments=fg:--", Vim inserts three spaces for a new line.
3612 When hitting a TAB, these spaces could be removed.
3613 7 The 'n'esting flag doesn't do the indenting of the last (rightmost) item.
3614 6 Make strings in 'comments' option a RE, to be able to match more
3615 complicated things. (Phillipps) Use a special flag to indicate that a
3617 8 Make the 'comments' option with "/* * */" lines only repeat the "*" line
3618 when there is a "/*" before it? Or include this in 'cindent'?
3622 8 Make the horizontal scrollbar work to move the text further left.
3623 7 Allow specifying it separately for Tabs and beyond end-of-line?
3627 8 Add text object for fold, so that it can be yanked when it's open.
3628 8 Add test script for text object commands "aw", "iW", etc.
3629 8 Add text object for part of a CamelHumpedWord and under_scored_word.
3630 (Scott Graham) "ac" and "au"?
3631 8 Add a text object for any kind of quoting, also with multi-byte
3632 characters. Option to specify what quotes are recognized (default: all)
3633 use "aq" and "iq". Use 'quotepairs' to define pairs of quotes, like
3635 8 Add text object for any kind of parens, also multi-byte ones.
3636 7 Add text object for current search pattern: "a/" and "i/". Makes it
3637 possible to turn text highlighted for 'hlsearch' into a Visual area.
3638 8 Add a way to make an ":omap" for a user-defined text object. Requires
3639 changing the starting position in oap->start.
3640 8 Add "gp" and "gP" commands: insert text and make sure there is a single
3641 space before it, unless at the start of the line, and after it, unless at
3642 the end of the line or before a ".".
3643 7 Add objects with backwards extension? Use "I" and "A". Thus "2dAs"
3644 deletes the current and previous sentence. (Jens Paulus)
3645 7 Add "g{" and "g}" to move to the first/last character of a paragraph
3646 (instead of the line just before/after a paragraph as with "{" and "}").
3647 6 Ignore comment leaders for objects. Make "das" work in reply-email.
3648 5 Make it possible to use syntax group matches as a text object. For
3649 example, define a "ccItem" group, then do "da<ccItem>" to delete one.
3650 Or, maybe just define "dai", delete-an-item, to delete the syntax item the
3655 8 In blockwise mode, typed characters are inserted in front of the block,
3656 backspace deletes a column before the block. (Steve Hall)
3657 7 Alt-leftmouse starts block mode selection in MS Word.
3658 See http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=743
3659 7 Add Cmdline-select mode. Like Select mode, but used on the command line.
3660 - Change gui_send_mouse_event() to pass on mouse events when 'mouse'
3661 contains 'C' or 'A'.
3662 - Catch mouse events in ex_getln.c. Also shift-cursor, etc., like in
3664 - remember start and end of selection in cmdline_info.
3665 - Typing text replaces the selection.
3669 - When dragging the Visual selection with the mouse and 'scrolloff' is zero,
3670 behave like 'scrolloff' is one, so that the text scrolls when the pointer
3672 - Displaying size of Visual area: use 24-33 column display.
3673 When selecting multiple lines, up to about a screenful, also count the
3675 8 When using "I" or "A" in Visual block mode, short lines do not get the new
3676 text. Make it possible to add the text to short lines too, with padding
3678 7 With a Visual block selected, "2x" deletes a block of double the width,
3679 "3y" yanks a block of triple width, etc.
3680 7 When selecting linewise, using "itext" should insert "text" at the start
3681 of each selected line.
3682 8 What is "R" supposed to do in Visual mode?
3683 8 Make Visual mode local to the buffer. Allow changing to another buffer.
3684 When starting a new Visual selection, remove the Visual selection in any
3685 other buffer. (Ron Aaron)
3686 8 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it somewhere else. (Ron Aaron,
3688 7 Support dragging the Visual area to drop it in another program, and
3689 receive dropped text from another program. (Ben Godfrey)
3690 7 With blockwise Visual mode and "c", "C", "I", "A", etc., allow the use of
3691 a <CR>. The entered lines are repeated over the Visual area.
3692 7 CTRL-V :s should substitute only in the block, not to whole lines. (David
3693 Young is working on this)
3694 7 Filtering a block should only apply to the block, not to the whole lines.
3695 When the number of lines is increased, add lines. When decreased, pad with
3696 spaces or delete? Use ":`<,`>" on the command line.
3697 8 After filtering the Visual area, make "gv" select the filtered text?
3698 Currently "gv" only selects a single line, not useful.
3699 7 Don't move the cursor when scrolling? Needed when the selection should
3700 stay the same. Scroll to the cursor at any movement command. With an
3702 7 In Visual block mode, need to be able to define a corner on a position
3703 that doesn't have text? Also: when using the mouse, be able to select
3704 part of a TAB. Even more: Add a mode where the cursor can be on a screen
3705 position where there is no text. When typing, add spaces to fill the gap.
3706 Other solution: Always use curswant, so that you can move the cursor to
3707 the right column, and then use up/down movements to select the line,
3708 without changing the column.
3709 6 ":left" and ":right" should work in Visual block mode.
3710 7 CTRL-I and CTRL-O should work in Visual mode, but only jump to marks in the
3712 7 CTRL-A and CTRL-X should increase/decrease all numbers in the Visual area.
3713 6 In non-Block mode, "I" should insert the same text in front of each line,
3714 before the first non-blank, "gI" in column 1.
3715 6 In non-Block mode, "A" should append the same text after each line.
3716 6 When in blockwise visual selection (CTRL-V), allow cursor to be placed
3717 right of the line. Could also allow cursor to be placed anywhere on a TAB
3718 or other special character.
3719 6 Add commands to move selected text, without deselecting.
3722 More advanced repeating commands:
3723 - Add "." command for visual mode: redo last visual command (e.g. ":fmt").
3724 7 Repeating "d:{cmd}" with "." doesn't work. (Benji Fisher) Somehow remember
3725 the command line so that it can be repeated?
3726 - Add "gn": repeat last movement command. Including count.
3727 - Add "." command after operator: repeat last command of same operator. E.g.
3728 "c." will repeat last change, also when "x" used since then (Webb).
3729 "y." will repeat last yank.
3730 "c2." will repeat the last but one change?
3731 Also: keep history of Normal mode commands, add command to list the history
3732 and/or pick an older command.
3733 - History stack for . command? Use "g." command.
3736 Mappings and Abbreviations:
3737 8 When "0" is mapped (it is a movement command) this mapping should not be
3738 used after typing another number, e.g. "20l". (Charles Campbell)
3739 Is this possible without disabling the mapping of the following command?
3740 8 Should mapping <C-A> and <C-S-A> both work?
3741 7 ":abbr b byte", append "b " to an existing word still expands to "byte".
3742 This is Vi compatible, but can we avoid it anyway?
3743 8 To make a mapping work with a prepended "x to select a register, store the
3744 last _typed_ register name and access it with "&.
3745 8 Add ":amap", like ":amenu".
3746 7 Add a mapping that works always, for remapping the keyboard.
3747 8 Add ":cab!", abbreviations that only apply to Command-line mode and not to
3748 entering search strings.
3749 8 Add a flag to ":abbrev" to eat the character that triggers the
3750 abbreviation. Thus "abb ab xxx" and typing "ab<Space>" inserts "xxx" and
3752 8 Allow mapping of CTRL-@ (anywhere in the LHS).
3753 8 Give a warning when using CTRL-C in the lhs of a mapping. It will never
3755 8 Add a way to save a current mapping and restore it later. Use a function
3756 that returns the mapping command to restore it: mapcmd()? mapcheck() is
3757 not fool proof. How to handle ambiguous mappings?
3758 7 Add <0x8f> (hex), <033> (octal) and <123> (decimal) to <> notation?
3759 7 Allow mapping "Q" and "Q}" at the same time. Need to put a flag with "Q",
3760 that it needs an extra character before it can match. See Vile 'maplonger'
3762 7 When someone tries to unmap with a trailing space, and it fails, try
3763 unmapping without the trailing space. Helps for ":unmap xx | unmap yy".
3764 7 Make it possible to map 'wildchar', but only when it's a special character
3765 (like CTRL-E). Currently it's only recognized when typed. Useful for
3766 mapping a key to do something and then completion.
3767 6 Context-sensitive abbreviations: Specify syntax group(s) in which the
3768 abbreviations are to be used.
3769 - Add mappings that take arguments. Could work like the ":s" command. For
3770 example, for a mouse escape sequence:
3771 :mapexp <Esc>{\([0-9]*\),\([0-9]*\); H\1j\2l
3772 - Add optional <Number> argument for mappings:
3773 :map <Number>q ^W^W<Number>G
3774 :map <Number>q<Number>t ^W^W<Number1-1>G<Number2>l
3775 :map q<Char> :s/<Char>/\u\0/g
3777 :map q <Register>d<Number>$
3778 - Make it possible to include a <Nul> in the lhs and rhs of a mapping.
3779 - Add command to repeat a whole mapping ("." only repeats the last change in
3780 a mapping). Also: Repeat a whole insert command, including any mappings
3781 that it included. Sort-of automatic recording?
3782 - Add an option to ":map" that makes it display the special keys in
3783 <> notation (e.g. <CR> instead of ^M). Or just always do this?
3784 - Include an option (or flag to 'cpoptions') that makes errors in mappings
3785 not flush the rest of the mapping (like nvi does).
3786 - Use context sensitiveness of completion to switch abbreviations and
3787 mappings off for :unab and :unmap.
3788 6 When using mappings in Insert mode, insert characters for incomplete
3789 mappings first, then remove them again when a mapping matches. Avoids
3790 that characters that are the start of some mapping are not shown until you
3791 hit another character.
3792 - Add mappings for replace mode: ":rmap". How do we then enter mappings for
3793 non-replace Insert mode?
3794 - Add separate mappings for Visual-character/block/line mode?
3795 - Add 'mapstop' command, to stop recursive mappings.
3796 - List mappings that have a raw escape sequence both with the name of the key
3797 for that escape sequence (if there is one) and the sequence itself.
3798 - List mappings: Once with special keys listed as <>, once with meta chars as
3799 <M-a>, once with the byte values (octal?). Sort of "spell mapping" command?
3800 - When entering mappings: Add the possibility to enter meta keys like they
3801 are displayed, within <>: <M-a>, <~@> or <|a>.
3802 - Allow multiple arguments to :unmap.
3803 - Command to show keys that are not used and available for mapping
3805 - Allow any character except white space in abbreviations lhs (Riehm).
3809 - Add a limit to the number of lines that are searched for 'incsearch'?
3810 - When no match is found and the user types more, the screen is redrawn
3811 anyway. Could skip that. Esp. if the line wraps and the text is scrolled
3813 - Temporarily open folds to show where the search ends up. Restore the
3814 folds when going to another line.
3815 - When incsearch used and hitting return, no need to search again in many
3816 cases, saves a lot of time in big files. (Slootman wants to work on this?)
3817 When not using special characters, can continue search from the last match
3818 (or not at all, when there was no match). See oldmail/webb/in.872.
3819 - With incsearch, use CTRL-N/CTRL-P to go to next/previous match, some other
3820 key to copy matched word to search pattern (Alexander Schmid).
3824 8 Add "g/" and "gb" to search for a pattern in the Visually selected text?
3825 "g?" is already used for rot13.
3826 The vis.vim script has a ":S" command that does something like this.
3827 Can use "g/" in Normal mode, uses the '< to '> area.
3828 Use "&/" for searching the text in the Visual area?
3829 9 Add "v" offset: "/pat/v": search for pattern and start Visual mode on the
3831 8 Add a mechanism for recursiveness: "\@(([^()]*\@g[^()]*)\)". \@g stands
3832 for "go recursive here" and \@( \) marks the recursive part.
3833 Perl does it this way:
3834 $paren = qr/ \(( [^()] | (??{ $paren }) )* \) /x;
3835 Here $paren is evaluated when it's encountered. This is like a regexp
3836 inside a regexp. In the above terms it would be:
3837 \@((\([^()]\|\@g\)*)\)
3838 8 Show the progress every second. Could use the code that checks for CTRL-C
3839 to find out how much time has passed. Or use SIGALRM. Where to show the
3841 8 When using an expression for ":s", set the match position in a v:
3842 variable. So that you can do ":%s/^/\=v:lnum/" to put a line number
3844 7 Support for approximate-regexps to find similar words (agrep
3845 http://www.tgries.de/agrep/ tre: http://laurikari.net/tre/index.html).
3846 8 Add an item for a big character range, so that one can search for a
3847 chinese character: \z[234-1234] or \z[XX-YY] or \z[0x23-0x234].
3848 7 Add an item stack to allow matching (). One side is "push X on
3849 the stack if previous atom matched". Other side is "match with top of
3850 stack, pop it when it matches". Use "\@pX" and "\@m"?
3851 Example: \((\@p).\{-}\@m\)*
3852 7 Add an option to accept a match at the cursor position. Also for
3854 7 Add a flag to "/pat/" to discard an error. Useful to continue a mapping
3855 when a search fails. Could be "/pat/E" (e is already used for end offset).
3856 7 Add pattern item to use properties of Unicode characters. In Perl it's
3857 "\p{L}" for a letter. See Regular Expression Pocket Reference.
3858 8 Would it be possible to allow ":23,45/pat/flags" to search for "pat" in
3859 lines 23 to 45? Or does this conflict with Ex range syntax?
3860 8 Allow identical pairs in 'matchpairs'. Restrict the search to the current
3862 7 Allow longer pairs in 'matchpairs'. Use ~/vim/macros/matchit.vim as an
3864 8 Make it possible to define the character that "%" checks for in
3865 #if/#endif. For nmake it's !if/!endif.
3866 - For "%" command: set hierarchy for which things include other things that
3867 should be ignored (like "*/" or "#endif" inside /* */).
3868 Also: use "%" to jump from start to end of syntax region and back.
3869 Alternative: use matchit.vim
3870 8 "/:/e+1" gets stuck on a match at the end of the line. Do we care?
3871 8 A pattern like "\([^a]\+\)\+" takes an awful long time. Recognize that
3872 the recursive "\+" is meaningless and optimize for it.
3873 This one is also very slow on "/* some comment */": "^\/\*\(.*[^/]\)*$".
3874 7 Recognize "[a-z]", "[0-9]", etc. and replace them with the faster "\l" and
3876 7 Add a way to specify characters in <C-M> or <Key> form. Could be
3878 8 Add an argument after ":s/pat/str/" for a range of matches. For example,
3879 ":s/pat/str/#3-4" to replace only the third and fourth "pat" in a line.
3880 8 When 'iskeyword' is changed the matches from 'hlsearch' may change. (Benji
3881 Fisher) redraw if some options are set while 'hlsearch' is set?
3882 8 Add an option not to use 'hlsearch' highlighting for ":s" and ":g"
3883 commands. (Kahn) It would work like ":noh" is used after that command.
3884 Also: An extra flag to do this once, and a flag to keep the existing
3886 - Make 'hlsearch' a local/global option, so that it can be disabled in some
3888 - Add \%h{group-name}; to search for a specific highlight group.
3889 Add \%s{syntax-group}; to search for a specific syntax group.
3890 - Support Perl regexp. Use PCRE (Perl Compatible RE) package. (Shade)
3891 Or translate the pattern to a Vim one.
3892 Don't switch on with an option for typed commands/mappings/functions, it's
3893 too confusing. Use "\@@" in the pattern, to avoid incompatibilities.
3894 8 Add a way to access the last substitute text, what is used for ":s//~/".
3895 Can't use the ~ register, it's already used for drag & drop.
3896 - Remember flags for backreferenced items, so that "*" can be used after it.
3897 Check with "\(\S\)\1\{3}". (Hemmerling)
3898 8 Flags that apply to the whole pattern.
3899 This works for all places where a regexp is used.
3900 Add "\q" to not store this pattern as the last search pattern?
3901 - Add flags to search command (also for ":s"?):
3904 p use Perl regexp syntax (or POSIX?)
3905 v use Vi regexp syntax
3906 f forget pattern, don't keep it for "n" command
3907 F remember pattern, keep it for "n" command
3908 Perl uses these too:
3909 e evaluate the right side as an expression (Perl only)
3910 m multiple line expression (we don't need it)
3911 o compile only once (Perl only)
3912 s single line expression (we don't need it)
3913 x extended regexp (we don't need it)
3914 When used after ":g" command, backslash needed to avoid confusion with the
3916 Add 'searchflags' for default flags (replaces 'gdefault').
3917 - Add command to display the last used substitute pattern and last used
3918 pattern. (Margo) Maybe make it accessible through a register (like "/
3920 7 Use T-search algorithm, to speed up searching for strings without special
3921 characters. See C't article, August 1997.
3922 - Add 'fuzzycase' option, so that case doesn't matter, and '-' and '_' are
3923 equivalent (for Unix filenames).
3924 - Add 'v' flag to search command: enter Visual mode, with the matching text
3925 as Visual area. (variation on idea from Bertin)
3926 - Searching: "/this//that/" should find "that" after "this".
3927 - Add global search commands: Instead of wrapping at the end of the buffer,
3928 they continue in another buffer. Use flag after search pattern:
3929 a for the next file in the argument list
3930 f for file in the buffer list
3931 w for file edited in a window.
3932 e.g. "/pat/f". Then "n" and "N" work through files too. "f" flag also for
3933 ":s/pat/foo/f"??? Then when 'autowrite' and 'hidden' are both not set, ask
3934 before saving files: "Save modified buffer "/path/file"? (Yes/Hide/No
3935 Save-all/hide-All/Quit) ".
3936 - ":s/pat/foo/3": find 3rd match of "pat", like sed. (Thomas Koehler)
3937 7 When searching with 'n' give message when getting back where the search
3938 first started. Remember start of search in '/ mark.
3939 7 Add option that scrolls screen to put cursor in middle of screen after
3940 search always/when off-screen/never. And after a ":tag" command. Maybe
3941 specify how many lines below the screen causes a redraw with the cursor in
3942 the middle (default would be half a screen, zero means always).
3943 6 Support multiple search buffers, so macros can be made without side
3945 7 From xvim: Allow a newline in search patterns (also for :s, can delete
3946 newline). Add BOW, EOW, NEWL, NLORANY, NLBUTANY, magic 'n' and 'r', etc.
3947 [not in xvim:] Add option to switch on matches crossing ONE line boundary.
3948 7 Add ":iselect", a combination of ":ilist" and ":tselect". (Aaron) (Zellner)
3953 9 After undo/redo, in the message show whether the buffer is modified or
3955 8 Undo tree: visually show the tree somehow (Damian Conway)
3956 Show only the leaves, indicating how many changed from the branch and the
3958 Put branch with most recent change on the left, older changes get more
3960 8 See ":e" as a change operation, find the changes and add them to the
3961 undo info. Also be able to undo the "Reload file" choice for when a file
3962 was changed outside of Vim.
3963 Would require doing a diff between the buffer text and the file and
3964 storing the differences.
3965 8 Search for pattern in undo tree, showing when it happened and the text
3966 state, so that you can jump to it.
3967 - Persistent undo: store undo in a file. Patch by Jordan Lewis, 2009 Feb
3968 20. Repost 2009 Nov 16.
3970 Use timestamps, so that a version a certain time ago can be found and info
3971 before some time/date can be flushed. 'undopersist' gives maximum time to
3972 keep undo: "3h", "1d", "2w", "1y", etc. For the file use dot and
3973 extension: ".filename.un~" (like swapfile but "un~" instead of "swp").
3974 - Make it possible to undo all the commands from a mapping, including a
3975 trailing unfinished command, e.g. for ":map K iX^[r".
3976 - When accidentally hitting "R" instead of Ctrl-R, further Ctrl-R is not
3977 possible, even when typing <Esc> immediately. (Grahn) Also for "i", "a",
3978 etc. Postpone saving for undo until something is really inserted?
3979 8 When Inserting a lot of text, it can only be undone as a whole. Make undo
3980 sync points at every line or word. Could recognize the start of a new
3981 word (white space and then non-white space) and backspacing.
3982 Can already use CTRL-G u, but that requires remapping a lot of things.
3983 8 Make undo more memory-efficient: Compare text before and after change,
3984 only remember the lines that really changed.
3985 7 Add undo for a range of lines. Can change these back to a previous
3986 version without changing the rest of the file. Stop doing this when a
3987 change includes only some of these lines and changes the line count. Need
3988 to store these undo actions as a separate change that can be undone.
3989 - For u_save() include the column number. This can be used to set '[ and '].
3990 And in the future the undo can be made more efficient (Webb).
3991 - In out-of-memory situations: Free allocated space in undo, and reduce the
3992 number of undo levels (with confirmation).
3993 - Instead of [+], give the number of changes since the last write: [+123].
3994 When undoing to before the last write, change this to a negative number:
3996 - With undo with simple line delete/insert: optimize screen updating.
3997 - When executing macro's: Save each line for undo only once.
3998 - When doing a global substitute, causing almost all lines to be changed,
3999 undo info becomes very big. Put undo info in swap file??
4003 7 Command to execute a command in another buffer: ":inbuf {bufname} {cmd}".
4004 Also for other windows: ":inwin {winnr} {cmd}". How to make sure that
4005 this works properly for all commands, and still be able to return to the
4006 current buffer/window? E.g.: ":inbuf xxx only".
4007 8 Add File.{recent_files} menu entries: Recently edited files.
4008 Ron Aaron has a plugin for this: mru.vim.
4009 8 Unix: Check all uses of fnamecmp() and fnamencmp() if they should check
4011 7 Add another number for a buffer, which is visible for the user. When
4012 creating a new buffer, use the lowest number not in use (or the highest
4013 number in use plus one?).
4014 7 Offer some buffer selection from the command line? Like using ":ls" and
4015 asking for a buffer number. (Zachmann)
4016 - When starting to edit a file that is already in the buffer list, use the
4017 file name argument for the new short file name. (Webb)
4018 - Add an option to make ":bnext" and ":bprev" wrap around the end of the
4019 buffer list. Also for ":next" and ":prev"?
4020 7 Add argument to ":ls" which is a pattern for buffers to list.
4021 E.g. ":ls *.c". (Thompson)
4022 7 Add expansion of buffer names, so that "*.c" is expanded to all buffer
4023 names. Needed for ":bdel *.c", ":bunload *.c", etc.
4024 8 Support for <afile> where a buffer name is expected.
4025 8 Some commands don't use line numbers, but buffer numbers. '$'
4026 should then mean the number of the last buffer. E.g.: "4,$bdel".
4027 7 Add an option to mostly use slashes in file names. Separately for
4028 internal use and for when executing an external program?
4032 8 If writing to the swap file fails, should try to open one in another
4033 directory from 'dir'. Useful in case the file system is full and when
4034 there are short file name problems.
4035 8 Also use the code to try using a short file name for the backup and swap
4036 file for the Win32 and Dos 32 bit versions.
4037 8 When a file is edited by root, add $LOGNAME to know who did su.
4038 8 When the edited file is a symlink, try to put the swap file in the same
4039 dir as the actual file. Adjust FullName(). Avoids editing the same file
4040 twice (e.g. when using quickfix). Also try to make the name of the backup
4041 file the same as the actual file?
4042 Use the code for resolve()?
4043 7 When using 64 bit inode numbers, also store the top 32 bits. Add another
4044 field for this, using part of bo_fname[], to keep it compatible.
4045 7 When editing a file on removable media, should put swap file somewhere
4046 else. Use something like 'r' flag in 'viminfo'. 'diravoid'?
4047 Also: Be able to specify minimum disk space, skip directory when not
4049 7 Add a configure check for which directory should be used: /tmp, /var/tmp
4051 - Add an option to create a swap file only when making the first change to
4052 the buffer. (Liang) Or only when the buffer is not read-only.
4053 - Add option to set "umask" for backup files and swap files (Antwerpen).
4054 'backupumask' and 'swapumask'? Or 'umaskback' and 'umaskswap'?
4055 - When editing a readonly file, don't use a swap file but read parts from the
4056 original file. Also do this when the file is huge (>'maxmem'). We do
4057 need to load the file once to count the number of lines? Perhaps keep a
4058 cached list of which line is where.
4062 7 Can probably remove the code that checks for a writable viminfo file,
4063 because we now do the chown() for root, and others can't overwrite someone
4064 else's viminfo file.
4065 8 When there is no .viminfo file and someone does "su", runs Vim, a
4066 root-owned .viminfo file is created. Is there a good way to avoid this?
4067 Perhaps check the owner of the directory. Only when root?
4068 8 Add argument to keep the list of buffers when Vim is started with a file
4070 8 Keep the last used directory of the file browser (File/Open menu).
4071 8 Remember the last used register for "@@".
4072 8 Remember the redo buffer, so that "." works after restarting.
4073 8 Remember a list of last accessed files. To be used in the
4074 "File.Open Recent" menu. Default is to remember 10 files or so.
4075 Also remember which files have been read and written. How to display
4077 7 Also store the ". register (last inserted text).
4078 7 Make it possible to store buffer names in viminfo file relative to some
4079 directory, to make them portable over a network. (Aaron)
4080 6 Store a snapshot of the currently opened windows. So that when quitting
4081 Vim, and then starting again (without a file name argument), you see the
4082 same files in the windows. Use ":mksession" code?
4083 - Make marks present in .viminfo usable as file marks: Display a list of
4084 "last visited files" and select one to jump to.
4088 8 Before trying to execute a modeline, check that it looks like one (valid
4089 option names). If it's very wrong, silently ignore it.
4090 Ignore a line that starts with "Subject: ".
4091 - Add an option to whitelist options that are allowed in a modeline. This
4092 would allow careful users to use modelines, e.g., only allowing
4094 - Add an option to let modelines only set local options, not global ones
4096 - When an option value is coming from a modeline, do not carry it over to
4097 another edited file? Would need to remember the value from before the
4099 - Allow setting a variable from a modeline? Only allow using fixed strings,
4100 no function calls, to avoid a security problem.
4101 - Allow ":doauto BufRead x.cpp" in modelines, to execute autocommands for
4103 - Support the "abbreviate" command in modelines (Kearns). Careful for
4104 characters after <Esc>, that is a security leak.
4105 - Add option setting to ask user if he wants to have the modelines executed
4106 or not. Same for .exrc in local dir.
4110 8 DOS/Windows: ":mksession" generates a "cd" command where "aa\#bb" means
4111 directory "#bb" in "aa", but it's used as "aa#bb". (Ronald Hoellwarth)
4112 7 When there is a "help.txt" window in a session file, restoring that
4113 session will not get the "LOCAL ADDITIONS" back.
4114 8 With ":mksession" always store the 'sessionoptions' option, even when
4115 "options" isn't in it. (St-Amant)
4116 8 When using ":mksession", also store a command to reset all options to
4117 their default value, before setting the options that are not at their
4119 7 With ":mksession" also store the tag stack and jump history. (Michal
4121 7 Persistent variables: "p:var"; stored in viminfo file and sessions files.
4125 7 ":with option=value | command": temporarily set an option value and
4126 restore it after the command has executed.
4127 7 Setting an option always sets "w_set_curswant", while this is only
4128 required for a few options. Only do it for those options to avoid the
4130 8 Make "old" number options that really give a number of effects into string
4131 options that are a comma separated list. The old number values should
4133 8 Add commands to save and restore an option, which also preserves the flag
4134 that marks if the option was set. Useful to keep the effect of setting
4135 'compatible' after ":syntax on" has been used.
4136 7 There is 'titleold', why is there no 'iconold'? (Chazelas)
4137 7 Make 'scrolloff' a global-local option, so that it can be different in the
4138 quickfix window, for example. (Gary Holloway)
4142 8 When filtering text, redirect stderr so that it can't mess up the screen
4143 and Vim doesn't need to redraw it. Also for ":r !cmd".
4144 4 Set separate shell for ":sh", piping "range!filter", reading text "r !ls"
4145 and writing text "w !wc". (Deutsche) Allow arguments for fast start (e.g.
4147 4 Allow direct execution, without using a shell.
4148 4 Run an external command in the background. But how about I/O in the GUI?
4149 Careful: don't turn Vim into a shell!
4150 4 Add feature to disable using a shell or external commands.
4154 7 "vim -oO file ..." use both horizontal and vertical splits.
4155 8 Add CTRL-W T: go to the top window in the column of the current window.
4156 And CTRL-W B: go to bottom window.
4157 7 Use CTRL-W <Tab>, like alt-tab, to switch between buffers. Repeat <Tab>
4158 to select another buffer (only loaded ones?), <BS> to go back, <Enter> to
4159 select buffer, <Esc> to go back to original buffer.
4160 7 Make it possible to edit a new buffer in the preview window. A script can
4161 then fill it with something. ":popen"?
4162 7 Add a 'tool' window: behaves like a preview window but there can be
4163 several. Don't count it in only_one_window(). (Alexei Alexandrov)
4164 6 Add an option to resize the shell when splitting and/or closing a window.
4165 ":vsp" would make the shell wider by as many columns as needed for the new
4166 window. Specify a maximum size (or use the screen size). ":close" would
4167 shrink the shell by as many columns as come available. (Demirel)
4168 7 When starting Vim several times, instantiate a Vim server, that allows
4169 communication between the different Vims. Feels like one Vim running with
4170 multiple top-level windows. Esp. useful when Vim is started from an IDE
4171 too. Requires some form of inter process communication.
4172 - Support a connection to an external viewer. Could call the viewer
4173 automatically after some seconds of non-activity, or with a command.
4174 Allow some way of reporting scrolling and cursor positioning in the viewer
4175 to Vim, so that the link between the viewed and edited text can be made.
4179 8 Add ten marks for last changed files: ':0, ':1, etc. One mark per file.
4180 8 When cursor is first moved because of scrolling, set a mark at this
4181 position. (Rimon Barr) Use '-.
4182 8 Add a command to jump to a mark and make the motion inclusive. g'm and g`m?
4183 8 The '" mark is set to the first line, even when doing ":next" a few times.
4184 Only set the '" mark when the cursor was really moved in a file.
4185 8 Make `` and '', which would position the new cursor position in the middle
4186 of the window, restore the old topline (or relative position) from when
4188 7 Make a list of file marks in a separate window. For listing all buffers,
4189 matching tags, errors, etc. Normal commands to move around. Add commands
4190 to jump to the mark (in current window or new window). Start it with
4192 6 Add a menu that lists the Marks like ":marks". (Amerige)
4193 7 For ":jumps", ":tags" and ":marks", for not loaded buffers, remember the
4194 text at the mark. Highlight the column with the mark.
4195 7 Highlight each mark in some way (With "Mark" highlight group).
4196 Or display marks in a separate column, like 'number' does.
4197 7 Use d"m to delete rectangular area from cursor to mark m (like Vile's \m
4199 7 Try to keep marks in the same position when:
4200 - replacing with a line break, like in ":s/pat/^M/", move marks after the
4201 line break column to the next line. (Acevedo)
4202 - inserting/deleting characters in a line.
4203 5 Include marks for start/end of the current word and section. Useful in
4205 6 Add "unnamed mark" feature: Like marks for the ":g" command, but place and
4206 unplace them with commands before doing something with the lines.
4207 Highlight the marked lines somehow.
4211 7 Make "ga" show the digraph for a character, if it exists.
4213 - Make it possible to enter "r<C-E>" and "r<C-Y>" (get character from line
4215 - Use digraph table to tell Vim about the collating sequence of special
4217 8 Add command to remove one or more (all) digraphs. (Brown)
4218 7 Support different sets of digraphs (depending on the character set?). At
4219 least Latin1/Unicode, Latin-2, MS-DOS (esp. for Win32).
4223 - In vim_rename(), should lock "from" file when deleting "to" file for
4224 systems other than Amiga. Avoids problems with unexpected longname to
4225 shortname conversion.
4226 8 write mch_isdevice() for Amiga, Mac, VMS, etc.
4227 8 When appending to a file, Vim should also make a backup and a 'patchmode'
4229 8 'backupskip' doesn't write a backup file at all, a bit dangerous for some
4230 applications. Add 'backupelsewhere' to write a backup file in another
4231 directory? Or add a flag to 'backupdir'?
4232 7 The 'directory' option supports changing path separators to "%" to make
4233 file names unique, also support this for 'backupdir'. (Mikolaj Machowski)
4234 6 Add an option to write a new, numbered, backup file each time. Like
4235 'patchmode', e.g., 'backupmode'.
4236 6 Make it possible to write 'patchmode' files to a different directory.
4237 E.g., ":set patchmode=~/backups/*.orig". (Thomas)
4238 6 Add an option to prepend something to the backup file name. E.g., "#".
4239 Or maybe allow a function to modify the backup file name?
4240 8 Only make a backup when overwriting a file for the first time. Avoids
4241 losing the original when writing twice. (Slootman)
4242 7 On non-Unix machines, also overwrite the original file in some situations
4243 (file system full, it's a link on an NFS partition).
4244 7 When editing a file, check that it has been change outside of Vim more
4245 often, not only when writing over it. E.g., at the time the swap file is
4246 flushed. Or every ten seconds or so (use the time of day, check it before
4247 waiting for a character to be typed).
4248 8 When a file was changed since editing started, show this in the status
4249 line of the window, like "[time]".
4250 Make it easier to reload all outdated files that don't have changes.
4251 Automatic and/or with a command.
4255 8 Substitute with hex/unicode number "\%xff" and "\%uabcd". Just like
4256 "\%uabcd" in search pattern.
4257 8 Make it easier to replace in all files in the argument list. E.g.:
4258 ":argsub/oldword/newword/". Works like ":argdo %s/oldword/newword/g|w".
4259 - :s///p prints the line after a substitution.
4260 - With :s///c replace \&, ~, etc. when showing the replacement pattern.
4261 8 With :s///c allow scrolling horizontally when 'nowrap' is effective.
4262 Also allow a count before the scrolling keys.
4263 - Add number option to ":s//2": replace second occurrence of string? Or:
4264 :s///N substitutes N times.
4265 - Add answers to ":substitute" with 'c' flag, used in a ":global", e.g.:
4266 ":g/pat1/s/pat2/pat3/cg": 'A' do all remaining replacements, 'Q' don't do
4267 any replacements, 'u' undo last substitution.
4268 7 Substitute in a block of text. Use {line}.{column} notation in an Ex
4269 range, e.g.: ":1.3,$.5s" means to substitute from line 1 column 3 to the
4271 5 Add commands to bookmark lines, display bookmarks, remove bookmarks,
4272 operate on lines with bookmarks, etc. Like ":global" but with the
4273 possibility to keep the bookmarks and use them with several commands.
4278 8 Add 'o' flag to 'mouse'?
4279 7 Be able to set a 'mouseshape' for the popup menu.
4280 8 Add 'mouse' flag, which sets a behavior like Visual mode, but automatic
4281 yanking at the button-up event. Or like Select mode, but typing gets you
4282 out of Select mode, instead of replacing the text. (Bhaskar)
4283 - Implement mouse support for the Amiga console.
4284 - Using right mouse button to extend a blockwise selection should attach to
4285 the nearest corner of the rectangle (four possible corners).
4286 - Precede mouse click by a number to simulate double clicks?!?
4287 - When mouse click after 'r' command, get character that was pointed to.
4291 8 Also crypt the swapfile, each block separately. Change mf_write() and
4292 mf_read(). How to get b_p_key to these functions?
4296 6 Add command to put all filenames from the tag files in the argument list.
4297 When given an argument, only use the files where that argument matches
4298 (like `grep -l ident`) and jump to the first match.
4299 6 Add command to form an args list from all the buffers?
4303 8 Don't display empty registers with ":display". (Etienne)
4304 8 Make the # register writable, so that it can be restored after jumping
4306 8 Add put command that overwrites existing text. Should also work for
4307 blocks. Useful to move text around in a table. Works like using "R ^R r"
4309 6 When yanking into the unnamed registers several times, somehow make the
4310 previous contents also available (like it's done for deleting). What
4311 register names to use? g"1, g"2, etc.?
4312 - When appending to a register, also report the total resulting number of
4313 lines. Or just say "99 more lines yanked", add the "more".
4314 - When inserting a register in Insert mode with CTRL-R, don't insert comment
4315 leader when line wraps?
4316 - The ":@r" commands should take a range and execute the register for each
4318 - Add "P" command to insert contents of unnamed register, move selected text
4319 to position of previous deleted (to swap foo and bar in " + foo")
4320 8 Should be able to yank and delete into the "/ register.
4321 How to take care of the flags (offset, magic)?
4325 7 Add something to enable debugging when a remote message is received.
4326 8 Add breakpoints for setting an option
4327 8 Add breakpoints for assigning to a variable.
4328 7 Add a watchpoint in the debug mode: An expression that breaks execution
4329 when evaluating to non-zero. Add the "watchadd expr" command, stop when
4330 the value of the expression changes. ":watchdel" deletes an item,
4331 ":watchlist" lists the items. (Charles Campbell)
4332 7 Store the history from debug mode in viminfo.
4333 7 Make the debug mode history available with histget() et al.
4336 Various improvements:
4337 8 ":sign unplace * file={filename}" should work. Also: ":sign unplace *
4338 buffer={bufnr}". So one can remove all signs for one file/buffer.
4339 7 Add plugins for formatting? Should be able to make a choice depending on
4340 the language of a file (English/Korean/Japanese/etc.).
4341 Setting the 'langformat' option to "chinese" would load the
4342 "format/chinese.vim" plugin.
4343 The plugin would set 'formatexpr' and define the function being called.
4344 Edward L. Fox explains how it should be done for most Asian languages.
4346 Alternative: patch for utf-8 line breaking. (Yongwei Wu, 2008 Feb 23)
4347 7 [t to move to previous xml/html tag (like "vatov"), ]t to move to next
4349 7 [< to move to previous xml/html tag, e.g., previous <li>. ]< to move to
4350 next <li>, ]< to next </li>, [< to previous </li>.
4351 8 Add ":rename" command: rename the file of the current buffer and rename
4352 the buffer. Buffer may be modified.
4353 7 Instead of filtering errors with a shell script it should be possible to
4354 do this with Vim script. A function that filters the raw text that comes
4356 - Add %b to 'errorformat': buffer number. (Yegappan Lakshmanan / Suresh
4358 7 Add a command that goes back to the position from before jumping to the
4359 first quickfix location. ":cbefore"?
4360 7 Allow a window not to have a statusline. Makes it possible to use a
4361 window as a buffer-tab selection.
4362 8 Allow non-active windows to have a different statusline. (Yakov Lerner)
4363 6 Python interface: add vim.message() function. (Michal Vitecek, 2002 Nov 5)
4364 7 Support using ":vert" with User commands. Add expandable items <vert>.
4365 Do the same for ":browse" and ":confirm"?
4366 For ":silent" and ":debug" apply to the whole user command.
4367 More general: need a way to access command modifiers in a user command.
4368 Assign them to a v: variable?
4369 7 Add an invisible buffer which can be edited. For use in scripts that want
4370 to manipulate text without changing the window layout.
4371 8 Add a command to revert to the saved version of file; undo or redo until
4372 all changes are gone.
4373 6 "vim -q -" should read the list of errors from stdin. (Gautam Mudunuri)
4374 8 Add "--remote-fail": When contacting the server fails, exit Vim.
4375 Add "--remote-self": When contacting the server fails, do it in this Vim.
4376 Overrules the default of "--remote-send" to fail and "--remote" to do it
4378 8 When Vim was started without a server, make it possible to start one, as
4379 if the "--servername" argument was given. ":startserver <name>"?
4380 8 No address range can be used before the command modifiers. This makes
4381 them difficult to use in a menu for Visual mode. Accept the range and
4382 have it apply to the following command.
4383 8 Add the possibility to set 'fileformats' to force a format and strip other
4384 CR characters. For example, for "dos" files remove CR characters at the
4385 end of the line, so that a file with mixed line endings is cleaned up.
4386 To just not display the CR characters: Add a flag to 'display'?
4387 7 Some compilers give error messages in which the file name does not have a
4388 path. Be able to specify that 'path' is used for these files.
4389 7 Xterm sends <Esc>O3F for <M-End>. Similarly for other <M-Home>, <M-Left>,
4390 etc. Combinations of Alt, Ctrl and Shift are also possible. Recognize
4391 these to avoid inserting the raw byte sequence, handle like the key
4392 without modifier (unless mapped).
4393 6 Add "gG": like what "gj" is to "j": go to the N'th window line.
4394 8 Add command like ":normal" that accepts <Key> notation like ":map".
4395 9 Support ACLs on more systems.
4396 7 Add ModeMsgVisual, ModeMsgInsert, etc. so that each mode message can be
4397 highlighted differently.
4398 7 Add a message area for the user. Set some option to reserve space (above
4399 the command line?). Use an ":echouser" command to display the message
4400 (truncated to fit in the space).
4401 7 Add %s to 'keywordprg': replace with word under the cursor. (Zellner)
4402 8 Support printing on Unix. Can use "lpansi.c" as an example. (Bookout)
4403 8 Add put command that replaces the text under it. Esp. for blockwise
4405 7 Enhance termresponse stuff: Add t_CV(?): pattern of term response, use
4406 regexp: "\e\[[>?][0-9;]*c", but only check just after sending t_RV.
4407 7 Add "g|" command: move to N'th column from the left margin (after wrapping
4408 and applying 'leftcol'). Works as "|" like what "g0" is to "0".
4409 7 Support setting 'equalprg' to a user function name.
4410 7 Highlight the characters after the end-of-line differently.
4411 7 When 'whichwrap' contains "l", "$dl" should join lines?
4412 8 Add an argument to configure to use $CFLAGS and not modify it? (Mooney)
4413 8 Enabling features is a mix of configure arguments and defines in
4414 feature.h. How to make this consistent? Feature.h is required for
4415 non-unix systems. Perhaps let configure define CONF_XXX, and use #ifdef
4416 CONF_XXX in feature.h? Then what should min-features and max-features do?
4417 8 Add "g^E" and "g^Y", to scroll a screen-full line up and down.
4418 6 Add ":timer" command, to set a command to be executed at a certain
4419 interval, or once after some time has elapsed. (Aaron)
4420 Perhaps an autocommand event like CursorHold is better?
4421 8 Add ":confirm" handling in open_exfile(), for when file already exists.
4422 8 When quitting with changed files, make the dialog list the changed file
4423 and allow "write all", "discard all", "write some". The last one would
4424 then ask "write" or "discard" for each changed file. Patch in HierAssist
4425 does something like this. (Shah)
4426 7 Use growarray for replace stack.
4427 7 Have a look at viH (Hellenic or Greek version of Vim). But a solution
4428 outside of Vim might be satisfactory (Haritsis).
4429 3 Make "2d%" work like "d%d%" instead of "d2%"?
4430 7 "g CTRL-O" jumps back to last used buffer. Skip CTRL-O jumps in the same
4431 buffer. Make jumplist remember the last ten accessed buffers?
4432 - Add code to disable the CAPS key when going from Insert to Normal mode.
4433 - Set date/protection/etc. of the patchfile the same as the original file.
4434 - Use growarray for termcodes[] in term.c
4435 - Add <window-99>, like <cword> but use filename of 99'th window.
4436 7 Add a way to change an operator to always work characterwise-inclusive
4437 (like "v" makes the operator characterwise-exclusive). "x" could be used.
4438 - Make a set of operations on list of names: expand wildcards, replace home
4439 dir, append a string, delete a string, etc.
4440 - Remove mktemp() and use tmpname() only? Ctags does this.
4441 - When replacing environment variables, and there is one that is not set,
4442 turn it into an empty string? Only when expanding options? (Hiebert)
4443 - Option to set command to be executed instead of producing a beep (e.g. to
4444 call "play newbeep.au").
4445 - Add option to show the current function name in the status line. More or
4446 less what you find with "[[k", like how 'cindent' recognizes a function.
4448 - "[r" and "]r": like "p" and "P", but replace instead of insert (esp. for
4449 blockwise registers).
4450 - Add 'timecheck' option, on by default. Makes it possible to switch off the
4451 timestamp warning and question. (Dodt).
4452 - Add an option to set the time after which Vim should check the timestamps
4453 of the files. Only check when an event occurs (e.g., character typed,
4454 mouse moved). Useful for non-GUI versions where keyboard focus isn't
4456 - Make 'smartcase' work even though 'ic' isn't set (Webb).
4457 7 When formatting text, allow to break the line at a number of characters.
4458 Use an option for this: 'breakchars'? Useful for formatting Fortran code.
4459 - Add flag to 'formatoptions' to be able to format book-style paragraphs
4460 (first line of paragraph has larger indent, no empty lines between
4461 paragraphs). Complements the '2' flag. Use '>' flag when larger indent
4462 starts a new paragraph, use '<' flag when smaller indent starts a new
4463 paragraph. Both start a new paragraph on any indent change.
4464 8 The 'a' flag in 'formatoptions' is too dangerous. In some way only do
4465 auto-formatting in specific regions, e.g. defined by syntax highlighting.
4466 8 Allow using a trailing space to signal a paragraph that continues on the
4467 next line (MIME text/plain; format=flowed, RFC 2646). Can be used for
4468 continuous formatting. Could use 'autoformat' option, which specifies a
4469 regexp which triggers auto-formatting (for one line).
4470 ":set autoformat=\\s$".
4471 - Be able to redefine where a sentence stops. Use a regexp pattern?
4472 - Support multi-byte characters for sentences. Example from Ben Peterson.
4473 7 Add command "g)" to go to the end of a sentence, "g(" to go back to the
4474 end of a sentence. (Servatius Brandt)
4475 - Be able to redefine where a paragraph starts. For "[[" where the '{' is
4477 6 Add ":cdprev": go back to the previous directory. Need to remember a
4478 stack of previous directories. We also need ":cdnext".
4479 7 Should ":cd" for MS-DOS go to $HOME, when it's defined?
4480 - Make "gq<CR>" work on the last line in the file. Maybe for every operator?
4481 - Add more redirecting of Ex commands:
4483 :redir #>> bufname (append)
4484 - Give error message when starting :redir: twice or using END when no
4485 redirection was active.
4486 - Setting of options, specifically for a buffer or window, with
4487 ":set window.option" or ":set buffer.option=val". Or use ":buffer.set".
4488 Also: "buffer.map <F1> quit".
4489 6 Would it be possible to change the color of the cursor in the Win32
4490 console? (Klaus Hast)
4491 - Add :delcr command:
4493 :[range]delcr[!] Check [range] lines (default: whole buffer) for lines
4494 ending in <CR>. If all lines end in <CR>, or [!] is
4495 used, remove the <CR> at the end of lines in [range].
4496 A CTRL-Z at the end of the file is removed. If
4497 [range] is omitted, or it is the whole file, and all
4498 lines end in <CR> 'textmode' is set. {not in Vi}
4499 - Should integrate addstar() and file_pat_to_reg_pat().
4500 - When working over a serial line with 7 bit characters, remove meta
4501 characters from 'isprint'.
4502 - Use fchdir() in init_homedir(), like in FullName().
4503 - In win_update(), when the GUI is active, always use the scrolling area.
4504 Avoid that the last status line is deleted and needs to be redrawn.
4505 - That "cTx" fails when the cursor is just after 'x' is Vi compatible, but
4506 may not be what you expect. Add a flag in 'cpoptions' for this? More
4507 general: Add an option to allow "c" to work with a null motion.
4508 - Give better error messages by using errno (strerror()).
4509 - Give "Usage:" error message when command used with wrong arguments (like
4511 - Make 'restorescreen' option also work for xterm (and others), replaces the
4512 SAVE_XTERM_SCREEN define.
4513 7 Support for ":winpos" In xterm: report the current window position.
4514 - Give warning message when using ":set t_xx=asdf" for a termcap code that
4515 Vim doesn't know about. Add flag in 'shortmess'?
4516 6 Add ":che <file>", list all the include paths which lead to this file.
4517 - For a commandline that has several commands (:s, :d, etc.) summarize the
4518 changes all together instead of for each command (e.g. for the rot13
4520 - Add command like "[I" that also shows the tree of included files.
4521 - ":set sm^L" results in ":set s", because short names of options are also
4522 expanded. Is there a better way to do this?
4523 - Add ":@!" command, to ":@" like what ":source!" is to ":source".
4524 8 Add ":@:!": repeat last command with forceit set.
4525 - Should be possible to write to a device, e.g. ":w! /dev/null".
4526 - Add 't_normal': Used whenever t_me, t_se, t_ue or t_Zr is empty.
4527 - ":cab map test ^V| je", ":cunab map" doesn't work. This is vi compatible!
4528 - CTRL-W CTRL-E and CTRL-W CTRL-Y should move the current window up or down
4529 if it is not the first or last window.
4530 - Include-file-search commands should look in the loaded buffer of a file (if
4531 there is one) instead of the file itself.
4532 7 Change 'nrformats' to include the leader for each format. Example:
4533 nrformats=hex:$,binary:b,octal:0
4534 Add setting of 'nrformats' to syntax files.
4535 - 'path' can become very long, don't use NameBuff for expansion.
4536 - When unhiding a hidden buffer, put the same line at top of the window as
4537 the one before hiding it. Or: keep the same relative cursor position (so
4538 many percent down the windows).
4539 - Make it possible for the 'showbreak' to be displayed at the end of the
4540 line. Use a comma to separate the part at the end and the start of the
4541 line? Highlight the linebreak characters, add flag in 'highlight'.
4542 - Some string options should be expanded if they have wildcards, e.g.
4543 'dictionary' when it is "*.h".
4544 - Use a specific type for number and boolean options, making it possible to
4545 change it for specific machines (e.g. when a long is 64 bit).
4546 - Add option for <Insert> in replace mode going to normal mode. (Nugent)
4547 - Add a next/previous possibility to "[^I" and friends.
4548 - Add possibility to change the HOME directory. Use the directory from the
4549 passwd file? (Antwerpen)
4550 8 Add commands to push and pop all or individual options. ":setpush tw",
4551 ":setpop tw", ":setpush all". Maybe pushing/popping all options is
4552 sufficient. ":setflush" resets the option stack?
4553 How to handle an aborted mapping? Remember position in tag stack when
4554 mapping starts, restore it when an error aborts the mapping?
4555 - Change ":fixdel" into option 'fixdel', t_del will be adjusted each time
4557 - "gc": goto character, move absolute character positions forward, also
4558 counting newlines. "gC" goes backwards (Weigert).
4559 - When doing CTRL-^, redraw buffer with the same topline. (Demirel) Store
4560 cursor row and window height to redraw cursor at same percentage of window
4562 - Besides remembering the last used line number of a file, also remember the
4563 column. Use it with CTRL-^ et. al.
4564 - Check for non-digits when setting a number option (careful when entering
4565 hex codes like 0xff).
4566 - Add option to make "." redo the "@r" command, instead of the last command
4567 executed by it. Also to make "." redo the whole mapping. Basically: redo
4568 the last TYPED command.
4569 - Support URL links for ^X^F in Insert mode, like for "gf".
4570 - Support %name% expansion for "gf" on Windows.
4571 - Make "gf" work on "file://c:/path/name". "file:/c:/" and "file:///c:/"
4573 - Add 'urlpath', used like 'path' for when "gf" used on an URL?
4574 8 When using "gf" on an absolute file name, while editing a remote file
4575 (starts with scp:// or http://) should prepend the method and machine
4577 - When finding an URL or file name, and it doesn't exist, try removing a
4579 - Add ":path" command modifier. Should work for every command that takes a
4580 file name argument, to search for the file name in 'path'. Use
4581 find_file_in_path().
4582 - Highlight control characters on the screen: Shows the difference between
4583 CTRL-X and "^" followed by "X" (Colon).
4584 - Integrate parsing of cmdline command and parsing for expansion.
4585 - Create a program that can translate a .swp file from any machine into a
4586 form usable by Vim on the current machine.
4587 - Add ":noro" command: Reset 'ro' flag for all buffers, except ones that have
4588 a readonly file. ":noro!" will reset all 'ro' flags.
4589 - Add a variant of CTRL-V that stops interpretation of more than one
4590 character. For entering mappings on the command line where a key contains
4591 several special characters, e.g. a trailing newline.
4592 - Add regex for 'paragraphs' and 'sections': 'parare' and 'sectre'. Combine
4593 the two into a regex for searching. (Ned Konz)
4594 - Make '2' option in 'formatoptions' also work inside comments.
4595 - Add 's' flag to 'formatoptions': Do not break when inside a string. (Dodt)
4596 - When window size changed (with the mouse) and made too small, set it back
4597 to the minimal size.
4598 - Add "]>" and "[<", shift comment at end of line (command; /* comment */).
4599 - Should not call cursorcmd() for each vgetc() in getcmdline().
4600 - ":split file1 file2" adds two more windows (Webb).
4601 - Don't give message "Incomplete last line" when editing binary file.
4602 - Add ":a", ":i" for preloading of named buffers.
4603 - Allow autowrite when doing ":e file" (with an option 'eaw').
4604 - Allow a "+command" argument before each file name in the Vim command line:
4605 "vim +123 file1 +234 file2 +345 file3". ???
4606 - When entering text, keep other windows on same buffer updated (when a line
4608 - Check out how screen does output optimizing. Apparently this is possible
4609 as an output filter.
4610 - In dosub() regexec is called twice for the same line. Try to avoid this.
4611 - Window updating from memline.c: insert/delete/replace line.
4612 - Optimize ml_append() for speed, esp. for reading a file.
4613 - V..c should keep indent when 'ai' is set, just like [count]cc.
4614 - Updatescript() can be done faster with a string instead of a char.
4615 - Screen updating is inefficient with CTRL-F and CTRL-B when there are long
4617 - Uppercase characters in Ex commands can be made lowercase?
4618 8 Add option to show characters in text not as "|A" but as decimal ("^129"),
4619 hex ("\x81") or octal ("\201") or meta (M-x). Nvi has the 'octal' option
4620 to switch from hex to octal. Vile can show unprintable characters in hex
4622 7 Tighter integration with xxd to edit binary files. Make it more
4623 easy/obvious to use. Command line argument?
4624 - How does vi detect whether a filter has messed up the screen? Check source.
4625 After ":w !command" a wait_return?
4626 - Improve screen updating code for doput() (use s_ins()).
4627 - With 'p' command on last line: scroll screen up (also for terminals without
4628 insert line command).
4629 - Use insert/delete char when terminal supports it.
4630 - Optimize screen redraw for slow terminals.
4631 - Optimize "dw" for long row of spaces (say, 30000).
4632 - Add "-d null" for editing from a script file without displaying.
4633 - In Insert mode: Remember the characters that were removed with backspace
4634 and re-insert them one at a time with <key1>, all together with <key2>.
4635 - Amiga: Add possibility to set a keymap. The code in amiga.c does not work
4637 - Implement 'redraw' option.
4638 - Add special code to 'sections' option to define something else but '{' or
4639 '}' as the start of a section (e.g. one shiftwidth to the right).
4640 7 Allow using Vim in a pipe: "ls | vim -u xxx.vim - | yyy". Only needs
4641 implementing ":w" to stdout in the buffer that was read from stdin.
4642 Perhaps writing to stdout will work, since stderr is used for the terminal
4644 8 Allow opening an unnamed buffer with ":e !cmd" and ":sp !cmd". Vile can
4646 - Add commands like ]] and [[ that do not include the line jumped to.
4647 - When :unab without matching "from" part and several matching "to" parts,
4648 delete the entry that was used last, instead of the first in the list.
4649 - Add text justification option.
4650 - Set boolean options on/off with ":set paste=off", ":set paste=on".
4651 - After "inv"ing an option show the value: ":set invpaste" gives "paste is
4653 - Check handling of CTRL-V and '\' for ":" commands that do not have TRLBAR.
4654 - When a file cannot be opened but does exist, give error message.
4655 - Amiga: When 'r' protection bit is not set, file can still be opened but
4656 gives read errors. Check protection before opening.
4657 - When writing check for file exists but no permission, "Permission denied".
4658 - If file does not exists, check if directory exists.
4659 - MSDOS: although t_cv and t_ci are not set, do invert char under cursor.
4660 - Settings edit mode: make file with ":set opt=xx", edit it, parse it as ex
4662 - ":set -w all": list one option per line.
4663 - Amiga: test for 'w' flag when reading a file.
4664 - :table command (Webb)
4665 - Add new operator: clear, make area white (replace with spaces): "g ".
4666 - Add command to ":read" a file at a certain column (blockwise read?).
4667 - Add sort of replace mode where case is taken from the old text (Goldfarb).
4668 - Allow multiple arguments for ":read", read all the files.
4669 - Support for tabs in specific columns: ":set tabcol=8,20,34,56" (Demirel).
4670 - Add 'searchdir' option: Directories to search for file name being edited
4672 - Modifier for the put command: Change to linewise, charwise, blockwise, etc.
4673 - Add commands for saving and restoring options ":set save" "set restore",
4674 for use in macro's and the like.
4675 - Keep output from listings in a window, so you can have a look at it while
4676 working in another window. Put cmdline in a separate window?
4677 - Add possibility to put output of Ex commands in a buffer or file, e.g. for
4678 ":set all". ":r :set all"?
4679 - 'edit' option: When off changing the buffer is not possible (Really
4681 - When the 'equalalways' option is set, creating a new window should not
4682 result in windows to become bigger. Deleting a window should not result in
4683 a window to become smaller (Webb).
4684 - When resizing the whole Vim window, the windows inside should be resized
4685 proportionally (Webb).
4686 - Include options directly in option table, no indirect pointers. Use
4687 mkopttab to make option table?
4688 - When doing ":w dir", where "dir" is a directory name, write the current
4689 file into that directory, with the current file name (without the path)?
4690 - Support for 'dictionary's that are sorted, makes access a lot faster
4692 - Add "^Vrx" on the command line, replace with contents of register x. Used
4693 instead of CTRL-R to make repeating possible. (Marinichev)
4694 - Add "^Vb" on the command line, replace with word before or under the
4696 - Option to make a .swp file only when a change is made (Templeton).
4697 - Support mapping for replace mode and "r" command (Vi doesn't do this)?
4698 5 Add 'ignorefilecase' option: Ignore case when expanding file names.
4699 ":e ma<Tab>" would also find "Makefile" on Unix.
4700 8 Sorting of filenames for completion is wrong on systems that ignore
4701 case of filenames. Add 'ignorefncase' option. When set, case in
4702 filenames is ignored for sorting them. Patch by Mike Williams:
4703 ~/vim/patches/ignorefncase. Also change what matches? Or use another
4705 8 Should be able to compile Vim in another directory, with $(srcdir) set to
4706 where the sources are. Add $(srcdir) in the Makefile in a lot of places.
4708 6 Make it configurable when "J" inserts a space or not. Should not add a
4709 space after "(", for example.
4710 5 When inserting spaces after the end-of-line for 'virtualedit', use tabs
4711 when the user wants this (e.g., add a "tab" field to 'virtualedit').
4716 - Use "instman.sh" to install manpages?
4717 - Add ":alias" command.
4718 - fontchanges recognized "\\fB" etc.
4720 \@ match word under cursor.
4722 \@w match the word under the cursor?
4723 \@W match the WORD under the cursor?
4724 8 ":window" command:
4725 :win + next window (up)
4726 :win ++ idem, wrapping
4727 :win - previous window (down)
4728 :win -- idem, wrapping
4729 :win nr to window number "nr"
4730 :win name to window editing buffer "name"
4731 7 ":cc" compiles a single file (default: current one). 'ccprg' option is
4732 program to use with ":cc". Use ":compile" instead of ":cc"?
4736 - 'searchincr' option, alias for 'incsearch'?
4737 - 'leftright' option, alias for 'nowrap'?
4738 - Have a look at "vi/doc/vi.chart", for Nvi specialties.
4739 8 Add 'keytime', time in 1/10 sec for mapping timeout?
4740 - Add 'filec' option as an alternative for 'wildchar'.
4741 6 Support Nvi command names as an alias:
4743 :fg fname :buf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
4745 :Edit fname :split fname
4746 :Fg fname :sbuf fname (with 'hidden' set?)
4747 :Next :snext (can't do this, already use :Next)
4748 :Previous :sprevious
4753 - CTRL-_ : swap 8th bit of character.
4754 - Add egrep-like regex type, like xvi (Ned Konz) or Perl (Emmanuel Mogenet)
4758 - When horizontal scrolling, use '>' for lines continuing right of a window.
4759 - Support putting .swp files in /tmp: Command in rc.local to move .swp files
4760 from /tmp to some directory before deleting files.
4763 Far future and "big" extensions:
4764 - Instead of using a Makefile and autoconf, use a simple shell script to
4765 find the C compiler and do everything with C code. Translate something
4766 like an Aap recipe and configure.in to C. Avoids depending on Python,
4767 thus will work everywhere. With batch file to find the C compiler it
4768 would also work on MS-Windows.
4769 - Make it easy to setup Vim for groups of users: novice vi users, novice
4770 Vim users, C programmers, xterm users, GUI users,...
4771 - Change layout of blocks in swap file: Text at the start, with '\n' in
4772 between lines (just load the file without changes, except for Mac).
4773 Indexes for lines are from the end of the block backwards. It's the
4774 current layout mirrored.
4775 - Make it possible to edit a register, in a window, like a buffer.
4776 - Add stuff to syntax highlighting to change the text (upper-case keywords,
4777 set indent, define other highlighting, etc.).
4778 - Mode to keep C-code formatted all the time (sort of on-line indent).
4779 - Several top-level windows in one Vim session. Be able to use a different
4780 font in each top-level window.
4781 - Allow editing above start and below end of buffer (flag in 'virtualedit').
4782 - Smart cut/paste: recognize words and adjust spaces before/after them.
4783 - Add open mode, use it when terminal has no cursor positioning.
4784 - Special "drawing mode": a line is drawn where the cursor is moved to.
4785 Backspace deletes along the line (from jvim).
4786 - Implement ":Bset", set option in all buffers. Also ":Wset", set in all
4787 windows, ":Aset, set in all arguments and ":Tset", set in all files
4788 mentioned in the tags file.
4789 Add buffer/arg range, like in ":2,5B%s/..." (do we really need this???)
4790 Add search string: "B/*.c/%s/.."? Or ":F/*.c/%s/.."?
4791 - Support for underlining (underscore-BS-char), bold (char-BS-char) and other
4792 standout modes switched on/off with , 'overstrike' option (Reiter).
4793 - Add vertical mode (Paul Jury, Demirel): "5vdw" deletes a word in five
4794 lines, "3vitextESC" will insert "text" in three lines, etc..
4795 4 Recognize l, #, p as 'flags' to EX commands:
4796 :g/RE/#l shall print lines with line numbers and in list format.
4797 :g/RE/dp shall print lines that are deleted.
4798 POSIX: Commands where flags shall apply to all lines written: list,
4799 number, open, print, substitute, visual, &, z. For other commands, flags
4800 shall apply to the current line after the command completes. Examples:
4801 :7,10j #l Join the lines 7-10 and print the result in list
4802 - Allow two or more users to edit the same file at the same time. Changes
4803 are reflected in each Vim immediately. Could work with local files but
4804 also over the internet. See http://www.codingmonkeys.de/subethaedit/.
4806 When using "do" or ":diffget" in a buffer with changes in every line an extra
4807 empty line would appear.
4809 vim:tw=78:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8:ft=help:norl: